Patent ID: 7331288

Claim:
An apparatus useful for pulling a sleeve onto and off of a printing-press cylinder, the apparatus comprising: a head piece having positioning means for defining the position of the head piece with respect to the cylinder; a deposition bar for the sleeve, the deposition bar being attached to the head piece; connecting means for fixing the head piece to the cylinder; and centering means for defining the position of the sleeve with respect to the head piece and the deposition bar; wherein the head piece has a vertical strut and a transverse strut; wherein the positioning means comprises pressure pins on the transverse strut, the pressure pins configured and arranged to be brought into engagement with depressions in an end of the cylinder; wherein the connecting means comprises a fixed angled-away stop arranged at one end of the vertical strut and a pivotable bolt arranged at the other end of the vertical strut, the fixed angled-away stop and the pivotable bolt configured and arranged to engage behind a flange of the cylinder; and wherein the centering means comprises one roll-shaped centering strip extending in an axial direction of the cylinder at both ends of the transverse strut.