The present invention is directed to devices of a printing press having a rotation transmitter for introducing a liquid or gaseous medium into a rotating component of a printing press. The device includes a rotor, which is arranged to rotate with the rotating component of the printing press, and a stator that is secured against rotation. At least one channel section is provided in both of the stator and the rotor.
Rotation transmitters are generally known, such as, for example, the devices which are disclosed in EP 0 570 786 B1 and in EP 0 544 815 B1. Rotation transmitters of this general type are typically used, though are by no means exclusively used, for transferring compressed air into a forme cylinder. Such a transference of compressed air is done to be able to, for example, actuate a clamping body for use fastening the printing plates to the forme cylinder, by use of the compressed air. A plate clamping body of this type, that is appropriate for fixing a printing plate on the forme cylinder, is generally known from WO 02/43962 A2, for example.
US 2003/0172820 A1; EP 0 562 269 A, and DE 42 09 341 C2 each disclose a rotating introduction system for printing presses. The contact surfaces of the rotor and stator are arranged in the axial direction of the rotating introduction system.
The object of the present invention is to provide devices of a printing press having a rotation transmitter for use in introducing a liquid or gaseous medium into a rotating component of a printing press.
This object is attained, according to the present invention, by the provision of a rotation transmitter which has a rotor, that is arranged to rotate with the rotating printing press part, and a stator which is fixed against rotation. At least one channel is provided in each of the rotor and the stator. The liquid or gaseous medium is caused to flow through the stator channel, and through the rotor channel, when the two are aligned. The rotor channel and the stator channel each extend axially.
One advantage of the device with a rotation transmitter, in accordance with the present invention, is that a contact surface between the rotor and the stator, and the sealing joint resulting between them, may be sealed in a considerably easier fashion. In contrast to the generally-known rotation transmitters, in which the rotor and the stator come into contact with one another on cylindrical surfaces, the axial orientation of the rotation transmitter, in accordance with the present invention, allows for flat contact surfaces to be provided, which flat contact surfaces may be produced in a cost-effective manner and which may be sealed using simple sealing procedures.
The rotation transmitter in accordance with the present invention offers considerable advantages, especially when several different functional elements on the printing press part must be supplied with compressed air, although this supplying of compressed air must not necessarily occur on all of the functional elements at the same time. This is the case, such as, for example, when several printing plates are to be attached to one forme cylinder. The fastening of the various printing plates to the forme cylinder must not occur at the same time. By appropriately arranging or positioning the first channel sections in the stator in a circular array, around the rotational axis of the rotor, it is possible for the inlet openings, which are embodied, for example, in segments, of various second channel sections, to be selectively connected by rotating the forme cylinder against the first channel sections. In this manner, it is possible for a plurality of various functional elements to be actuated, using only a few control valves, with the various control valves being selectively connected to their respectively assigned functional elements by rotating the printing press part.
A preferred embodiment of the present invention is shown in the drawing and is described in greater detail below.
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Eight printing plate end fixing devices 13, which may each be individually activated, are provided in the barrel of the forme cylinder 01 and are utilized for fixing or securing the respective printing plates 03 to 12 to the forme cylinder 01. The structure and function of the fixing devices 13 will be explained below with reference to the depiction in
On its jacket or circumferential surface, the forme cylinder 01 has two diametrically spaced channels 14, which are pointing inwards and which are extending in the axial direction of the forme cylinder 01. The beveled ends of two printing plates, which are arranged one after the other in the direction of rotation of the forme cylinder 01, such as, for example, the beveled ends of the printing plates 03 and 08, extend into the channel 14. The diametrically opposite channel 14, which is also provided in the forme cylinder 01 for fixing the other ends of both of the printing plates 03 and 08, is embodied in a functionally complimentary fashion.
One beveled end of a printing plate, such as, for example, the beveled end of the printing plate 08 in
As can also be seen from
The rotor 22 is preferably in the shape of a circular disc, as may be seen in
A stator 23 of the rotation transmitter 02 which, for example, may be attached to the frame of a printing press in a rotationally secure manner is aligned with the rotor 22 of the rotation transmitter 02, as seen in
In the top view of the contact surface 33 of the stator 23, as shown in
In
Four arcuately-shaped, radially outwardly located inlet openings 36, 37, 38, and 39 are formed on the rotor 22 and are assigned to the two outlet openings 28 and 29 that are arranged on an outer circular line. Four arcuately-shaped, radially inwardly located inlet openings 41, 42, 43, and 44 are formed on the rotor 22 and are assigned to the two outlet openings 31 and 32 arranged on an inner circular line. By correspondingly rotating the rotor 22, two of the outer, arcuately-shaped inlet openings 36 to 39 or two of the inner, arcuately-shaped inlet openings 41 to 44 may always be connected to the compressed air supply of the first channel segments 24 by the outlet openings 28 to 32. The inlet openings 36 to 39 and 41 to 44 and/or the outlet openings 28 to 32 may have elastic sealing material or may be provided with an elastic seal as depicted in
If, for example, the printing plates 03, 04, 06, and 07, which are all located on one circumferential side of the forme cylinder 01, should be removed from the forme cylinder 01, the forme cylinder 01 is rotated for a sufficient length of time so that the cylinder channel 14 points perpendicularly upwards. This position of the forme cylinder 01 corresponds to the position of the rotor 22 which is shown in
If the four other pressure hose segments 18 are then to be connected to the compressed air supply, in order to be able to now actuate the plate end fixing devices 13 for the printing plate ends on the printing plates 08, 09, 11, and 12, the rotor 22, together with the forme cylinder 01, is rotated by approximately 180°. The rotor inlet openings 38, 39, 41, and 42 on the compressed air supply are now connected to the stator outlet openings 28, 29, 31, and 32, whereas the rotor inlet openings 36, 37, 43, and 44 are no longer being supplied with compressed air. Thus, by rotating the forme cylinder 01 through 1800, the compressed air supply is switched, as may be seen in
Because the inlet openings 36 to 44 are structured in the shape of an arc, the various, plate end fixing devices 13 may each be actuated in an angle range of approximately 60°, such that the rotor 22 does not have to be positioned absolutely precisely aligned relative to the stator 23. It is also possible, for example, for the rotor to be rotated by −15° to +45′ when the stator 23 is engaged in order to allow a printing plate to be mounted or removed when the plate end fixing device 13 is open.
While a preferred embodiment of devices of a printing press having a rotation transmitter, for introducing a liquid or gaseous medium into a rotating component of a printing press, in accordance with the present invention has been set forth fully and completely hereinabove, it will be apparent to one of skill in the art that various changes in, for example, the source of the liquid or gaseous medium, the specific structure of the printing formes and the like could be made without departing from the true spirt and scope of the present invention which is accordingly to be limited only by the appended claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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102004021606.1 | May 2004 | DE | national |
This U.S. patent application is the U.S. national phase, under 35 USC 371, of PCT/EP2005/051975, filed Apr. 29, 2005; published as WO 2005/108079 A1 on Nov. 17, 2005; and claiming priority to DE 10 2004 021 606.1, filed May 3, 2004, the disclosures of which are expressly incorporated herein by reference.
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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PCT/EP05/51975 | 4/29/2005 | WO | 11/2/2006 |