Methods of assembling, dismantling and transforming a print unit intended for a printing machine, and transport device used
AssigneeBobst SA
InventorAlain Mayor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A method of assembling of assembling a print unit into a printing machine, wherein the print unit includes a frame, a print carriage to be inserted into and attached to the frame, and a doctor blade system independent of the print carriage to be attached to the frame, the method comprising the steps of placing the doctor blade system on an empty transport device, inserting the transport device with the doctor blade system into the frae, attaching the doctor blade system to the frame, removing the empty transport device from the frame, inserting the print carriage into the frame, and attaching the print carriage to the frame.
Claims9
A method of assembling a print unit of a printing machine, wherein the print unit comprises a frame, an empty volume being provided in the center of the frame, a print carriage having a printing cylinder and configured to be inserted into and to be attached to said frame, and a doctor blade system, independent of said print carriage and configured to be attached to said frame, the method comprising the steps of:
- placing said doctor blade system on an empty transport device,
- inserting said transport device with said doctor blade system transversely relative to said frame and into said empty volume of said frame,
- attaching said doctor blade system to said frame,
- removing said empty transport device transversely relative to said frame and from said empty volume of said frame while said doctor blade system remains in and attached to said frame,
- inserting said print carriage transversely relative to said frame and into said empty volume of said frame, and
- attaching said print carriage to said frame.
A method of dismantling or transforming a print unit from a printing machine, wherein the print unit comprises a frame, an empty volume being provided in the center of the frame, a print carriage having a printing cylinder and inserted into and attached to said frame, and a doctor blade system independent of said print carriage and attached to said frame, the method comprising the steps in sequence of:
- detaching said print carriage from said frame,
- removing said detached print carriage transversely relative to said frame and from said empty volume of said frame,
- inserting an empty transport device transversely relative to said frame and into said empty volume of said frame,
- detaching said doctor blade system from said frame,
- placing said doctor blade system on said empty transport device, and
- removing said transport device with said doctor blade system transversely relative to said frame and from said empty volume of said frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.