Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag

Norbert Thunker

Gerhard Pollich

Martin Mayer

Andreas Fricke

Michael Voge

Roland Lorenz

Rudi Junghans

Richard Burkhard Mack

Axel Hauck

Nikolaus Spiegel

Jochen Renner

Roland Hirth

Carsten Kelm

Oliver Koch

Heiner Luxem

Werner Weber

Norbert Freyer

Werner Joss

Klaus Olawsky

Bernd Maul

A method of releasing a sheet from a blanket cylinder of a printing machine, wherein the sheet is guided by an impression cylinder and held by grippers thereof, includes moving, with respect to the impression cylinder, elements of the impression cylinder holding the sheet, in a direction relatively counter to the direction of rotation of the impression cylinder, so as to produce an enlarged pull-off angle after a leading edge of the sheet has passed a printing nip between the blanket and the impression cylinders; and a device for performing the foregoing method. The background to the invention is the knowledge that higher tensile forces on a sheet are disadvantageous, and the object was therefore set of making available a method and a device in which the tensile force is reduced. This is achieved by means of a method in which, in order to produce an enlarged pull-off angle (.gamma.) after the leading edge of the sheet (1) has passed the press nip (6), the elements (5,5',5',5'') of the impression cylinder (4) which hold the sheet (1) are moved in relation to the impression cylinder (4), relatively counter to its direction of rotation (15). Furthermore, the object is achieved by means of a device in which the elements (5,5',5',5'') holding the sheet (1) are configured so as to be correspondingly movable.

Method and device for releasing a sheet from a blanket cylinder of a

An inking unit for a printing machine, including an ink duct with a scoop cylinder partly dipping into ink received in the ink duct, further includes zonally acting metering elements for setting on a provided cylinder selected from a group thereof consisting of the scoop cylinder and another cylinder, an ink distribution corresponding to a printing image, the metering elements being individually convertible between two metering states, at least one transfer cylinder for transferring ink, which has been set on the provided cylinder by the metering elements, onto a printing form, a drive for rotating the scoop cylinder and further cylinders, and a control device connected to the drive and the metering elements, the metering elements being arranged above the level of the ink in the ink duct, so that two ink layer thicknesses differing from one another are producible in circumferential direction, over the width of a metering element, by the metering elements, respectively, in the two metering states, on the provided cylinder assigned thereto, the transfer cylinder being disposed in parallel with the provided cylinder to which the metering elements are assigned, the provided cylinder and the transfer cylinder having a clearance therebetween which is larger than a minimum ink layer thickness producible by the metering elements and smaller than a maximum ink layer thickness producible by the metering elements.

Inking unit for a printing machine

Gripper bar for a delivery of a printing press, the gripper bar being carried at respective ends thereof by transport chains and having a multiplicity of grippers with gripper fingers for transporting sheets includes a hollow profiled member having a boxlike profile wherein a gripper shaft is receivable, the boxlike profiled member being formed with lateral openings through which the gripper fingers of the grippers extend.

Gripper bar for deliveries of printing presses

A side wall of a printing unit of a sheet-fed rotary printing press is composed of a plurality of in-line printing units in accordance with unit construction principles. The side wall has a torsionally rigid side-wall body formed with a boxlike cross-sectional profile open on one side thereof and has a frame extending somewhat transversely to a plane wherein the side wall is disposed. The frame is formed with at least one recess through which gear wheels of a gear-wheel drive train are at least engageable or possess a kinking and back-springing course, respectively, between an upper structural region and a lower structural region of the side wall, including a removable lid ribbed on an inner side thereof and being disposed on the frame in the lower structural region wherein bearings for printing cylinders are received and at an open side of the boxlike cross-sectional profile for stiffening the frame. The frame is formed with recesses in the lower structural region thereof.

Side wall of a printing unit in a sheet-fed rotary printing press

A method and an apparatus for displacing at least one roller of an offset rotary printing press. An arrangement is provided for affording the displaceability of at least one roller in a highly versatile and adaptable manner. Displacement of the at least one roller in question can be undertaken in such a manner as to markedly facilitate the operation of a printing press.

Apparatus for adjusting the movement of a roller in a printing press

A positioning device for a rubber-blanket cylinder which is supported in double-excentric bearing rings allows a positional adjustment of the rubber-blanket cylinder relative to a plate cylinder and a printing substrate supported on an impression cylinder. The plate cylinder and the impression cylinder have stationary axes of rotation relative to the frame of the printing unit. A printing gap is adjusted by the positioning device to varying printing substrate thickness, and in one terminal position, the rubber-blanket cylinder is fully disengaged from the other cylinders. The rubber-blanket cylinder is shifted along a positioning path with one segment following an arc of a circle which is concentric with the plate cylinder. The parameters of the bearing and the adjusting devices are defined such that the positioning path is traversed while the respective inner and outer bearing rings rotate continuously.

Positioning device for a rubber-blanket cylinder

Device for skewed sheet correction in a feeder of a sheet-fed printing press having at least one sucker which is adjustable in height and is disposed on a driven movable sucker carrier for horizontally transporting and simultaneously aligning a sheet lifted from a sheet pile, a rocker arm mounted in a frame of the printing press, the sucker carrier being articulatingly connected to the rocker arm so as to be movable in a feeding direction of the sheet and swingably driven, and a cam guide which is adjustable in height, the sucker carrier being braced against the cam guide, includes another rocker arm adjustably supported in the press frame, the sucker carrier being spaced apart from the first-mentioned rocker arm in a direction transverse to the sheet feeding direction and being articulatingly connected to the other rocker arm.

Device for correcting skewed sheets in a feeder of a sheet-fed printing

Cam-oscillating drive which operates to compensate for the cyclically occurring variations in the course of the drive moment by means of at least one cam disc mounted on the drive shaft and a rolling cam follower in engagement with the cam disc, wherein the cam follower has an oscillating part with an oscillating mass driven by the cam follower, and wherein the oscillating part has a curved section that cooperates with a curve roller and a potential energy storage such that the kinetic energy of the oscillating part is stored in the potential energy storage during the deceleration phase, while during the acceleration phase the energy is again drawn from the potential energy storage.

Cam oscillating drive in a printing machine with kinetic/potential

Gripper control for sheet grippers on a sheet-guiding cylinder or the like in a printing press, wherein a stationary pressure generator for a pressure medium is connected by means of a coupling, through the intermediary of a motor-actuated servo-valve, to a sheet-gripper actuating system disposed on the cylinder or the like and, through a control system, being acted upon by the pressure medium in time with an operating cycle of the printing press, includes a piston-cylinder unit forming part of the actuating system, a displacement-measuring system connected to the piston-cylinder unit, respective elements for pivotally connecting the piston-cylinder unit, at one end thereof, to the sheet-guiding cylinder or the like and, at the other end thereof, to a lever connected to the sheet gripper, the control system including a programmable control computer connected by measuring lines to the displacement-measuring system and, via a position-control loop, being capable of controlling a motor-actuated positioning of the servo-valve as a function of relative positions of piston and cylinder of the piston-cylinder unit, taking into account the printing-press speed and forces generated by moving masses.

Gripper control for sheet grippers on a sheet-guiding cylinder or the

Sheet gripper device on a paper-guiding cylinder of a sheet-fed printing press includes a sheet gripper formed of a leaf spring and having a gripper tip located at an end thereof, a gripper pad engageable by the gripper tip, a control shaft for the gripper tip, the control shaft being actuatable so as to swivel about a longitudinal axis thereof, the leaf spring having another end opposite the end thereof whereon the gripper tip is located and being fastened by the other end thereof on the cylinder, an adjustable thrust member and means for holding the thrust member, the holding means being mounted on the control shaft so as to be fixed against rotation relative thereto, the thrust member being effective against the leaf spring during a swiveling movement of the control shaft in a closing direction of the sheet gripper; and the sheet gripper per se.

Sheet gripper device on a paper-guiding cylinder of a sheet-fed printing

Gripper control device in a chain delivery of a sheet-fed printing press, wherein a cam segment has a control cam for a control roller provided on a gripper system and is adjustably disposed for opening a gripper of the gripper system as a sheet is delivered, the control cam being formed with a rectilinear on-running region aligned for rectilinear movement of the control roller in a given direction, includes an adjusting element operatively engageable with the cam segment for effecting a phase displacement of the gripper between a closed and an open condition thereof, the control cam of the cam segment, in an inactive basic position thereof, being aligned, with the on-running region thereof parallel to the given direction of rectilinear movement of the control roller for the gripper system, in an imaginary plane tangent to the control roller at a location on the circumference thereof most distal from the gripper of the gripper system, and a cam roller rotatably mounted on the cam segment, the adjusting element having a rotatably mounted control cam in operative engagement with the rotatably mounted cam roller.

Gripper control device in a chain delivery of a sheet-fed printing press

Printing unit for rotary printing presses having at least one printing unit and at least one ink-conduction cylinder comprising an engageable and disengageable ink-reducing unit assigned to one of the ink-conducting cylinders and having at least one roller, a doctor blade engageable with the one roller and an ink-collection trough, the one roller, while printing is stopped but while ink is being supplied, being in engagement with the ink-conducting cylinder for removing from the ink-conducting cylinder substantially a like portion of ink film which would otherwise be removed by paper being printed in the printing unit.

Printing unit for rotary printing presses

A sheet transfer device for a printing machine for taking over sheets which have been aligned at front lays and for transferring the sheets to a sheet-guiding drum includes a pregripper device swivellable between a sheet takeover and a sheet transfer position. Gripper pads are carried by the pregripper device, and a gripper shaft is swivel-mounted in the pregripper device and carries gripper fingers which are associated with the gripper pads. Also provided are a device for connecting the gripper shaft and the gripper fingers so that swivelling movements of the gripper shaft are transmitted to the gripper fingers, and a swivel device for swivelling the gripper shaft about a longitudinal axis thereof. A cam segment has a control surface for controlling the swivel device, and is adjustable so that a gap, formed between the gripper fingers and the gripper pads in the takeover position of the pregripper device and existing until alignment of the sheet at the front lays is terminated, is settable in accordance with the thickness of the sheets. The gap is so defined that the gripper fingers form top lays for a respective leading sheet edge. A control shaft is provided for adjusting the cam segment, the control shaft extending parallel to generatrices of the control surfaces and being arranged so as to be adjustable parallel to itself.

Sheet transfer device for a printing machine

A cam mechanism for periodically swiveling a swivel device includes a rotatable first cam disk carrying a first cam serving as a main cam, a rotatable second cam disk carrying a second cam serving as an auxiliary cam, a first roller engaging the first cam under spring force and rollable on the first cam during rotation of the first cam disk, a second roller engaging the second cam under spring force and rollable on the second cam during rotation of the second cam disk, and a lever arrangement swivelable by the two rollers and having at least one spring for providing the spring force, including a swivel lever swivelable about a swivel axis and carrying the first roller, a swiveling movement corresponding to the first cam being impresable by the swivel lever upon the swivel device, the swivel axis and the two rollers having axes of rotation extending parallel to one another, and normals to the axes of rotation of the two rollers intersecting one another on the axis of rotation of the swivel axis and forming and angle .alpha. which is a measure for the spring force under which the two rollers engage the two cams, the auxiliary cam having a contour for varying the angle .alpha. as a function of inertial forces resulting, respectively, from accelerations and decelerations of the lever arrangement and of machine parts connected therewith during rotation of the two cam disks.

Cam mechanism for periodically swiveling a swivel device

Transmission system for forming cyclical motion from rotational motion including a device having a rotating part and at least one control lever set into cyclical motion by rotational motion of the rotating part, the one control lever and the rotating part being in cooperative engagement whereby a varying force is applied to the control lever producing a torque fluctuation in the rotational motion, includes another device for producing cyclical motion, the other device being in operative engagement with the rotating part, and spring means for applying a force to the rotating part so as to compensate for the torque fluctuation.

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Hirschberg, Germany

Norbert Thunker