Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag

Hans-Peter Hiltwein

Karl-Heinz Helmstädter

Willi Becker

Jens Forche

Peter Thoma

Günter Stephan

Olaf Lorenz

Hans Peter Boguhn

Eckart Frankenberger

G&uuml;nter Stephan

Jochen Renner

Rudi Haupenthal

Jens Friedrichs

Stefan Mutschall

Karl-Heinz Helmst&auml;dter

Uwe Fischer

Daniel Conzelmann

Hendrik Frank

Rolf Spilger

Siegfried Kurtzer

Christian Görbing

Thomas Schaeffer

Karl-Heinz Helmstadter

Thorsten Eckart

Dieter Bergmeier

Carsten Huschle

Manfred Gross

Michael Krüger

Raimund Schroder

Michael Rehberg

Dieter Stephan

Volker Weyde

Roland Krupp

Andrea Martha Haupenthal, Legal Representative

Dirk Naumann

Volker Müller

Jürgen Maass

Norbert Thünker

In a sheet gripper, a dimensionally stable base material and an elastic clamping surface material are connected to each other in a form-fitting manner. The elastic clamping surface material functions as a clamping surface of the sheet gripper. This forms a sheet gripper having a long service life and is easy manufacture.

Printing material sheet gripper and method for producing the sheet gripper

A sheet-fed rotary printing press for selective recto printing and recto and verso printing includes a three-drum reversing device having three cylinders cooperatively disposed behind one another between respective impression cylinders of two adjacent printing units. The three cylinders include one at least double-size transfer cylinder, one at least double-size storage drum, and one at least single-size reversing drum. Grippers prescribe a circular periphery of the transfer cylinder. The transfer cylinder has an outer contour smaller than the circular periphery prescribed by the grippers of the transfer cylinder. Other grippers prescribe a circular periphery of the reversing drum. The reversing drum has an outer contour smaller than the circular periphery prescribed by the grippers of the reversing drum. A method of operating the three-drum reversing device is also provided.

Sheet-fed rotary printing press having a three-drum reversing device and method of transporting a sheet through a three-drum reversing device

A method of varying a drum profile of a vario drum for transporting printing material sheets, in which shell segments of the vario drum are pivoted inward and outward. Sheet supporting elements assigned to the shell segments are reversibly deformed by pivoting the shell segments. A vario drum suitable for implementing the method and a machine containing the vario drum for processing printing material sheets contain the shell segments and the associated sheet supporting elements.

Method of varying a drum profile of a vario drum and vario drum for implementing the method

A machine for processing printing material sheets, in particular a sheet-fed printing press, has a sheet transport drum for transporting the printing material sheets and at least one sheet supporting element. The sheet supporting element, which is formed with a sheet supporting surface, is compatible with the sheet transport drum, for supporting the printing material sheets in a first operating mode. When the machine is operated in the first operating mode the sheet supporting element is held attached to the sheet transport drum, and when the machine is operated in a second operating mode the sheet supporting element is stored in the machine detached from the sheet transport drum. A corresponding printing material processing machine is suitable for carrying out the novel method.

Machine for processing printing material sheets, in particular sheet-fed printing press, and method of operating the machine

A gripper system for a machine that processes printing material sheets has a gripper with a first clamping surface and a gripper pad, for cooperating with the gripper, with a second clamping surface. One of the two clamping surfaces is formed with a surface relief. The clamping surface which has the surface relief is placed in such a way that, when a narrow printing material sheet is gripped, the clamping surface is covered by the sheet only within a subregion of the clamping surface and, when it grips a broad printing material sheet, it is covered by the latter beyond the subregion. The surface relief is structured differently within the subregion than outside the subregion, in that it is provided within the subregion with an antideformation structure which protects the narrow printing material sheet from excessive clamping deformation.

Gripper system for a machine which processes printing material sheets

In a gripper system having grippers disposed in a row and interspaces between the grippers and hold-downs for holding down in each case a free edge of a printing material sheet gripped by the grippers, the hold-downs being disposed to project into the interspaces and being mounted such that they can be displaced together with the grippers when gripping the printing material sheet.

Gripper system

A control system for a printing machine and a safety device for scanning and displaying a hazardous area that cannot be looked at on a printing machine and method thereof includes permitting the printing machine to be started up only after an acknowledgement through a control device that the hazardous area displayed has been examined by an operator.

Safety device and method for monitoring a hazardous area that cannot be looked at in a printing machine

A gripper device in a sheet-processing machine includes a gripper, a gripper pad associated with the gripper and a first drive for moving the gripper out of an opened position thereof into a closed position thereof. The gripper is cooperatively engageable with the gripper pad for producing a clamping force for holding sheets being processed. A second drive is separately operable from the first drive during a production printing operation of the sheet-processing machine. The first and second drives are operable for positioning the gripper and/or the gripper pad so that clamping faces of one of the gripper and/or the gripper pad are movable by the second drive perpendicularly to clamping faces of the other of the gripper and/or the gripper pad.

Gripper device in a sheet-processing machine

A method and an apparatus for reversing sheet material in a sheet-processing machine having at least two printing units, a reversing drum with a gripper system, and an impression cylinder that can be operated as a storage drum in perfecting mode and to which a further gripper system for one edge of the sheet material is assigned. In perfecting mode, one of the edges of the sheet material is gripped at an angular offset before the transfer centerline between the reversing drum and the storage drum, before the edge of the sheet material fixed to the storage drum is released.

Method and apparatus for reversing sheet material in sheet-processing machines

A device for controlling vacuum applied to suction openings formed in a cylinder, the suction openings being connectable to a vacuum source via valves arranged in rows and assigned to the suction openings, includes a rotatable adjusting shaft carrying adjusting elements assigned to the valves, the adjusting elements serving to actuate the valves in a defined sequence when the adjusting shaft is rotated, the valves having adjusting bodies therein movable by the adjusting elements out of a first switching position of the adjusting bodies into a second switching position thereof, the vacuum applied to the suction openings being of different magnitudes in the first and the second switching positions; and a method for incrementally actuating the vacuum-controlling device.

Device for controlling suction air or vacuum and method of actuating the

A feeler for cyclically sensing the pile height of a feed pile in a sheet-fed machine, in particular a printing machine, having a lever drive linkage with a sensing roller, which at least during paper travel is in constant touch contact by means of a spring with a cyclically drivable drive cam; having a four-bar guide linkage with two levers, disposed one above the other and each with one end pivotally supported on the frame, which levers are each pivotally supported by their other lever end, spaced apart from one another, on a coupler, wherein a feeler foot for sensing the pile height is secured to a downward-extending vertical extension of the coupler; having a carrier stop, which is secured to the drive linkage; having a stop face on the guide linkage, which face is embodied and disposed in a fashion corresponding to the carrier stop for cyclically establishing touch contact for raising the feeler foot; and having a spring, one spring support of which is secured in a manner fixed to the machine and whose other spring support is secured to the guide linkage, and whose spring force presses the stop face in the direction toward the carrier stop.

Sensor for cyclically scanning the height of a pile

Securing device for a set collar formed with a thread by which it is threadedly secured to a conterpart formed with a corresponding mating thread for adjusting between a stop and a first end face of the set collar an assembly of components engaging the stop, includes a device for retaining the set collar and the counterpart threadedly secured to one another, the retaining device being formed as at least part of a ring tightly engaging the counterpart so as to be fixed against relative rotation therewith and being simultaneously in engagement with a second end face of the set collar disposed on a side of the set collar opposite to a side thereof whereon the first end face thereof is disposed.

Securing device for a set collar

In a sheet-fed rotary printing press, a device for tensionally connecting a fixed gearwheel and a gearwheel coaxial with and adjustable in rotational position thereof relative to the fixed gearwheel on a cylinder of a turning device in the printing press, comprising an actuatable clamping element and a clamping body for clamping the fixed gearwheel and the adjustable gearwheel together, the clamping body being braced against one of the gearwheels, and being held with the clamping element on the other of the gearwheels, friction elements carried by the gearwheels so as to be mutually overlappingly interengaging in the manner of a multidrive clutch, the clamping body having an annular bearing by which the clamping body is braced against an outer one of the friction elements in an overlap region of the friction elements.

Device for tensionally connecting a fixed gearwheel and an adjustable

A gripper device on a sheet-fed rotary printing machine formed of a sheet gripper seat and a sheet gripper, and having a gripper housing with a gripper arm swivellable about a gripper shaft, comprising an articulation point with an elastic restoring force on the gripper arm, the articulation point being disposed close to the start of a gripper finger having a pressure surface located on one side of a connecting line between a middle point of a gripper shaft and a front edge of the gripper-finger pressure surface, the articulation point being disposed at a location in an area starting from the connecting line and extending over a side of the connecting line located opposite to the side thereof in which the gripper finger is located.

Gripper device on sheet-fed rotary printing machines

In a sheet-fed rotary printing press, a sheet gripper has a gripper finger and a gripper support, the gripper finger being swingable, in operating phase with the printing press, under the action of a gripper spring, into engagement with the gripper support and, against the action of the gripper spring, out of engagement with the gripper support, the gripper spring being supported at one end thereof against a counter-bearing on the gripper finger and, at the other end thereof, against a counter-bearing on a gripper housing, and includes a holding device separable from one another for fixing at least one of the counter-bearings, the holding device being in mutual agreement and being disposed on the counter-bearing as well as on a part of the printing press wherein the counter-bearing is mountable, the separable holding device being formed of an inner locking part and an outer locking part of a bayonet lock, at least one of the locking parts having projections and the other of the locking parts having holding surfaces for the projections, the projections and the holding surfaces being engageable with one another from behind by a movement of one of the locking parts against the action of the gripper spring and by a partial rotation of the one locking part.

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Waghäusel, Germany

Hans-Peter Hiltwein