Apparatus and method for separating printing plates

US7475875B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventor

• Bernd Lassen · Mönkeberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 16, 2006
• Grant date: Jan 13, 2009
• Expiry date: Jul 1, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2701/1928
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for separating printing plates which are separated from one another in a stack, preferably individually by intermediate layers, has a lifting device for raising a printing plate or an intermediate layer from the stack. The apparatus further has a separating device for the intermediate layers, in particular as a constituent part of a loading device of a unit for setting images on printing plates. The separating device is configured as a rocker which can be pivoted onto the lifting device and can be pivoted away from the lifting device and contains suction elements and one drivable transport roller. An adhering intermediate layer is pulled off from the printing plate with the suction elements, and the intermediate layer is transported away with the transport roller.