EP0995596A1 - Dispositif et procédé pour la mise en oeuvre d'un changement de plaques en marche - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé pour la mise en oeuvre d'un changement de plaques en marche Download PDF

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EP0995596A1
EP0995596A1 EP99117404A EP99117404A EP0995596A1 EP 0995596 A1 EP0995596 A1 EP 0995596A1 EP 99117404 A EP99117404 A EP 99117404A EP 99117404 A EP99117404 A EP 99117404A EP 0995596 A1 EP0995596 A1 EP 0995596A1
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Robert Lemelin Michael
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41FPRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F27/00Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports
    • B41F27/12Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports for attaching flexible printing formes
    • B41F27/1206Feeding to or removing from the forme cylinder
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41PINDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
    • B41P2227/00Mounting or handling printing plates; Forming printing surfaces in situ
    • B41P2227/60Devices for transferring printing plates
    • B41P2227/62Devices for introducing printing plates
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41PINDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
    • B41P2227/00Mounting or handling printing plates; Forming printing surfaces in situ
    • B41P2227/60Devices for transferring printing plates
    • B41P2227/63Devices for removing printing plates
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10STECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S101/00Printing
    • Y10S101/36Means for registering or alignment of print plates on print press structure

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  • the present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for carrying it out a flying plate change on a plate cylinder of a printing unit according to the Preamble of claim 1.
  • a printing unit usually comprises a plurality of rollers that are on a or transfer color to both sides of the paper webs.
  • An inking unit comprises a large number of rollers in rolling contact, by means of which the printing plates of each Printing ink is fed. The color to be fed to the printing plates precisely dosed so that a uniform color film of the desired thickness on the printing plates is transmitted.
  • a pressure plate change is e.g. B. required if a newspaper has different regional editions different advertisements should be printed. Because of the relatively rigid arrangement of the printing units and the limited space in a print shop are the Printing units are difficult to access for the printers, which makes changing plates difficult.
  • DE 196 03 666 describes e.g. B. a plate change which a plate cylinder is turned off and stopped by the blanket cylinder. In the by turning off the plate cylinder there is a gap Protective device inserted to ensure that nothing is moving in the Components of the printing machine are caught and the printer is protected.
  • GB 2309668 describes a printing unit of a web-fed rotary offset printing machine described in which the blanket cylinder in contact with during a plate change remain on the material web.
  • a plate cylinder can be used to perform a plate change be turned off by a transfer cylinder. With this device it is only necessary half a printing unit can be turned off and only half an additional printing unit be used, but there is a large space between the rotating Blanket cylinder and the plate cylinder, the printing plate to be replaced should. This may result in a shift of the entire inking unit and thus a redesign of the printing unit required. Furthermore, apart from pasting a protective device no mechanism is provided to ensure that the Printing plate which is removed from or applied to the plate cylinder, does not get caught in the rotating blanket cylinder.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide the space between the Blanket cylinder and the plate cylinder, the printing plates of which are replaced, to decrease while still ensuring that nothing moves in the moving Components of the printing unit caught.
  • the present invention relates to a web-fed rotary printing press in which the Carrying out a flying plate change is possible and contacting one Moving blanket cylinder associated with the plate cylinder through the printing plate is prevented.
  • a pressure roller or pressure roller provided, by means of which the pressure plate is securely against the plate change Plate cylinder is pressed so that a narrow space between the parked, stopped plate cylinder and the rotating blanket cylinder is sufficient. In this way, a redesign of the printing unit with a view to Extended movability of the inking unit and the plate cylinder is not necessary.
  • one comprises Roll rotary printing machine for printing a web a first Printing unit section for printing on one side of the material web and a second one Printing unit section for printing on the other side of the material web, the second Printing unit section a blanket cylinder, a plate cylinder and a press roller includes which during the plate change pressure on the corresponding plate cylinder can exercise.
  • a method for performing a flying plate change in a web-fed rotary printing press which has at least two printing unit sections each a blanket cylinder, a plate cylinder and a press roll, which during a plate change exerts pressure on the plate cylinder, consists of the following process steps:
  • the plate cylinder is in one of the at least two Printing unit sections from the corresponding blanket cylinder, and on the Plate cylinder in this printing unit section is by means of the press roller during Plate change pressure exerted.
  • Fig. 1 shows an extract from a cross section of an exemplary invention Web-fed rotary printing press that has at least one tower arrangement 110 for printing a web 120 comprising a single or multi-color image.
  • the web 120 may e.g. B. be between 1200 and 1600 mm wide or have any other width.
  • the Web 120 moves substantially in a straight line through the tower assembly 110, e.g. B. How is shown in Fig. 1, in the vertical direction. However, it can also change in essence horizontal direction or along a substantially straight line of motion in any angle to the vertical direction shown by the Move tower assembly 110.
  • the tower arrangement 110 shown comprises four printing units 130, 135, 140 and 145, which web 120 each with an image in any color of a variety of colors print.
  • Each printing unit comprises two sections, each one side of the web print.
  • the tower arrangement 110 include more or fewer printing units.
  • Printing units may be provided.
  • FIG. 2 shows a side view of the printing unit 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the web 120 runs between the blanket cylinders 240 and 250 through and is printed by these on both sides.
  • On the assigned Plate cylinders 230 and 260 have printing plates attached to them which are to be printed Pictures included.
  • Each of the printing plates applied to the plate cylinders 230 and 260 is a dampening solution, z. B. water and over the Inking units 210 and 280 ink supplied.
  • the fountain solution is known to be certain locations on the printing plates applied to the plate cylinders 230 and 260 ink-repellent, so that the color applied to the remaining areas of the printing plate represents printing image.
  • the color boxes 215 and 285 contain the color that over the Inking units 210 and 280 are fed to the printing plates.
  • Fig. 3 shows the positions of the plate and blanket cylinder when performing a flying plate change according to an exemplary embodiment of the present Invention.
  • the plate cylinder is on one side of the web turned off from the blanket cylinder assigned to him.
  • Fig. 3 is a plate change shown on the right side of the printing unit 130, with the plate cylinder 260 of the Blanket cylinder 250 is turned off.
  • the left side of the printing unit can be designed accordingly, so that on this side a printing plate change, apart that the direction of rotation of the plate cylinder z. B. opposite to the direction of rotation of the plate cylinder 260 runs on the right side, can be done in the same way.
  • a press roll 300 is sufficient to carry out a Printing plate change a gap of about 2.5 mm wide. Because of achieving this Gap only minimal movement of plate cylinder 260 is required The inking unit 280 and the dampening unit 270 of the printing unit cannot be moved significantly. After the plate cylinder 260 has been stopped by the blanket cylinder 250, be stopped to perform a plate change without doing the rest Rolls of the printing unit 130 are affected, so that on the opposite On the side of the web 120, the printing process with the blanket cylinder 250 still rotating can continue. The printing process by which to perform a The plate cylinder 260 can be changed from a plate individual additional printing unit section provided in the printing press be taken over.
  • the press roll 300 comes into contact with the Bring plate cylinder 260 or with a pressure plate arranged thereon and exercises Pressure on this / n, so that a resistance is created, the rotational movement counteracts.
  • the press roll 300 prevents during the plate change (i.e. both movement when removing the pressure plate and when applying the pressure plate) the printing plate in the direction of the blanket cylinder 250 and thus prevents that the printing plate caught in the blanket cylinder 250.
  • the press roller 300 presses the plate down against the plate cylinder and thus serves as a load against which the pressure plate can be removed.
  • a protection device 310 may be inserted to ensure that during the flying plate change not unnoticed objects between the moving Blanket cylinder of the printing unit.
  • a pneumatically operated either manually from a printer or Automatically operated suction cup 410 on the on the Plate cylinder 260 arranged pressure plate can be attached, for. B. at the in one Gap 420 fixed on the plate cylinder 260 trailing edge of the plate to this from the Lift off the surface of the plate cylinder 260.
  • the pressure plate 500 together with the suction cup 410 of lifted the surface of the plate cylinder 260.
  • the trailing edge 510 of the The pressure plate 500 is preferably folded, so that the plate easily fits into the gap 420 can be inserted on the plate cylinder 260.
  • the pressure roller exerts 300 pressure on the Pressure plate 500, the printer can remove the suction cup 410 from the pressure plate 500 remove and slowly turn the plate cylinder clockwise to the Pressure plate 500 z. B. to remove by hand.
  • the pressure roller 300 permanently presses the pressure on the plate cylinder 260 remaining part of the pressure plate 500, thereby preventing the Pressure plate springs away and in contact with the rotating blanket cylinder 250 device. After the plate cylinder 260 has rotated sufficiently, it can also be moved in the leading edge of the pressure plate 500 fastened to the gap 420 can be removed.
  • the pressure roller 300 prevents the new printing plate 500 from being applied during the application springs the plate cylinder 260 away and in contact with the rotating one Blanket cylinder 250 device.
  • the use of a press roll 300 when applying a Pressure plate 500 also enables the pressure plate 500 to be automatically tensioned around the plate cylinder 260, which is also smoother and more effective than a manual one clamping of the pressure plate 500.
  • the use of a press roller 300 enables further inserting a protection device 310 further forward in the printing unit, thereby increased safety and the displacement of the plate cylinder necessary for parking Printing unit cylinder is reduced.
  • a motor 320 or a friction element as a brake for adjusting the Resistance of the press roll 300 can be used.
  • the Resistance of the platen roller 300 while pressing on the plate cylinder 260 too can be controlled via a torsion spring 330.
  • the torsion spring 330 can the press roll 300 is brought into contact with the plate cylinder 260, the Tension of the torsion spring according to the direction and speed of rotation Plate cylinder 260 can be changed.
  • the tension in the spring increases as it decreases a printing plate 500 is reduced from the plate cylinder.
  • the practice Press roll 300 the desired force on the plate cylinder 260.

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