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US 6,318,263 B1Granted
Cooling and moistening unit for rotary printing machines
AssigneeHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
InventorClemens Johannes Maria De Vroome
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AssigneeHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
InventorClemens Johannes Maria De Vroome
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The combination of a cooling and conditioning unit for a material web to which ink is applied on at least one side thereof, having a multiplicity of chill rolls arranged in a housing at least approximately vertically above one another, utilizing the height of the housing, the material web being guidable around the chill rolls along a web path extending at least approximately vertically, and a dryer disposed upline from the cooling and conditioning unit for drying the material web, includes a material web outlet formed in the dryer, and a material web inlet formed in the cooling and conditioning unit, the cooling and conditioning unit being disposed immediately downline of the dryer in a manner that the material web leaving the dryer outlet immediately enters the inlet formed in the cooling and conditioning unit.
In combination, a cooling and conditioning unit for a material web to which ink is applied on at least one side thereof, having a multiplicity of chill rolls having a diameter less than 300 mm arranged in a housing at least approximately vertically above one another, utilizing the height of the housing, the material web being guidable around the chill rolls along a web path extending at least approximately vertically, and a dryer disposed upline from the cooling and conditioning unit for drying the material web, comprising a material web outlet formed in the dryer, and a material web inlet formed in the cooling and conditioning unit, the cooling and conditioning unit being disposed immediately downline of the dryer in a manner that the material web leaving said dryer outlet immediately enters said inlet formed in the cooling and conditioning unit.
A dryer for drying a printed material web in a web-fed rotary printing machine, comprising a multiplicity of chill rolls having a diameter less than 300 mm arranged in a housing of the dryer, at least approximately vertically above one another, utilizing the height of the housing, in such a manner that the material web is guidable around the chill rolls along a web path extending at least approximately vertically.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.