Abstract: A printing mechanism and a distributing roller unit thereof has an inking roller, a dampening roller, a distributing roller located between the inking roller and dampening roller and movable between at least two positions in which it becomes alternately associated with the inking roller and the dampening roller and axially displaceable relative to the inking roller and the dampening roller, respectively, and elements for moving the distributing roller between the two positions and axially displacing the same.

Abstract: To guarantee an exact engagement of toothed flanks in the driving gear train of a multi-color sheet-fed rotary printing machine, the gears in the train pertaining to the first printing unit of the machine are power supplied from a driving member which transmits a two-fold power portion in comparison to power portions transmitted by driving elements assigned to the remaining printing units.

Abstract: To guarantee an exact engagement of toothed flanks in the driving gear train of a multi-color sheet-fed rotary printing machine, the gears in the train pertaining to an intermediate printing unit of the machine are power supplied from a driving member which transmit a three-fold power portion in comparison to uniform power portions transmitted by driving elements assigned to the remaining printing units.

Abstract: In the ink dosage adjusting device comprising at least one motor-driven ink zone adjusting screw for adjusting the position of the doctor blade relative to the doctor roller wear of the blade is compensated for by an additional adjusting device without an electrical readjustment of an electrical measure value receiver. The additional adjusting device includes a rotatable sleeve through which the ink zone adjusting screw extends.

Abstract: Method and device for positioning application rollers and printing cylinders in the printing machine during the operation with reduced machine numbers of revolutions occuring during the slow-down operation, tipping operation or hand operation, in which a precise transmission of the torque to printing units and thus accurate development of predetermined angular rotation steps is possible due to the fact that a portion of the torque of the whole initial breakaway torque is applied directly to each individual printing unit and the remaining portion of the torque required for positioning of printing cylinders and application rollers is produced by an auxiliary drive.

Abstract: In a control system for a plurality of ink zone adjusters in a printing machine each adjuster is connected via a main control circuit and a first bidirectional address and data bus to an input and output unit where the measured data are stored on specific addresses to be retrieved for later use. An additional storage control circuit is connected to the first bidirectional data bus to provide an intermediate storage of the measured or retrieved data. The addtional storage control circuit includes an addressing circuit controlled by a program control circuit to apply addresses pertaining to individual printing units to corresponding storing circuits.

Abstract: A moistening system for a printing machine, which can be suitable for application to a printing roller either of a wetting agent or alcohol, comprises a fountain roller partially immersed in a reservoir containing an agent to be applied to the printing roller, a slip roller in contact with the fountain roller, a rubbing cylinder rotated with the speed of the printing machine and applying the agent to the impression roller through distributing rollers, and a vibrating roller interpositioned between the rubbing roller and the slip roller to transmit the agent from the slip roller to the rubbing roller. The slip roller is connected to the rubbing roller so that they rotate with the same velocity.

Abstract: A printing press is provided with a safety device mounted in the vicinity of a gap formed between two counter printing rollers for preventing the gap from intrusion by foreign elements, such as a mop or the hand of an operator. The device includes a four-link transmission unit operatively interconnected between pivotable guard plates and a cam switch adapted to actuate an end switch of the printing press to shut the latter off. The guard plates are swung away from the rollers so that the gap is enlarged.

Abstract: Disclosed is a control system for an ink blade of a printing machine provided with a series of key setting units each having a key position sensor and a key drive controlled by an adjusting device described in patent application Ser. No. 252,126. In order to achieve proper adjustment of marginal key setting units, there is provided a switching unit with a plurality of contacts assigned to respective key position measuring sensors and including additional switching contacts assigned to imaginary key position setting units adjoining the real setting units at each end of the ink zone. The additional marginal switching contacts are connected to the output of assigned sample-and-hold members which apply thereto the measured value from the extreme actual position sensors so that comparing differential transducer comparing the measured values of consecutive pairs of position sensors always produces a starting difference which does not exceed a predetermined limit value.

Abstract: A device for adjusting an ink knife relative to a ductor roller in an ink-applicator of a printing machine is disclosed. The device includes an number of adjusting arrangements arranged lengthwise of the ductor roller to control a plurality of ink zones along the length of the roller, each arrangement including a pivotable lever actuated to move a stripped edge of the ink knife to and from the ductor roller, and a tension spring extended somewhat normally to the ink knife and between the ink knife and a supporting element rigidly connected to the housing of the ink applicator, the tension spring locking the lever in its selected adjusted position. The device substantially reduces mutual influence of adjacent ink zones on each other during the adjusting operation.

Abstract: A sheet-gripping device for sheet-processing machines includes a sheet-gripping member with a sheet-supporting surface of non-elastic material and a counter sheet-gripping member with a counter sheet-supporting surface made of elastic material. The sheet-supporting surface of the sheet-gripping member is formed with a plurality of projections located in first and second rows which extend skew to one another whereby a high uniform effect is attained in holding and transferring sheets being processed in the grippers closed in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A ductor roller and a doctor blade together define an inking gap in a printing machine. One or more ink-control screws can press against the doctor blade to locally reduce the width of the gap. Each screw carries an abutment arrangement which is engageable with respective opposite sides of the machine's ink trough, depending upon the direction of rotation of the screw, so as to define two specific end positions for the screw and thus a maximum and a minimum width of the ink gap.

Abstract: A plate clamping device for clamping flexible printing plates in rotary printing machines includes an upper guiding rail and a lower guiding rail to receive and clamp a printing plate therebetween. The device is provided with two spaced from one another bolts and a clamping arrangement centrally positioned between said bolts. The clamping arrangement includes an eccentric stud extending normally to the elongation of the lower rail and a wedged key mounted between the upper rail and the stud. The stud has a surface having a flat portion, a transition curved portion and a cylindrical portion. The wedged key is arranged in engagement with this surface and upon rotation of the stud the key may rest on the flat portion of the stud when the device is in a plate-releasing position or the key may engage with the cylindrical portion of the stud whereby the key is self-arrested and the rails clamp a printing plate.

Abstract: A multiplicative adjustment provision at an ink feed remote control device with a servo system actuating doctor blade support elements. The servo system includes a servo drive and a set point providing section. A control system is connected to the servo system and is provided at its inputs and outputs with multiplexers. The control system includes a motor driven control circuit, a process control unit coordinating with the right sequence the motor control unit successively on the input and output side to the servo system and a first computing circuit preceding the motor control circuit. A difference forming unit has input and output connected to the process control unit and has an output connected to the first computing circuit. A switching means is connected to the difference forming unit and connected to an input multiplexer of the control system. A second computing unit is connected to the motor control unit and to the switching unit.

Abstract: A remote adjustment and measuring unit for an ink zoning screw of a doctor blade mechanism in an ink well of a printing machine comprises a housing in which is adjustably mounted a guiding bearing for the rear end portion of the zoning screw; a driving electric motor and a measuring potentiometer are provided respectively with pinions in mesh with a transmission gear on the rear end portion of the screw, and the motor and the potentiometer are each mounted on an adjustable supporting plate.

Abstract: A sheet gripping arrangement of a rotary printing machine has a sheet gripper abutment member, a soft gripper seat member, a gripper shaft having a gripper shaft pivot point, a sheet gripping element including a gripper finger cooperating with the gripper seat member and eccentrically pivotable relative to the gripper shaft about a gripper finger pivot point so as to move first over a substantially flat gripping path and then to move during its final movement phase normally to the latter, and a threaded abutment member arranged in the finger member and acting against the sheet gripper abutment member, wherein the gripper finger member is arranged at an angle of substantially 90.degree. to a contact point of the threaded abutment member with the sheet gripper abutment member, to the gripper finger point, and to the gripper shaft pivot point.

Abstract: A control device for remote adjustments of ink zones in a printing press includes a control system comprising program request control connected respectively to multiplexers provided at the input side of the control system and to multiplexers provided at the output side of the control system, and a single motor control system. The multiplexers are connected to an adjustment system activating ink knife support elements. The control device further includes a differential former interconnected between the program control request and the multiplexers at the input side of the control system, and a computer interconnected between the differential former and the single motor control unit. The motor control unit controls the adjustment system so that the unsteady course of the positions of the ink knife support elements is balanced to the steady function of the knife bending curve.

Abstract: An arrangement for facilitating the mounting of printing plates on a plate cylinder of an offset printing machine. Two arms are mounted atop the machine at the opposite lateral sides thereof and have free ends provided with hooks. A rail is suspended from these hooks and carries quick-coupling devices which engage the trailing edge of a printing plate to be mounted. The hooks are suspended on ropes which are wound upon rollers mounted on the free ends of the arms; turning of the rollers in a sense causing unwinding of the ropes is resisted by torque springs or similar devices; this resistance can be varied to compensate for printing plates of different weights. Thus, the weight of the printing plate cannot cause the ropes to unwind; however, when the leading edge of the printing plate is connected to the plate cylinder and the cylinder is slowly rotated to take the plate up on it, the pull exerted by the cylinder causes unwinding of the ropes.