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US 6,691,617 B2Granted
Apparatus for selectively cleaning a printing press cylinder
AssigneeHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
InventorsDavid Crowell Emery, David Charles Gibson, Chad Clifford Merwin
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Abstract
An apparatus for cleaning one or more selected portions of a surface of a cylinder of a printing press includes a plurality of brush elements disposed adjacent one another opposite the surface of the cylinder. A device for selectively moving one or more of the plurality of brushes to contact the selected portion or portions of the surface of the cylinder so as to clean the selected portion or portions is provided.
Claims10
An apparatus for cleaning selected portions of a surface of a cylinder of a printing press, the apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of brush elements disposed adjacent one another opposite the surface of the cylinder, the plurality of brush elements including a first brush element and a second brush element;
- a device for selectively moving the first brush element to contact a first of the selected portions of the surface of the cylinder so as to clean the first selected portion and for selectively moving the second brush element to contact a second of the selected portions of the surface so as to clean the second selected portion;
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- a drive device for rotating the first brush element and for rotating the second brush element independently of the first brush element.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.