Patent ID: 6862985

Claim:
A guide device for metal-sheet printing machines and metal-sheet painting machines, comprising: at least two printing cylinders, which are arranged adjacent to one another at a mutual distance and the axes of which are orientated parallel to one another; a transfer drum, the axis of which is orientated at least approximately parallel to the axis of the printing cylinders, is present between two respective mutually adjacent printing cylinders in each case; guide strips provided below the transfer drum, which are at an adjustable distance from an imaginarily generated face of the transfer drum, and which extend over a peripheral region of the transfer drum which is smaller than the peripheral region which extends from the first transfer station of the metal sheets between the first print cylinder and the transfer drum as far as the second transfer station of the metal sheets between the transfer drum and the second print cylinder; at least one guide element provided at a specific peripheral point on the transfer drum and arranged so that only the rear edge of the respective metal sheets rests against the guide element, which comprises an abutment face for the metal sheets, which is directed outwards and which has a pre-determined angle of inclination with respect to the tangent of the imaginarily generated face of the transfer drum, wherein: the guide element is mounted so as to be pivotable by means of a pivot bearing with a pivot axis orientated parallel to the axis of the transfer drum, a pivot drive is provided, by means of which the angle of inclination of the abutment face of the guide element can be altered with respect to the tangent of the imaginarily generated face of the transfer drum.