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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
May. 14, 2001
Rudi Stellberger, Kronau, DE;
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, DE;
Abstract
A device for correcting a skew of a skewed printing plate on a plate cylinder of a rotary printing machine, comprising a front clamping bar for holding a leading edge of the printing plate; and a rear clamping device including at least one rear clamping bar for holding a trailing edge of the printing plate, an axially guided lower bar and a pivoting strip mounted so as to be pivotable about a first pivot point on said lower bar; the front clamping bar being pivotable about a second pivot point disposed approximately centrally in an axial extent of a cylinder channel formed in the plate cylinder, and the at least one rear clamping bar being mounted on the pivoting strip so that the at least one rear clamping bar is pivotable in circumferential direction about a third pivot point.