Patent ID: 6536340
Filing Date: 2003-03-25
Classification: B41F

Abstract:
A sheet-fed rotary printing press with a convertible mechanism, comprising:a convertible cylinder for conveying a sheet; a plurality of first gripper units provided on said convertible cylinder and lined up in an axial direction of said convertible cylinder, and adapted to grip the sheet; a plurality of holding members provided on said convertible cylinder to be adjacent to said first gripper units, and lined up in the axial direction of said convertible cylinder to be phase-shifted from said first gripper units; and a pair of guide members arranged at at least one of a position between said holding members and an outermost position outside said holding members, and adapted to move relative to said holding members to guide two sides of the sheet conveyed by said holding members to said first gripper units, and wherein said first gripper units convey the sheet fed from an upstream convey cylinder by gripping a leading edge thereof in single-sided printing, and said holding members hold a trailing edge of the sheet fed from the upstream convey cylinder to thereafter gripping-change the sheet to said first gripping units.