Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen

Heideiberger Druckmaschinen

Tobias M&uuml;ller

Thomas Wolf

Andreas Henn

Bernd Vosseler

Uwe Ernst

Gerald Erik Hauptmann

Wolfgang Eberhard Luxem

Holger Leonhardt

Markus Gerstenberger

J&uuml;rgen Zeltner

Markus K&uuml;nzel

A process for producing a printing form includes forming a multiplicity of blind holes opening into a surface of a spatial or three-dimensional structure of the printing form, the blind holes serving for receiving a medium therein, and providing a propellant in the printing form for assisting in expelling the medium from the blind holes. A printing form produced by the process is also provided.

Printing form and process for producing the printing form

A method of controlling or regulating the vertical position of piled or stacked sheets, which includes determining at the leading edge and at the trailing edge, respectively, of the sheet resting on the top of the sheet pile, the vertical position of the sheet: and, depending upon the vertical position of the leading edge and the trailing edge, respectively, moving in the vertical direction at least one lifting element associated with the sheet trailing edge. The method further comprises, displacing the sheet pile and the lifting element, respectively, a given distance in the vertical direction, when a large discrepancy is found between the vertical position at the leading edge and a nominal value.

Method of controlling or regulating the vertical position of piled or stacked sheets

An apparatus for feeding sheets from a stack to a machine that processes the sheets and a method of determining the vertical position of stacked sheets. The method enables the vertical position of the topmost sheet resting on the sheet stack to be determined using a sensor device. Ultrasonic pulses are applied to a longitudinal side of the sheet stack such that the pulses strike the longitudinal side of the stack at an angle, and the position of the upper edge of the stack is determined by means of an ultrasonic propagation time measurement.

Apparatus for feeding sheets and method of determining the vertical position of stacked sheets

A method for detecting faults during transport of a web in a web-fed printing machine, wherein web speed is determined by contact-free measurement, in accordance with the Doppler principle, includes the steps of: by applying microwaves, determining a first local speed of the web at a first measurement position; by applying microwaves, determining at least a second local speed of the web at a second measurement position spaced apart from the first measurement position in a direction of web transport; determining an actual value from the first local speed and at least the second local speed; determining any deviation of the actual value from a predefined desired value; and comparing the deviation of the actual value from the predefined desired value with a predefined threshold; a detecting device for performing the method; and a printing machine including the detecting device.

Method and device for detecting faults during transport of a web

A device for separating or singling sheets, which have been piled up to form a stack, in a feeder of a sheet-processing machine, having a transport element with a guide edge, includes a device for matching the shape of the guide edge to the contour of the topmost sheet at a front side of the stack, as viewed in a sheet transport direction.

Device for separating sheets piled up so as to form a stack, in a feeder of a sheet-processing machine

A device for measuring the height of a sheet pile by using a reflectively operating radiation detector, a sheet separating device and a device for conveying separated sheets to a printing machine being assigned to the pile, comprising a system for measuring the propagation time of a radiation pulse originating from a radiation source and reflected at a sheet surface, the amplitude of the pulse being within a predefined range and lower than the amplitude of the reflection of the same radiation pulse at the surface of the sheet located closest to the radiation source, the radiation detector being connected to the measuring system.

Device for measuring the height of a sheet pile by using a reflectively operating radiation detector

A method of controlling sheet feed to a sheet-processing machine, wherein sheets are separated from a pile, conveyed onto a table, brought individually into contact with alignment lays for leading edges of the sheets, and conveyed onward therefrom individually for processing in the machine, includes, upon misalignment of a sheet, generating a signal by ultrasonic detectors active in transmission operation, the ultrasonic detectors being fixedly disposed parallel to the alignment lays and including two ultrasonic transmitters arranged at a defined distance, and ultrasonic receivers associated therewith, maintaining over the area of a measuring window sonic energy flux originating from the ultrasonic transmitters, respectively, at a substantially constant sonic intensity in the conveying direction of the sheets, integrally detecting by the respective ultrasonic receiver the sonic energy passing through the measuring window, and simultaneously measuring a difference in the sonic energy measured by the ultrasonic receivers; and a device for performing the method.

Method and device for controlling sheet feed to a sheet-processing machine

An apparatus in a multicolor rotary printing machine for determining register deviations, including a scanning device disposed behind a print gap of a last printing unit of the printing machine; at least one register mark line disposed on printing material movably disposed relative to the scanning device, wherein the scanning device is directed to the register mark line; a control circuit connected with the scanning device for processing signals from the scanning device, and a measuring, steering and regulating device receiving inputs from the control circuit in operative engagement with registers of the printing machine, and a plurality of section reference marks on the printing material, in alignment with the register mark line within scanning range of the scanning device for correcting the register deviations.

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Hirschberg, Germany

Tobias Müller

Growing community of inventors

Hirschberg, Germany

Tobias M&uuml;ller

Tobias Müller