Abstract: Devices for turning sheets in a rotary printing machine are described. The devices have a storage drum for handling sheets, which are each held by a holding device, and a turning drum is disposed downstream of the storage drum and has a holding device for engaging a rear edge of the sheet to be turned. An operation of detaching the sheet to be turned from the storage drum and carrying it along by the turning drum leads to the formation of a pressure reduction in an area formed between the sheet to be turned, the storage drum and the turning drum. The pressure reduction is compensated for by supplying ambient air, blast air and/or compressed air. The turning device has a channel and/or a passage orifice connected to an inner chamber of the turning drum. Via the channel and/or passage orifice air can be sucked and/or blown into the reduced-pressure area.

Abstract: A gripper for screen printing applications comprises a gripper body supporting a tensioning assembly comprising a gripping element designed for gripping the edge of a fabric to be tensioned on a frame, and a bottom abutment cam providing a variable lowering stroke based on a withdrawal tensioning stroke of the tensioning assembly.

Abstract: A gripper for screen printing applications comprises a gripper body supporting a tensioning assembly comprising a gripping element designed for gripping the edge of a fabric to be tensioned on a frame, and a bottom abutment cam providing a variable lowering stroke based on a withdrawal tensioning stroke of the tensioning assembly.

Abstract: A gripping device for conveying sheets in silk-screen printing machines. The gripping device comprises a box-like gripping bar having an outwardly and upwardly slanted rear wall provided with a longitudinally extending stepped edge at the upper side for resting a sheet; a plurality of tiltable plate-like gripping elements, forming a flat jaw, are disposed side by side and hinged to the side edge of the gripping bar which is opposite to the slanted wall. A corresponding number of lifting arms for tilting the gripping plates are secured to a drive shaft which extends into a tubular portion of the box-like gripping bar; the gripping bar is provided at both ends carriages and control levers to cause rotation of the lifting arms and tilting of the gripping plates, against the action of biasing springs during running on the printing machine. This solution provides a wide gripping surface for the sheets, reduces specific pressures, and a gripper with a simplified design.

Abstract: A gripping device for conveying sheets in silk-screen printing machines. The gripping device comprises a box-like gripping bar having an outwardly and upwardly slanted rear wall provided with a longitudinally extending stepped edge at the upper side for resting a sheet; a plurality of tiltable plate-like gripping elements, forming a flat jaw, are disposed side by side and hinged to the side edge of the gripping bar which is opposite to the slanted wall. A corresponding number of lifting arms for tilting the gripping plates are secured to a drive shaft which extends into a tubular portion of the box-like gripping bar; the gripping bar is provided at both ends carriages and control levers to cause rotation of the lifting arms and tilting of the gripping plates, against the action of biasing springs during running on the printing machine. This solution provides a wide gripping surface for the sheets, reduces specific pressures, and a gripper with a simplified design.

Abstract: A printed matter transport device. Printed matter is gripped by a gripping mechanism of a chain and made to travel along a guide rail, to improve the durability of the guide rail and chain, to prevent misalignment, falling out and damage when an external force acts on the printed matter, to improve durability of a connecting part of a chain link and the gripping mechanism, to reduce manufacturing costs, and to enable the printed matter to be firmly gripped. A chain with grips having first rollers respectively arranged on two sides in the center of the longitudinal direction of the bases, a second roller on one side perpendicular to the common center line of the first rollers and a grip mechanism on the opposite side, a guide rail, a chain drive and a cam member are provided.

Abstract: A device for driving a pregripper having a swivellably mounted main lever and a swivellably mounted guide lever, and a gripper bar mutually coupling the main lever and the guide lever, includes a cyclical swivel drive for the main lever, and an eccentrically swivellable bearing location for the guide lever.

Abstract: The invention concerns on the one hand a gripping device (10), particularly for automatic printing and/or inserting machines, with a first and second gripping element (22, 24) of which at least one gripping element (22) can be moved relative to the other gripping element (24) to grab sheet-like materials such as printed pages as well as with a measuring device (42) for the recording of at least one position of the gripping elements (22, 24) towards each other, and on the other hand a method for recording a relative position of gripping elements within a gripping device.

Abstract: Printed sheets are fed into a sheet processing machine where they are separated into partial sheets by being cut longitudinally. The partial sheets are separated laterally from each other by gripper components. Each of the partial sheets can have its leading and trailing ends cut. The cut partial sheets can then be inspected and deposited into a selected one of a plurality of partial sheets stacks.

Abstract: A chain delivery assembly for withdrawing sheets from a rotating cylinder of a sheet-fed offset printing press includes first and second spaced apart sprockets independently mounted for rotation about a common axis which is parallel to the axis of the rotating cylinder, first and second gears being coaxially affixed adjacent to the first and second sprockets, respectively. A pair of chains, carried by the sprockets, have grippers for engaging leading edges of sheets to carry them away from the cylinder. A rotatable shaft, mounted away from the chains and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the rotating cylinder has third and fourth gears affixed to opposite ends thereof. The first gear is operatively connected to the third gear for rotation of the rotatable shaft and the fourth gear. The fourth gear is operatively connected to the second gear to drive the second sprocket in coordinated rotation with the first sprocket.

Abstract: A sheet processing machine utilizes chain conveyors, each of which are provided with a plurality of chain gripper devices, to convoy sheets. As the sheet are conveyed, they are cut to proper size and are inspected. Each sheet is separated into several partial sheets which are then conveyed independently of each other to selectable stacks in a sheet delivery system.

Abstract: A device for applying a liquid to a print carrier sheet in a sheet-fed rotary printing machine. The device has an applicator cylinder, an impression cylinder assigned to the latter and at least one gripper. The applicator cylinder carries a cylinder sleeve which applies the liquid to the print carrier and which has at least one recess, into which the gripper penetrates when the applicator cylinder and the impression cylinder roll one on the other.

Abstract: A rotatable gripper drum includes a seat mounted on the drum and a gripper supported on the drum for pivotal movement relative to the seat between an open position and a closed position. The seat is made from a resilient material and includes a body portion having first and second grip surfaces. The drum has a retaining pocket for receiving the body portion of the seat to secure the seat for rotation with the drum. The seat is selectively mountable in the retaining pocket with the body portion in a first orientation in which the first grip surface cooperates with the gripper to grip sheet material or in a second orientation in which the second grip surface cooperates with the gripper to grip sheet material.

Abstract: Clamping apparatus for disk-shaped information medium having a central hole, the disk-shaped information medium having a surface upon which information is to be printed, including a baseplate having holes; a slider guidably mounted on the baseplate for centering the disk-shaped information medium with the central hole; stationary holding elements arranged on the baseplate, and movable holding elements arranged on the slider, in such a way that when an information medium is placed in the clamping apparatus, a predetermined number of the stationary and movable holding elements are arranged along the outer periphery of the information medium, and the remainder of the stationary and movable holding elements are arranged along the inner periphery of the central hole of the information medium; a bottom plate positioned under the baseplate and movable perpendicular thereto; and information medium contact elements which are formed on the bottom plate and adapted to pass through holes in the baseplate and contact the

Abstract: Sheet delivery in a printing press, wherein, at acceptance of a sheet, a gripper bar of the delivery has a speed which is increased in comparison with a sheet-surrendering or transferring gripper bar includes delivery chains, and a drive for driving the chains so as to increase the speed of the gripper bar of the delivery at an instant at which a sheet is transferred to the gripper bar of the delivery by the sheet-surrendering gripper bar.

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 sheet-conveying drum for use between units in a printing machine is provided with a plurality of gripper bridges arranged substantially circumferentially symmetrically on the drum surface. The gripper bridges hold the paper on the drum and include gripper impact strips that are adjustable substantially radially relative to the drum in order to accommodate printing materials of different thickness. Each gripper impact strip is adjusted by means of a positioning device that is arranged on the drum radially inward of the gripper impact strip and mounted so that it can move axially relative to the drum and cam the gripper impact strip radially. The axial movement of the positioning devices is brought about by two actuating devices which are mounted opposite each other on the side frames of the printing machine. The actuating devices are preferably pneumatic cylinders and are adapted so that when they are extended they periodically engage adapters on the free ends of the positioning devices as the drum rotates.

Abstract: Sheet transfer drum mounted between printing units within side walls of a rotary printing press includes two gripper bars arranged symmetrically on a circumference of the sheet transfer drum so as to be located diametrically opposite one another on a y-axis of the sheet transfer drum; a drum body core formed with side surfaces extending between the gripper bars over the entire length of the sheet transfer drum within the circumference of the sheet transfer drum and having a convex curvature with a curvature gradient which is largest in the region of the x-axis and diminishes continuously towards the gripper bars.

Abstract: The printed products, overlapping one another in an imbricated manner, are moved, by means of the conveying device, past the first printing station in a conveying direction, where the first outer side of the printed products is provided with typographical labeling in the exposed border region. Before the printed products are guided past the second printing station, the border region of the second outer side of the printed products is exposed; for example by turning over the printed products. Printed products are then provided with typographical labeling in the border region by means of the second printing station.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for the typographical labeling of folded printed products, such as folded individual sheets or folded publications, on an inner side, in particular in the border region of the inner side, is designed for carrying out this typographical printing in folded printed products which are conveyed with their fold approximately at right angles with respect to the conveying direction, and can thus be used with the conveying systems which are conventional nowadays in printing works for conveying printed products in the form of imbricated streams. The front and rear halves of the respective folded printed products are moved apart via an opening device, with the result that a printing head can carry out the desired typographical-labeling operation on the inner side of the folded printed product.

Abstract: A pregripper for transferring sheets from a sheet feeder to a feed drum or impression cylinder of a printing machine is provided. The pregripper is disposed below the sheet feeder and includes a hollow tube which has a substantially pear-shaped cross-section. The pear-shaped cross-section is defined by a first apex having a greater curvature and a second apex having a lesser curvature relative to the first apex. The hollow tube also has an exterior wall having a thickness that increases as the wall extends from the first apex to the second apex. A web which supports a conventional gripper bridge is attached to the hollow tube adjacent the first apex. The hollow tube is rotatably supported on each end by a journal such that the axis of rotation of the hollow tube is substantially concentric with the center of curvature of the second apex.

Abstract: A stencil discharging unit of a rotary stencil printing machine has a feeding unit and a stencil discharging container. The feeding unit has a first feeding means and a second feeding means. The first feeding means that is on the upper side includes groups of pulleys and groups of belts. The second feeding means that is on the lower side includes groups of pulleys and groups of belts. The pulleys in each group are pitched at a predetermined interval in an axial direction. The respective pulleys are supported by support members that are independent of one another. Each support member is mounted on a plate member that has bending resiliency. Springs urge the plate member upward. With the plate member bent, the respective pulleys are displaced independently of one another.

Abstract: Adjusting device for a gripper opening cam in a chain delivery for delivering sheets in a sheet-fed printing press, wherein grippers disposed on gripper carriages of endlessly revolving chains have a cam roller running onto the gripper opening cam for opening the grippers, includes an adjusting shaft journalled in a press frame and having an axis, a lever arm swivellable about an axis transverse to the axis of the adjusting shaft and articulatingly connected to the gripper opening cam, and a linkage for converting rotation of the adjusting shaft into swivelling of the lever arm, the linkage being formed of a combination of a left-hand and a right-hand thread, the adjusting shaft being formed at opposite ends thereof with respective spindle threads of mutually opposite pitch, a spindle nut fixedly disposed on the press frame and a spindle nut connected to the lever arm, the spindle nuts being formed with threads of mutually opposite pitch, the adjusting shaft being screwable by the respective spindle threads t

Abstract: There are provided an operating mechanism 5 having an operating portion, for example, freely rotatable roller 4, which is displaced to a setting position Ps of pressure-contacting to the plate belt 2 by a spring member 3 and a releasing position Pr spaced apart from the plate belt 2, a fore clamping mechanism 8 supported in a seasaw manner on widthwise supporting shafts 6 . . . disposed on the plate belt 2, and having clamping portions 7c . . . for clamping a fore portion of the plate S at one end thereof, operated portions 7m . . . pressed by the freely ratable roller 4 at the setting position Ps, at the other end thereof, and fore clamps 7 . . . pressed in a clamping direction by spring members 9 . . . , and a rear clamping mechanism 12 supported in a seasaw manner on a widthwise supporting shaft disposed on the plate belt 2 at a rearward of the fore clamping mechanism 8, and having a clamping portion 11c for clamping a rear portion of the plate S at one end thereof, operated portions 11m . . .

Abstract: A gripper bar conveyor mechanism for transferring sheets to be printed from one rotating impression cylinder to another in a multiple color rotary offset printer of the type having sets of impression cylinders and corresponding blanket cylinders for rolling contact with the sheets to be printed therebetween. The gripper bar conveyor mechanism includes a transferrable gripper bar activatable for releasably securing sheets to be printed in a fixed orientation with respect to the transferrable gripper bar. The registration projection is affixed to the transferrable gripper bar. A registration pocket is adjustably affixed to each of the impression cylinders for temporarily receiving the registration projection of the gripper bar and thereby holding the gripper bar in a desired position with respect to the impression cylinder. A conveyor band is attached to the gripper bar and is operably connected to the rotary offset press for moving the gripper bar from one impression cylinder to the next.

Abstract: Device for measuring contact pressure of a gripper device having a gripper member and a gripper pad in a sheet-fed rotary printing press includes a layer of piezoelectric material, one of the gripper member and the gripper pad being formed of two parts with the layer of piezoelectric material disposed between the two parts, and a device for picking-off a charge from the layer of piezoelectric material which is a measure of contact pressure between the gripper member and the gripper pad of the gripper device.

Abstract: A lead edge strip for securing one edge of a flexographic carrier sheet provides improved strength and mounting stability and thus printing accuracy. The edge strip comprises a base portion, a pair of parallel walls extending from said base portion and a short lip for engaging a complementary overhanging edge of a flexographic printing plate cylinder. The carrier sheet is received between the parallel walls and secured there by suitable fastening means. Preferably, the lead edge strip is transparent as this facilitates mounting of the lead edge strip and carrier sheet upon the printing cylinder. The lead edge strip in combination with a carrier sheet is also taught.

Abstract: Sheet gripper device on a paper-guiding cylinder of a sheet-fed printing press includes a sheet gripper formed of a leaf spring and having a gripper tip located at an end thereof, a gripper pad engageable by the gripper tip, a control shaft for the gripper tip, the control shaft being actuatable so as to swivel about a longitudinal axis thereof, the leaf spring having another end opposite the end thereof whereon the gripper tip is located and being fastened by the other end thereof on the cylinder, an adjustable thrust member and means for holding the thrust member, the holding means being mounted on the control shaft so as to be fixed against rotation relative thereto, the thrust member being effective against the leaf spring during a swiveling movement of the control shaft in a closing direction of the sheet gripper; and the sheet gripper per se.

Abstract: Swivelling pre-gripper of a sheet-fed printing press having a sheet feeding table includes a swivel arm; a gripper carried by the swivel arm; a mutually cooperating roller lever and cam mechanism for, respectively, opening and closing the gripper; a device for cyclically swivelling the swivel arm of the pre-gripper to and away from the sheet feeding table; a device for cyclically opening and closing the gripper; a device for setting an instant of opening of the gripper for releasing a sheet gripped by the gripper in a closed condition thereof to a downline conveying device for accepting and transporting the released sheet; a device for setting, in a manner decoupled from the setting of the instant of opening, an instant of closing the gripper for gripping the sheet fed from the feeding table to the pre-gripper; one of the devices for setting the instant of opening and for setting the instant of closing of the gripper being disposed on the roller lever; and the other of the devices for setting the instant of c

Abstract: A gripper bar conveyor mechanism for transferring sheets to be printed from one rotating impression cylinder to another in a multiple color rotary offset printer of the type having sets of impression cylinders and corresponding blanket cylinders for rolling contact with the sheets to be printed therebetween. The gripper bar conveyor mechanism includes a transferrable gripper bar activatable for releasably securing sheets to be printed in a fixed orientation with respect to the transferrable gripper bar. The registration projection is affixed to the transferrable gripper bar. A registration pocket is adjustably affixed to each of the impression cylinders for temporarily receiving the registration projection of the gripper bar and thereby holding the gripper bar in a desired position with respect to the impression cylinder. A conveyor band is attached to the gripper bar and is operably connected to the rotary offset press for moving the gripper bar from one impression cylinder to the next.

Abstract: A sheet-gripper device for sheet-fed rotary printing presses formed of a sheet gripper and a sheet-gripper seat, the sheet gripper comprising a sheet-gripper head and a gripper screw-on part, the sheet-gripper head being held by friction in the gripper screw-on part so as to be swivellable about a longitudinal axis of the sheet gripper.

Abstract: A gripper bar conveyor mechanism for transferring sheets to be printed from one rotating impression cylinder to another in a multiple color rotary offset printer of the type having sets of impression cylinders and corresponding blanket cylinders for rolling contact with the sheets to be printed therebetween. The gripper bar conveyor mechanism includes a transferrable gripper bar activatable for releasably securing sheets to be printed in a fixed orientation with respect to the transferrable gripper bar. The registration projection is affixed to the transferrable gripper bar. A registration pocket is adjustably affixed to each of the impression cylinders for temporarily receiving the registration projection of the gripper bar and thereby holding the gripper bar in a desired position with respect to the impression cylinder. A conveyor band is attached to the gripper bar and is operably connected to the rotary offset press for moving the gripper bar from one impression cylinder to the next.

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 order to improve mechanical positive synchronization in a sheet-fed printing machine between gripper carriages guided in wave-like fashion through printing units on endless chains and the associated impression cylinder, the impression cylinders (1) have twice the diameter of the plate and blanket cylinders (2, 3). Sprocket wheels (34), also of twice the diameter of the blanket cylinders, are fixed on the ends of the double-size impression cylinders (1) and on them there are disposed two diametrically opposite gripper carriage locating and fixing devices (24-32) which are adjustable both radially and tangentially and which can also be used to bring the different printing plates into register with one another on the printed sheet (38).

Abstract: A swinging gripper apparatus for use in a sheet-processing machine, which includes a rocker arm member having a pivotally mounted first end and a second end which is selectively positionable adjacent the cylinder or adjacent the feed table, a cam segment member having two opposing arcuate camming surfaces provided thereon, apparatus for moving the cam segment member closer to or further away from the pivotally mounted first end of the rocker arm member, at least one gripper member pivotally mounted on the second end of the rocker arm member for pivotal movement with respect thereto, a lever arm extending from the at least one gripper member, and a cam follower member mounted on the lever arm, the cam follower member being positioned between the two opposing arcuate surfaces provided on the cam segment member.

Abstract: A link chain has alternating first and second links which are articulately connected to each other by universal joints. Each first link carries a gripper with a fixed jaw and a second jaw pivotable between first and second end positions through a dead-center intermediate position. Springs are provided to permanently bias each second jaw to either of the two end positions, and each second jaw is connected with a follower which can track a set of cams at two spaced-apart stations to move the second jaw between its end positions. Each link of the chain carries two shafts for pairs of roller followers which track the lateral edge faces of two flanges of an elongated guide rail having an H-shaped cross-sectional outline. The guide rail is bent and/or twisted, if necessary, to establish a helical, arcuate, looped and/or other complex path for advancement of successive links between the two stations.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for synchronizing a transfer loop in a recirculating color printer includes two spaced pairs of pulleys having a conveyor belt positioned thereabout for conveying sheets to a transfer zone for image transfer and an external pair of idler pulleys. A gripper bar on the conveyor belt advances the sheet. A photoconductive drum includes a portion in the transfer zone. A corona generating device is located in the transfer zone to charge the sheet so that it will attract an image from the photoconductive drum. A motion control servo provides ground-referenced control of motion of the conveyor belt as the gripper bar is delivered to the transfer zone. In the transfer zone, control is shifted to a phase detector which maintains constant the initially sensed phase between idler pulleys and a photoconductive drum coaxial therewith.

Abstract: Flat bed thermal printing apparatus adapted to print information on to an elongate substrate, or on to products disposed upon the substrate, at a printing area within the apparatus, the said substrate being movable through the apparatus in a step by step movement, with a stop for printing between each step, along a path which causes the substrate to be disposed in a substantially flat position as the substrate is stopped at the printing area after each step wherein the apparatus comprises a printing head provided with a multiplicity of individually energizable dot type thermal elements, means to move the printing head relative to the substrate while the substrate is stationary at the printing area between its stepwise movements through the apparatus with the substrate in its substantially flat disposition, means selectively to energize the said printing elements during movement of the printing head to effect printing and means positively to hold the substrate in position at the printing area during printing.

Abstract: Individually controllable gripper elements are successively spacedly arranged at a ball-and-socket joint-link chain revolvingly driven and guided in a guide channel. At the leading end region of an overhang member of each gripper element there is seated a clamping jaw and at the trailing end region there is arranged a bushing. A shaft is rotatably and displaceably mounted within the bushing. A clamping finger, coactable with the clamping jaw, is rigidly connected with the upper shaft end. At the lower shaft end there is seated a slide shoe and the lower end region of the shaft is encircled by a pivotable element rotatably connected with the shaft. A compression spring rigidly bears for rotation at the pivotable element and the overhang member. When the slide shoe travels onto a stationary cam the clamping finger is raised against the force of the compression spring. An actuation element, which acts upon a further slide shoe, rotates the clamping finger through an angle of about 90.degree..

Abstract: A gripper finger for a sheet gripper system for a printing press, to which gripper unwanted paper dust, dirt, debris, or the like cannot stick, the profiled retaining surface of the finger has in its front part a single bead-like protuberance which contacts the sheet, has a bead radius (R) of from 0.4 to 1.0 mm, extends parallel to the front edge of the sheet and is coated with a hard substance.

Abstract: A transfer device for transferring a toner image onto a transfer material includes transfer material supporting device having a sheet-like material for supporting the transfer material and a supporting member for supporting the sheet-like material for movement along an endless path, gripper, mounted in an opening in the supporting member for releasably gripping an end of the transfer material, a sheet member mounted on the gripper to cover at least a portion of the gripper.

Abstract: A sheet transfer conveyor for rotary sheet feed printing press comprising a pair of chains which support and transport a plurality of gripper carrying trolleys which successively engage the leading edge of a sheet from a printing press cylinder, such as an impression cylinder, for removing the sheet from the cylinder and transferring it to the next printing unit or to a delivery unit. The trolleys are supported on the chains by resilient mountings which, following engagement of a sheet by the gripper, pivot the trolley under a spring biasing force to maintain substantially constant tension on the sheet throughout the period the sheet is being removed from the cylinder. Guide rails are provided which define a guide channel for guiding the trolleys into predetermined relation to the cylinder for engaging the sheet, and at such point, the guide rails are recessed to permit pivotal movement of the trolley under the biasing force of the spring mounting.

Abstract: A device the for in-register transfer of sheets and for the conveyance thereof between the printing units of a multi-color press by means of gripper carriages that move on rails and which are driven by an endless chain and which are aligned on the delivery and feed cylinders by rotating drive forks and that cooperate with a cam roller carried by the carriage. For joint axial and radial alignment with quiet entry the drive fork has leading and trailing flanks of different thicknesses and the flanks are guided into engagement with the cam roller by hardened guide plates in the gripper carriage. The leading flank is undersized and the second flank has the dimension necessary for establishing proper registration of the carriage.

Abstract: The check positioning system includes a guide tray (12) which in turn includes a guiding edge (31). Roller assemblies (18,20,22) in combination with associated lower gripping wheels (40,42,44) and a system (16) for driving the roller assemblies (18,20,22) move the check longitudinally in both directions along the guide tray (12). A clamping apparatus (48) controls the clamping of the check. A deskewing roller (28) on each of the roller assemblies moves the check laterally as well as longitudinally when the check is not clamped. A laterally movable edge detector (14) detects the edges of the check so it can be located relative to the guide tray (12) for accurate printing/encoding of the check.

Abstract: A gripper device for a printing machine for handling sheet-shaped material with a gripper shaft swivellable about its longitudinal axis and a gripper finger firmly connected to the gripper shaft so that a gripper point thereof is movable away from a gripper support when the gripper shaft is swivelled in a first direction, is initially displaceable into contact with the gripper support when the gripper shaft is swivelled in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and is capable of exerting a holding force on the gripper support when the gripper shaft is swivelled farther in the second direction, and a device for adjusting contact between the gripper point and the gripper support includes a resilient section forming a part of the gripper finger and connected to the gripper point, the resilient section having neutral fibers and formed as at least one resilient rod extending substantially in the direction of a plane determined by the longitudinal axis of the gripper shaft and by the gripper point.

Abstract: An abnormal sheet detecting unit for conventional sheet fed rotary printing presses. This unit includes either a double-diameter cylinder or a support plate which is in contact with a traveling printed sheet in order to keep the sheet taut. The unit further includes a detecting apparatus, arranged above, respectively, the double-diameter cylinder or the support plate, for detecting a printing density of the taut printed sheet.

Abstract: A sheet securing mechanism which has upper and lower members. Pins are formed on the upper members. A magnetic actuator when excited in one condition provides a magnetic force that causes the upper member to move to a closed sheet securing state where the pins are pressed into a sheet.

Abstract: An abnormal-paper sensing apparatus in a printing machine which senses the presence of a front folded corner of a sheet of printing paper. The sheet of paper hits against front lays provided at a front end of an insertion guide plate and stops. The insertion guide plate has a pair of recesses provided in a front end portion thereof so as to extend thereacross at positions where the recesses can face the front corners of the sheet of paper which passes over the recesses. The recess have a triangular cross section with a longer side positioned on the side of the front end of the insertion guide plate and with a shorter side positioned on the side of the rear end of the insertion guide plate.

Abstract: A silk screen printer includes a cylindrical printing table for applying print to a sheet material and a stencil which is stretched in a frame. The stencil is adapted for reciprocating movement in response to reciprocating movement of the printing table and a squeege arrangement is included for urging the stencil towards the printing table to thereby transfer print onto sheet material located between the printing table and the stencil. A gripping device is provided for gripping the forward end of the material. The gripping device is movable with the frame in the direction of the longitudinal extent of the frame. A spring device urges the gripping device towards a movement-damping member whereby the gripping member is registered in relation to the chassis of the printer. The registration of the gripping device relative to the chassis is independent of the stop position of the frame and the printing table.

Abstract: For grasping, conveying and releasing printed products, particularly those occurring in a stream or scale flow by means of an endless link chain (90), a method is proposed, together with an apparatus having gripping and clamping members (10) for performing this method. For gripping and release purposes the individual gripping and clamping member (10) is so operated by means of control runner (70, 70') (75, 75') that a springy clamping arm (24) pressing under pretension against a bearing arm (16) is raised relative to the latter out of a closed position into an open position for grasping printed sheet (D) and then for conveying purposes is returned in snap-like manner into the closed position by the restoring force of clamping arm (24). The individual gripping and clamping member (10) operatively connected to articulation (92) of link chain (90) is constructed in one piece and has a substantially hairpin-like shape, which is bent four times.