Roland Offsetmaschinenfabrik Faber & Schleicher Ag

Klaus Wolf

Bert Cappel

Alfred Dorn

Siegfried Schuhmann

Peter Schramm

Edgar F Schoneberger

Gunther Schniggenfittig

A device for measuring ink film thickness in the inking system of a printing press which includes a pair of hollow transparent rollers, at least one of which is resilient so that when the rollers are in rolling engagement with one another and with an ink-carrying roller in the press, there is a longitudinally extending ribbon-like area of engagement between them through which an enclosed film of ink is fed in a thickness which varies in accordance with the thickness of the ink film in the press. A longitudinally extensive light projector in one of the rollers cooperates with a correspondingly dimensioned light collector in the other, the collector being coupled to a photocell having an output indicator. The projector and collector are both in the form of optical cross section transformers, the projector being coupled fiber-optically to an external light source. A filter assembly is interposed in the light path manually switchable for application, to the film, of light of complementary color. A logarithmic amplifier is used having an attenuator, coupled to the switch, for affecting the light level to compensate for differences in inherent opacity of the differently colored inks thereby to enable the indicator to respond directly in terms of film thickness regardless of color.

Device for measuring ink film thickness

An ink fountain having a metering assembly in the form of a series of rectangularly shaped slides fitted into a horizontal slot in a frame with only the presented front ends of the slides being exposed and abutting the fountain roller. The slides are arranged side by side in coplanar relation with their lateral edges lying closely adjacent one another. Notches are formed in the lateral edges of the slides adjacent the front ends thereof, with the notches being occupied by slightly oversized buttons of resilient sealing material. The metering assembly is held captive at its ends between two vertical end plates which apply inward squeezing pressure to the metering assembly so as to compress the resilient buttons uniformly to bring the lateral edges of the slides into snug sliding relation to prevent leakage of ink between them and for the purpose of distributing any cumulative tolerance error equally between all of the slides in the series. Means are provided for confining the rear ends of the slides so that all the slides of the series are oriented precisely parallel to one another. Each of the slides has provision at its rear end for longitudinal adjustment in the form of an eccentric mechanism having a shallow throw. Each of the slides has a shank portion which is laterally relieved over the major portion of the length thereof so that the lateral edges of adjacent slides are in engagement only at the front and rear ends.

Ink metering assembly for printing press

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Neu Isenburg, Germany

Klaus Wolf