Printing machine with at least one interchangeable cylinder

US5878666A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Josef Schneider · Diedorf, DE
• Josef Gottling · Friedberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 15, 1996
• Grant date: Mar 9, 1999
• Expiry date: Oct 15, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41P2227/21
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A printing machine, having side walls and at least one form cylinder with an outer cylindrical surface carrying a removable sleeve-shaped printing form, the form cylinder having journals and being removably mounted in the side walls. A bearing rotatably supports the journals in the sidewalls and at least one of the side walls has an opening. A transport device moves the form cylinder back and forth through the opening in the side wall so that the sleeve of the form cylinder removed from the printing machine can be exchanged for a replacement sleeve and the form cylinder with the replacement sleeve can be moved back into the printing machine.