Device for wrapping a flexible print image carrier around a printing form cylinder

US5697295A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventor

• Gotthard Schmid · Malsch, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 30, 1995
• Grant date: Dec 16, 1997
• Expiry date: Oct 30, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41F30/06
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Device for wrapping a flexible print image carrier around a printing form cylinder installed in a printing press, having a rewinding mechanism including a first winding spool for unwinding a print image carrier which is windable onto an outer cylindrical surface of the printing form cylinder, and a second winding spool for winding up the print image carrier from the outer cylindrical surface of the printing form cylinder, both of the winding spools being jointly disposed in a cavity formed in the interior of the printing form cylinder, the cavity having a single opening thereto formed in the outer cylindrical surface of the printing form cylinder, the print image carrier being windable from the first winding spool through the single opening onto the outer cylindrical surface of the printing form cylinder and being windable from the outer cylindrical surface of the printing form cylinder through the single opening onto the second winding spool, includes a bearing member supporting the rewinding mechanism for the print image carrier, the bearing member being disposed in the interior of the printing form cylinder and being removable from the interior of the printing form cylinder whil…