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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2002
Filed:
May. 17, 2000
William Albert Charette, Rollinsford, NH (US);
Mark Bernard Dumais, Kennebunk, ME (US);
Michael Robert Lemelin, Dover, NH (US);
Jackson Hacker Jones, Rochester, NH (US);
Heidelberger, Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, DE;
Abstract
A printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press includes at least one printing unit having a first and second plate cylinder and associated first and second blanket cylinders which are mechanically coupled via meshing gear wheels and which are commonly driven by one drive motor A second printing unit of the printing unit arrangement includes a first and second plate cylinder and associated first and second blanket cylinders The first plate cylinder and the first and second blanket cylinders are mechanically coupled via meshing gear wheels and are commonly driven by a first drive motor The second plate cylinder is individually driven by a second drive motor and is engageable and disengageable from the associated second blanket cylinder while the printing press is in operation, in order to perform flying edition changes or changes of a spot color.