Patent ID: 6371027
Filing Date: 2002-04-16
Classification: B41F,B41P

Abstract:
A method for cleaning a cylinder of a rotary printing press including:providing a housing having a first cleaning cloth depot and a second cleaning cloth depot; placing a supply roll of a cleaning cloth in said first cleaning cloth depot; pulling said cleaning cloth off said supply roll and pressing said cleaning cloth against a surface of a cylinder to be cleaned; collecting said now soiled cleaning cloth on a receiving roll in said second cleaning cloth depot and forming a full receiving roll of said soiled cleaning cloth; removing said full receiving roll of said soiled cleaning cloth from said second cleaning cloth depot and replacing said full receiving roll of said soiled cleaning with a fresh roll of a fresh cleaning cloth; directing a leading end of said fresh cleaning cloth to said first cleaning cloth depot; transferring said fresh cleaning cloth to said first cleaning cloth depot; forming a fresh supply roll of said transferred fresh cleaning cloth in said first cleaning cloth depot; determining a length of said fresh cleaning cloth in said fresh supply roll during said transfer of said fresh cleaning cloth to said first cleaning cloth depot; retaining a trailing end of said fresh cleaning cloth in said second cleaning cloth depot; and pulling said fresh cleaning cloth off said fresh supply roll for cleaning a surface of a cylinder.