Printing mechanism including means for cooling and means for mounting sleeve shaped forms on transfer and form cylinders

US5595115A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Gunnar Rau · Königsbrunn, DE
• Karl-Heinz Muller · Wissen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 7, 1994
• Grant date: Jan 21, 1997
• Expiry date: Nov 7, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41F13/22
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A printing mechanism for waterless offset printing including a form cylinder that carries a sleeve-shaped printing form and/or a transfer cylinder that carries a sleeve-shaped transfer form such that the forms can be slipped onto or removed from their respective cylinder. Both the transfer cylinder and the form cylinder having internal and external cooling arrangements.