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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2000
Dietmar Stahl, Obertshausen, DE;
MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG, , DE;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for removing and cleaning ink from an ink fountain in a rotary printing press. The ink fountain includes an ink fountain container having a fountain roll disposed adjacent an open side thereof. The apparatus includes a scraping device for forcing ink from the container in the direction of the inking roll, and a metering device disposed between the container and fountain roll which is movable to an open position to form a gap between the fountain roll and container through which ink forced by the scraping device is directed into an underlying catching trough. The container further includes a doctor blade positionable into adjacent relation to the fountain roll for removing ink from the fountain roll during a cleaning operation and directing the removed ink into the catching trough so as to preclude contamination of the downstream roll train of the inking unit.