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Device for securing flexible printing plates under tension on a plate cylinder of a rotary printing machine

US4712476A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 27, 1987
Grant dateDec 15, 1987
Priority date
Expiry dateFeb 27, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41F27/1231
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for securing flexible printing plates under tension on a plate cylinder of a rotary printing machine having tensioning rails operatively associated with both ends of the plate and being braceable against side walls of a transverse channel formed in the plate cylinder for tensioning the printing plate includes a device for selectively stretching and compressing at least one of the ends of a printing plate in axial direction of the plate cylinder, the tensioning rail operatively associated with the one plate end being of one-piece construction and having a clamping member disposed at a middle region thereof and respective tensioning segments disposed at end regions thereof and actuable for stretching and compressing the one plate end.

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