Patent ID: 8607701

Claim:
A device for feeding a used printing plate having a bend, an image side and a back side, to a plate cylinder in a printing press, the device comprising: at least one stop for pre-aligning the printing plate; a pivotable guide element having two cooperating transport rollers and a plate bending roller, said plate bending roller being spaced apart from said stop to cause said plate bending roller to act on the bend formed in the used printing plate; one of said transport rollers being in contact with the image side of the printing plate; the other of said transport rollers being stationary on said guide element, driven and in contact with the back side of the printing plate; said one transport roller and said plate bending roller being freely rotatable and pivotably disposed on said guide element; and a common arm pivotably supported on said guide element, said one transport roller and said plate bending roller being disposed on said common arm.