Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho

Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho, Ltd.

Hideo Kawamori

Daisuke Nakamura

Noriyuki Shiba

Yoshinori Uera

Kazuyuki Motojima

Makoto Tsunashima

Mamoru Hayashi

An apparatus for changing operational plate cylinders during rotary press operation is provided. This apparatus is possible to substantially equalize an actual print count to a set print count before change of operational plate cylinders. This can eliminate waste to print undesired recording paper (paper loss) and lead to cost down. A rotary press includes at least two or more plate cylinders (P), drive means ( ) for driving the plate cylinders (P) and switching means ( ) for selectively switching the plate cylinders (P) in a printable state and in an unprintable state. In the apparatus ( ) for changing operational plate cylinders during rotary press operation, input console means ( ) is at least available for designating (x) an earlier operational plate cylinder (FP) that is switched from the printable state to the unprintable state by the switching means ( ) and a later operational plate cylinder (RP) that is switched from the unprintable state to the printable state by the switching means ( ) among the two or more plate cylinders (P), and setting (y) a print count before change of operational plate cylinders.

Apparatus for changing operational plate cylinders during rotary press operation

In a rotary press intended to perform the synchronous control of driving means with high precision, quickly stabilize rotation, and reduce spoilage caused by phase shifts, comprising a plurality of printing mechanisms in which driving means M rotate N turns while plate cylinders P rotate one turn, so that printing images can be printed on a paper web sequentially passing through each printing mechanism in such a manner that the printing images are matched with a predetermined reference, in which a control section replaces the rotational phase of the plate cylinder with the rotational phase of the driving means M corresponding to that rotational phase so as to match the printing images with a predetermined reference, converts a shift between the rotational phase of the driving means M for matching and the rotational phase of the driving means M in a normal state into the number of outputs of the first pulse signals, set it as a correction value, and obtains a virtual feedback value by shifting the rotational phase of the driving means M by the amount of the correction value, so that control is accomplished by synchronizing the driving reference phase with the virtual feedback phase of the driving means M.

Synchronous control system for rotary presses

An offset perfecting press is disclosed which has a pair of blanket cylinders on opposite sides of a web traveling along a predefined path. Bearing different images to be printed, two plate cylinders are disposed in circumferentially spaced apart positions on each blanket cylinder. Each plate cylinder is independently movable between an image transfer position, where the plate cylinder is held to the blanket cylinder in order to print an image thereon for subsequent transfer to the web, and an image nontransfer position where the plate cylinder is spaced from the blanket cylinder. Only one plate cylinder is held in the image transfer position on each side of the web. For a change from one image to another, the plate cylinders that have been printing the opposite sides of the web are retracted to the image nontransfer positions, and the other plate cylinders, rotating in phase with the blanket cylinders, are moved to the image transfer positions. There is no need for stopping the web or the blanket cylinders. An electronic control system is provided for automatic image conversion. A multiple-unit, multiple-tower, multiple-web rotary press is also disclosed which comprises a multiplicity of printing units, including one or more constructed as in the foregoing, which are arranged in multiple towers for concurrently printing multiple webs under automatic control.

Web-fed offset printing press capable of image conversion without web

A dampening water supply device is capable of reducing spoilage upon initiation of printing after temporary stop when accumulated printing operation before temporary stop is large. The spray type dampening water supply device includes actuation signal output means for outputting an actuation signal corresponding to rotating operation of a rotary portion associated with operation of the printing press, counting means for counting a signal output from the actuation signal output means and outputting a signal at every predetermined number of count, nozzle operation control means set a plurality of control modes determined for differentiating supply amount of the dampening water from initiation of printing to a predetermined operating condition, for controlling operation of the nozzle means, control mode designating means for selectively designating the control mode of the nozzle operation control means at every occurrence of temporary stop and initiation of printing of operation of the printing press corresponding to an accumulated count value on the basis of the signal output from the counting means. Upon initiation of printing after temporary stop, the supply amount of the supply amount of the dampening water from initiation of printing up to a predetermined printing condition, is greater than a necessary amount for normal printing.

Dampening water supply device

An automatic paper roll pasting apparatus, for sequentially and continually feeding a continuous strip of paper, or a paper web, to a rotary press from a plurality of paper rolls, having a paper roll support capable of accommodating at least two paper rolls, a mechanism for measuring a value relating to the diameter of a paper roll newly mounted on the paper roll support, and a mechanism for controlling the revolution of the new paper roll, and constructed so that the revolution of the new paper roll is caused to agree with a desired revolution calculated from the revolution of a paper web which is currently fed to the rotary press, thus enabling the new paper roll to be pasted to the running paper web automatically.

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Mitaka, Japan

Hideo Kawamori