Abstract:
There is disclosed a vacuum table (400) comprising a vacuum plate (402) separating a first vacuum chamber (406) from a substrate zone (60) for receiving a substrate (50). The vacuum plate has a plurality of suction holes (404) for conveying a gas flow from the substrate zone (60) to the first vacuum chamber (406). There is an evacuation port (422) in communication with a second vacuum chamber (420) to evacuate gas from the substrate zone (60) when a substrate (50) is received over the suction holes (404) of the vacuum plate (402), and a vacuum port (424) for discharging gas received in the second vacuum chamber (420) to a vacuum source. The first vacuum chamber (406) and the second vacuum chamber (420) are in fluid communication via a valve (430) so that gas flows from the first vacuum chamber (406) to the vacuum port (424) via the second vacuum chamber (420). The valve (430) is controllable to vary a gas flow rate through the vacuum plate (402) and thereby vary a retaining force on a substrate (50) received thereon.
Abstract:
The objects of the invention are to provide a sheet chuck that enables a flexible sheet substrate to come in uniform contact with a stamp, and a microcontact printing process of using that sheet chuck to form a high-precision pattern. The sheet chuck of the invention comprises a base having a sheet substrate carrying surface defined by an upper surface thereof, a suck-in/suck-out port positioned on the carrying surface, and a holder positioned on the carrying surface in such a way as to surround the suck-in/suck-out port, and the suck-in/suck-out port is an area capable of sucking in or sucking out gas.
Abstract:
A device for feeding suction air or blowing air to a sheet-retaining device displaceable relative to a machine element in a sheet-processing machine, includes a first air-feeding element connectible in terms of flow to a suction-air or blowing-air source. A second air-feeding element cooperates telescopically with the first air-feeding element for forming an air through-passage duct connected in terms of flow to the sheet-retaining device.
Abstract:
Device for guiding a sheet having a leading edge which follows an imaginary conducting surface along a sheet-transport direction perpendicular to the leading edge, the sheet-guiding device being formed with a sheet-guiding surface spaced from the imaginary conducting surface, and having equipment for generating a plurality of air jets for applying an air flow to the sheet between a surface of the sheet and the sheet-guiding surface, the generating equipment being formed of respective flow channels for the air jets disposed at an angle to and merging with the sheet-guiding surface, includes an integral guide plate having a surface constituting a predominant part of the sheet-guiding surface, the integral guide plate being formed with perforations, the air-jet generating equipment being formed of blast-air nozzles having blast-air nozzle end faces constituting a remaining part of the sheet-guiding surface complementing the predominant part of the sheet-guiding surface to form the entire sheet-guiding surface, the blast-air nozzles fitting into the respective perforations formed in the guide plate so that the blast-air nozzle end faces are flush with the surface of the guide plate, the blast-air nozzles, respectively, having the respective flow channels formed thereon, and being formed with a nozzle bore passing therethrough and communicating with the respective flow channel.
Abstract:
A rotary leadthrough for feeding pressurizing medium to a rotatably mounted part includes a stator and a rotor rotatable relative thereto, the stator and the rotor being formed with at least one channel, respectively, sealing elements and sealing counter-elements respectively carried by one and the other of the stator and the rotor for cooperatively sealing the stator and the rotor therebetween and for coupling the respective channels formed in the stator and the rotor into at least one medium connection path through which pressurizing medium is feedable, the stator having a longitudinal axis, and the rotor having a rotational axis coinciding with the longitudinal axis of the stator, and a device for axially displacing the stator and the rotor relative to one another from a first position thereof wherein the sealing elements are in sealing engagement with the sealing counter-elements, to a second position thereof wherein the sealing elements and the sealing counter-elements are spaced from one another.
Abstract:
A device for guiding signatures between signature-guiding cylinders in a folding apparatus of a rotary printing press includes a guide member extending over the length of the signature-guiding cylinders for receiving signatures thereon, the guide member being disposed relative to the signature-guiding cylinders so as to facilitate a reversal of transport direction of the signatures, a support member whereon the guide member is rotatably supported, at least one conveyor belt for driving the guide member, and a device for applying negative pressure, during rotation of the guide member, to peripheral regions of the guide member and between the guide member and a respective signature received thereon.
Abstract:
In a delivery section of a sheet-fed printing press convertible between single-sided sheet printing and first-form and perfector printing, a sheet guide is provided formed with a sheet guide surface alterable between conditions wherein the surface is formed with throughholes and the surface is continuous and smooth, and a device for altering the sheet guide surface so that it is formed with throughholes when converting the press from first-form and perfector printing to single-sided sheet printing, and for altering the sheet guide surface so that it is continuous and smooth when converting the press from single-sided sheet printing to first-form and perfector printing.
Abstract:
Register of sheets being transferred by a reversal drum (9), having suction grippers (16) to grip the trailing end (15) of a sheet (12) being transported and reversed between two printing stations (1, 2) is improved and assisted by positioning pricking pins (17) in or on the suction grippers (16), to prick into and engage the trailing end portions of the sheet being picked off an impression cylinder (5) of a first printing system (1) by the reversal and transport drum (9).
Abstract:
A sheet handling device for a printer, such as a silkscreen printed circuit card printer, includes a pick-up and hold device that translates between a register position on the printer and one or more stacks of cards. Adjustable limit switches on a transport track for the device determine the positions at which its movement is interrupted. Plural knobs on a controller for the device are each assigned to one of the operations of picking up or releasing a card, and is set to one of the positions of the limit switches. The controller senses the assigned operation and position setting of each knob in sequence, and carries out the card transport operations accordingly.
Abstract:
Sheet sensing device in a rotary printing press having a sheet transferring drum provided at respective regions thereof with gripping means for gripping the leading and trailing edges of a sheet being transferred, includes sensing nozzles disposed in the region of the gripping means for gripping the trailing edge of a sheet, a line system connecting the sensing nozzles to a pneumatic pressure-generating source, and pressure monitoring means connected in the line system between the sensing nozzles and the pneumatic pressure-generating source.