Abstract: In a multi-color printing machine, a skew or slant of a picture to be printed is corrected by cocking, namely, swinging a paper-feed cylinder relative to a base impression cylinder by a unique but simple cocking mechanisms. The cocking mechanism includes a shaft holder which holds one end portion of the shaft of the paper-feed cylinder and which is pivotable about an eccentric position disposed on an imaginary line extending between central axes of the paper-feed cylinder and the base impression cylinder. The shaft holder is connected at another end thereof to an operating shaft via screw means which converts rotation of the operating shaft into the pivotal movement of the shaft holder.

Abstract: A cylinder setting mechanism for an offset printing machine effects setting of a rubber blanket cylinder into peripheral contact with an impression cylinder and the plate cylinder sequentially. Eccentric metal parts are rotatably mounted for rotation on laterally spaced frame vertical walls for rotation about a first axis and rotatably mount an eccentric rubber blanket cylinder shaft for rotation about a second eccentric axis. The eccentric rubber blanket cylinder shaft rotatably mounts the rubber blanket cylinder eccentrically about a third axis eccentric to the axis of rotation of the shaft. A plate cylinder setting cam and an impression cylinder setting cam are fixedly secured to the impression cylinder rotate therewith and are angularly offset.

Abstract: A plate pressure and printing pressure adjusting mechanism for permitting separate adjustment of the pressure exerted by a rubber blanket cylinder against a plate cylinder and the same rubber blanket cylinder against an impression cylinder. First and second toggle mechanisms are mounted for reciprocation to opposite sides of the axis of rotation of the rubber blanket cylinder and in similar directions to bring the rubber blanket cylinder into and out of engagement with the plate cylinder and impression cylinder, respectively. A first arm fixedly mounted on the eccentric shaft supporting the rubber blanket cylinder is connected through the first toggle mechanism to a first adjusting arm pivotably supported on the frame, and supports an axial adjusting screw and being spring biased so as to cause the end of the adjusting screw to bear on a first radial cam whose periphery may be shifted.