Cleaning device for a printing press

US6237492A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Werner Konig · Leverkusen, DE
• Bernd Sitzmann · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 15, 1999
• Grant date: May 29, 2001
• Expiry date: Mar 15, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41P2235/24
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A cleaning device for a printing press, having a cloth spindle formed with a longitudinal groove, and a cleaning cloth clampable in the longitudinal groove, comprising a clamping body rotatable inside the longitudinal groove out of a first position, wherein clamping of the cleaning cloth is undone, and into a second position, wherein the cleaning cloth is clamped between the clamping body and an inner face defining the longitudinal groove; and a printing press and, more particularly, a rotary printing press, in combination with the cleaning device.