Patent · US Expired

Drive for a printing group of a rotary printing machine

US5979317A · kind A · utility

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17Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJun 12, 1998
Grant dateNov 9, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 12, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41P2213/734
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A drive for a printing group of a rotary printing machine having a form cylinder and a transfer cylinder, the transfer cylinder being swivelably adjustable through an angle, the form cylinder and the transfer cylinder each having journals. The drive includes cylinder gears attached to the journals so as to be in toothed engagement, an electric motor with a drive spur gear that drives the transfer cylinder, and a spur gear mounted on the transfer cylinder journal. The drive spur gear of the motor drivingly engaging the spur gear on the journal of the transfer cylinder in a circumferential area of the spur gear lying from a diametral midpoint of the transfer cylinder in a direction of a vertex of the angle of the swivel adjustment of the transfer cylinder.

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