Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
  • B65H3/08—Separating articles from piles using pneumatic force
  • B65H3/0808—Suction grippers
  • B65H3/0816—Suction grippers separating from the top of pile
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
  • G03F—PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
  • G03F7/00—Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printing surfaces; Materials therefor, e.g. comprising photoresists; Apparatus specially adapted therefor
  • G03F7/20—Exposure; Apparatus therefor
  • G03F7/24—Curved surfaces
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
  • H04N1/04—Scanning arrangements, i.e. arrangements for the displacement of active reading or reproducing elements relative to the original or reproducing medium, or vice versa
  • H04N1/06—Scanning arrangements, i.e. arrangements for the displacement of active reading or reproducing elements relative to the original or reproducing medium, or vice versa using cylindrical picture-bearing surfaces, i.e. scanning a main-scanning line substantially perpendicular to the axis and lying in a curved cylindrical surface
  • H04N1/08—Mechanisms for mounting or holding the sheet around the drum
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
  • H04N1/04—Scanning arrangements, i.e. arrangements for the displacement of active reading or reproducing elements relative to the original or reproducing medium, or vice versa
  • H04N1/06—Scanning arrangements, i.e. arrangements for the displacement of active reading or reproducing elements relative to the original or reproducing medium, or vice versa using cylindrical picture-bearing surfaces, i.e. scanning a main-scanning line substantially perpendicular to the axis and lying in a curved cylindrical surface
  • H04N1/08—Mechanisms for mounting or holding the sheet around the drum
  • H04N1/083—Holding means
  • H04N1/0856—Suction or vacuum means
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
  • H04N1/04—Scanning arrangements, i.e. arrangements for the displacement of active reading or reproducing elements relative to the original or reproducing medium, or vice versa
  • H04N1/06—Scanning arrangements, i.e. arrangements for the displacement of active reading or reproducing elements relative to the original or reproducing medium, or vice versa using cylindrical picture-bearing surfaces, i.e. scanning a main-scanning line substantially perpendicular to the axis and lying in a curved cylindrical surface
  • H04N1/08—Mechanisms for mounting or holding the sheet around the drum
  • H04N1/083—Holding means
  • H04N1/0869—Holding means capable of holding different sized sheets
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
  • B41C—PROCESSES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR REPRODUCTION OF PRINTING SURFACES
  • B41C1/00—Forme preparation
  • B41C1/10—Forme preparation for lithographic printing; Master sheets for transferring a lithographic image to the forme
  • B41C1/1083—Mechanical aspects of off-press plate preparation
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H2406/00—Means using fluid
  • B65H2406/30—Suction means
  • B65H2406/34—Suction grippers
  • B65H2406/343—Details of sucking member
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
  • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
  • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
  • B65H2701/1928—Printing plate

Definitions

• the invention relates to a device for loading and / or unloading an imagesetter, in particular a imagesetter, with pressure plates, with a suction means.
• the invention also relates to a method based on this device.
• Books, newspapers, brochures or other products to be printed are produced using different printing processes.
• Such printed products can be produced on the one hand using conventional printing processes, such as flat, letterpress, gravure or screen printing, and on the other hand using digital processes, such as computer-to-plate (CTP) technology.
• CTP computer-to-plate
• offset printing the printed products are produced using printing forms.
• the image or text to be printed is transferred to printing form blanks - also called printing plates.
• a light-sensitive layer, based on silver or made of a photopolymer, applied to a metal or plastic plate is exposed to UV radiation.
• thermal plates are also used, which can be imaged by exposure to certain temperatures. Lasers are suitable for exposing photosensitive plates as well as for thermal imaging.
• the size of the printing plate to be produced depends on the object to be printed.
• a wide variety of plate formats are part of the state of the art for all printing technology processes.
• CTP technology In the field of CTP technology are one Series of systems for imaging printing plates of various formats have long been known, such as the "Laserstepper" from Misomex, the Laserstar from Krause or "Xpose! from the company Lüscher.
• Time is a key component in printing technology.
• the automation of printing plate production is therefore a logical consequence. Because the fully automatic printing plate production as one step in the entire printing process accelerates throughput and increases the productivity of a printing house.
• DE-A 40 38 544 describes an apparatus for producing printing plates.
• the plate blanks are arranged in stacks on stack carriers within a magazine.
• This magazine contains a driven rotary conveyor designed as a paternoster with several stack carriers arranged one behind the other.
• the stack carriers can be removed from the magazine in a horizontal direction by means of a displacement device and conveyed onto the copying table by a pick-up or feed device.
• This feed device comprises a suction frame with suction cups.
• the suction frame can be moved horizontally and vertically and can transfer a blank plate onto a copying table.
• a disadvantage of this device is, in particular, the complicated elevator mechanism within the magazine.
• the device for loading and unloading printing plates described in DE-Cl 41 05 269 is less complicated than the previously described device.
• the plate blanks also stored in cassettes, are stacked like a magazine.
• the individual plate blanks can be transferred from a desired cassette to the copying table by means of a feed device.
• the cassettes can be moved out of the magazine in a horizontal plane, so that the feed device has access to the individual can take a blank plate.
• Not every cassette can be moved out of the tower individually, but that part of the tower is always extended so that the desired cassette with the printing plates is arranged at the top.
• the feed device in turn comprises a rotary star, suction heads are attached to the projecting swivel arms.
• a disadvantage of the devices described in DE-A-40 38 544 and DE-A-41 05 269 is that they are unable to load cylindrical drum imagesetters.
• EP-A-0 822 453 describes a device and a method for receiving and transporting printing plates in an automated exposure device.
• a large number of printing plates are stored in the form of stacks in cassettes or magazines. Different magazines can contain different plate formats.
• the plate removal described in the application takes place via a feed device.
• the desired plate formats are arranged so that they can be reached by the feeding device by means of a complex elevator mechanism.
• the feeding device comprises a horizontally arranged and horizontally displaceable plate with suction heads, by means of which the plate to be imaged can be picked up by vacuum.
• a disadvantage of this device is in particular the complicated elevator mechanism.
• this application does not offer a solution as to how the planar printing plate can finally be fed into the cylindrical drum imagesetter from the feed device on which it is arranged by means of vacuum, as described.
• a device for loading drum imagesetters is known from EP-A-0 887 181.
• a printing plate which is arranged in a planar manner on a feed device by means of a vacuum, is inserted into a cylindrical drum imagesetter with the aid of a loading device.
• the loading device travels along the inner surface of the drum imagesetter, taking the printing plate with it.
• the same loading device can move in the opposite direction and thereby transfer an already imaged printing plate from the drum imagesetter to a downstream processing machine.
• the disadvantage of this facility is its complexity.
• the prior art also includes devices for printing plate loading and unloading available on the market, such as the plate loading system (PHS) for the CTP imagesetter “Xpose! from the company Lüscher.
• PHS plate loading system
• the printing plates are planar and stacked in cassettes. These cassettes are arranged one on top of the other and can be extended horizontally from the front.
• the feed device comprises a cylinder and a device for positioning the cylinder.
• the cylinder is rotatably mounted on the positioning device with respect to its longitudinal axis.
• Suction heads are arranged on the cylinder and are connected to a vacuum system. The positioning device enables the cylinder to be moved both in the vertical and in the horizontal direction.
• a cassette is pushed horizontally out of the stack of cassettes and the cylinder is lowered vertically onto the pressure bar until the suction heads make contact with the pressure plate.
• the cylinder is rotated by means of horizontal movement of the positioning device with the vacuum switched on over the pressure plate, as a result of which the top pressure plate of a cassette during Turning the cylinder is held on the outside of the cylinder.
• the cylinder is pulled up together with the pressure plate by means of the vertical drive of the positioning device.
• the cylinder with the received printing plate is then moved horizontally by the positioning device over the drum of the imagesetter.
• the cylinder with the pressure plate is positioned on the inside of the drum via the vertical drive of the positioning device and the pressure plate is inserted into the drum by switching off the vacuum.
• the same sequence of movements is carried out in reverse order.
• the difference is that the printing plate is not put back into the cassette from which it was removed, but rather that it is placed in or on a carrier which can be arranged instead of a cassette.
• This carrier is then connected to a development facility.
• the device described is also able to remove intermediate papers, which are located between the individual printing plates to protect the image to be imaged, by means of the same mechanism described above. This can take place, for example, during the imaging of a printing plate.
• the disadvantage of this device is its complexity. On the one hand, a cylinder with suction heads that can be rotated about its axis is necessary. On the other hand, a device for positioning the cylinder that is movable both in the vertical and in the horizontal direction is required. Another disadvantage is the size of the device.
• the object of the present invention is therefore to create a device which, despite the least possible design effort, enables the efficient provision of printing plates of different types and sizes for various types of printing platesetters.
• this device is also intended for the loading and unloading of drum platesetters with printing plates, independently of depending on the opening size of the drum.
• the device should be inexpensive and space-saving.
• Another object of the present invention is to provide a method by means of which platesetters, in particular drum platesetters, can be efficiently loaded and unloaded with printing plates.
• a device which is characterized in that the suction plate is designed in the shape of a cylinder segment and the suction plate is designed to be deformable, at least with respect to its surface shape.
• the suction means comprises a suction plate and suction heads.
• plate is not to be understood as a flat, planar surface, but rather the plate has the shape of a cylinder segment.
• the suction plate is designed to be deformable with respect to its surface shape. As a result, printing plates of various sizes can be picked up and delivered to imagesetters of various types.
• the suction plate is fastened to an upper axis of the device via webs, the angle or the distance between the webs being variable.
• the suction plate can be deformed by means of a spindle with a spindle drive, and the webs can be designed as pneumatic cylinders.
• the sides of the suction plate which are arranged parallel to the axis of the cylinder segment, can be more easily deformable with respect to the surface shape than the center of the suction plate.
• a further embodiment of the invention provides a suction plate which can be pivoted about an axis, the axis being arranged essentially parallel to the axis of the cylinder segment. According to the invention, the suction means essentially maintains its axial orientation when pivoting. The suction plate is aligned axially by gravity.
• the receiving device Due to the pivoting movement, the receiving device can reach different heights. In the case of a device which additionally comprises a plate magazine, there is therefore no need for a complicated elevator mechanism which brings the cassettes or printing plates into a position which is accessible to the receiving device.
• simple drawer systems in which the pressure plates are stacked are used.
• the receiving device is constructed according to the invention in such a way that all the drawers of a plate magazine can be reached by the arcuate pivoting movement of the suction means.
• Such drawers are preferably used which allow the printing plates to be stored without the influence of light.
• the base plate or an insert at the bottom of a drawer can be convexly curved.
• a stack of printing plates stored in a drawer consequently also has such a curvature.
• a further advantageous measure can consist in the fact that both the opening and closing of the drawers of the plate magazine and the movement of the suction means can take place fully automatically and under software control.
• two recording devices according to the invention can load a drum imagesetter, one device for removing the printing plate from the plate magazine and then transferring the printing plate into an imagesetter and for removing an intermediate paper, and the other device can be used for this Removal of the imaged printing plate from the imagesetter and its transfer to a developing device can be used.
• the operation according to the invention can in principle be used independently of the type of plate magazine, the printing plate format and the type of exposure device.
• the device according to the invention can be used for any of the printing processes described at the outset.
• FIG. 1 shows a schematic illustration of a device according to the invention
• FIG. 2 shows a schematic representation of a device with two receiving devices according to the invention
• FIG. 3 shows a perspective illustration of a receiving device according to the invention
• 4 shows a cross section of a schematically represented, deformable suction plate according to the present invention
• FIG. 5 shows a cross section of a schematically illustrated, further embodiment of a deformable suction plate according to the present invention
• Fig. 6 is a plan view of a deformable suction plate according to the present invention.
• the device comprises a plate magazine 1, a receiving device 2 and an imagesetter 3.
• the receiving device 2 according to the invention is shown without casing and in detail in FIG. 3.
• the plate magazine 1 comprises a housing 4 with several drawers 5, 6.
• the bottom plate of a drawer 5 is convexly curved.
• Printing plates 7, shown hatched here, of various types and of different formats can be placed in a drawer 5 in a stack.
• the drawers 5 are equipped with a stack of plates, including the intermediate papers located as protection between the individual plates.
• One plate format each is stored in a drawer 5, the side of the printing plate 7 to be imaged facing upwards. Up to 100 plates can be stacked per drawer 5.
• the pressure plates 7 adapt to the curvature of the drawer 5.
• the drawers 5 can be arranged so that they can be extended by an electric motor.
• a detection device, not shown here, such as an optical sensor, which is located in or on a thrust drawer is arranged, can recognize the absence of one or more pressure plates 7 in a drawer 5.
• a trough 8 At the front of the plate magazine 1 there is a trough 8 with a stacking container 9 for receiving the intermediate papers removed from the plate stack.
• the receiving device 2 comprises a suction plate 10 with suction heads 11, which is attached to arms 13 via webs 12.
• a pressure plate 7 can be removed from the drawer 5 and inserted into a drum imagesetter 3.
• the suction plate 10 lowers on the pressure plate 7 until the suction heads 11 of the suction plate 10 can make contact with the pressure plate 7.
• the pressure plate 7 can be held on the suction plate 10 by vacuum.
• a horizontally and vertically movable receiving device can also be used.
• the suction plate 10 is placed on the pressure plate 7 such that the surface shape of the suction plate 10 changes, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5.
• This change in shape of the suction plate 10 has the effect that suction heads 11, which are arranged closer to the sides of the suction plate 10, can make contact with the pressure plate 7.
• the contact of the suction heads 11 occurs with the side of the pressure plate 7 to be imaged.
• the suction heads 11 are placed in such a way that their lateral movement on the pressure plate surface is kept as low as possible.
• the suction heads 11 are therefore designed so that injury or destruction of this side is not possible.
• the suction heads 11 are made of elastic, soft plastic material.
• the deformability of the suction plate 10 makes it possible for pressure plates 7 of various sizes to be received and released by the suction plate 10.
• the inclusion of a certain plate Typs can be controlled by selectively applying the vacuum to certain suction heads 11.
• a received pressure plate 7 is inserted into the semicircular drum imagesetter 3 by means of a pivoting movement of the arms 13.
• the shape of the suction plate 10 with the pressure plate 7 attached to it is adapted to the size of the opening of the imagesetter 3.
• the exact positioning of the printing plate 7 in the imagesetter 3, not shown here, can either be done by punching the printing plate 7, which can be inserted precisely into pins arranged on the imagesetter 3, or the position of the printing plate 7 can be recorded digitally.
• the receiving device 2 can remove an intermediate paper which is located between the individual plates 7 to protect stacked printing plates 7.
• an intermediate paper lies at the top in a drawer 5.
• This sheet is removed using the same mechanism as the accommodation of a printing plate 7, i.e. via the suction plate 10 and the vacuum system that can be applied. So that an intermediate paper is not picked up together with a printing plate, suction heads 11 of different sizes are arranged on the suction plate 10. An intermediate paper is picked up by means of a vacuum system, which is attached to smaller suction heads. Once the intermediate paper has been picked up, the drawer 5 moves back into the plate magazine 1. When the vacuum is ended, the sheet falls into the stacking container 9 in front of the plate magazine 1.
• the presence or absence of a pressure plate 7 or of an intermediate paper can be determined via a sensor mechanism, not shown here, which can be arranged on the suction plate 10. For example, an inductive de- Report the detector whether metal or non-metal is present on the suction plate 10.
• the printing plate 7 is transferred to the conveyor belts of the planar drawer 6 by means of the pick-up device 2.
• the plate is delivered to the discharge ramp 14 via the conveyor belts, not shown here, of the drawer 6 and can then be fed to a development device (not shown here).
• the output ramp 14 can also be arranged on the back of the plate magazine.
• two of the receiving devices 2 according to the invention can be arranged on an imagesetter 3.
• a schematic representation of such a device is shown in FIG. 2.
• the one receiving device 2 equips the drum imagesetter 3 with printing plates 7 and removes the intermediate papers. This receiving device is therefore arranged in a plate magazine 1.
• the other recording device 2 removes the imaged printing plates 7 from the drum imagesetter 3 and passes them on to a developer (not shown here) via an output ramp 14.
• the receiving device 2 is shown schematically.
• This comprises a frame 15 with a foot part 16 and two side parts 17.
• the side parts 17 are connected at their upper end to a rotatable lower axis or shaft 19 which is driven by a motor 18.
• the drive axis of the motor 18 goes to a pinion 20.
• the pinion 20 is connected via a first toothed belt 21 with a belt menrad 22 operatively connected.
• the belt wheel 22 sits on the shaft 19 in a rotationally fixed manner.
• the shaft 19 is connected to an arm 13 at both ends.
• the end of the arms 13 arranged on the shaft 19 is designed in the form of an arc or a disk.
• the arms 13 are synchronized via the shaft 19 and perform parallel pivoting movements.
• a suction plate 10 is rotatably arranged via a holder comprising an upper axis 23 and webs 12.
• the suction plate 10 is designed as a cylinder segment.
• the upper axis 23 of the suction plate 10 is arranged essentially parallel to the shaft 19.
• the suction plate 10 is arranged pivotably about the upper axis 23.
• the suction plate 10 maintains the axial alignment when swiveling, the suction plate 10 being aligned due to gravity.
• the upper axis 23 is operatively connected to the shaft 19 via a second toothed belt 24.
• the suction plate 10 executes a controllable swiveling movement by the drive.
• the suction plate 10 comprises at least two suction heads 11. A plurality of suction heads 11 are shown here, which are attached in rows, parallel to the upper axis 23 in or on the suction plate 10. Suction heads 11 of different sizes can be arranged on the suction plate 10. Another arrangement of the suction heads 11 is also possible.
• the suction heads 11 are connected to a controllable vacuum system, not shown here.
• the suction plate 10 is designed to be deformable with respect to its surface shape. Various embodiments of the suction plate 10 are shown in FIGS. 4 and 5.
• the drive motor 18 is supported by a counterweight system 25.
• a rod 26 with a weight 27 is attached to the arcuate end of the arms 13.
• the weight 27 is guided on the frame 15 so that it can only perform vertical movements.
• FIG. 4 and 5 schematically show the cross sections of various embodiments of a suction means according to the invention with means for attachment to the upper axis 23.
• the means for attachment in FIG. 4 comprises two pneumatic cylinders 28 and a spindle 29 with a spindle drive 30.
• FIG. 5 shows a means for fastening the suction plate 10, which comprises two webs 12 and a connecting piece 31, on which the webs 12, the upper axis 23 and the arms 13, the latter not shown.
• the webs 12 and the pneumatic cylinders 28 are rotatably mounted on the suction plate 10 and on the connecting piece 31 or on the spindle drive 30. By reducing the angle between the webs 12 or the pneumatic cylinders 28, the suction plate 10 can be deformed with respect to its surface shape.
• the change in angle and thus the change in shape of the suction plate 10 can be controlled as shown in FIG. 4 via a spindle drive 30.
• the change in angle due to gravity can be induced. If, as shown in FIG. 5, the suction plate is guided upwards by the drum imagesetter 3 or by a drawer 5, the angle between the webs 12 changes due to the force of gravity which acts on the suction plate 10.
• FIG. 6 An embodiment of a suction plate 10 is shown in FIG. 6.
• the suction plate 10 has loosening on the sides which are arranged parallel to the axis of the cylinder segment. rather so that it is easier to deform on these sides in terms of its surface shape than in the middle.
• the invention also relates to a method for automatic printing plate loading and unloading.
• 1 shows a device with which the method according to the invention can be carried out.
• a drawer 5 of the plate magazine 1, containing a stack of printing plates 7 of a certain format, is extended horizontally via a drive.
• the on device 2 is pivoted in the direction of the plate magazine 1 to such an extent that the suction plate 10 can make contact with the pressure plate 7.
• all suction heads 11 make contact with the pressure plate 7.
• the pressure plate 7 is held on the suction plate 10.
• the latter After receiving a pressure plate 7 on the suction plate 10, the latter is positioned in the drum of the imagesetter 3 by means of the pivoting movement of the arms 13 and inserted into the drum by switching off the vacuum.
• the pivoting movement can be replaced by a horizontal and vertical movement.
• the intermediate paper is removed.
• the arms 13 pivot from the imagesetter 3 back to the still open drawer 5 of the plate magazine 1.
• the suction plate 10 then lowers onto the intermediate paper, which is located in the top of the drawer 5 after the pressure plate 7 has been removed.
• the sheet is picked up by the same mechanism as that of a printing plate 7.
• the vacuum system is selectively applied to the smaller suction heads 11.
• the presence of a pressure plate 7 and / or an intermediate paper on the suction plate 10 can be detected via a sensor mechanism. After the intermediate paper has been picked up by the suction plate 10, the drawer 5 is moved back into the plate magazine 1. By switching off the vacuum, the intermediate paper falls down into the stacking container 9 of the tub 8.
• the receiving device 2 then pivots back to the drum imagesetter 3 and picks up the imaged printing plate 7 by applying the vacuum.
• the arms 13 swivel back to the open drawer 6.
• the drawer 6 is closed and the illustrated pressure plate 7 is transferred to the discharge ramp 14 via the conveyor belts of the drawer 6.
• the printing plate 7 is fed to the downstream development device by means of the output ramp 14.
• two receiving devices 2 can be used for loading and unloading an imagesetter 3 and for removing an intermediate paper.
• the first receiving device 2 removes the printing plate 7, loads the imagesetter 3 and removes the intermediate paper. All process steps are carried out as described above.
• the second recording device 2 removes the imaged printing plate 7 and transfers it either directly to a developing device or to an intermediate output ramp 14. While the second recording device 2 removes the printing plate 7, the first recording device 2 can already print a next printing plate 7 and hold ready to load the imagesetter 3.

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