Patent ID: 7487725

Claim:
A plate cylinder for a web-fed printing press, having a device for securing flexible printing plates provided with bent ends and mountable on a circumference of the plate cylinder, wherein an installation channel that extends parallel to an axis of the cylinder and that is accessible through an entrance slot on the circumference is provided, and bordered on one side of an input area by a wedge-shaped lip edge for suspending a front end of the plates wherein at least one profile body manufactured from a section of a round rod is secured into an axially parallel extending bore-shaped area of the installation channel and includes at least one mounting mechanism that is engageable with a rear end of at least one printing plate, wherein the mounting mechanism includes a tensioning bar that is accommodated on the profile body and is moveable toward and away from the entrance slot, and includes an actuating device installed into the profile body and assigned to the tensioning bar, wherein the actuating device consists of a lifting mechanism and a return mechanism counteracting the lifting mechanism, wherein the tensioning bar is suspendable by the lifting mechanism in an assembly position which approaches the entrance slot and in which the rear end of the plate is suspendable on a suspension claw on an end of the tensioning bar and wherein the tensioning bar is tensionally engageable with the rear end of the plate by the return mechanism.