Patents Assigned to Chromax Ltd.
  • Method and apparatus for applying flexographic printing plates to the printing cylinders of a multi-cylinder printing machine
    Patent number: 3983808
    Abstract: Apparatus for mounting flexographic printing plates by adhesive on the printing cylinders of a multi-cylinder printing machine has a rotatable hub for supporting each of the cylinders in turn, a platform for supporting each printing plate in a plane tangential to a cylinder on the hub, the platform being movable to cause the cylinder to roll along the plate so that adhesive on the plate or cylinder causes the plate to adhere to and wrap around the cylinder, and rack and pinion gearing between the rotatable hub and the movable platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1974
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Assignee: Chromax Ltd.
    Inventor: John Maxwell Jackson