Abstract: A format-variable feedboard with a sheet-bearing surface for a rotary printing press includes support members disposed so as to form a format-dependent, substantially closed bearing surface for at least one sheet, the substantially closed bearing surface being disposed in a given bearing plane.

Abstract: Printing press having a device for centrally adjusting sheet-guiding elements located both on the drive and the control or operating sides of the printing press, the adjusting device including adjusting members for respectively driving the sheet-guiding elements in common, includes a drive member couplable selectively to the respective adjusting member on a respective one of the drive and the operating sides and to the adjusting members on both the drive and the operating sides.

Abstract: Device for guiding a print carrier while the print carrier is respectively fed to and removed from a plate cylinder of a printing press includes a pair of guide elements arranged in parallel with the axis of the plate cylinder, and a setting mechanism for positioning the guide elements, the guide elements being formed, respectively, of at least one segment, one of the guide elements, during feeding of a print carrier to the plate cylinder, and another of the guide elements, during removal of the print carrier, being in engagement with the respective print carrier.

Abstract: A safety device on a printing press, including at least one switch, a mechanical protective device changeable in position for operating the switch, the switch being fastened to a frame of the printing press so as to be adjustable in position and releasable from the frame, and connecting elements by the aid of which the switch is firmly seated on a base plate and held immovably on the frame, includes an intermediate plate formed of a relatively soft material disposed between respective fastening surfaces of the base plate and the frame, the intermediate plate being secured in position against movement in a direction parallel to the fastening surfaces, the fastening surface of the base plate having at least one projection formed of a material relatively harder than the relatively soft material of the intermediate plate, the projection being pressable into the relatively soft material of the intermediate plate by holding forces exerted by the connecting elements perpendicularly to the respective fastening surfac

Abstract: A clamping and pulling device for cylinder packings in a printing press, the device having gripper elements disposed in a cylinder gap extending axially at a circumference of a cylinder, and power elements for actuating the gripper elements to grip and firmly hold an end of a respective packing extending around an edge defining the gap and into the gap and, when actuated by the power elements, for pulling the cylinder packing around the edge defining the gap into the gap, includes abutments on the cylinder, the gripper elements being formed of two clamping bars having respective opposing clamping jaws braced against the abutments, respectively, and, in an angular position defined by the abutments on the cylinder and the arrangement of the clamping jaws at a bent-away portion of the cylinder packing, being disposed with a vertex directed opposite to a tensioning direction, tensioning forces of a respective power element serving to load at least one of the clamping bars in the direction of a mutually extended p

Abstract: Provided in a printing press having a printing-press housing and an impression cylinder are a numbering box having a numbering-box shaft for holding numbering devices, an inking device with an ink form roller, and a switching or control device, including telescopic rails mounted in the printing-press housing, the numbering box being disposed on the telescopic rails and being displaceable thereon into and out of engagement with the impression cylinder, and a mechanism for simultaneously effecting mutual engagement and disengagement of the inking device and the numbering-box shaft.

Abstract: Wash-up device for an inking unit of a printing press, including guide bar brackets disposable on a frame of the printing press, is provided with holders for the wash-up device insertably received in the guide bar brackets, the holders being formed by end zones of an actuating shaft for displacing the wash-up device into engagement with a roller of an inking unit to be washed; the actuating shaft, when received in an inserted position in the guide bar bracket, being turnable out of an assumed angular position thereof, for effecting engagement of the end zones of the actuating shaft behind steps formed in the guide bar brackets, so as to fix the wash-up device in an insert position, the actuating shaft being further turnable for effecting engagement by the wash-up device with the roller of the inking unit to be washed.

Abstract: The device for supplying printing plates to plate cylinders of printing machines includes elements for holding and for guiding printing plates. The plates can thereby be supplied to at least two different plate cylinders. The plate-holding assembly can thereby be pivoted into at least two different plate changing positions for feeding (and removing) printing printing plates at at least two printing units.

Abstract: In a sheet-fed printing press, there is provided a device for receiving sheet piles thereon, including a pile table movable up and down, spacers disposed on the pile table, and pile supports of respective sizes corresponding to respective sizes or formats of the sheets disposable on the pile supports, the spacers being distributed over and locally fixed to the pile table so that the respective pile supports of varying sizes rests on a selected number of spacers sufficient for safely supporting the respective pile supports against tilting, the pile supports of respectively smaller size resting on a smaller number of the respective spacers than the pile supports of respectively larger size.

Abstract: Device for holding perforating tools opposite a sheet-carrying cylinder of a rotary printing press includes a bearing and indexing shaft, a carrier body axially displaceably supported by the shaft, the carrier body being formed with a bore extending therethrough axially parallel to the shaft, the carrier body being provided with a clamping device for clamping the carrier body relative to the shaft and with an actuating device for, respectively, effecting a mutual clamping of the shaft and the carrier body and for releasing a mutual clamping of the shaft and the carrier body, the actuating device including rotatably supported rings carried by the carrier body around the shaft, the rings including an eccentric ring provided with a perforating tool.

Abstract: Device for smear-free transport of sheets having fresh printing ink thereon on a revolvingly driven cylinder in a sheet-fed printing press includes air outlet openings for pressurized air provided on the circumference of the revolvingly driven cylinder in a sheet-bearing region thereof for bearing the sheet to be transported, and a fixed covering for closing the air outlet openings on the inside of the revolvingly driven cylinder prior to a takeover of the sheet to be transported by the revolvingly driven cylinder.

Abstract: Device for facilitating sheet separation or singling in an upper region of a feeder pile, wherein equipment for acting upon an edge of the feeder pile facing away from a processing machine is adjustably movable against lateral edges of the sheet pile, includes a supporting structure disposed above a feeder pile and extending beyond dimensions of a maximally processable format of a printing material and being swivellable out of a plane extending parallel to a top surface of the feeder pile, and elements for facilitating sheet separation carried by said supporting structure.