Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
  • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
  • B41F13/00—Common details of rotary presses or machines
  • B41F13/0024—Frames
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
  • B41P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
  • B41P2217/00—Printing machines of special types or for particular purposes
  • B41P2217/10—Printing machines of special types or for particular purposes characterised by their constructional features
  • B41P2217/11—Machines with modular units, i.e. with units exchangeable as a whole

Definitions

• the invention relates to a printing unit for printing webs.
• a frame that takes on the load-bearing function and accommodates all installations and controls alternatively a frame designed like a frame can also be used,
• B. plate loading systems or digital images (direct images) can be stored in the traverse.
• Each traverse is equipped with one or two rockers for the so-called printing units in order to pivot the rubber cylinders.
• a major advantage of this system is the independence from the printing process, so that adjustments to future innovations can be made at any time by exchanging the corresponding modules.
• the basic change or adaptation to other printing processes as well as all varieties of offset printing can be covered.
• the printing unit can be upgraded or converted to anilox, waterless offset printing, gravure printing or any printing process developed in the future with its requirements.
• a modular printing unit designed as an H printing unit can be equipped with 1, 2, 3, 4 or more printing points, and a modular printing unit configured as an I printing unit can be equipped with 1, 2 or more printing points. Imprints can also be built in I construction.
• the sub-units of the modular printing unit are preassembled and docked in the frame.
• the ratio of the plate cylinders to blanket cylinders mounted in the crossbeam can be x: x or x: y (for y> x), but advantageously 1: 1, 1: 2 and 2: 2. However, 2: 3, 3: 3, etc. are equally conceivable.
• the wall portion for inking and dampening units is separate from the wall portion for plate cylinders and blanket cylinders and is called "subunit" here.
• the inking unit can alternatively contain 1, 2, 3 or 4 and more inking rollers as well as any number of distribution cylinders.
• the dampening unit can alternatively contain 1 or 2 dampening solution transfer rollers as well as any number of distribution cylinders. Ink and dampening systems can also be connected to one or more "coupling rollers" for indirect dampening.
• the rubber cylinder is swiveled out for good accessibility (eg replacement of the rubber cylinder cover, removal of a winder) by means of the rocker arranged in the crossmember, the fulcrum advantageously lies on the middle of the plate cylinder.
• Translatory movements are not absolutely necessary, but there is the possibility of shifting the counter-pressure, rubber and plate cylinders arranged in the traverse in the translational direction.
• the subunits are designed in a modular design, which are advantageously constructed identically, these mainly taking up dyeing and dampening units. Due to the identical structure of the subunits, they can advantageously be designed with the same dimensions, which improves interchangeability and minimizes production costs.
• an I-printing unit for a left-right machine By combining an upper left and lower right modular unit, an I-printing unit for a left-right machine can be built, and by combining an upper right and lower left modular unit, an I-printing unit can be built for a right - Build left machine.
• the cylinders for plate cylinders and blanket cylinders can be stretched in the traverse - i.e. in a line -, set in any direction or at an angle to each other.
• the modular printing unit can be equipped with different drive types:
• Bridge drive for the simultaneous drive of two printing units, integrated in the traverse, advantageously positioned in the middle of the plate cylinder and driving the rubber cylinder via drive elements
• the frames, trusses and swing arms are structurally simple and therefore inexpensive to produce.
• the trusses can be realized with commercially available profiles.
• the printing units designed by means of the frame, the traverses and the rockers are also characterized by a weight-reduced, compact and space-saving design.
• one and the same printing unit can be used for rotogravure or offset printing, whereby the machine can be converted from one process to the other simply by the modular design and the exchange of the traverse equipped with the corresponding cylinders and replacement of the corresponding modular subunits. Both printing processes can also be used simultaneously.
• one printing process can be used for straight printing and the other printing process for reverse printing.
• the printing press manufacturer can create the machines for both processes in the same way from the same components, which enables cost-effective production.
• the printing devices are also variable in format, i. H. they can easily be converted to other formats, i.e. different diameters of the printing unit cylinders and section lengths.
• the printing unit can be quickly converted to different production variants.
• the printing unit can also be converted into a coating device or at least either for face printing or for reverse printing as a coating unit.
• a printing unit in modular design for printing webs which has a frame that is provided on both end faces (drive and operating side) with at least one cross member, with pressure cylinders being mounted in the cross members, such that a structural unit is made up of Trusses and pressure cylinders are completely removable and removable from the frame.
• 5 shows a representation of the subunits in different formats.
• FIG. 1 shows a printing unit 1 of a web-fed rotary printing press consisting of a frame 2 constructed in the manner of a frame with two cross members 3 to be connected to it on both sides; 4, wherein in the trusses 3; 4 two printing units 5 to 8 with plate cylinders 9 to 12 and blanket cylinders 13 to 16 are arranged and the cross members 3; 4 are arranged horizontally in frame 2.
• the plate cylinders 9 to 12 and the blanket cylinders 13 to 16 are here in the cross member 3; 4 arranged in a line. You can, not shown in detail in the truss 3; 4 be arranged in any direction or at an angle to each other.
• Each printing unit 5 to 8 or each plate cylinder 9 to 12 is connected to a modular sub-unit 17 to 20, the sub-unit 17 to 20 between the respective traverse 3; 4 and the frame 2 is arranged.
• Dyeing and dampening units are integrated in the sub-units 17 to 20, not shown in detail.
• the printing unit 1 designed in this way with four printing units 5 to 8 represents a so-called H printing unit with four printing points, a web 29 to be printed being passed between the rubber cylinders 13 to 16.
• the printing units 5 to 8 print the web 29 on both sides.
• the rubber cylinder 13; 15 or the rubber cylinder 14; 16 can be configured as an impression cylinder 50, the respective forme cylinder 9 to 12 for the rubber cylinder 13 to 16, which is now embodied as an impression cylinder 42, being eliminated.
• the web 29 is printed on one side.
• the respective rubber cylinder 13 to 16 is on the cross member 3; 4 by means of a
• Swing arm 21 to 24 can be pivoted, the pivot point of the swing arm 21 to 24 preferably being an axis 25 to 28 of the respective plate cylinder 9 to 12.
• the traverse 3; 4 is, not shown in more detail, screwed to the frame 2 on both sides, so that, for example, the respective printing units 5 to 8 can be exchanged quickly.
• the traverse 3; 4 consists for example of folded sheets or
• the printing cylinders 9 to 16 can be moved relative to one another for the printing on / printing off via bearing points designed as eccentrics.
• FIG. 2 shows a drive 30 of the printing unit 5.
• the drive 30 consists of a drive motor 31 which is in drive connection with the plate cylinder 9 via a coupling 32.
• the plate cylinder 9 is with the rubber cylinder 13 on their axes 25; 35 arranged gears 33; 34 connected.
• the drive motor 31 is arranged on a bracket 36 connected to the cross member 3.
• the rocker 21 On the axis 25 of the plate cylinder 9, the rocker 21 is mounted, which can be pivoted about the axis 25 by means of a pivoting motor 38 which is fastened to the bracket 36 and is in engagement with a toothed segment 37 arranged on the rocker 21.
• a locking device 39 Before pivoting, a locking device 39 must be released, which connects the rocker 21 to the bracket 36 in a locking manner during printing operation.
• the crossmember 3 is provided with a cutout 40 along the pivoting path of the axis 35 of the rubber cylinder 13.
• the rocker 21 can also be pivoted by means of a pressure medium-operated working cylinder instead of by means of the swing-out motor.
• FIG. 3 shows a variant of FIG. 2.
• the drive motor 31 drives the rubber cylinder 13 here, for example via a drive element 41, for example one Timing belt.
• the drive motor 31 is analogous to FIG. 2 in its position at the center Mp of the plate cylinder 9, so that it does not change its position when the rubber cylinder 13 is pivoted out.
• FIG. 4 shows a printing unit 50 which is designed as an I-printing unit.
• the traverse 51 is, for example, T-shaped and the web 29 is guided through the printing unit 50 in the horizontal direction.
• the I-printing unit 50 can be equipped with 1 or 2 pressure points. Imprints can therefore also be built in I construction.
• the subunits 52; 53 are preassembled analogously to FIG. 1 and are docked in the frame 54.
• an upper left 52 and lower right modular unit 53 enables an I printing unit 50 to be built for a left-right machine (see FIG. 4, upper illustration), by the combination of an upper right 55 and lower left
• An I-printing unit 50 for a right-left machine can be built in a modular construction subunit 56 (see FIG. 4, lower figure).
• the subunits 17 to 20 are shown in FIG.
• the subunits 17 to 20 always have the same dimensions, the frames 2; 2 'can be different in their format or in their dimensions, the dimension or the format of the frames 2; 2 'depends on the number and the dimension of the printing cylinders used. While looking at the two figures shown in FIG. 5, the identically dimensioned subunits 17 to 20 can be seen, but the format difference of the frames 2 represented by ⁇ B; 2 '. reference numeral
• Printing unit 38 swing-out motor

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• Replacement Of Web Rolls (AREA)

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