Device for positioning a magazine for automatically changing printing plates

US5289775A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Nikolaus Spiegel · Walldorf, DE
• Hans-Georg Jahn · Wiesenbach, DE
• Hermann Beisel · Walldorf, DE
• Helmut Jager · Remchingen, DE
• Wolfgang Pfizenmaier · Neckargemünd, DE
• Peter T. Blaser · Dielheim, DE
• Andreas Geider · St. Leon-Rot, DE
• Walter Hofheinz · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 31, 1992
• Grant date: Mar 1, 1994
• Expiry date: Aug 31, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41F27/1206
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for movably positioning in a plurality of positions a magazine for automatically changing printing plates in a printing machine for changing the printing plate of the plate cylinder, replacing the printing plates of the magazine, servicing the printing machine and normal operation, includes a device for mounting the magazine, including a vertical guide wherein the magazine is displaceable, and a horizontal shaft about which the magazine is swivelable, and drive devices for displacing and swiveling the magazine.