Printing – Print plate feeding or delivering
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-21
2006-02-21
Evanisko, Leslie J. (Department: 2854)
Printing
Print plate feeding or delivering
C414S796700, C414S331140
Reexamination Certificate
active
07000543
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus to aid the loading and unloading of flexographic plates to and from an imager. The apparatus includes a magazine containing a plurality of compartments each for holding a single flexographic plate, the compartments arranged vertically, and movable in a vertical direction, a lifting mechanism to lift and lower the compartments; and a control system to control the lifting and lowering by the lifting mechanism. The control system is such that a particular compartment is moved from its rest vertical position at a rest horizontal position to a loading vertical position and a loading horizontal position at which the particular compartment is at a height for loading onto the imager. The loading is automatic and in the case that the plate includes a protective sheet thereon, the loading includes removing the protective sheet from the plate.
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Buchweitz Jan
Klein Thomas
Esko-Graphics A/S
Evanisko Leslie J.
Inventek
Rosenfeld Dov
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