Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag

Jurgen Zeltner

Andreas Fricke

Richard Burkhard Mack

Peter Thoma

Manfred Henn

Gunter Stephan

Josef Wehle

Gerd Raasch

Dieter Bergmeier

Joachim Herrmann

Martin Baureis

Michael Szeidl

Device for cyclically lifting and lowering at least one lifting sucker in a feeder of a sheet-processing machine, wherein a sheet lifted by the lifting sucker is transferred to at least one pull sucker for further transport, the lifting sucker being operatively connected by a lifting-sucker transmission to a cyclically controlled drive, the lifting-sucker transmission including a coupler having a joint steplessly bringable onto various cam paths in accordance with a selective suction position of the lifting sucker, all of the cam paths having a common intersecting point.

Device for cyclically lifting and lowering a lifting sucker in a feeder

A drive transmission for a pull or forwarding sucker located in a suction head of a sheet feeder for translatorily driving a sucker-carrying support movable in a guide provided on a suction-head housing, the sucker-carrying support being connected articulatingly to at least one coupler swivelable about an axis extending transversely to the translatory motion of the sucker-carrying support, includes a first drive cam for moving the coupler and for effecting a forwarding motion, and a second drive cam for a roller lever mounted in the suction-head housing and being swivelably connected to the coupler, the second drive cam having a profile for leveling the translatory motion of the sucker-carrying support.

Drive transmission for a pull sucker or forwarding sucker, in

Device for contactless guidance of sheetlike material being dragged along a travel path, the device having a guide surface member extending spaced from the travel path and being provided with air-blowing nozzles, includes a guide zone formed in the guide surface member wherein the air-blowing nozzles are disposed in a manner that a common flow pattern or gap flow formed during guidance of the sheetlike material is determined essentially by a first velocity component in a direction of motion of the material along the travel path and by a second and a third velocity component directed towards two side edges, respectively, of the travel path, the second velocity component being associated with one of the side edges and the third velocity component being associated with the other of the side edge.

Device for contactless guidance of sheetlike material

Method for controlling a valve unit having a rotatable inner part, by which at least one of positive pressure and negative-pressure consumers of a sheet-processing machine is connectible to and disconnectible from a source of positive pressure and negative pressure, respectively, in accordance with an operating cycle of the sheet-processing machine, the operating cycle being repeated at a frequency variable between a minimum cycle frequency and a maximum cycle frequency, includes superimposing an adjusting speed on a rotary speed of the rotatable inner part of the valve unit; and device for performing the method.

Method and device for controlling valve units

Printing machine with a sheet-guiding surface, at least part of which is a cover surface of a pneumatic-flow box, the cover surface being formed with pass-through openings for pneumatic fluid, includes a pneumatic-flow nozzle connecting the pneumatic-flow box to a source for supplying pneumatic fluid to the pneumatic-flow box, the pneumatic-flow box having a flow resistance profile decreasing therein with increasing distance from a location at which the pneumatic-flow nozzle is connected to the pneumatic-flow box.

Printing machine with sheet-guiding surface

Device for achieving a flat contact of stock on a curved surface of a cylinder for transporting the stock into a printing nip includes a plurality of blowing-air bars disposed in a region between an impression cylinder and a transfer drum and upstream of the printing nip in transport direction of the stock, the blowing-air bars being directed for blowing air in a direction opposing the transport direction of the stock, at least one of the plurality of blowing-air bars being stationary and, with the other of the plurality of blowing-air bars, respectively, having a plurality of air-blowing nozzle-shaped outlets disposed in a substantially arrow-shaped arrangement on the respective circumferences thereof, the arrangement of outlets including a central outlet disposed farthest upstream of the arrangement of outlets in the transport direction so as to be a first one of the outlets to act upon a sheet being transported in the transport direction.

Device for achieving a flat contact of stocks or printing materials

A sheet feeder in a sheet-processing machine, comprising first blower nozzles for fanning and separating a top sheet of a sheet pile, the blower nozzles being directed at least at a rear edge of the top sheet in the sheet pile, a separating device for lifting the top sheet from the sheet pile, second blower nozzles for blowing supporting air under the top sheet in synchronism with an operating cycle of the sheet feeder, central blast-air supply system for the sheet feeder being connected to the first blower nozzles, and a blast-air source separate from the central blast-air supply system connected via a control valve to the second blower nozzles for supplying blast air thereto for supporting the sheet, and a device for operating the control valve in synchronism with the separating device.

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Hirschberg, Germany

Jurgen Zeltner