Patent · US Expired

Device for clamping plates on a cylinder

US5653170A · kind A · utility

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3Claims

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Assignee

Koenig & Bauer-Albert Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Helmut Puschnerat · Monsheim, DE
Peter Schröder · Heßheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 18, 1996
Grant date	Aug 5, 1997
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 18, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB41P2227/43
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A plate end of a flexible printing plate is clamped or retained in a narrow slit in the surface of a plate cylinder. A rotatable spindle is situated adjacent a radial inner end of the cylinder slit. This spindle carries a group of pressure elements having pressure cams that are engageable with the plate ends during rotation of the spindle and which secure or clamp the plate ends in the narrow cylinder slit.

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