Application unit with positioning device and magazine

US11318731B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KOENIG & BAUER AG · DE

Inventors

• Volker Gerold Rauh · Hettstadt, DE
• Andreas Bernard · Eppingen, DE
• Kristina Freisinger · Munster, DE
• Rudolf Geldhauser · Geldersheim, DE
• Lars Keil · Würzburg, DE
• Michael Koblinger · Kolitzheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 22, 2019
• Grant date: May 3, 2022
• Expiry date: Aug 22, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41P2200/12
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An application unit comprises an application mechanism with an impression cylinder, a forme cylinder, and a supply roller, along with a positioning device and a magazine for supply rollers, which magazine is located below the application mechanism. The magazine has magazine receptacles for supply rollers and a movable repositioning device, by the use of which, the magazine receptacles can be placed in different magazine positions. One of the magazine positions is a change position, and when a magazine receptacle is located in that change position, a supply roller can be transferred, with respect to a positioning direction, between the magazine receptacle and a remote region of a roller positioning path that connects the magazine to the application mechanism. The positioning direction deviates no more than 45 degrees from a vertical direction. One of the magazine positions is a loading position, and when a magazine receptacle is located in the loading position, a supply roller can be transferred along a loading path with respect to a loading direction, between the magazine receptacle and a loading area. The loading direction deviates no more than 30 degrees from at least one horizon…