Method for removing and inserting a cleaning device, respectively, into and out of a printing machine, and a printing machine for performing the method

US6308627A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Werner Konig · Leverkusen, DE
• Rolf Kündgen · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
• Gerd Merkel · Dielheim, DE
• Bernd Sitzmann · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 23, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 30, 2001
• Expiry date: Dec 23, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41P2235/246
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for removing a cleaning device from a printing machine and for inserting the cleaning device or another cleaning device into the printing machine, the inserted cleaning device being secured in position in the printing machine by a fixing device, includes opening a protective covering of the printing machine and automatically inactivating the fixing device by the opening of the protective covering, removing the cleaning device from the printing machine through an opening in the printing machine exposed by the protective covering, inserting the respective cleaning device into the printing machine, and closing the protective covering and automatically activating the cleaning device by the closing of the protective covering, so that the inserted cleaning device is secured in the inserted position thereof; and a printing machine for performing the method.