摘要:
A guide device for moving sheet material in printing presses, which by means of blown air, presses the sheet material flat against the cylindrical surface of a transporting drum or a cylinder, essentially without any contact between the sheet material and the guide device. The guide device can have a guide plate which generates a stream of blown air in the direction opposite to the direction of travel of the moving sheet material.
摘要:
An air dispenser attached to a printing press has a tube with a plurality of holes for directing air toward sheet material moving toward the gripper of the printing press to ensure registration and accurate feeding of the sheet material to the gripper of the printing press.
摘要:
Disclosed are the following: a wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting, printing or plotting, thereon; a replaceable donor sheet assembly, which includes a memory, for use with a thermal printer; methods and apparatus for improved thermal printing, including methods and apparatus for conserving donor sheet and reducing the amount of time required to print a multicolor graphic product; a thermal printhead including a memory; and methods and apparatus for the alignment of a sheet material for printing or performing other work operations on the sheet material. The wide format thermal printer can include provision for the automatic loading of cassettes of donor sheet from a cassette storage rack. The vacuum workbed can include provision for determining the size of the sheet material supported by the workbed, and for controlling the suction applied to the apertures in a worksurface of the workbed. Also disclosed are methods and apparatus for controlling the tension of the donor sheet during printing with a wide format thermal printer.
摘要:
Device for feeding a printing plate to a plate cylinder of at least one printing unit of a printing press, the plate cylinder having a clamping device formed with clamping surfaces for clamping a leading edge of the printing plate therein, includes at least one element for holding and guiding the printing plate, the one element being a readily rotatable roller having an outer cylindrical surface which, in a plate-changing position, is disposed substantially tangentially to a straight line disposed between the roller and the one printing unit, the straight line extending parallel to the clamping surfaces of the clamping device, passing between the clamping surfaces and leaving the one printing unit in an upwardly inclined direction.
摘要:
Holding device for a plate which is to be displaced and which is formed with a hole includes a suction cup having a sealing, elastic suction lip for sealing off a space within the suction cup when the plate is pressed against the suction lip, in a plate-holding condition of the holding device, the suction lip being formed of a material having good sliding properties and, in the plate-holding condition of the holding device, being disposed relative to the hole formed in the plate so that, upon a sliding displacement of the plate, the hole formed in the plate passes the suction lip and into the space within the suction cup, in a plate-releasing condition of the holding device.
摘要:
Sheet guiding cylinder for printing machines formed with a cylinder channel and having a clamping device disposed in the channel for gripping a sheet that is to be imprinted, the cylinder having a rotary axis and being rotatable in a given rotary direction, and includes a cylinder casing whereon a sheet to be imprinted is supportable, a plurality of rows of nozzles connectible to pressurized air-producing means, the rows of nozzles being disposed in the cylinder casing and extending parallel to the cylinder axis, and a plurality of peripheral flow channels formed at the outer surface of the cylinder casing and being at least partly coverable by the sheet to be imprinted, the nozzles of the rows of nozzles communicating respectively with the flow channels, the flow channels being disposed substantially parallel to the cylinder axis and having a cross section increasing with increasing distance from the nozzles in a peripheral direction opposite to the given rotary direction of the cylinder.
摘要:
The primary function of the optional handler is to make plates available on demand to the imaging engine. A multitude of plates are stored inside cassettes and these cassettes are loaded into the handler. There may be up to four cassettes residing in the handler. Inside a cassette there may be a protective interleaf sheet, sometimes called a slip sheet, between each plate which is removed by the handler and discarded. The handler receives commands from the engine control sequencer which provides instructions as to what cassette needs to be accessed to make a plate available to the picker mechanism so the plate may be conveyed to the imaging engine. Conversely the handler provides status information to the engine to make full interaction with the system possible.
摘要:
A printing press having a device for uniformly providing a suction force on a plane body on a support, the device comprising a closed suction chamber having a supporting surface, the supporting surface featuring suction ports. A blower, assigned to the suction chamber, produces an underpressure or vacuum pressure in the suction chamber. The device is designed so as to increase the suction capacity in the marginal area of the body to be sucked by using as little energy as possible, Also, a device for uniformly providing a suction force on a plane body on a support, the device being especially suitable for printing machines and their accessories, the device comprising a closed suction chamber having a supporting surface, the supporting surface featuring suction ports, a blower being assigned to the suction chamber and producing an underpressure in the suction chamber, and the device being designed so as to increase the suction capacity in the marginal area of the body to be sucked by using as little energy as possible.