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Cleaning assembly for cleaning printing units of a direct imaging rotary printing press

US5730057A · kind A · utility

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5Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMay 6, 1996
Grant dateMar 24, 1998
Priority date
Expiry dateMay 6, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41P2235/24
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Wash-up assembly for washing printing units and adjacent regions in a rotary printing press having printing units including a printing-form cylinder and a blanket cylinder cooperating with an impression cylinder, and a wash-up device assigned to each printing unit for washing the outer cylindrical surface of at least one of the respective printing-form cylinder and the respective blanket cylinder thereof, further includes a sucking unit assigned to a respective printing unit in a wedge-shaped nip region between the respective printing-form cylinder and the respective blanket cylinder thereof, the sucking unit having at least one opening directed substantially towards respective outer cylindrical surfaces of the respective printing form and blanket cylinders.

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