Web-fed offset printing press capable of image conversion withou

Details Web-fed offset printing press capable of image conversion withou Web-fed offset printing press capable of image conversion withou

1999-01-20

1999-10-26

Fisher, J. Reed

Printing

Planographic

Multicolor

101139, 101177, B41F 704, B41F 712

Patent

active

059708700

ABSTRACT:
An offset perfecting press is disclosed which has a pair of blanket cylinders on opposite sides of a web traveling along a predefined path. Bearing different images to be printed, two plate cylinders are disposed in circumferentially spaced apart positions on each blanket cylinder. Each plate cylinder is independently movable between an image transfer position, where the plate cylinder is held to the blanket cylinder in order to print an image thereon for subsequent transfer to the web, and an image nontransfer position where the plate cylinder is spaced from the blanket cylinder. Only one plate cylinder is held in the image transfer position on each side of the web. For a change from one image to another, the plate cylinders that have been printing the opposite sides of the web are retracted to the image nontransfer positions, and the other plate cylinders, rotating in phase with the blanket cylinders, are moved to the image transfer positions. There is no need for stopping the web or the blanket cylinders. An electronic control system is provided for automatic image conversion. A multiple-unit, multiple-tower, multiple-web rotary press is also disclosed which comprises a multiplicity of printing units, including one or more constructed as in the foregoing, which are arranged in multiple towers for concurrently printing multiple webs under automatic control.

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patent: 4919046 (1990-04-01), Kakko-Chiloff
patent: 5134934 (1992-08-01), Knauer et al.

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