US2998768A - Mechanism for clamping flexible printing plates - Google Patents

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US2998768A
US2998768A US782183A US78218358A US2998768A US 2998768 A US2998768 A US 2998768A US 782183 A US782183 A US 782183A US 78218358 A US78218358 A US 78218358A US 2998768 A US2998768 A US 2998768A
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Norlin Nils
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F27/00—Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports
    • B41F27/12—Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports for attaching flexible printing formes
    • B41F27/1218—Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports for attaching flexible printing formes comprising printing plate tensioning devices
    • B41F27/1225—Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports for attaching flexible printing formes comprising printing plate tensioning devices moving in the printing plate end substantially rectilinearly
    • B41F27/1231—Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports for attaching flexible printing formes comprising printing plate tensioning devices moving in the printing plate end substantially rectilinearly by translatory motion substantially tangential to support surface

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  • This invention relates to mechanism for securing a flexible printing plate to the plate dylinder of a printing machine, especially, but not exclusively, an offset printing machine.
  • the plate clamping mechanism is arranged so as, when operated to release a plate, to apply a stripping action to the lips so as forcibly to remove them from the grooves in the bars.
  • the invention can be carried into efiect in various ways,
  • the bars are formed in two parts which define the lip-receiving groove between them.
  • the operating mechanism for the bars is arranged so that, when it is operated to release a plate, it efiects relative movement between the two parts of .the bar and so ensures that the lips are dislodged.
  • This mechanism. is of a type which is operable irom outside the groove, and so the d-ifliculty of releasing an embedded lip no longer applies.
  • FIGURE 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation taken through the usual gap formed in a printing cylinder
  • FIGURE 2 is a sectional plan view, the section being taken on the line Ill-11
  • FIGURE 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation taken through the usual gap formed in a printing cylinder
  • FIGURE 2 is a sectional plan view, the section being taken on the line Ill-11
  • FIGURE 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation taken through the usual gap formed in a printing cylinder
  • FIGURE 2 is a sectional plan view, the section being taken on the line Ill-11
  • FIGURE 1 is a sectional plan view, the section being taken on the line Ill-11
  • FIGURE 1 is a sectional plan view, the section being taken on the line Ill-11
  • FIGURE 1 is a sectional plan view, the section being taken on the line Ill-11
  • FIGURE 1 is a sectional plan view, the section being taken on the line Ill-11
  • FIGURE 1 is a sectional plan view, the section being taken on the line Ill-11
  • FIG. 1 a part of the body of the printing cylinder of a printing machine is indicated at 1, this cylinder requiring to have a printing plate 2 wrapped about its periphery, as shown in FIGURES 3-6.
  • a printing plate 2 wrapped about its periphery, as shown in FIGURES 3-6.
  • Such a plate is commonly of metal.
  • the cylinder is formed in its periphery with an axially extending groove 3 in which is held a unit 4 carrying clamping bars 5 and a mechanism for moving those bars towards and away from one another.
  • the ends of the plate 2 are bent down at 6 to-pass into the gap between the clamping bars 5, and the extreme inner ends of the plate are bent out to provide lips 7 In that gapare disposed i r o ce 2 x for attaching the plate to the bars.
  • the lips 7 extend into grooves 8 formed in the clamping bars 5 so that movement of the bars 5 towards one another will re sult in a pull being applied to the ends of the plate via the lips 7.
  • the radially outermost walls of the grooves 8 and the lips 7 act as radially interlocking parts engageable with each other for restraining the plate end portions 6 against outward movement radially with respect to the cylinder 1.
  • the recesses 8 are formed 'conjointly by the walls of recesses in the main barparts 5 and by the outer surfaces of shoulders 9' on supplementary parts 9.
  • the ends of the shoulders are formed either locally or continuously with upstand-i ing portions or beads 10 against which the ends of the lips 7 on the plate abut.
  • the particular clamping mechanism shown in the drawing comprises a series of pins 1 1 disposed in and along the length of the groove and within the circumference of the cylinder '1. These pins have between their ends operating discs 12 which extend out into the gap between the bent down parts 6 of the plate.
  • the parts 13 of the pins at each side of the discs are cylindrical to turn in openings in the supplementary parts 9 and in openings in the main bar parts 5.
  • the ends of the cylindrical parts of the pins marked generically A in FIGURE 4 react against parts 14 in the walls of the unit 4 so that the pins are held against axial movement.
  • the pins A have the cylindrical surfaces at one side of the discs screw threaded as shown at 15 in FIGURE 4, and others of the pins A at the other side of the discs are similarly screw threaded (see FIGURE 2).
  • the pins at the dilierent points along the length of the main bars 5 the latter can be moved towards and away from one another and skewed to one another as may be required.
  • each flange 16 can be constituted by a 0 ring which is sprung into a circumferential recess in the related pin 11.
  • the supplementary parts 9 also have upstanding flanges 17 which trap the lower ends of the downturned flanges 6 of the plate 2 between the parts 5 and 9 when the supplementary parts 9 are moved toward the associated main bar parts 5.
  • the main bar parts are sloped at 18 at their outer walls of the unit 4.
  • pins marked generically at C and shown in detail in FIGURE 6 can also be provided. These pins have cylindrical parts 11 which however are not screw Patented Sept. 5, 1961 3 threaded, but merely turn in openings in the main and supplementary bar parts and 9, the ends of these pins having eccentric stubs 19 engaging in slippers mounted in slots .21 in the side walls of the unit 4. These pins C enable the bent down ends of the plate to be drawn' radially into the groove.
  • the clamping mechanism described thus enables, by manipulation of the various pins A and C, the control of the tensioning and setting of the plate 2 on the cylinder 1 to obtain proper registration in the printing operation.
  • the pins B By the manipulation of the pins B the plates can readily be ejected from the groove in the clamping bars 5 and supplementary parts 9 by which they had been tensioned.
  • a cylinder formed at its outer surface with a groove extending parallel to the cylinder axis for receiving the end portions of a flexible printing plate wrapped around said cylinder, which end portions are turned inwardly to extend into said groove and are formed at their extreme ends with lips extending oppositely and away from each other; two clamping bar structures mounted in said groove respectively between said plate end portions and the groove walls and having recesses for receiving said lips; ejecting means mounted within said groove for movements in predetermined paths from retracted positions to operated positions in engagement with said lips for ejecting the latter from said recesses; and operating means mounted in said groove within the circumference of said cylinder and being operable in said groove for moving said bar structures relatively to each other and to the groove walls for tensioning the plate about the cylinder and for moving said ejecting means to operated positions.
  • a cylinder formed at its outer surface with a groove extending parallel to the cylinder axis for receiving the end portions of a. flexible printing plate wrapped around said cylinder, which end port-ions are turned inwardly to extend into said groove and are formed at their extreme ends with lips extending oppositely and away from each other; two clamping bar structures mounted in said groove respectively between plate end portions and the groove walls and having recesses for receiving said lips; operating means for moving said bar structures relatively to each other and to the groove walls for selectively tensioning the plate about the cylinder and for relieving the tension on the plate; and means operable for ejecting said lips from said recesses when said bar structures have been moved to relieve the tension on said plate.
  • each of said bar structures comprises a main clamping bar part and a supplementary her part contiguous thereto, said main and supplementary bar parts being formed conjointly to define between them the lip receiving recess.
  • Printing cylinder construction according to claim 3 including means for moving said main clamping bar and supplementary bar parts relatively to one another, said last mentioned means comprising a plurality of pins each journaled to rotate freely in one of said bar structures and in the supplementary bar part of the other of said bar structures, a threaded portion of said pin engaging a threaded opening in the main bar part of said other of said bar structures, said pin having means thereon for moving the supplementary bar part of said other of said structures axially of said pin in response to axial movement of said pin relative to the main bar part or said other of said structures.
  • Printing cylinder construction according to claim 3 in which one of said bar parts defines one wall of the recess and has an upstanding portion defining the outer end of the recess, in which the bar parts of each of said bar structures are relatively movable, and in which said upstanding portion of said one of said bar parts is engageable with the edge of the associated plate lip for 4 urging the lip out of the recess when said bar parts are moved relatively.
  • Printing cylinder construction according to claim 6 in which said first and second series of components are individually operable respectively for moving said bar structures away from and toward one another to tension and release said plate, and for moving the main clamping bar and supplementary clamping bar parts relatively to one another to eject the plate lip from the recess conjoint-1y defined by said bar parts.
  • each of certain of said components comprises a rotatable pin extending across the cylinder groove and having a disc portion on the pin between the ends thereof, the pin having on one side of the disc portion a cylindrical end rotatably received in one of the openings in said one of said bar structures, and the pin having on the opposite side of the disc portion a screw portion engaging one of the threaded openings in said other of said bar structures.
  • Printing cylinder construction according to claim 8 in which said one of said bar structures is also formed with threaded openings and said other of said bar structures is also formed with further openings, and in which others of said components comprise other pins formed similarly to the first mentioned pins but which are reversely disposed with respect to the latter, said others of said pins having their cylindrical ends rotatably received in said further openings in said other of said bar structures and their screw portions engaging said threaded openings in said one of said bar structures.
  • Printing cylinder construction according to claim 8 including still further pins spaced along said bar structures andbeing rotatable therein, said further pins having eccentric portions journaled in said cylinder whereby rotation of said further pins will draw said bar structures radially into said groove.
  • a cylinder formed at its outer surface with a groove extending parallel to the cylinder axis for receiving the end portions of a flexible printing plate wrapped around said cylinder, which end portions are turned inwardly to extend into said groove and are formed with first radially interlocking parts; two clamping bar structures mounted in said groove respectively between said plate end portions and the groove walls and having second radially interlocking parts cooperable with said first radially interlocking parts for restraining said plate end portions against outward movement radially of said cylinder; ejecting means mounted within said groove for movements in predetermined paths from retracted positions to operated positions in engagement with said first radially interlocking parts for disengaging the latter from said second interlocking parts; and operating means mounted in said groove within the circumference of said cylinder and being operable in said groove for moving said bar structures relatively to each other and to the groove walls for tensioning the plate about the cylinder and for moving said ejecting means to operated positions.
  • a cylinder formed at its outer surface with a groove extending parallel to the cylinder axis for receiving the end portions of a flexible printing plate wrapped around said cylinder,

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NO98837D NO98837A (de) 1958-12-22
IT609579D IT609579A (de) 1958-12-22
US782183A US2998768A (en) 1958-12-22 1958-12-22 Mechanism for clamping flexible printing plates
GB41929/58A GB909996A (en) 1958-12-22 1958-12-29 Mechanism for clamping flexible printing plates
FR789237A FR1218850A (fr) 1958-12-22 1959-03-13 Mécanisme de fixation d'une plaque d'impression flexible sur un cylindre d'une machine à imprimer
CH360697D CH360697A (fr) 1958-12-22 1959-03-16 Mécanisme de fixation d'un cliché flexible d'impression sur un cylindre porte-cliché d'une machine à imprimer

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DE1253283B (de) * 1963-12-26 1967-11-02 Miehle Goss Dexter Inc Vorrichtung zum Befestigen und Spannen einer duennwandigen Auflage an einem zylindrischen Bauteil, insbesondere einer biegsamen Druckform am Formzylinder einer Rotationsdruckmaschine
USRE35647E (en) * 1992-04-02 1997-11-04 Man Roland Druckmaschinen Ag Plate cylinder holder with slide rail circular bearing assembly
WO2006024179A1 (de) * 2004-09-01 2006-03-09 Maschinenfabrik Wifag Druckplattenanbringungsvorrichtung

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US2195491A (en) * 1937-07-24 1940-04-02 Ditto Inc Duplicating device
US2768578A (en) * 1953-10-08 1956-10-30 Tribune Company Lock-up mechanism for dry offset printing plates
US2910939A (en) * 1957-07-04 1959-11-03 Aller Press As Mechanism for clamping flexible printing plates to the plate cylinder of machines for flat printing

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US2195491A (en) * 1937-07-24 1940-04-02 Ditto Inc Duplicating device
US2768578A (en) * 1953-10-08 1956-10-30 Tribune Company Lock-up mechanism for dry offset printing plates
US2910939A (en) * 1957-07-04 1959-11-03 Aller Press As Mechanism for clamping flexible printing plates to the plate cylinder of machines for flat printing

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DE1253283B (de) * 1963-12-26 1967-11-02 Miehle Goss Dexter Inc Vorrichtung zum Befestigen und Spannen einer duennwandigen Auflage an einem zylindrischen Bauteil, insbesondere einer biegsamen Druckform am Formzylinder einer Rotationsdruckmaschine
USRE35647E (en) * 1992-04-02 1997-11-04 Man Roland Druckmaschinen Ag Plate cylinder holder with slide rail circular bearing assembly
WO2006024179A1 (de) * 2004-09-01 2006-03-09 Maschinenfabrik Wifag Druckplattenanbringungsvorrichtung
US20090139419A1 (en) * 2004-09-01 2009-06-04 Andreas Zahnd Printing Plate Attaching Device

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