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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2009
Bernd Lassen, Mönkeberg, DE;
Bernd Lassen, Mönkeberg, DE;
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method is provided for handling printing plates which are provided in the form of a printing plate stack on at least one storage plane. If printing plates having a particularly large format are required to set images on them in an exposer, loading cassettes for a magazine of cassettes is at least problematic. Therefore, a tray is moved out of a storage device via an adjacent lifting device into the lower region of the storage device, and is fed there to a drawer which can be moved out of the storage device. If the tray is situated on the drawer, the latter can be moved by an operator in a second horizontal direction out of the handling apparatus, in particular out of the storage device. In this position, the tray can then be loaded in an ergonomically favorable manner.