U. E. Sebald Druck Und Verlag Gmbh

Gunter Pecher

Werner Straubinger

Richard Kohlmann

A rotary intaglio printing machine has at least two printing mechanisms and a drying device arranged between the printing mechanisms, through which a web of paper to be printed upon successively passes. The printing mechanisms are so arranged that the web of paper is guided only by the plate cylinders and the impression cylinders of the printing mechanisms in a straight line from the preceding printing mechanism through the drying device in a contact-free mode to the following printing mechanism. The drying apparatus includes a housing through which the web of paper passes, as well as a fan arrangement and nozzle pipes which extend transversely to the direction of movement of the web of paper substantially over the entire width thereof and by which air, that is sucked out of the housing by the fan arrangement, is blown onto the web of paper. In order considerably to reduce the energy expenditure required for operation of such a drying apparatus, relative to the drying effect achieved, the nozzle pipes are arranged only on the freshly printed side of the web of paper and disposed on the side of the web of paper, that is opposite to the nozzle pipes, is a guide surface at which the web of paper is supported in a contact-free manner by way of an air cushion which is built up in an air gap formed between the web of paper and the guide surfaces.

Rotary intaglio printing machine

In a process and installation for removing solvent vapor from exhaust air sucked from a working space, the air is fed to at least two parallel activated carbon adsorbers. Each adsorber can be switched to and fro between a charging mode in which it adsorbs solvent vapors from the exhaust air flowing through the adsorber, and a regeneration mode in which it is separated from the flow of exhaust air and flushed with water vapor and desorbed. To save energy and to reduce environmental pollution, at the end of the regeneration period each adsorber has a drying phase in which exhaust air from the working space flows through the adsorber, the air thereafter being fed to an adsorber which is operating in the charging mode. In the periods in which an adsorber is operating in the charging mode, it firstly has an initial phase followed by a main phase wherein air flows from adsorbers which are in the main phase are returned directly into the working space while the air flow from an adsorber which is in the initial phase is kept separate from the first-mentioned air flows.

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Sugenheim, Germany

Gunter Pecher