Abstract: A quick-action clamping device for fastening a printing plate on a plate cylinder in a printing machine by a fixed clamping bar and a displaceable clamping bar which are able to be brought into a clamping position and a plate-changing position, respectively, includes a spring device for resiliently pressing the displaceable clamping bar into the clamping position with a holding force for clamping a printing plate between the displaceable clamping bar and the fixed clamping bar, and at least one re-set element for returning the displaceable clamping bar to the plate-changing position against the holding force.

Abstract: A clamping and tensioning device for clamping a printing plate on a cylinder of a printing machine includes a tensioning bar and a clamping bar having substantially radially extending, mutually opposing clamping surfaces for gripping therebetween a bent end of a printing plate, the tensioning bar being formed as a pivotal double lever, tension spring devices engageable with the tensioning bar for applying a tensioning force thereto in a tensioning direction, adjusting devices engageable with the tensioning bar and actuatable for pivoting the tensioning bar against the tensioning force applied by the tension spring devices, the clamping bar being formed as a pivotal double lever connected to the tensioning bar, clamping spring devices engaging with the clamping bar for pressing the clamping surface of the clamping bar against the corresponding clamping surface of the tensioning bar with a clamping force for holding a printing plate therebetween, the clamping bar being further formed with a holding element, a f

Abstract: A turning device for a sheet-fed rotary offset printing press for first form and perfector printing having a storage drum disposed between a turning drum and a transfer drum, the storage drum having a diameter triple that of the respective turning and transfer drums, comprising a sheet run-up lock disposed at the storage drum before a sheet transfer point between the transfer drum and the storage drum, and projecting into a travel path of a sheet having an improperly gripped at its trailing edge; and device for performing the method.

Abstract: In a sheet-fed rotary printing machine having a sheet-turning device including a gripper cylinder and an adjusting member extending in axial direction of and axially displaceable on the gripper cylinder for changing-over a gripper on the gripping cylinder, a clamping device for the adjusting member, includes a preloaded spring, clamping members disposed on both sides of and in vicinity of axial ends of the adjusting member and being displaceable radially to the gripper cylinder, and a pressure bar axially movably guided in the gripper cylinder and biased by a reaction force of the spring in a clamping direction for firmly clamping the clamping members via respective intermediate elements radially towards the gripper cylinder.

Abstract: Sheet-guiding drum for a printing machine convertible from first form to perfector printing and in reverse, including at least two sheet-guiding surfaces formed at a circumference of segments of an outer drum part which are adjustable in circumferential direction with respect to an axial support member for journalling the sheet-guiding drum, and a clamping device for locking together the segments of the outer drum part and the journalling axial support member, the clamping device having radially directed friction surfaces disposed on the segments of the outer drum part and on the journalling axial support member and being pressable with a clamping force against one another in axial direction, and a tension rod movable in axial direction of the journalling axial support member for pressing the friction surfaces on the segments and on the journalling member against one another, includes lamellar, interengaging friction elements alternately connected to one of the segments of the outer drum part and to the journ

Abstract: A device for adjusting elements which are adjustable in dependence upon sheet size for gripping and guiding sheets in a sheet-fed rotary printing machine, wherein the adjustable elements are connected to drivable actuating members, comprising a common actuating-drive unit to which the actuating members of a plurality of the adjustable elements are connectible.

Abstract: Sheet-fed rotary printing press with a plurality of printing units convertible from single-page printing to first form and perfector printing and the reverse and a turning device disposed between two of the printing units, the turning device including a turning drum wherein a rotatable control shaft for effecting a gripper changeover is mounted, and a device for resetting the printing units including a gearwheel pair disposed in a chain of drive gearwheels and including a fixed gearwheel on the turning drum and, concentric therewith, an adjustable gearwheel adjustable in rotational angle, the fixed and adjustable gearwheels being clampable together, comprising means disposed on the adjustable gearwheel and actuable, within a predetermined angular range of relative movement between the adjustable gearwheel and the fixed gearwheel, on members for rotating the control shaft for effecting the gripper changeover.

Abstract: An electrical circuit-breaking device for protecting a clamping device of a sheet-guiding drum of a printing machine, wherein the clamping device has an actuating member formed with a thread and being turningly screwable therewith in axial direction over a first travel phase and a second travel phase between end positions, includes a switching member for an electrical switch connected in a power-supply circuit for driving the printing machine, the switching member being actuatable in the first travel phase of the actuating member, a device defining at least one friction surface on the sheet-guiding drum and at least one friction surface of a drum part adjustable on the drum in circumferential direction thereof, intermediate members for pressing the friction surfaces against one another, the intermediate members being actuatable in the second travel phase of the actuating member, a stop device effective in turning direction of the actuating member including a cam on the actuating member, and two cams on a mach

Abstract: A sheet-fed rotary printing machine for producing single-sided multi-color printing or perfector printing having a sheet-transfer cylinder disposed in travel direction of a sheet between impression cylinders of a first and a second printing unit, and having gripper systems assigned to all of the cylinders, includes a device defining a transfer gap between the sheet-transfer cylinder and the impression cylinder of the second printing unit, a device for enlarging the width of the transfer gap in relation to a normal gap width to the impression cylinder of the first printing unit, a gripper system having a device for bridging the enlarged width of the transfer gap, the gripper system being movable out of the circumference of the sheet-transfer cylinder so as to grip a leading or trailing edge of the sheet and transfer the gripped sheet to the outer cylindrical surface of the impression cylinder, and a device for driving the sheet-transfer cylinder and the following impression cylinder at identical circumferentia

Abstract: In a sheet-fed rotary printing press, a device for tensionally connecting a fixed gearwheel and a gearwheel coaxial with and adjustable in rotational position thereof relative to the fixed gearwheel on a cylinder of a turning device in the printing press, comprising an actuatable clamping element and a clamping body for clamping the fixed gearwheel and the adjustable gearwheel together, the clamping body being braced against one of the gearwheels, and being held with the clamping element on the other of the gearwheels, friction elements carried by the gearwheels so as to be mutually overlappingly interengaging in the manner of a multidrive clutch, the clamping body having an annular bearing by which the clamping body is braced against an outer one of the friction elements in an overlap region of the friction elements.

Abstract: Device for adjusting a sheet format on a sheet-guiding drum of a printing machine having at least one supporting element for a sheet processing device mounted on a shaft of the drum and being adjustable in circumferential direction of the drum shaft, comprising an adjusting shaft mounted in the drum shaft and operatively connected to the sheet processing device for adjusting the sheet processing device, the adjusting shaft having a turning element at an outwardly extending end thereof, and a pinion located at an inner end thereof, the drum shaft having a bearing journal of solid material formed with a bore wherein the adjusting shaft is mounted eccentrically and substantially parallel to a central longitudinal axis of the drum shaft, and a toothed segment disposed on an end face of the supporting element at a location adjacent to the bearing journal, the pinion on the adjusting shaft being in meshing engagement with the toothed segment.

Abstract: A device for adjusting a rotational position between coaxial fixed and adjusting gears and for changing-over a gripper by axially displacing an adjusting member on a cylinder of a turning device of a sheet-fed rotary printing press, includes a pressure member for effecting a spring coupling of the gears via a radially extending pressure lever. An adjusting member which reduces the spring force is axially displaceably guidable on the cylinder and becomes effective upon the pressure member only after traversing a distance for actuating a switch of an electrical safety device in a power supply circuit of a driving device. Another electrical safety device is between control positions of the adjusting member for interrupting the supply circuit to change over the gripper control.

Abstract: In a sheet-fed rotary printing press, a sheet gripper has a gripper finger and a gripper support, the gripper finger being swingable, in operating phase with the printing press, under the action of a gripper spring, into engagement with the gripper support and, against the action of the gripper spring, out of engagement with the gripper support, the gripper spring being supported at one end thereof against a counter-bearing on the gripper finger and, at the other end thereof, against a counter-bearing on a gripper housing, and includes a holding device separable from one another for fixing at least one of the counter-bearings, the holding device being in mutual agreement and being disposed on the counter-bearing as well as on a part of the printing press wherein the counter-bearing is mountable, the separable holding device being formed of an inner locking part and an outer locking part of a bayonet lock, at least one of the locking parts having projections and the other of the locking parts having holding su

Abstract: A rotary printing press having an assembly of at least two printing units and a sheet transfer cylinder located between the printing units and having a plurality of gripper rows arranged symmetrically at the circumference of the cylinder, the sheet transfer cylinder includes a device for defining guide surfaces disposed between the gripper rows within the circumference of the cylinder and extending at least approximately as secants to the circumference of the cylinder.

Abstract: A device for setting a relative rotational position of a gearwheel and a ring gear disposed coaxially mounted and turnable on an annular extension of the gearwheel includes a plurality of radially extending pressure levers actuatable in common by an axially adjustable, centrically disposed adjusting element for releasing a spring-biased positive connection of mutually engaging faces of the gearwheel and the ring gear by reducing the spring bias acting upon the faces, the pressure levers being loosely disposed between the annular extension of the gearwheel and a clamping disc adjacent thereto, the pressure levers being received in radial grooves formed in the clamping disc and being pivotally braced at a first contact region located between the ends thereof against one of the annular extension and the clamping disc, the adjusting element being displaceable over a distance, during a first portion of which the spring bias increases from a relatively low value to a value necessary for maintaining the relative rot

Abstract: Device for adjusting a relative rotational position of a gearwheel and a ring gear which are coaxially mounted, comprising a device for applying a spring force to at least one of the gear wheel and the ring gear so as to form a positive connection between the gear wheel and ring gear, and an hydraulic system for reducing the applied spring force, the hydraulic system being formed of components disposed on the gearwheel.

Abstract: A device for safeguarding a rotary printing machine for printing sheets in a first form and perfector printing operation having a storage and a turning drum, first adjusting elements for adjusting a trailing drum body of the storage drum to different format sizes, second adjusting elements for adjusting the turning drum, and grippers and mechanical and electrical means for safeguarding the printing machine during a system-determined function setting includes a first coupling wheel assigned to the trailing drum body of the storage drum, a second coupling wheel mounted on a shaft journal of the turning drum, both of the coupling wheels being linked free of slippage via drive means in such a way that the second coupling wheel and the turning drum run in synchronism, the second coupling wheel being braced axially via trip cams on a disk secured to the shaft journal so that, in a case of rotation between the second coupling wheel and the turning drum due to a fault, a switching pulse is issued which releases a sig

Abstract: Sheet-guiding drum for sheet-fed rotary printing machines, having a drum body carrying at least two gripper bridges adjustable to different paper thicknesses, includes gripper supports carried by the drum, the gripper supports being adjustable in at least substantially radial direction of the drum; play-free adjusting elements carried by the drum body and adjustable independently of one another for adjusting the gripper supports; and a central adjusting device mounted readily accessibly on the drum body for actuating the adjusting elements in common.

Abstract: A device for selectively converting, for either first-form alone or combined first-form and perfector printing, a turn-over device arranged between individual printing units of a sheet-fed rotary printing machine, including adjustment elements for the turn-over device, and hydraulically actuable control and clamping devices operatively connected with the turn-over device for performing controlling and clamping operations on the respective adjustment elements.

Abstract: A turbo-molecular pump with passive, radial magnetic bearings and axial bearings has both direct and indirect damping arrangements for unwanted oscillations. Direct damping is produced by eddy currents produced in copper rings around the magnetic stators of the magnetic bearings. Indirect damping is provided through a platform, carried by springs and connected to the pump housing by oscillation dampers.