Patent ID: 6823789
Filing Date: 2004-11-30
Classification: B41F,B41P,B65H

Abstract:
A cylinder cleaning device for cleaning a circumferential surface of a cylinder by pressing a cleaning fabric passed between cleaning fabric supplying element for said cleaning fabric and cleaning fabric take-up shaft assembly for taking up said cleaning fabric against said circumferential surface of said cylinder, comprising:a frame; said cleaning fabric take-up shaft assembly, supported to said frame, that includes a shaft member which has a circular shape in cross section and which has a portion of the outer periphery thereof partially cut out extending in an axial direction; a bar member which is disposed in said cut out portion of said shaft member and is supported to the end of said shaft member at one end thereof as well as being rotatable between a first position when the cleaning fabric is taken up and a second position when the cleaning fabric which has been taken-up is pulled out from said shaft member, said bar member having such a shape in cross section that when said bar member is rotated from the first position to the second position, said bar member is released from the inner surface of the cleaning fabric in a condition where said bar member is in contact with the cleaning fabric which has been taken up to said shaft member.