Patent ID: 7921773

Claim:
A doctor blade system comprising: a doctor blade chamber including at least one doctor blade adapted to engage a surface of an ink roller and extending in an axial direction of said ink roller; mounting studs on said doctor blade chamber, said mounting studs each including a mounting stud head and a mounting stud shank; a support plate releasably supporting said doctor blade chamber; a plurality of spaced doctor blade chamber locking lever assemblies in said support plate, each of said spaced doctor blade chamber locking lever assemblies including a slidable locking lever having a bifurcated wedging fork; mounting stud receiving apertures in said support plate aligned with said spaced doctor blade chamber locking lever assemblies, each said mounting stud being dimensioned to pass through a respective one of said support plate apertures and into cooperative engagement with a cooperative one of said bifurcated wedging forks; means supporting said support plate for movement of said support plate and said doctor blade chamber generally transverse to said axial direction of said ink roller; a rigid beam extending parallel to, and spaced from said support plate; and a plurality of force exerting elements interposed between said rigid beam and said support plate and usable to exert a biasing force on said at least one doctor blade against said surface of said ink roller.