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Device for removing printing-unit cylinders from rotary printing presses

US5481972A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 1, 1995
Grant dateJan 9, 1996
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 1, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41P2213/802
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Device for removing printing-unit cylinders from rotary printing presses having a transfer cylinder and a printing-unit cylinder, the rotary printing press including side walls formed with openings through which a bearing location of a printing-unit cylinder is accessible, includes surface portions defining one part of at least one opening of one of the side walls disposed concentrically to the axis of the transfer cylinder; the one opening including a removal region connected through the intermediary of a cutout to the bearing location of the printing-unit cylinder; the printing-unit cylinder, after removal of the transfer cylinder through the one opening which includes the removal region, being removable through the same one-opening removal region.

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