Magazine assembly for automatically changing printing plates

US5299498A · 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

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 31, 1992
• Grant date: Apr 5, 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 magazine assembly for automatically changing printing plates, includes a magazine for receiving a cassette therein, a cassette receivable in the magazine and having structure for receiving a plurality of printing plates therein, and a device for removing the printing plates upon demand for feeding the printing plates to a printing cylinder of a printing unit.