Abstract: A plate clamping assembly for securing a printing plate to a plate cylinder of a rotary printing machine utilizes spaced clamping bars which are each pivotably positioned in a groove in the plate cylinder. An axially slidable and rotatable shaft cooperates with one of the clamping bars while an axially fixed and rotatable adjusting shaft cooperates with the other clamping bar. Both adjusting shafts having a plurality of truncated cones which engage tappet arms on the clamping bars.
Abstract: The invention relates to a dragline bucket wherein the center of gravity is along a line making an angle of at least 90.degree. with a line from the tooth tip to the horizontal pivot axis of the dragline hitch. Also disclosed is a movable hitch.