Patent ID: 7389726

Claim:
A device for producing print images of varying lengths in offset printing, said device comprising: replaceable, cylindrical format sections with differing cylinder diameters, each format section including a support shaft having ends that project from the format section with which the format section forms a single format section unit, each of the format section units being replaceable with another one to change print image length; two bearing plates arranged at a distance to each other, wherein the ends of the respective format section units are positioned on the inside of the bearing plates; a holding device arranged on each respective bearing plate, each holding device being provided with a depression for receiving a respective end of a support shaft of each format section unit so that the format section units are dismantleable and installable between the two bearing plates in a substantially perpendicular movement with respect to their respective support shafts; and displaceable housings disposed on the outside of the respective bearing plates wherein the two bearing plates have guide slots and the respective holding device is secured to the displaceable housing so that the holding devices are displaceable on the inside of the bearing plates.