Patent ID: 7530309

Claim:
A device for storing at least first and second used dressings, the used dressings being removed one after another in succession from the same cylinder of a printing press, the device comprising: a plurality of dressing storage positions in said device, each of said dressing storage positions being adapted to support a dressing supported along a length of said dressing, and being inclined at an angle of no greater than 15° with respect to a horizontal line; said dressing storage positions being spaced vertically with respect to each other in said device; and means for guiding each of said at least first and second used dressings being removed from the cylinder into the dressing storage positions, each of said at least first and second used dressings being fed into one of said plurality of dressing storage positions by the guiding means, whereby, in a sequence of individual removal of each of said at least first and second used dressing from the cylinder, each succeeding one of said at least first and second used dressings is being stored underneath a previously removed one of said at least first and second used dressings, said guiding means being adapted to push each succeeding one of said at least first and second used dressing removed from the cylinder underneath and into contact with said previously removed used dressing in the dressing storage position.