Patent ID: 7571678
Filing Date: 2009-08-11
Classification: B41F,B41P

Abstract:
1. A distributor unit for cooperation with a transmission cylinder on which travels a web-shaped material which has to receive a substance, the distributor unit having an operator side and a transmission side, the distributor unit comprising: a reservoir containing the substance; an anilox cylinder; a cliché cylinder onto which is movably fitted a cliché jacket, said reservoir, said anilox cylinder and said cliché cylinder being movable from and to said transmission cylinder; an operator side support holding said anilox cylinder; an operator side support holding said cliché cylinder; a transmission side support holding said anilox cylinder; a transmission side support holding said cliché cylinder; a locking device for locking said cliché cylinder in a cantilever position in a substitution state when said corresponding cliché jacket has to be substituted, said locking device being associated with said transmission side support of said cliché cylinder, said operator side support of said cliché cylinder comprising a first element and a second element automatically movable from and to said cliché cylinder, said first and second elements holding said cliché cylinder on said operator side in a use state and said first and second elements are reciprocally spaced disengaging said operator side of said cliché cylinder in said substitution state; an actuator associated with said second element for controlling movement of said second element from and to an axis of said cliché cylinder, said second element comprising a stop for limiting a movement of the distributor unit towards the transmission cylinder; and an elastic means interposed between said an appendix of said first element and said operator side support of said anilox cylinder.