Convertible buffers for web presses
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Indigo B.V.
InventorsEyal Peleg, Itzik Kent, Benji Ruhm, Erez Elias
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Abstract
In one example, a web press includes a web press station and a convertible buffer near the web press station, the convertible buffer being configured to convert to a platform for accessing the web press station. A method for performing web press maintenance is also disclosed.
Claims13
A web press comprising:
- a web press station;
- a convertible buffer near the web press station, the convertible buffer being configured to deploy a platform for accessing the web press station;
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- a first set of idlers and a second set of movable idlers that are spaced apart in an operating configuration and brought together in a non-operating configuration in which the first set of idlers is a stationary set of idlers on the first side of a floor plate and the moveable idlers are configured to move through the floor plate from a second side of the floor plate to the first side of the floor plate.
A buffer for a web press, comprising idlers and a standing platform, the buffer being convertible between an operating configuration in which spacing among the idlers is altered to change a web path length and the standing platform is not deployed and a non-operating configuration in which the standing platform is deployed for accessing an adjacent web press station, in which the idlers comprise a first set of idlers and a second set of idlers, the first set of idlers and the second set of idlers being brought together in the non-operating configuration to deploy the standing platform and the second set of idlers is linearly, horizontally translated toward the first set of idlers expose a fixed standing platform.
A method for performing web press maintenance comprising:
- converting a buffer from an operating configuration to a non-operating configuration with a deployed standing platform, the buffer being adjacent to a web press station and comprising a first set of idlers and a second set of movable idlers that are spaced apart in an operating configuration and brought together in a non-operating configuration, the first set of stationary idlers being on a first side of a floor plate and the moveable idlers are configured to move through the floor plate from a second side of the floor plate to the first side of the floor plate;
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- standing on the standing platform to access the web press station for maintenance, in which the buffer alters a substrate path length to coordinate web speeds between adjacent machines during operation of a web press.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.