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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2002
Peter W. Walczak, Dover, NH (US);
Charles Henry Dufour, Durham, NH (US);
Michael Stevenson, Gouvieux, FR;
John Sheridan Richards, Barrington, NH (US);
Roland Thomas Palmatier, Durham, NH (US);
Peter W. Walczak, Dover, NH (US);
Charles Henry Dufour, Durham, NH (US);
Michael Stevenson, Gouvieux, FR;
John Sheridan Richards, Barrington, NH (US);
Roland Thomas Palmatier, Durham, NH (US);
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, DE;
Abstract
A lithographic newspaper printing press including printing units which are mounted on top of each other, forming a tower arrangement. Each printing unit including a first and a second plate cylinder having a length being substantially four times the width of a newspaper page and having a circumference being substantially equal to the height of a newspaper page. Each printing unit further includes first and a second blanket cylinder associated with said first and second plate cylinders, whereby each of said first and second blanket cylinders has substantially the same diameter as the associated plate cylinder. Each of the blanket cylinders carries a respective continuous sleeve-shaped printing blanket which is axially removable from the respective plate cylinder through an aperture formed in the side wall of the housing of the printing unit, while the respective blanket cylinder is cantilevered in the opposite side wall of the housing.