Method and device for driving a printing press

US6810809B2 · kind B2 · 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

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 22, 2003
• Grant date: Nov 2, 2004
• Expiry date: Aug 22, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41F13/008
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for driving a printing press includes driving, in a printing operation, via a gear train by at least a first motor, at least one drum for advancing printing material and a printing-form cylinder, processing angle-of-rotation signals of the drum in a control device for controlling the driving of the drum and the form cylinder, and driving, in a printing-form production operation in the printing press, a printing-form cylinder by a separate motor. The method further includes, in an operation for producing the printing form, synchronously actuating the first motor and the separate motor by providing a gear allocated to the driving of the printing-form cylinder, and an adjacent gear allocated to the driving of the drum of the gear train, the gears being disposed relative to one another at the most out of contact with one another, and at the least barely in engagement with one another so as to exert a slight pressure on one another, and a device for performing the method.