Register control device for a printing machine

US6032581A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Grey Beutler · Tustin, US
• Christopher Muth · Bensheim, DE
• Michael Rother · Rödermark, DE
• Helmut Schild · Rheinböllen, DE
• Peter Biernot · Offenbach, DE
• Franz Reiner · Oberursel, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 23, 1999
• Grant date: Mar 7, 2000
• Expiry date: Aug 23, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S101/36
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The present invention generally describes register control equipment for the cylinder of a printing machine. It specifically pertains to the printing plate of sheet-fed offset printing machine that has fitted register pins. The register pins are electrically insulated with respect to the cylinder and emit a signal when a printing plate is resting in register on one or more of the pins. The signal is communicated to a stationary evaluation unit by an electrical contact adapted to contact the printing plate. The evaluation unit uses the communicated signal to determine whether or not insertion was properly performed.