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US 7,441,501 B2Granted
Printing units comprising bearing rings in a rotary press
AssigneeKoenig AG
InventorBernd Kurt Masuch
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Abstract
A printing group of a rotary printing press includes a counter-pressure cylinder that forms a printing location in a printing contact position in cooperation with a second cylinder. The second cylinder has a compressible surface. The two cylinders each are provided with bearer rings. A radius of the counter-pressure cylinder is greater, in a band area thereof, than is a radius of the bearer ring which is associated with this counter-pressure cylinder.
Claims30
A printing unit of a rotary printing press comprising:
- a first cylinder having a first cylinder barrel with a first cylinder barrel radius;
- a second cylinder having a second cylinder radius, said first cylinder and said second cylinder defining a nip point in a print-on position;
- first bearing rings assigned to said first cylinder and having a first bearing ring radius, said first cylinder barrel radius being greater than said first bearing ring radius;
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- second bearing rings assigned to said second cylinder and having a second bearing ring radius, said first bearing ring radius being greater than said second bearing ring radius.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.