Installation for changing ink in a printing station of a flexographic printer
AssigneeBobst SA
InventorPierre Gretsch
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Abstract
A method and an installation operable for cleaning an inking blade acting against a chambered printing cylinder of a flexographic printing machine. A cleaning device includes a blade cleaner, a recovery device for ink removed from the blade, a first prewash cleaning system, a subsequent regular wash system and an air nozzle system to clean out ink. The ink is recovered before the washing. The ink washed out is recovered and this polluted wash fluid is used in a subsequent cleaning as a prewash.
Claims9
A method for changing ink in a printing unit of a flexographic printing machine, comprising
- providing a cleaning device for cleaning inking members which include a celled cylinder and a chambered doctor blade operable against the cylinder;
- the method comprising
- mechanically recovering residual ink remaining in the chambered doctor blade by moving an ink knife matching an inside profile of the chambered doctor blade along the inside profile;
- washing the chambered doctor blade with cleaning fluid;
- recovering the polluted cleaning fluid in a recovery tank for use in a subsequent prewashing of the chambered doctor blade;
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- then washing the chambered doctor blade with a clean cleaning fluid.
An installation for changing ink in a printing unit of a flexographic printing machine, comprising
- a cleaning device for cleaning inking members, the cleaning device including a celled cylinder and a chambered doctor blade operable against the cylinder, wherein the cleaning device for the chambered doctor blade comprises a washing head fitted with a rotary nozzle and a stationary nozzle aimed at the blade where the blade is operable against the cylinder, a connection to the rotary nozzle for feeding cleaning liquid therethrough and another connection to the stationary nozzle or to both of the stationary and rotary nozzles for feeding air or gaseous fluid therethrough the nozzles are fed with cleaning;
- and
- cleaning device further comprising a brush for cleaning ink from the blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.