Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag

Burkhard Maass

Stefan Dopke

Rolf K&uuml;ndgen

Jurgen Rautert

Willi Becker

Andreas Henn

Andreas Fricke

Bernhard Wagensommer

Peter Heiler

Bernd Sitzmann

Gerd Merkel

Jens Hieronymus

Markus Gerstenberger

Werner K&ouml;nig

Juergen Maass

Jürgen Rautert

J&uuml;rgen Rautert

Michaela Schwab

Diana B&ouml;ser

A method for operating a printing unit of a printing press includes operating the printing unit in a first operating mode, for example printing operation, and in a second operating mode, for example maintenance operation. In the first operating mode, a printing unit cylinder and a distributor roller are driven rotationally by a first motor and the distributor roller is driven axially by a second motor. In the second operating mode, the distributor roller is driven rotationally by a third motor and the distributor roller is driven axially by the second motor. A printing press for carrying out the method is also provided.

Printing press and method for operating a printing unit of a printing press

A cladding of a printing machine in a region of a side wall of a printing unit of the printing machine includes a housing fastened to the side wall, the housing having an upper housing wall, two lateral housing walls and a housing cover connected to the lateral housing walls so as to be displaceable between a lower position covering the side wall and a position raised to a defined height.

Cladding for a printing machine

A device for automatically changing printing plates is provided in a printing machine having a plate cylinder to which a printing plate is to be fed and on which the printing plate is to be fixed detachably. The device includes a transport system for conveying the printing plate while permitting axial compensating movements thereof. The transport system has at least one driven transport roller and an air cushion for holding the conveyed printing plate in contact with the transport roller. The plate-holding air cushion is formed between a counterpressure element, on one side, and the printing plate, on the other side.

Device for automatically changing printing plates in a printing machine

A method for preventing limit values from being exceeded in sheet-fed printing machines includes acquiring values relevant to the printing process with respect to individual sheets, and processing those values so that predetermined limit values are maintained, detecting the development trend of a relevant value in the course of a series of sheets, and initiating measures when a change in the values occurs that would lead to a limit value being exceeded in an additional predetermined number of sheets if a continuation of the trend occurs; and a device for performing the method.

Method and device for preventing limit values from being exceeded in sheet-fed printing machines

A method for the register-true alignment of sheets ( ) before the transfer to a sheet-processing machine with the assistance of a carrier ( ) that is movable in the machine cycle and is driven as a function of a signal, in order to feed the sheets individually to an aligning stop. To permit exact and reliable alignment even at high machine speeds with an uncomplicated mechanism, the signal is generated when a sheet edge ( ) to be fed passes a predetermined location between the carrier ( ) and aligning stop ( ), and in response to the signal, the carrier performs a preset movement, identical from sheet to sheet, by which the carried-along sheet ( ) is fed to the aligning stop with a speed greater than zero, but substantially less than the maximum sheet speed during the feeding movement. The method is particularly suitable for side-edge alignment, but is also suitable for leading-edge alignment.

Method for the proper alignment of sheets

A feeder for a sheet-fed printing press includes a feeding table having a surface which, at least in subregions thereof, is formed with through openings, over which sheets separable or singlable by a suction head are transportable against lays for aligning the sheets and through which air feedable under the sheet in the region of the suction head is dischargeable in a downward direction, the feeding-table surface having edge portions formed with a respective inclination, the edge portions defining the openings.

Feeding table for sheets in a feeder of a sheet-fed printing press

Sheet-guiding device assembly includes at least one sheet hold-downer disposed on a movable protective guard.

Sheet-guiding device assembly with a sheet hold-downer

Pull lays on a feed table of a sheet-fed rotary printing machine are adjusted by a pulling device for laterally aligning sheets thereon. A spindle, which extends transversely to the travel direction, displaces the pull lays for adjusting to a sheet format to be processed. The spindle engages indirectly at a housing of the side lays which is provided with bearing and guide elements. The pull lays are thereby subject to an energy storing device which supports them in a guide transversely to the feed table.

Pull lay adjusting device

Sheet-guiding device assembly of a sheet-processing machine includes at least one sheet hold-downer disposed on a movable protective guard. The guard is swivellably or slidingly supported. The guard may be formed with an aperture in which the sheet hold-downer is disposed. The spacing of the sheet hold-downer to a feed table of the sheet-processing machine is adjustable.

A pile board receiver of a pile lifting device comprising pivotal entrainer hooks having respective pivot points from which the entrainer hooks extend downwardly, the entrainer hooks being vertically guidable and being pivotable in a direction towards a location at which a pile board is receivable in the receiver, each of the entrainer hooks having a hook opening disposed below the respective pivot point and directed towards the location, the respective pivot point being located beyond the location; each of the hooks being formed with a respective prong extending into a region of the receiver wherein a pile board receivable in the receiver is liftable therein; and the method thereof.

Device and method for receiving, and for lifting and lowering a

Device for adapting negative pressure in a suction belt feed or supply table of a sheet feeder to operating conditions which vary during sheet conveyance, having at least one endless, revolvingly driven conveyor belt provided with suction openings, and a side alignment device for laterally aligning a respectively foremost sheet of a shingled or overlapping sheet stream, and at least one suction box disposed below a conveying plane, the suction box, in a sheet feeding direction, being subdivided into a plurality of chambers subjectible to negative pressure independently of one another, includes a conveyor belt, a plurality of suction chambers disposed in the conveying plane below the conveyor belt, a common suction union and a swivelable shutoff element for selectively connecting the suction chambers to the suction union.

Device for adapting negative pressure in a suction belt feed table of a

Device for correctly-registered feeding of sheets supplied thereto in a sheet stream in a sheet transport direction, to front lays of a sheet-processing machine having a lateral pulling device, and a sheet-advancing device disposed within a smallest format width to be processed. The feeding devices includes at least one permanently driven drive roller disposed in the vicinity of the front lays, and at least one contact pressure device cooperatively engageable with the at least one drive roller. The drive roller has a rotational axis directed crosswise to the sheet transport direction, and at least part of the drive roller is disposed laterally of the sheet advancing device.

Device for aligning sheets at the front lays of a sheet processing

Device for conveying a continuous shingled or overlapping sheet or copy stream to a rotary printing press, with a conveying table, at least one endless, revolvingly drivable conveyor belt surrounding the conveying table, and at least one suction box disposed beneath the conveying table and being connected through suction openings with the underside of the conveyor belt, the conveyor belt being formed with through-perforated suction holes, the suction box being formed with at least two suction chambers subjectible to negative pressure or vacuum independently of one another, includes a base member forming a suction box, profiled guide sections accommodated in the base member, suction ducts formed between edges of the profiled guide sections and boundaries of the base member, the edges forming a seal, and the suction ducts extending in different planes in the base member.

Device for conveying a continuous shingled sheet stream

Feeding table assembly of a sheet-fed printing machine with conveyor belts for conveying paper sheets from a feed pile, via a region for lateral alignment of the sheets, to downline printing units includes a rigid frame; a member having a sheet-conveying surface extending in a conveying direction over the lateral alignment region and formed with at least one through-opening for receiving the rigid frame therein; deflection rollers journaled in the rigid frame; at least one conveyor belt looped about the deflection rollers and having a strand for conveying the paper sheets from a location at a beginning of the sheet-conveying surface to a location beyond the lateral alignment region; a holder fixed to the printing machine; and a device for removably fastening the rigid frame to the holder so that a strand of the conveyor belt provided for conveying is in a conveying position; and method of assembling the conveyor belt with the feeding table.

Feeding table assembly with suction belts in sheet feeders and method of

Safety device in a sheet feeder of a sheet-fed processing machine includes a freely revolving pile-lifting chain for lifting and lowering a feed pile, a first drive for entraining pile-lifting chain with a driving connection so as to lift the feed pile, a second drive for entraining the pile-lifting chain with a driving connection so as to lower the feed pile, and a device for disconnecting at least one of the driving connections of the first and the second drives with the pile-lifting chain for lowering the feed pile when a limit value for a force exerted by the feed pile upon the pile-lifting chain is exceeded; and a safety method.

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