Patent ID: 7562623
Filing Date: 2009-07-21
Classification: B41F,B41P,B65H

Abstract:
1. A web-fed rotary printing press comprising: at least first and second printing units arranged vertically on top of each other, each of said at least first and second printing units being a nine-cylinder satellite printing unit; four pairs of cylinders in each of said at least first and second printing units, each of said four pairs of cylinders including a transfer cylinder and an associated forme cylinder, each of said transfer cylinders and said forme cylinders in each of said four pairs of cylinders having a width for printing six newspaper pages arranged axially side-by-side, each said forme cylinder having a forme cylinder circumference with a circumferential length of two newspaper pages arranged circumferentially one behind the other; a plurality of dressings on a circumferential surface of each said transfer cylinder, each said dressing including a support plate with support plate ends and further including a compressible layer on said support plate and intermediate said support plate ends; a satellite cylinder in each of said at least first and second printing units, each said satellite cylinder, in its associated one of said first and second printing units, cooperating with each of said four transfer cylinders in said associated one of said first and second printing units, said satellite cylinder and each of said four transfer cylinders constituting a print position; at least one axially extending printing forme end receiving opening on each said forme cylinder, said at least one forme cylinder printing forme end receiving opening extending over said width for printing six newspaper pages; a plurality of axially extending support plate end receiving openings on each said transfer cylinder circumferential surface, each said support plate end receiving opening being circumferentially offset with respect to axially adjacent ones of said support plate end receiving openings and being adapted to receive said support plate ends of one of said dressings; and a folding structure having at least one group of three formers arranged side-by-side and which intersect each other at least partially in a horizontal plane.