Abstract: A drive for a rotary printing press has a clutch with improved reliability in the main drive gear train. The drive has a gearwheel mechanism for transmitting a rotational movement of transfer drums during delivery of a printing material. The gearwheel mechanism includes a gearwheel pair with a driving gearwheel and a driven gearwheel and the driven gearwheel, which is arranged coaxially with respect to the driving gearwheel, is coupled during delivery to a shaft journal of a transfer drum. A clutch is provided for selectively producing and interrupting the transmission of torque between the driving gearwheel and the driven gearwheel. At least one motor is provided for feeding a torque into the gearwheel mechanism. A stepup gear mechanism is arranged in the torque flow between a clutch half of the clutch and a gearwheel.

Abstract: A drive for a rotary printing press makes a reliable transmission of high torques possible and, with low structural expenditure, setting of the phase in the main drive gear train. In the drive for a rotary printing press, two adjacent transfer drums are mounted with shaft journals in side walls, a gearwheel of the gearwheel mechanism is disposed fixedly in terms of rotation on the shaft journals and the gearwheels are not in direct engagement with one another. The gearwheels of the adjacent transfer drums are permanently in engagement in each case with one intermediate gear. The gearwheels of the adjacent transfer drums and the intermediate gears are kept at a spacing from one another in each case with one lever. The intermediate gears are kept at a spacing in each case from one another with a coupler. The coupler can be disconnected and the engagement of the teeth of the intermediate gears can be canceled.

Abstract: A positioning device for a printing press, having at least one guard adjustable within an adjustment range relative to an instantaneous pole axis in a first adjusting direction counter to gravity and in an opposed second adjusting direction, and having an energy storage for setting a variable support moment in opposition to a moment of weight resulting from the gravity and engaging with the guard, includes a control cam having a predetermined contour, a cam follower contacting the control cam for controlling the support moment by motion of the cam follower relative to the control cam, the contour of the control cam being such that the guard is in equilibrium at every location within the adjustment range under the influence of the support moment and a manual force of predetermined magnitude and direction which is associated with the respective location, the manual force, upon being adjusted in the first adjusting direction, counteracting the moment of weight in an initial section of the adjustment range.