Abstract: A device for detecting the position of rotating objects, having an optical signal transmitter and an optical sensor, includes a stationary light source provided in the optical signal transmitter for generating along an optical axis a light beam directed onto a rotating object, the optical sensor being stationary and being arranged on the optical axis on a side of the rotating object located opposite the optical signal transmitter, in the region of the optical axis of the signal transmitter and the sensor, the rotating object being formed with a diametrically extending bore having an entrance window for the light beam and an opposite exit window for the light beam, a slit diaphragm arranged in vicinity of the exit window, and an objective for focusing the light beam onto the slit diaphragm arranged in vicinity of the entrance window, the slit of the slit diaphragm being aligned with a transverse extent thereof at least approximately perpendicularly to an axis of rotation of the rotating object.

Abstract: A light beam deflection unit is formed of a light-transmissive deflection prism extending in the direction of an optical axis and of a carrier prism. The deflection prism has a light entry face oriented essentially perpendicular to the optical axis, a reflection face proceeding obliquely relative to the optical axis and a light exit face. The carrier prism is joined to the deflection prism at the reflection face and supplements the latter to form a composite unit essentially symmetrical relative to the optical axis that is seated rotatable around the optical axis. For the purpose of reducing air turbulence upon rotation of the composite unit, a hollow-cylindrical element whose cylinder axis essentially coincides with the optical axis and whose inside diameter at least corresponds to the diameter of the light beam incident onto the light entry face and that is connected to the composite unit is arranged in front of the light entry face.

Abstract: In the line-by-line recording of films (15') for producing offset printing forms or in the line-by-line exposure of offset printing plates from recording data, i.e. density values of a line, the setting values for the individual zone screws are directly calculated from the density values and are stored or, respectively, directly forwarded to the printing machine (80). Before the forwarding of the setting values to the printing machine (80), density values are advantageously converted into the setting values with masks that, with reference to printing areas, printing surface in the pages (50) and with reference to the register system of the printing machine (80) as well as with reference to the characteristic data of a page (50), contain the allocation of the setting values of the zone screws calculated from the density values of the page (50).

Abstract: A device for automatic loading of film material on a suction plate by transport roller pairs arranged at two oppositely disposed ends of the suction plate. One pair receives the film material and the other pair further transports the film material. At the two other lateral sides or ends of the suction plate, a roller is respectively provided extending over an entire side of the plate. A cloth can be wound on this roller such that the roller and cloth are so arranged that they respectively form a blind covering the suction plate up to and overlapping lateral edges of the film material.

Abstract: A screen for reproducing continuous-tone pictures of the kind which has an orthogonal, equally spaced screen structure and which is rotated through 45.degree. from the direction of scanning. In this invention, the individual screen dots are split up into four parts by lines extending parallel and perpendicular to the direction of reproduction which pass through the centers of the screen dots, thus producing square part screen-configuration which, in two opposite corners, each contain covered segments which derive from two different screen dots. Prior to reproduction, one such screen-configuration is stored for each tonal value liable to occur and at the time of reproduction these are called up again for selected tonal values and reproduced under the control of the scanning process.

Abstract: In an electronic pattern generator characters to be recorded are displayed on the screen of a cathode ray tube and then exposed on a recording medium mounted on a carrier, which is displacable in a plane parallel to the plane of the screen.The characters are displayed from video-data recallable from a store. The recalled video-data are transformed into a first video signal for the brightness control of the electron beam of the cathode ray tube into first deflection signals for the beam and into displacement signals for the carrier.For controlling the make-up and composing process the characters are displayed identically on a further screen of a soft copy terminal independently of the display on the screen of the cathode ray tube.By identical display it is understood, that the various type fonts and sizes of characters are not displayed in an unitary fashion, but in the original font of writing, as they will appear later in the typographical composition on the recording medium.