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Method for handling printing plates

US8096240B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

The Maitland Company, LLC · DE

Inventors

Wolfgang Glunz · Augsburg, DE
Albert Heller · Pestenacker, DE
Georg Kassmair · Zusamzell, DE
Michael Scholz · Thannhausen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 18, 2009
Grant date	Jan 17, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 29, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB41P2227/62
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Exposed printing plates are bent in the area of a bending device to form a leading end and a trailing end. Each exposed and bent printing plate is grasped in the area of the bending device at the leading end or at the trailing end of the printing plate by means of a gripping bar and transferred together with the gripping bar to a transporting device. The transporting device transports the printing plate together with the gripping bar toward a printing press, where the printing plate is removed together with the gripping bar from the transporting device in the area of the printing press. While grasped by the gripping bar, the plate is transferred to a form cylinder of a printing mechanism of the printing press.

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