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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Carsten Kelm, Mannheim, DE;
Assignee:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, US;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
101494 ; 101D / ; 474112 ;
Abstract
A transmission device for a printing machine having an endless transmission element, and rotating bodies around which the transmission element is wrapped, includes a tensioning device for tautening the transmission element, and an actuating device for displacing a first one of the rotating bodies parallel to the axis of rotation thereof, the tensioning device being formed by the actuating device, the actuating device having a tensioning shaft operatively connected to the first rotating body, the tensioning shaft, when rotated about a longitudinal axis thereof, causing a lateral displacement of a center-of-mass line thereof.