Ink feed device comprising an ink blade

An ink feed device for an inking unit of a printing press, comprising

• a frame;
• a blade holder that is or can be arranged on the frame;
• an ink blade, which, in a mounted state in the blade holder, extends with its width over at least a nominal width of the ink feed device, and which, in its mounted state, is held in a clamping gap of the blade holder and is releasably connected to the blade holder, which ink blade extends, in a longitudinal direction, from an end on a holder side of the ink blade to an end of the ink blade that is distant from the holder, wherein, at its end distant from the holder, the ink blade comprises a metering edge which extends over at least the nominal width and is one of continuous and discontinuous in sections;
• end-face side walls, which laterally delimit an ink reservoir space which, when the ink feed device is in the operating state, is delimited, in a lower region, by the ink blade, which is disposed in the blade holder;
• a plurality of adjusting means disposed side by side, as viewed along the width of the ink blade, and usable to vary the ink blade in sections, at least in the region of the metering edge in terms of a distance of the metering edge from the periphery of an inking unit roller to be inked by the ink feed device,
• wherein the clamping gap is embodied having excess dimensions in its length that limits movement of the ink blade, such that, when the ink blade is mounted in the blade holder and ready for operation, the ink blade does not abut, with its holder side end, which is its end opposite the metering edge, against a rigid path limiter that is fixed to the blade holder in the clamping gap;
• a stop device on the frame and that limits movement of the blade holder in a direction toward the metering edge and toward the inking unit roller, the stop device having a stop that is fixed to the frame and that limits the movement of the blade holder in a direction toward the metering edge and toward the inking unit roller, and which stop cooperates with a stop surface that is fixed to the blade holder and against which stop the blade holder can be one of moved and acted on by force to occupy its operating position, and a fastening mechanism that is part of a fastening device, wherein the blade holder can be moved by the fastening mechanism of the fastening device against the stop, which is fixed to the frame and which limits movement of the blade holder in the direction of the metering edge and the inking unit roller, and can be secured to the stop.