Printing plate cartridge for a press and press
AssigneeMAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
InventorsWolfgang Glunz, Albert Heller, Georg Kässmair, Michael Scholz
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Abstract
A printing plate cartridge for a press including a housing having an old printing compartment for holding a printing plate to be removed during a printing plate change and a new printing plate compartment for holding a printing plate to be mounted on a form cylinder of a press during a printing plate change. A printing plate to be mounted on the form cylinder is removable from the new printing plate compartment via a first opening for feeding to the form cylinder during a printing plate changing operation. A printing plate to be removed from the form cylinder is capable of being fed to the old printing plate compartment via the first opening during a printing plate changing operation.
Claims13
A printing plate cartridge for a press comprising;
- a housing comprising an upper side, an underside, a front side, a rear side and two narrow sides, the housing including an old printing plate compartment for holding a printing plate to be removed during a printing plate changing operation and a new printing plate compartment for holding a printing plate to be mounted on a form cylinder of the press during the printing plate changing operation;
- wherein a first opening is integrated into one of the upper side or the underside of the housing, a printing plate to be mounted on the form cylinder being removable from the new printing plate compartment via the first opening for feeding to the form cylinder during the printing plate changing operation and a printing plate to be removed from the form cylinder being capable of being fed to the old printing plate compartment via the first opening during the printing plate changing operation;
- wherein a second opening assigned to the new printing plate compartment and a third opening assigned to the old printing plate compartment are integrated into one of the narrow sides of the housing, a printing plate needed for the printing plate changing operation being capable of being fed into the printing plate cartridge via the second opening and a printing plate removed during the printing plate changing operation being removable from the printing plate cartridge via the third opening associated with the old compartment.
A web-fed press comprising:
- a plurality of printing units, each printing unit having two printing unit assemblies for printing an upper side and an underside of a printing material, each printing unit assembly having a form cylinder bearing a printing plate,
- each printing unit assembly having an associated printing plate cartridge;
- each printing plate cartridge including a housing comprising an upper side, an underside, a front side, a rear side and two narrow sides, the housing including an old printing plate compartment for holding a printing plate to be removed during a printing plate changing operation and a new printing plate compartment for holding a printing plate to be mounted on the associated form cylinder during the printing plate changing operation;
- wherein a first opening is integrated into one of the upper side or the underside of the housing, a printing plate to be mounted on the associated form cylinder being removable from the new printing plate compartment via the first opening for feeding to the associated form cylinder during the printing plate changing operation and a printing plate to be removed from the associated form cylinder being capable of being fed to the old printing plate compartment via the first opening during the printing plate changing operation;
- wherein a second opening assigned to the new printing plate compartment and a third opening assigned to the old printing plate compartment are integrated into one of the narrow sides of the housing, a printing plate needed for the printing plate changing operation being capable of being fed into the printing plate cartridge via the second opening associated and a printing plate removed during the printing plate changing operation being removable from the printing plate cartridge via the third opening associated with the old compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.