Printing plate handling device

US8146496B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Maitland Company, LLC · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Glunz · Augsburg, DE
• Albert Heller · Pestenacker, DE
• Georg Kassmair · Zusamzell, DE
• Rainer Kiesswetter · Gräfenberg, DE
• Michael Scholz · Thannhausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 21, 2009
• Grant date: Apr 3, 2012
• Expiry date: Jul 29, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41F27/1206
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A printing plate handling device for holding a printing plate (11) adjacent to one edge (12) of the plate, especially adjacent to a bent-over leading edge or a bent-over trailing edge of the printing plate, with a mechanism for holding the printing plate (11) in a flat, frictionally-engaged manner along a surface area of the printing plate adjacent to one edge (12) of the printing plate.