Patent ID: 8316767
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: B41C,B41F,B41P,B65H

Abstract:
1. A transport system for providing printing formes to a printing unit comprising: a plurality of cartridges, each cartridge being adapted to receive a plurality of individual printing formes; a cartridge transport vehicle having a cartridge support system in which cartridge transport vehicle a plurality of cartridges can be transported simultaneously to the printing unit from a location remote from the printing unit; a printing forme magazine permanently disposed between spaced side walls of a frame of said printing unit, the spaced side walls being arranged opposite one another in pairs, the printing forme magazine being assigned to a forme cylinder of said printing unit; a cartridge support disposed in the printing forme magazine the cartridge support being usable to hold at least one cartridge transported to the printing forme magazine of the printing unit by the cartridge transport vehicle and transferred from the cartridge transport vehicle to the cartridge support by the cartridge support system; and at least one conveyor device in the printing unit and disposed to convey printing formes stored in one of the cartridges, which cartridges are transported to the printing unit by the transport vehicle and which cartridges are disposed in the cartridge support in the printing forme magazine in the printing unit, the at least one conveyor device being usable to convey the individual printing formes out of said cartridge and to the respectively assigned forme cylinder.