Vacuum holddown device for flexographic printing plates

Details Vacuum holddown device for flexographic printing plates Vacuum holddown device for flexographic printing plates

1983-03-21

1984-10-02

Mathews, A. A.

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Pipe or cable

Extending through plate

354325, 354340, 15 21R, 15 77, 248362, 269 21, G03D 504

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044744455

ABSTRACT:
A platen for supporting any one of a predetermined number of sizes of flexographic printing plates during wet development includes an interconnected orifice and a suction channel the suction channel surrounding the orifice, and an array of grooves emanating from the channel at spacings in the range from two degrees to fifteen degrees. Each groove is substantially V-shaped in cross-section and has a depth from 0.002 to 0.025 inches. The cross-sectional area of each groove being selected so that when a plate is placed over some portion of the suction channel and the grooves, a developer liquid applied to the plate, and suction applied at the orifice the flow of developer liquid from the plate through each groove is impeded by frictional effects in the grooves thereby forming a seal to permit the suction to hold the plate to the platen even though the plate does not cover the full length of all the grooves.

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patent: 4324487 (1982-04-01), Nishihama

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