Veb Kombinat Polygraph 'werner Lamberz Leipzig'

Veb Polygraph Leipzig, Kombinat Fuer Polygraphische Maschinen Und

Gunter Peter

Otfried Rudolph

Karlheinz Fischer

Volker Eichler

Victor Hefftler

Gunter Weisbach

Alfred Schott

Hans Zimmermann

Hans-Jurgen Tappert

Johannes Naumann

Werner Frenzel

Hilmar Trinks

Winfried Buesse

A method of automatically adjusting a printing machine which is selectively operatable in a single-side printing mode and in a two-side printing mode and includes a sheet turning drum, gripper systems and controls therefor, and a ring gear, comprises, during the adjustment from the single-side printing mode to the two-side printing mode and commencing from a first initial position, the succession of steps of adjusting the angular position of the sheet turning drum, adjusting the gripper system controls, and adjusting the angular position of the ring gear, including releasing, angularly displacing, and engaging the ring gear; and during the adjustment from the two-side printing mode to the single-side printing mode and commencing from the first initial position, the succession of steps of adjusting the angular position of the ring gear, including releasing, angularly displacing, and engaging the ring gear, adjusting the gripper systems controls, and adjusting the angular position of the sheet turning drum. The arrangement of the present invention includes various devices which are capable of performing the above method and of issuing various signals including feedback signals, and also of processing such signals in such a manner that, in the event of lack of completion of any step, at least that step is repeated from the beginning.

Method of and arrangement for automatic adjustment of the operating mode

A printing machine which has a plurality of printing units each including several rollers is equipped with a gear train which drives at least one roller of each of the printing units. At least associated two of the gear wheels of the gear train are coaxially mounted on a common shaft, one of them being movable toward and out of contact with the other gear wheel for establishing entraining connection therewith and for permitting angular displacement of the associated gear wheels relative to one another, respectively. The angular position of the associates gear wheels is to be changed when the mode of operation of the printing machine is to be changed from first page printing mode to first and second page printing mode. The arrangement which connects and disconnects the associated wheels includes a plurality of moving units which simultaneously act on the other gear wheel and which are mounted on an annular clamping element mounted on the other side of the one gear wheel from the one gear wheel. The moving unit may include a cylinder-and-piston unit having a toothed piston rod meshing with a pinion mounted on a threaded element meshingly received in a threaded bore of the other gear wheel, or an angular displacement motor having a threaded output shaft meshingly received in such threaded bore, or a cylinder-and-piston unit having a piston rod articulated to an eccentric disk rotatably mounted on a bearing block rigid with the other gear wheel.

Arrangement for selectively connecting coaxial gear wheels of a gear

A driving mechanism for groups of operating elements arranged in a rotary sheet guiding cylinder of a sheet-fed printing machine includes a pair of control shafts arranged in the guiding cylinder parallel to its axis of rotation and being driven by transmission gears arranged in the cylinder, two sets of cams, each supported on an assigned control shaft for activating a group of operating elements in a selected operational mode of the machine, and clutch means provided between the transmission gears and the shafts and operated from one point to actuate one control shaft and deactivate the other control shaft.

Driving mechanism for groups of adjustable sheet-gripping elements in a

The control device for a suction gripper on a guiding cylinder of a sheet fed rotary press comprises a tumbler shaft mounted on the sheet guiding cylinder and a suction unit swingable about a pivot point which is supported for movement about the tumbler shaft. The suction unit is either positively driven by a cam drive or self-adjustable by means of a tension spring between the unit and the tumbler shaft.

Control device for suction gripper systems in sheet guiding cylinders

A printing machine has a plurality of printing stations which print images on both major surfaces of each sheet passing through the printing machine. A reversing arrangement turns the respective sheet between two of the printing stations so that the major surface of the respective sheet having a fresh image thereon faces downwardly. A support arrangement is provided which supports this sheet during its advancement to the next following printing station, and includes a blow casing having upwardly oriented passages through which air issues in upward direction to create an air cushion between the respective sheet and the blow casing for supporting the respective sheet during its advancement. An elongated bracket is arranged upwardly of the blow casing and supports a region of the respective sheet which is devoid of the image, during the advancement of the sheet in a path portion located upwardly of the blow casing. The position of the bracket in the transverse direction of the machine is adjustable by means of a drive and a transmission which includes a transmission shaft having several sections interconnected by an elastic coupling. The blow casing is curved, and the number of the apertures per unit area within the curved portion and within the lateral portions of the blow casing exceeds that without such portions.

Support arrangement for guiding sheets through a printing machine

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