Abstract: An ink fountain for rotary offset printing presses with an ink dosing device which includes of a plurality of zone-width dosing elements located next to one another in close proximity. The dosing elements have support and dosing areas, and the support areas are in constant direct or indirect contact under spring pressure with an ink fountain roller. The dosing areas can be adjusted to different ink gap thicknesses by rotating the dosing elements. The hydrodynamic forces or the spring pressure on the dosing elements can therefore be reduced.

Abstract: An ink duct for rotary printing presses with zone-wide metering elements disposed side by side and adjustable a variable spaced distance from an ink duct cylinder, each of the metering elements having support and metering regions disposed in the axial direction of the ink duct cylinder, the support regions resting independently of one another, under spring pressure, at least indirectly on the ink duct cylinder, and the metering regions extending in a wedgelike manner, the metering elements being swivelably supported and being coverable by an elastic foil secured to the ink duct, comprising support bodies disposed on the metering elements at both sides of the metering regions, the metering regions being cylindrical and being formed on the metering elements, the support bodies having a circumference formed with a flattened contact surface portion by which the support bodies at least indirectly rest, under the spring pressure, on the jacket surface of the ink duct cylinder.

Abstract: An ink dosing device for inking units of printing presses has several dosing elements that are adjustable independently of one another. The dosing elements are provided for over the length of an ink fountain, whereby each dosing element shows a dosing area that is adjustable in its clearance to the ink fountain roller, and in each zone the smallest amounts of ink can be adjusted.

Abstract: An ink dosing device in the inking unit of rotary or offset printing press is disclosed with an inking roller which corresponds to an ink fountain. The ink dosing device also has dosing elements which are divided into zones. The dosing elements can be adjusted individually with respect to the cylindrical surface of the inking roller. The dosing elements are realized as tongue-shaped and are fastened to a base body. Each dosing element is adjustably fastened to the base body by elastic intermediate shims.

Abstract: Sheet delivery for a sheet-fed printing press having gripper systems arranged on conveyor chains or toothed belts revolvingly guided and driven by guide wheels, the gripper systems being activatable by a locally fixed control member for gripping sheets individually at respective leading edges thereof and for releasing the sheets in vicinity of a sheet pile, and including guideways for slidingly guiding the conveyor chains, includes rollers with roller bearings fastened to the conveyor chains or toothed belts, the rollers, in regions of increased load, being movable into separate roller guides arranged on a frame of the printing press, for transmitting to the printing-press frame forces which act upon the conveyor chains or toothed belts.

Abstract: Gripper bar for a delivery of a printing press, the gripper bar being carried at respective ends thereof by transport chains and having a multiplicity of grippers with gripper fingers for transporting sheets includes a hollow profiled member having a boxlike profile wherein a gripper shaft is receivable, the boxlike profiled member being formed with lateral openings through which the gripper fingers of the grippers extend.

Abstract: A side wall of a printing unit of a sheet-fed rotary printing press is composed of a plurality of in-line printing units in accordance with unit construction principles. The side wall has a torsionally rigid side-wall body formed with a boxlike cross-sectional profile open on one side thereof and has a frame extending somewhat transversely to a plane wherein the side wall is disposed. The frame is formed with at least one recess through which gear wheels of a gear-wheel drive train are at least engageable or possess a kinking and back-springing course, respectively, between an upper structural region and a lower structural region of the side wall, including a removable lid ribbed on an inner side thereof and being disposed on the frame in the lower structural region wherein bearings for printing cylinders are received and at an open side of the boxlike cross-sectional profile for stiffening the frame. The frame is formed with recesses in the lower structural region thereof.

Abstract: A sheet transfer drum of a multi-color sheet-fed rotary printing press. A central drum body with flat portions carries at least one gripper system which extends over the sheet width. Jacket segments are mounted on the flat portions of the drum body. The jacket segments are exchangeably attached and they are formed with an inflatable interior. When they are deflated, the jacket segments fold into the flat portions of the drum body.

Abstract: Oscillations caused by machine dynamics in a sheet-fed rotary offset printing machine affect the print quality. The disturbing oscillations are reduced in that printing units of the printing machine are offset relative to one another at a phase angle at which identical print events in at least two printing units occur simultaneously.