Patent ID: 6862985
Filing Date: 2005-03-08
Classification: B41F,B41P

Abstract:
1. A guide device for metal-sheet printing machines and metal-sheet painting machines, comprising: at least two printing cylinders, a transfer drum, the axis of which is orientated at least approximately parallel to the axis of the printing cylinders, is present between two respective mutually adjacent printing cylinders in each case; guide strips provided below the transfer drum, at least one guide element provided at a specific peripheral point on the transfer drum and arranged so that only the rear edge of the respective metal sheets rests against the guide element, wherein: the guide element is mounted so as to be pivotable by means of a pivot bearing with a pivot axis orientated parallel to the axis of the transfer drum, a pivot drive is provided, by means of which the angle of inclination of the abutment face of the guide element can be altered with respect to the tangent of the imaginarily generated face of the transfer drum.