Man Roland Druckmaschinen Ag

Manroland Ag

Manroland Web Systems Gmbh

Wolfgang Glunz

Albert Heller

Michael Scholz

Gunnar Rau

Georg Kässmair

Rainer Kiesswetter

Rainer Kießwetter

Georg Käßmair

A printing plate handling device for holding a printing plate () adjacent to one edge () of the plate, especially adjacent to a bent-over leading edge or a bent-over trailing edge of the printing plate, with a mechanism for holding the printing plate () in a flat, frictionally-engaged manner along a surface area of the printing plate adjacent to one edge () of the printing plate.

Printing plate handling device

Exposed printing plates are bent in the area of a bending device to form a leading end and a trailing end. Each exposed and bent printing plate is grasped in the area of the bending device at the leading end or at the trailing end of the printing plate by means of a gripping bar and transferred together with the gripping bar to a transporting device. The transporting device transports the printing plate together with the gripping bar toward a printing press, where the printing plate is removed together with the gripping bar from the transporting device in the area of the printing press. While grasped by the gripping bar, the plate is transferred to a form cylinder of a printing mechanism of the printing press.

Method for handling printing plates

A printing plate cartridge for a press including a housing having an old printing compartment for holding a printing plate to be removed during a printing plate change and a new printing plate compartment for holding a printing plate to be mounted on a form cylinder of a press during a printing plate change. A printing plate to be mounted on the form cylinder is removable from the new printing plate compartment via a first opening for feeding to the form cylinder during a printing plate changing operation. A printing plate to be removed from the form cylinder is capable of being fed to the old printing plate compartment via the first opening during a printing plate changing operation.

Printing plate cartridge for a press and press

To provide access to sequentially positioned printing machine operating stations (3, 14, 17, 33, 44) without having to tear a paper web threaded through the printing machine, in which the web passes, when in a printing position, essentially horizontally between the operating stations, a pair of vertically spaced substrate guide elements (23, 26; 123, 126; 56) are positioned on a vertical elevator positioning structure (22, 122; 52), the paper being guided between the guide elements, and the positioning structure permitting movement of the guide elements from an essentially central printing position to an upper position (23b) and a lower position (23a). The paper, before being passed between the substrate guide elements, is passed through a paper storage structure, for example by spaced, deflectable rollers which store paper in loop form, from which it can be released. The upper one of the guide elements is strong enough for an operator to stand thereon. When the guide elements are in their upper or lower position, respectively, an operator has access to the lower and upper operating elements of the respective adjacent operating station.

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