Method and device for assembling flexible plates, for example printing plates

US6199280A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Koening & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Georg Schneider · Coburg, DE
• Karl Robert Schäfer · Bad Wurzach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 9, 1999
• Grant date: Mar 13, 2001
• Expiry date: Nov 9, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49551
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Flexible plates are placed on a plate cylinder by inserting leading and trailing plate suspension legs into cooperating slits. Each of the plate suspension legs is pushed into the receiving slit by an insertion device that uses plate front and rear insertion sliders. These two insertion sliders each act as a guide for the adjacent slider.