Abstract: A device for scaling cut-out cardboard blanks (2, 2?) includes the high-speed (1.4V) ejection element (I) of a cutting machine and low-speed (V?) receiving element. The device is characterized in that it is provided with an intermediate adjusting module (II) whose at least blank-driving speed is adjustable and which is arranged between the ejection element (I) and the receiving element (III).

Abstract: The invention relates to a variable printing machine which is embodied in the form of at least two offset printing apparatus (1) and comprises a frame bearing an opposite cylinder against which a blanket (11) to be printed is pressed by a blanket drum. Printing ink is supplied to a printing cylinder which contacts the blanket drum by means of inking rollers. The inventive printing machine is characterized in the following: the opposite cylinder of each apparatus (1) is devoid of all rotatable transmissions; a levelling between two adjacent units which print one and the same blanket face (11) is embodied in such a way that said blanket is in contact with the blanket drums only.

Abstract: An apparatus for shaping a flexible web (2) includes, between an entry roller (5) and a forming roller (3), a regulating module (7) provided with a starting roller (13) designed to control the movement and the speed of the web upstream of the shaping roller (3) and at least one mobile guide element (9) designed to exert, at least on one buffer loop (8) of the web (2) formed between the rollers (5, 3), a positive guiding thereof, in accordance with a law of displacement which is a function of the length of the buffer loop (8) in operation.

Abstract: A device for fixing a printing sleeve (3), in particular a printing form or a blanket drum, to a drive cylindrical shaft (1) on which a deformable cover (2) is arranged between the printing sleeve (3) and the shaft (1). The surface of the shaft (1) is grooved by a series of cavities (7) separated by bearing surfaces (12) which the cover (2) is rested on. The device also comprises an element for providing with the radial deformation of the deformable areas of the cover (2) by overpressure produced on the external face thereof or under-pressure on the internal face thereof. The device is characterized in that the shaft (1) and the printing sleeve (3) are provided with angular indexing elements (25).

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for positioning a plate (3) on a roll (1), in particular a chopper or folding roll. Said device is characterized in that the roll is provided with magnetic fixing means maintaining the plate on the surface thereof, and two centring elements whereof at least one (9) is mobile and longitudinally spaced apart from the first, so as to cooperate with matching means maintaining the plate (3), the mobile centering element (9) being linked to control means (15) for displacing it along the transverse axis of the roll (1).

Abstract: A device for selecting cut paperboard blanks has two series of drive belts detining two paths tor the blanks, namely an upper path and a lower path each of which is defined between drive belts. The upper and lower paths diverge from each other in the device. A flap that is disposed where the paths diverge from each other is pivotally mounted about a downstream shaft and is capable of occupying two positions, namely, a lower position in which the blanks are fed to the upper path and an upper position in which the blanks are fed to the lower path. Each of the paths has an upstream portion from the flap and a downstream portion from the flap and each of the paths is more steeply inclined relative to the horizontal in one of its upstream and downstream portions than in the other of its upstream and downstream portions.

Abstract: Disclosed is an inking device for a photogravure printing apparatus, wherein the inking chamber is closed on all sides; it is filled with ink under pressure; it extends solely over the length of the engraved part of the cylinder, and it is defined, at its two longitudinal ends, by radial closure plates with curved peripheral surfaces which are applied against the smooth end part of the engraved cylinder, on either side of its useful engraved central part.

Abstract: This invention relates to an offset printing apparatus, which comprises a frame and a removable cassette comprising a plate cylinder and a blanket cylinder, with parallel transverse axes, tangential to each other and adapted to be engaged in the frame of the apparatus so that the plate cylinder is in contact, under pressure, with each inking roller with a predetermined touch, i.e. a predetermined crushing of the peripheral layer, of supple material, of the inking roller. This touch is determined by a first bearing element or touch way, associated with each bearing of an inking roller and, on each removable cassette, a second bearing element or touch way. In order automatically to obtain the correct touch when a cassette is changed, the second touch way of the cassette is constituted by a fixed disc bearing a covering, forming a coating of thickness equal to that of the covering associated with the plate.

Abstract: Disclosed is an offset printing apparatus, wherein the bearings of the blanket cylinder are mounted fixed on the cheeks of the cassette; the bearings of the plate cylinder comprise means for adjusting the position of the axis of the plate cylinder; and each of the front and rear cheeks of the cassette bears a mechanism for connection between mobile control means of the printing apparatus and the means for adjusting the bearings of the plate cylinder, in order to adjust the position of the axis of this cylinder as a function of the printing conditions required.

Abstract: A supply device for a machine periodically working on a web of material in a stopped position, particularly a flat cutting press, comprising, upstream of the machine, a hollow suction cylinder over which the web passes before penetrating in the machine. A vacuum source is provided to create a depression and a valve is provided to cyclically vary the depression in the suction cylinder between a first, relatively high value, substantially during the phase of the cycle of the machine corresponding to the acceleration of the web, and a second, relatively low value, during the rest of the cycle.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for stacking, from above, thin, flat articles such as blanks of cardboard or like material, of variable shapes and formats, these blanks being supplied, upstream, on a conveyor and being successively deposited on one another on the upper laying plane of a stacking-jolting table. This apparatus is characterized in that the laying plane of the stacking-jolting table is constituted, on the one hand, by a large continuous principal surface, and, on the other hand, by an auxiliary bearing surface located at the upstream end of the table, and a device is provided for vertically displacing the auxiliary bearing surface with respect to the principal surface.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for separating thin, flat articles, such as blanks of cardboard displaced successively, in a continuous line, on at least one conveyor. This apparatus is characterized in that it comprises, opposite the conveyor, a lever for hooking the articles, mounted to rotate about a transverse, horizontal axis, this lever bearing, on the one hand, a claw for holding the articles, and, on the other hand, at least one connecting rod extending longitudinally downstream, mounted to rotate on the lever, about a transverse horizontal axis, and carrying, in its downstream part, at least one wheel bearing on the articles located on the conveyor, each wheel being made so as to present a low rotational inertia, and a spring is provided between the connecting rod and the lever.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for detecting, in a machine, the position of contact of two rollers of parallel axes of which at least one is mounted mobile. This device is characterized in that it comprises an elastic member mounted so as to undergo, during contacting of the two rollers, a deformation, limited by a bearing, further to the relative displacement of two elements mobile with respect to each other, and means for measuring this deformation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an inking device for a rotary offset printing machine.This device is characterized in that the inking table is driven in rotation in the same direction as the ink fountain roller and in that an even number, equal to at least two, of intermediate transfer rollers are mounted on at least one mobile support and may be displaced between an inactive position and an active position in which one of the intermediate transfer rollers is in contact with the ink fountain roller, the other intermediate roller is in contact with the taker roller itself permanently maintained tangential to the inking table and the two intermediate transfer rollers are tangential to each other.

Abstract: A machine is described for handling die-cut carton blanks as they emerge from the die-cutter. The die cut web is separated into sheets of blanks and projected sequentially onto a conveyor. The conveyor is operated at a speed which is less than that at which the sheets are projected onto the conveyor so that the distance between the sequential die cut is closed up, the sheets being maintained in contact with the conveyor by air pressure.