Abstract: A device for varying the stroke amplitude of at least one axially oscillating distributor roller in an application unit of a rotary printing press, includes a distributor roller drivable by a distributor stroke drive via a distributor stroke transmission including a coulisse having a groove and being adjustable from a first position to a second position, and a sliding block movable in the groove. The device having a first transmission member carrying the coulisse, and a second transmission member carrying the sliding block. The distributor stroke transmission is formed of the first and second transmission members. The coulisse is disposed adjustably relative to the first transmission member. Both first and second transmission members are drivable by the distributor stroke drive. The device also has an actuator for adjusting the coulisse. The actuator is carried by at least one of the first and second transmission members.

Abstract: An offset printing press with an inking unit and a wetting unit which correspond to a plate cylinder, with at least one intermediate roller which connects the inking and wetting units. The intermediate roller is bilaterally mounted on bearings and can be adjusted by an actuator device with respect to an inking and/or a wetting roller. The stenciling on the inking roller is reduced during separate operation between the inking unit and the wetting unit by having the intermediate roller remain in contact with the inking roller when the intermediate roller is disengaged from the wetting roller.

Abstract: A device designed as a magazine is disclosed for carrying away and/or supplying printing plates from and to a plate cylinder of a printing machine, in particular to ensure the automatic exchange of printing plates with a plate removing and a plate supplying arrangement. At least one cartridge for the printing plates is removably associated with the magazine. A corresponding process is also disclosed.

Abstract: A device designed as a magazine is disclosed for supplying printing plates to a plate cylinder of a printing machine, in particular to ensure the automatic exchange of printing plates by means of a plate supply arrangement. The plate supply arrangement (16) has several distributed (second) holding means (55) for the printing plates (9) that can be successively activated.

Abstract: Device for feeding a printing plate to a plate cylinder of at least one printing unit of a printing press, the plate cylinder having a clamping device formed with clamping surfaces for clamping a leading edge of the printing plate therein, includes at least one element for holding and guiding the printing plate, the one element being a readily rotatable roller having an outer cylindrical surface which, in a plate-changing position, is disposed substantially tangentially to a straight line disposed between the roller and the one printing unit, the straight line extending parallel to the clamping surfaces of the clamping device, passing between the clamping surfaces and leaving the one printing unit in an upwardly inclined direction.

Abstract: Device for feeding a printing plate to a plate cylinder of at least one printing unit of a printing press, the plate cylinder having a clamping device formed with clamping surfaces for clamping a leading edge of the printing plate therein, includes at least one element for holding and guiding the printing plate, the one element being a readily rotatable roller having an outer cylindrical surface which, in a plate-changing position, is disposed substantially tangentially to a straight line disposed between the roller and the one printing unit, the straight line extending parallel to the clamping surfaces of the clamping device, passing between the clamping surfaces and leaving the one printing unit in an upwardly inclined direction.

Abstract: A device in the form a magazine is disclosed for carrying away used printing plates from the plate cylinder of a printing machine. The device applies in particular to the automatic exchange of printing plates. The device has an arrangement for carrying away the plates with (first) holders for each printing plate capable of being activated. The (first) holders are arranged on a (first) carriage that can be moved along a (first) guide substantially over the whole length of the device, inside the magazine.

Abstract: A magazine assembly for automatically changing printing plates, includes a magazine for receiving a cassette therein, a cassette receivable in the magazine and having structure for receiving a plurality of printing plates therein, and a device for removing the printing plates upon demand for feeding the printing plates to a printing cylinder of a printing unit.

Abstract: A device for movably positioning in a plurality of positions a magazine for automatically changing printing plates in a printing machine for changing the printing plate of the plate cylinder, replacing the printing plates of the magazine, servicing the printing machine and normal operation, includes a device for mounting the magazine, including a vertical guide wherein the magazine is displaceable, and a horizontal shaft about which the magazine is swivelable, and drive devices for displacing and swiveling the magazine.

Abstract: A method of washing an offset printing press having a plate cylinder, a rubber blanket cylinder, an impression cylinder, an inking unit a paper thickness compensator and a damping unit. The inking unit and the damping unit include, respectively, inking rollers and damping solution applicator rollers. The offset printing press also includes a washing apparatus. The washing apparatus, when in the wash mode, is placed in engagement with the rubber blanket cylinder of the printing press by control apparatus. Also, in the wash mode, the impression cylinder is engaged with or disengaged from the rubber blanket cylinder by a paper thickness compensator. The usual purpose of the paper thickness compensator is to compensate for the thickness of the stock in running-on mode but is employed herein also to effectuate washing of various rollers and/or cylinders of the printing press.

Abstract: A printing press having an inking unit and a wetting unit, which cooperate with a printing form by means of an inking roller and a wetting roller, having a control device for moving the wetting roller into an engagement or disengagement position with respect to the printing form. To expedite simple handling in the application of another substance onto the printing form, the wetting roller is supplied with the another substance by an apparatus provided therefore and moved into its engagement position with respect to the printing form by a control apparatus.

Abstract: Washing device for cleaning a cylinder of a printing machine includes a brush roller formed with bristles and rotatably driven about an axis, the brush roller cooperatively engaging the cylinder, a device for feeding washing fluid to the bristles for self-cleaning the bristles, and a deflection element disposed in a rotational region of the bristles, fixed in position relative to the brush roller and extending along the length of the brush roller, the bristles yieldingly brushing against the deflection element as the brush roller is rotated so as to be bent temporarily and subsequently returned to a straight extended position thereof, the deflection element being formed as a distributor pipe connected to the feeding devices and having outlet openings formed therein for directing the washing fluid radially towards the axis of the brush roller.

Abstract: A device for engaging form rollers in an inking unit of a printing machine with a plate cylinder of the printing machine and for disengaging the form rollers therefrom, including bearing levers for the form rollers disposed at both side frames of the printing machine, the form rollers being pivotable on bearings of mutually adjacent distributor rollers and being engageable with and disengageable from the plate cylinder by an adjustment element includes at each side frame, a pair of control levers to each of which the two bearing levers, respectively, are articulatingly connected via respective straps, both of the control levers being pivotally mounted on respective stud bolts at the side frames of the machine; a compensating web, respectively, coupling the pair of control levers at each of the side frames; and a respective control cylinder engaging the compensating web and supported on one of the side frames.

Abstract: An ink duct in a printing machine having an ink duct roller, an axially reciprocating distributor roller, a vibrating lifter roller secured via a lever to a floating spindle, and a control cam for transmitting an oscillating movement to the lifter roller in transverse direction thereof between the ink duct roller and the distributor roller includes additional control cam means for transmitting an axial reciprocating movement to the vibrating lifter roller in synchronism with the axial reciprocating motion of the distributor roller, the lifter roller being alternately in contact with the ink duct roller and the distributor roller for transferring ink from the ink duct roller to the distributor roller, the additional control cam means being constructed so as to transmit the axial reciprocating movement of the vibrating lifter in opposite direction to the axial reciprocating movement of the distributor roller when the vibrating lifter is in contact with the distributor roller.

Abstract: Dampening-inking unit for offset printing machines for forming and feeding an ink-water emulsion to a plate cylinder including a first and a second distributor roller, two inking rollers disposed between the first and second distributor rollers and connected to one another by an intermediate roller, the first distributor roller being a dampening-medium distributor roller in contact with one of the two inking rollers at a given contact location, means for driving the dampening-medium distributor roller, a fountain roller dipping into a dampening-medium tank, and a metering roller engageable with the fountain roller, the metering roller being also engageable with the one of the two inking rollers at a given contact location, the contact location of the metering roller and the one inking roller being upstream of the contact location of the dampening-medium distributor roller and the one inking roller, as viewed in direction of rotation of the one inking roller, the dampening-medium distributor roller having a ro

Abstract: Device for axially reciprocating an inking-unit roller of a rotary printing machine having a fixed shaft and a frictionally driven roller shell including a pair of rings formed with opposing circular roller tracks disposed within the inking-unit roller and repectively secured to the shaft and the roller shell, one of the rings being skewed in axial direction with respect to the other of the rings, and a ball rollably received in both of the roller tracks and actuatable for effecting a step-down in speed of the axial reciprocatory motion of the inking-unit roller.

Abstract: Ink duct for offset of letterpress printing machines with an ink metering unit formed of a plurality of zone-wide metering elements disposed closely adjacent one another and adjustable to zonally varying ink-gap thicknesses, and an ink duct roller forming part of the ink duct, including support and metering regions formed on the metering elements, the support regions being constantly in at least indirect contact under spring pressure with the ink duct roller, each of the metering regions of the respective metering elements extending over the entire respective zone width, the respective metering region, as viewed in rotary direction of the ink duct roller, being disposed downstream from and at such a spacing behind the support regions that ink located between the support and metering regions can spread axially and distribute uniformly over the entire zone width, respectively.

Abstract: Combined dampening-inking unit for offset printing units having inking rollers engageable with a plate cylinder and including, as viewed in rotational direction of the plate cylinder, a first inking roller mounted so as to be adjustable independently of at least another next succeeding inking roller disposed in the rotational direction of the plate cylinder, and a dampening-medium distributor roller of a dampening unit cooperatively engageable with the first inking roller, including an oleophilic intermediate roller connecting the first and the next succeeding inking rollers to one another, an ink distributor roller engaging the next succeeding inking roller, the first inking roller being mounted so as to be swivelable about the dampening-medium distributor roller and liftable therefrom, and control means for selectively engaging the first inking roller with the plate cylinder, the intermediate roller and the dampening-medium distributor roller and for selectively disengaging the first inking roller therefrom

Abstract: Device for axially reciprocating a printing-unit roller having a stationary shaft and a roller jacket rotatably driven by friction drive, the device being disposed within the printing-unit roller and being driven by rotational movement of the printing-unit roller, including drive means for effecting axial reciprocation of the printing-unit roller at a speed reduced with respect to the rotational speed of the printing-unit roller including two roller bearings disposed within the printing-unit roller between the roller jacket and the shaft, a first bushing revolving as a cage associated with the roller bearings and being formed with a first groove, a second bushing fixed in the roller jacket and formed with a second groove, one of the grooves being of elliptic form, and a ball being received simultaneously in both of the grooves and being rollable therein.

Abstract: A washing device for an offset printing press has a blanket cylinder, the washing device being adjustable with respect to the blanket cylinder and including a rotary washing roller having a soft covering and being in frictional driving engagement with the blanket cylinder, a doctor roller having a surface located in engagement with the washing roller, a distributor roller having a firm surface engaging the soft covering of the washing roller at a location upstream of the doctor roller in the rotary direction of the washing roller, means for feeding and controllably applying fresh washing solution to the distributor roller, a collecting vessel located below the doctor roller, and a doctor blade operatively connected with the doctor roller for guiding therefrom into the collecting vessel ink washed off the blanket cylinder with the wash solution, the improvement therein and further comprises a second washing roller in frictional driving engagement with the blanket cylinder, both of the washing rollers being tra