Cylinder for a sheet-treating and/or sheet-processing machine with suction air openings and machine for treating and/or processing sheet-format substrate comprising such a cylinder

Abstract

Examples include a cylinder having a holding means around the circumference and by which a substrate sheet can be picked up and held during rotation of the cylinder over a rotation angle range between when the substrate sheet is received and is transferred downstream. A rotary union includes a rotor rotating along with the cylinder which, at an end face, is arranged with a stator that does not rotate during regular operation. A vacuum pressure can be applied via the rotary union to suction openings provided around the circumference of the cylinder while running through an active rotation angle phase of the cylinder. The rotary union can be set in terms of a size of a passage angle sector determining the size of the active rotation angle phase and/or in terms of a position of the passage angle sector determining the position of the active rotation angle phase.