Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag

Nexpress Solutions, Inc.

Eastman-kodak Company

Krones Ag

Homag Gmbh

Masterwork Machinery Co., Ltd.

Christian Compera

Anton Rodi

Martin Greive

Bernd Herrmann

James Douglas Shifley

Gregory Leo Kowalski

Patrick Metzler

Hermann Beisel

Konrad Senn

Andreas Dickhoff

Johannes Schmid

Wolfgang Diehr

Gerd Merkel

Leo Zeimetz

Wolfgang Heinrich Alberstadt

Johann Zimmerer

Andreas Nagy

Markus Flik

Christian Betz

Rudolf Hutzenlaub

Alexander Feigl

Adolf Phillip Greiner

Ingo Neuber

Axel Petrak

Gerhard Bartscher

Soenke Dehn

Udo Draeger

Carsten Terhorst

Walter Dworschak

Peter Schulz

Carsten Sch&ouml;nfeld

Karlheinz Peter

Torsten Ramm

Edwin Mathes

Erich Klassen

Karlheinz Groeninger

Paul Weiss

Thomas Imkamp

Jana Schiek

Steffen Galle

An apparatus for heating plastic preforms with a transport device which includes holding devices for holding the plastic preforms and wherein the transport path has at least one heating portion inside which the plastic preforms are heated, and with a heating device arranged stationarily at least in portions along the transport path and which heats the plastic preforms transported by the transport device during their transport through the heating portion, wherein the heating device has at least one in particular stationary applicator device which is configured for bombarding the plastic preforms with microwaves to heat them. In the heating portion, the transport device is arranged relative to the applicator device such that at least parts of the holding devices are arranged outside the applicator device, wherein the applicator device is configured to receive several plastic preforms simultaneously for at least some of the time.

Apparatus for heating plastic preforms with stationary applicator

Disclosed is a method for connecting a connecting face of an edge material to a connecting face of a workpiece by a synthesis element, including the steps: of making available the workpiece, feeding the synthesis element, which is made available by at least one function film composed of an adhesive, activating the adhesive function film, applying the synthesis element to one of the connecting faces, connecting the synthesis element to the other of the connecting faces, wherein the workpiece and the edge material are connected by the synthesis element located between them. Furthermore, there is disclosed a synthesis element and a device for connecting a connecting face of an edge material to a connecting face of a workpiece.

Method, device and synthesis element for connecting an edge material to a workpiece

For a device for the alignment of sheets, which comprises at least one first and one second driving roller () and at least one pressure roller (), as well as at least one first and one second rotary drive () for rotating said first and second driving rollers (), respectively, about an axis of rotation (), a simple and cost-effective setup is achieved by at least one displacement drive for shifting at least the driving rollers () along the axis of rotation in such a manner that there is a change of distance between the driving rollers.

Device and method for the alignment of sheets

In replacing a sleeve on a printing machine drum, the diameter of the drum is reduced by moving the drum parts toward one another to facilitate removing the sleeve, and/or mounting another sleeve onto the drum, and increasing the drum diameter by moving the drum parts away from one another.

Sleeve on a drum and changing said sleeve

A fuser roller for a printing machine that is equipped with internally located heating elements and has a cylindrically shaped body that is closed off at each end by flanges. At least one connecting element, that is moveable in a rolling motion, is provided between the body and the flanges. A spring plate urges the flange, via an offset that has a chamfer, against the connecting element that is located inside an annular groove. The annular groove can also have a chamfer. Changes in the connection can be balanced out by movements of the connecting elements and commensurate pulling up of the flange by the spring plate.

Connection between the flange and the body of a fuser roller

A cylinder with a functional layer ( ) and with a supporting body ( ), which passes through the cylinder. On the supporting body ( ), a sleeve that accommodates the functional layer ( ) is supported at ends ( ). The supporting body ( ) is for its part accommodated on supporting elements ( ) provided on the frame side. The cylinder sleeve ( ) that accommodates the functional layer ( ) can be centered in relation to the axis of rotation ( ) by centering faces ( ) formed at the ends ( ). One end of the cylinder can be exposed at the supporting element ( ).

Replaceable cylinder element including cylindrical sleeve and end members having complementary centering faces

The invention concerns a device for assembly of tubular cylindrical carriers ( ) on the circumference ( ) of carrier cylinders ( ) of drums or cylinders, wherein for the assembly of the tubular carrier ( ) on the lateral surface ( ) a pressure medium acts upon the latter. By attaching an assembly aid ( ), on which a tubular carrier ( ) can be held, on the carrier cylinder ( ), a pressure medium acts upon the latter, so that positioning of the tubular carrier ( ) is made possible.

Device for assembly of tubular carrier elements

A document printer/copier comprises a pair of drum-support members for rotatably supporting an image-recording drum and, optionally, an intermediate image-transfer drum. At least one of such drum-support members is adapted to be decoupled from the drum(s) it supports and be moved to a position within the machine frame in which it does interfere with the replacement of the drum(s)'s outer layer. Preferably, such member comprises a selectively energizable clamp which, when energized, clamps onto an axle bearing of a drum and thereby supports the drum for rotation. When de-energized, the clamp releases the drum bearing, enabling the drum-support member to be slid axially along the drum axis to a position spaced from the drum axle, and thereafter pivoted to a position spaced from the drum axis where it does not interfere with drum servicing and/or replacement.

Document printer/copier with decoupleable drum-support member

A device for conveying thin workpieces for machines used in the printing technology field having at least one movable conveying element having an electrically insulating contact surface supporting at least one workpiece as it is being conveyed, the contact surface of the conveying element being formed with regions of varying charge density by electric charges applied thereto, and the workpiece being held on the contact surface by electrostatic forces, includes a multiplicity of contacts engaging the surface of the conveying element, the multiplicity of contacts including at least one given group thereof, the multiplicity of contacts being disposed transversely to a direction in which the thin workpiece is conveyable by the conveying element and being distributed across the entire width of the workpiece, the multiplicity of contacts being connected to at least one d.c. voltage source.

Sheet-conveying device for machines used in the printing technology field

A document printer/copier comprises a pair of drum-support members for rotatably supporting an image-recording drum and, optionally, an intermediate image-transfer drum. At least one of such drum-support members is adapted to be decoupled from the drum(s) it supports and be moved to a position within the machine frame in which it does interfere with the replacement of the drum(s)'s outer layer. Preferably, such member comprises a selectively energizeable clamp which, when energized, clamps onto an axle bearing of a drum and thereby supports the drum for rotation. When de-energized, the clamp releases the drum bearing, enabling the drum-support member to be slid axially along the drum axis to a position spaced from the drum axle, and thereafter pivoted to a position spaced from the drum axis where it does not interfere with drum servicing and/or replacement.

The invention concerns a printing apparatus including a cylinder, mounted in side walls, that has a sleeve-shaped sheath that can be replaced through an opening in a side wall. The object of the invention is to develop a printing apparatus in which replacement of a sleeve-shaped sheath is simplified, and the risk of damage to the sheath is reduced. The invention proposes that a detachably attached sheath (,) that projects laterally from the cylinder (,) on the side toward the opening be provided on the enveloping surface (,) of the cylinder (,); that a holding apparatus (,), which can be set against and moved away from the interior of the projecting part (,) of the sheath (,), be provided for the sheath (,), the holding apparatus (,) being physically integrated with a bearing element (,) of the cylinder (,); and that in order to replace the sheath, the bearing element (,) can be positioned in a location which uncovers the opening. The invention is applicable to electrostatic, electrophotographic, and magnetographic printing apparatuses.

Printing apparatus and method using a sleeved drum

A device for conveying thin workpieces in a machine used in printing technology, which device includes at least one moving conveying element, on whose surface are formed areas of changing charge density, the adherence of the workpiece on the conveying element being supported by electrostatic forces wherein contacts are provided for forming the areas of changing charge density, the contacts touching the conveying element and being connected to at least one voltage source, and an electric current flow being present, via the contacts in the material of the conveying element.

Device for conveying sheets in a printing machine

A printing machine comprising a plurality of printing units (3) arranged in line one behind the other and an endless transport belt (4) for substrates to be printed, said transport belt running around, at least, two spaced-apart rollers (5, 6) and past said printing units. At least, two rollers (5, 6) are mounted on a coherent belt-carrying unit (9) from which, when being in a slack condition, said transport belt (4) may be stripped off. Furthermore, the printing machine features a drawer (24) which may be pulled out laterally and which is provided below said belt-carrying unit (9) as well as a holding device (11, 12, 13, 15, 16) holding said belt-carrying unit (9) and being switchable between, at least, two different conditions, in a first condition said holding device holding said belt-carrying unit in an operating position, and in a second condition said belt-carrying unit (9) resting loosely on said drawer (24). This permits a simple and quick belt changing.

Printing machine with a sheet-transport belt

A sheet-fed printing press includes a plurality of printing units disposed along a sheet-transport path. A transport apparatus (3, 33, 40, 50, 66, 78) is disposed along the sheet-transport path. The sheets are transported through the printing units along the sheet-transport path and, after recto-printing, they are returned along a return-transport path which extends essentially in an opposite direction to the sheet-transport path. The printing press is thus enabled to print recto-and-verso while having a very short structural length.

Sheet-fed printing press

Method for supplying a printing unit of a printing press with ink which is solid at normal temperature includes supplying the printing unit with ink in the form of solid bodies, and melting the solid ink bodies in the printing unit and applying the ink in a molten state to a cylinder of the printing unit.

Method for supplying ink to a printing press

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