Device for supplying printing plates to a printing machine

US5495805A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Hermann Beisel · Walldorf, DE
• Peter T. Blaser · Dielheim, DE
• Dieter Hauck · Eberbach, DE
• Rudolf Hutzenlaub · Mannheim, DE
• Helmut Ja/ ger · Remchingen, DE
• Hans-Georg Jahn · Wiesenbach, DE
• Robert Mu/ ller · Prüm, DE
• Anton Rodi · Leimen, DE
• Nikolaus Spiegel · Walldorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 12, 1994
• Grant date: Mar 5, 1996
• Expiry date: May 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

A device designed as a magazine is disclosed for supplying printing plates to a plate cylinder of a printing machine, in particular to ensure the automatic exchange of printing plates by means of a plate supply arrangement. The plate supply arrangement (16) has several distributed (second) holding means (55) for the printing plates (9) that can be successively activated.