Patent GB-950229-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to printing presses
IPC: B41F31/30
Filed: 1961-11-21
Abstract: 950,229. Displaceable inking apparatus. MIEHLE-GOSS-DEXTER Inc. Nov. 21, 1961 [Nov. 23, 1960], No. 41585/61. Heading B6C. A printing machine comprising a forme and an inking mechanism having a frame, with an ink reservoir and parallel inking rollers mounted therein, is provided with means for moving the frame in a direction parallel to the axes of the rollers from a first position in which the rollers are capable by transferring ink from the reservoir to the forme to a second and inoperative position in which the inking rollers are more accessible for adjustment, replacement or cleaning &c. than in the operative position. A cylinder printing machine comprises a type forme 28 carried by a vertically reciprocable bed 26, an intermittently rotatable impression cylinder 30, oscillating arms 32 for feeding a sheet to a transfer table 34 before it is delivered to the grippers 35 on the cylinder 30, and oscillating delivery arms 36 for removing the sheet which is printed on the downstroke of the bed 26. The frame for the movable ink assembly includes side walls 40, 41 and a transverse channel member 48 having end flanges 50, 51 and a partition wall 52 which are mounted on a shaft 53, Fig. 3, supported by brackets 54, 55. The bracket 54 provides an end wall 56 which is contacted by the wall 52 when the inking assembly is moved to its extreme position to the left. The ink fountain comprises a blade 44 which engages the periphery of a fountain roller 46 and is adjustable by means of screws 45 threaded through a wall 43 of the ink assembly frame. The inking assembly comprises in addition to the fountain roller 46, a swinging messenger roller 60 which oscillates between the fountain roller and a first vibrating roller 65 which is covered with metal, a distributing roller 68, a second vibrating roller 71, and two forme rollers 76, 77. Drive.-The impression cylinder gear 100 meshes with a first idler pinion 101 which meshes with a second pinion 103 mounted on a stud shaft 104. The ends of vibrator rollers 71, 65 are provided with reduced end portions 105, 106 and the right-hand portion of each roller carries a pinion 107 which engages with the second idler pinion 103 when the inking assembly is in its operative position. The impression cylinder 30 is locked with the cylinder gear on the downstroke and both rotate, but the impression cylinder 30 is released on the upstroke of the bed and the cylinder gear thus rotates alternately in a clockwise and then in an anti-clockwise direction. The pinion 103 has a rounded edge on its right side to facilitate re-engagement with the pinion 101 when the inking assembly is being returned to the press. The fountain roller is intermittently driven from the press by means of a cam lever, Fig. 7 (not shown), and a pawl which engages a rachet wheel 117 on the roller; the degree of engagement of the pawl with the rachet wheel 117 determining the extent of the rotation imparted to the fountain roller 46. The ink supplied by the fountain roller may be adjusted by rotating a shaft 47 carrying a plate 118 which engages a roller 119 and lifts the pawl out of the teeth of the rachet wheel 117. The fountain roller 46 carries a second rachet wheel 121 co-operating with a pawl to prevent reverse movement of the roller during retraction of the pawl drive mechanism. A member 122 may be actuated to rotate the roller 46 to provide initial inking or access for cleaning &c. Tripping.-Before the ink assembly is retracted the forme rollers 76, 77 are withdrawn from the inking position by rotation of an eccentric shaft 85 which causes the reservoir end of the assembly to be dropped, the inking assembly having pivotal movement about shaft 53. The distributing roller 60 is carried by yoke members 70 which may be oscillated to swing the roller 68 to relieve its pressure contact with the vibrator rollers. The forme rollers are journalled in side plates 78 which are pivotally mounted in inking assembly by a shaft 79. An eccentric shaft 80, operatively associated with the plates 78 by screws 81, may be rotated so as to move the forme rollers out of contact with the vibrator roller 71. Bed drive.-The bed 26 is supported for vertical reciprocation in guides 27 and is connected to a gear-wheel 15 at 18 via links 17 and 24 and an oscillatable lever 21 which is pivotally mounted on the frame structure at 22. A pinion 14 on the main drive shaft 13 engages the gear 15.