Patent ID: 7478592

Claim:
A clamping device for clamping a flexible packing of a cylinder of a printing press, the cylinder having a jacket surface and an axial channel on the jacket surface, the clamping device comprising: at least one clamping body which has a surface that forms in the channel with an opposite surface a clamping gap for at least one end of the packing protruding through an opening of the channel; a pressing means which executes a force of elasticity onto the at least one clamping body and includes a mounting means which can be moved against the force of elasticity in a first direction transverse to an axis of rotation of the cylinder and supports the at least one clamping body in said first direction so that the at least one clamping body and the opposite surface are clamped against each other with a clamping force; the force of elasticity pressing the clamping body simultaneously against said opposite surface and a further opposite surface formed opposite thereto at the other side of the channel, the mounting means forming a guide track along which the at least one clamping body can be guided transversly to the axis of rotation of the cylinder in a second direction not parallel to the first direction while maintaining the clamping gap.