| KOENIG & BAUER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Patent applications |
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| 20120118183 | ROLLER ROTARY OFFSET PRINTING PRESS HAVING AT LEAST ONE COATING UNIT WITH A CHAMBER BLADE AND AN ANILOX ROLLER - A roller rotary offset printing press has at least one coating unit and at least one printing unit. The coating unit comprises at least one coating unit and at least one printing unit. The coating unit comprises at least one chamber blade having a water-based coating and at least one anilox roller. The coating unit is arranged along a transport path of a print stock downstream of the at least one printing unit of the roller rotary offset printing press. At least one pair of two rollers is arranged that together form a coating gap. At least one roller of the at least one pair is in contact with the at least one anilox roller. The conveyed volume, at least on one part of the shell surface of the at least one anilox roller, is filled by an amount of coating, the mass of which, based on this part of the shell surface of the at least one anilox roller, minus a water portion, equals, on average, a maximum of 4 g/m | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120067237 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT PRINTING PLATES TO BE MANUFACTURED FOR A NEW PRODUCTION OF A PRINTING PRESS - A method and an apparatus are used for providing information about printing plates to be manufactured for a new production of a printing press. A point of use of at least one of the printing plates is visualized on a display. Several different positions exist at the point of use of each respective printing plate. Each may relate to one of several installation positions on a plate cylinder disposed in the printing press. These can also relate to storage positions of a printing plate magazine. Using the display, several different points of use in the printing area, for a particular printing plate, are displayed. The display depicts which one of the positions of use is to be provided. The display additionally depicts different states or properties of at least one printing plate. It may also depict a print location of a printing plate on a transport path. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120037021 | PRINTING MACHINE HAVING AT LEAST ONE MACHINE UNIT - A printing machine or press including at least one printing unit having at least one frame wall. The at least one frame wall defines a machine space of the machine unit. The at least one frame wall has a thickness and includes a narrow side. At least one passage is formed in the frame wall and is at least partially open. The at least one passage is formed on at least one surface of the frame wall and with its surface opening disposed on the narrow side of the frame wall and which extends along the surface of the frame wall. At least one of a power line and a data line can be disposed in the passage. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20110271860 | TRANSPORT SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PRINTING FORMS TO A PRINTING PRESS - A transport system is used to provide printing formes to a printing press. Several printing formes may be transported in the same cassette. A transport vehicle is provided, and several cassettes can be transported simultaneously with the transport vehicle. A conveyor device is provided in the printing press and is used to convey printing formes that have been stored in cassettes, that have been transported by the transport vehicle. The printing formes are conveyed, by the conveyor device, to a forme cylinder of the printing press and are arranged on the forme cylinder. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110162544 | PRINTING UNIT OF A PRINTING PRESS, COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO FRAME PARTS, THE POSITIONS OF WHICH RELATIVE TO ONE ANOTHER CAN BE CHANGED - A printing unit of a printing press is composed of at least two frame parts, the position of at least one of which, relative to the other, can be changed. Cooperating ones of these frame parts are placed against each other along a common joining surface, in a first operational position. These frame parts are separated from each other in a second operational position. An interstice, that is partly defined by these frame parts, is formed between the separated frame parts in the printing unit. At least one of the cooperating frame parts is supported so that it is movable along an adjustment path. At least one sensor is provided and is usable to monitor the interstice. The sensor has orientation characteristics or a sensory range along the joining surface. A control unit is provided and is connected to the at least one sensor. At least one drive unit is assigned to at least one of the cooperating frame parts and is usable to change the frame parts from one operational procedure into the other operational procedure. A control element is arranged in a control system and is usable to supply power to the first drive unit that is controlled by the control unit in accordance with a signal which is supplied by the sensor that is monitoring the interstice. The control element is also able to activate the first drive unit and is controllable independently from the activation of the first drive unit. A functional position of the control element blocks a relative movement between the frame parts with that functional position being selected by the control unit. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110126726 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT PRINTING PLATES TO BE MANUFACTURED FOR A NEW PRODUCTION OF A PRINTING PRESS - The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for providing information about printing plates to be manufactured for a new production of a printing press, wherein a use of at least one of said printing plates at the point of use thereof in the printing press is visualized on a display of a display apparatus, wherein several different positions exist at the point of use of the respective printing plate, each of said positions relating to one of several installation positions on a plate cylinder comprising the several installation positions and disposed in the printing press or relating to one of several storage positions of a printing plate magazine of the printing press comprising several storage positions, wherein by means of the display of the display apparatus simultaneously several different points of use in the printing press are displayed, wherein the display displays at which of the positions of a point of use comprising several positions a printing plate is to be provided, wherein the display additionally displays different states and/or properties with respect to at least one printing plate manufactured or to be manufactured and/or a position presently assumed by the respective printing plate on the transport path thereof to the printing press. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110042505 | REEL CHANGER HAVING A HOLDER FOR SUPPORTING A MATERIAL REEL WITH A WINDING SLEEVE - A reel changer is usable for supporting a reel of material that is wound on a winding sleeve. The reel holder includes a carrier journal and a plurality of driver elements. These driver elements are arranged such that they engage in a front of the winding sleeve. The number of these driver elements which can engage in the front of the winding sleeve can be varied. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20100242759 | PRINTING COUPLE, PRINTING PRESS, AND METHODS FOR OPERATING APRINTING COUPLE - A printing group of a printing press includes at least one forme cylinder that has at least one axially extending opening on the external surface of the cylinder. That at least one axially extending opening forms a channel in the cylinder and in which channel several printing forme end retaining assemblies are provided. These retaining assemblies are provided in the channel on both sides of a center plane which bisects the forme cylinder perpendicularly to its axis of rotation. A first one of these retaining assemblies that adjoins the center plane cooperates with a second retaining assembly, located on the other side of the center plane, to both engage the same printing forme, in a first mode of operation. In a second mode of operation, the first retaining assembly cooperates with a third retaining assembly, that is located further away form the center plane, and on the same side thereof as the first retaining assembly, to engage a second printing forme. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20090255428 | Printing Units Comprising Several Printing Groups, and Printing Tower - The invention relates to a printing unit ( | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090188405 | Printing machine and a method for producing a printed product - A printing machine is provided with at least one printing unit that is usable for printing an image, in ink, on a printable material. The printing machine includes at least one application device which is usable to apply at least one contactless identification characteristic, in the form of an RFID system or a part thereof, to the printable material. At least one inspection device is also provided in the printing machine. At least one test device, for testing the identification characteristic, or the part thereof, is also provided in the printing machine. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090116948 | Method and Device for Orienting a Material Roll Prior to Axial Alignment In a Roll Changer - A material roll is transported to a roll changer by being arranged on a transport carriage. The material roll and transport carriage are placed on a transfer table which is moved into position between journal bearings of the roll changer. The transfer table is adapted to move the material roll transversely and along a longitudinal axis of the material roll and can pivot in a horizontal plane. An inclined position of the material roll, arranged on the transfer table, is determined by sensors. In this determined, axially aligned position, the material roll is axially aligned on the bearing journals. The roll size of the material is determined. An axially aligned position for roller support arms of a roll carrier of the roll changer is determined as a function of the determined roll size. An axially aligned position of the transfer table is determined as a function of the determined roll size and the determined inclined position of the material roll. The position of both ends of the sleeve of the material roll, upon insertion of the transfer table into the roll changer, is detected. The material roll is then inclined by a rotary drive which is arranged on the transfer table. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090109430 | Device for Inspecting a Surface - A device that is usable to inspect the surface of a material uses an inspection system which includes an optical unit. That optical unit can register the light which is reflected by the surface to be inspected. An illumination system, that uses at least two light sources, provides the light. The optical unit and the illumination system are connected to a control unit. The at least two light sources are arranged spaced at a distance from each other and both emit light directed to a recording region of the optical unit. The optical unit is oriented toward the surface to be inspected and at least one of the illumination light sources can be subdivided into several individual light sources. The control unit controls at least two of the illumination system light sources that are arranged at a distance from each other or the respective individual light sources of at least one of the illumination sources both selectively and independently of each other. The recording region of the optical unit lies on a displacement plane of the surface to be inspected with that surface being displaced through the recording region in relation to the inspection system. The distance between the light sources of the illumination system extends in the displacement direction of the surface to be inspected. The individual light sources of at least one of the sources are arranged transversely to the displacement direction of the surface to be inspected. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090107352 | Printing Machine System - A printing system includes a first printing machine that is provided in the form of a newspaper printing machine and which comprises at least two first printing units that are provided in the form of printing towers and with a number of printing machines arranged one above the other for effecting double-sided printing of a substrate in multiple colors. A first folding funnel is arranged in a machine exit of these first printing units. A second printing machine is provided with at least one second printing unit and with a dryer that is situated in the machine exit of the second printing unit. The at least one second printing unit is positioned with respect to its printing location, and when viewed from above, is arranged next to the machine exit of the first printing units provided in the form of printing towers. A web, or a partial web, which has been printed by the second printing unit, and which has passed through the dryer, can be diverted by 90° from a direction of conveyance that is perpendicular to a machine exit and can be guided in a direction of conveyance that is parallel to the machine exit. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090000503 | Systems for Checking the Loading of a Print Forme Magazine and Systems for Transporting at Least One Print Forme Stored in a Print Form Magazine to a Cylinder - A system for checking the loading of a print forme magazine, which stores at least two print formes, utilizes at least one code reader to read a code which is carried by the print formes. The code reader reads the coding of the printing formes in a secondary region. The coding of at least two printing formes, which are arranged adjacently, horizontally or vertically together, is read by the code reader. The code reader has an image sensor and an illumination system for lighting the secondary region. A system is also provided for transporting at least one print forme stored in the print forme magazine to a cylinder. An analytical unit can be connected to the code reader, or to another registration device, and stores information regarding the transport of each printing forme, that is stored in the print forme magazine, to the cylinder. The analytical unit that may be connected to the code reader is provided with a signaling device. | 01-01-2009 |
