Printing-plate cassette for a magazine

US5492060A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Franz Haaf · Bad Dürkheim, DE
• Thomas Künzl · Eppelheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 12, 1994
• Grant date: Feb 20, 1996
• Expiry date: Aug 12, 2014

Classification

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

Abstract

Cassette for a magazine for automatically changing printing plates, the cassette being formed for receiving therein a plurality of printing plates with respective spacer elements disposed therebetween, and the printing plates being removable sequentially from the cassette, includes a device located in a marginal region of the cassette for swivellably mounting the spacer elements so that the spacer elements are swivellable out of operative range of the respective printing plates when the printing plates are being removed from the cassette.