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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 1989
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1988
Ingo Kobler, Anhausen, DE;
Georg Hartung, Augsburg, DE;
M.A.N. Roland Druckmaschinen AG, Offenbach am Main, DE;
Abstract
To permit accurate control of ink being transferred by an ink transfer roller from an ink source (6; 15, 16, 17) to an ink accepting roller (1, 10), the transfer roller (2, 11) has a surface layer (3, 12) which is made of compressible material, the surface layer being formed with shallow cup-like depression in a grid or similar raster pattern. Upon compression and deformation of the depth of the shallow cup-like depressions, the cup-like depressions will change their volume and thus change the quantity of ink being transferred. This also permits direct inking of a forme cylinder (1) by a chamber ink supply arrangement (6) since the hard surface of the forme cylinder will be engaged by the resilient or compressible surface layer (3, 12) of the transfer roller.