Accessory for a printing unit

US6510795B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Detmers · Heddesheim, DE
• Arno Jünger · Mörlenbach, DE
• Jürgen Kreutzkämper · Berlin, DE
• Sven Mader · Dielheim, DE
• Christian Meier · Darmstadt, DE
• Gotthard Schmid · Malsch, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 31, 1999
• Grant date: Jan 28, 2003
• Expiry date: Mar 31, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41F13/24
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A printing-unit accessory engaged with a printing unit of a printing press, in an operating position of the accessory, and removed from the vicinity of the printing unit, in at least one maintenance position of the accessory, includes a pivoting mechanism securing the accessory to the printing press, the pivoting mechanism being disposed in a region of a side wall of the printing unit in a manner that the accessory is movable into a vertical position adjacent the side wall, and at least one linear guide disposed in front of the side wall so that the accessory is displaceable into a horizontal position thereof distal from the printing unit.