Patent ID: 7278352

Claim:
A printing blanket assembly for a printing blanket cylinder of a rotary press, having a dimensionally stable carrier plate with two ends, of which one forms a leading end and the other forms a trailing end with respect to the rotation of the printing blanket cylinder, and which can be fixed to the printing blanket cylinder by turned-over limbs that are free of the printing blanket, and having a printing blanket fixed to the outside of the carrier plate and having a leading end and a trailing end, wherein said leading end and said trailing end of the printing blanket each project beyond a turned-over edge of an associated limb of said turned-over limbs of the carrier plate, and two supporting elements each of which is arranged between a turned-over edge of an associated limb of said turned-over limbs and an inner side of the printing blanket and supports a projection of the printing blanket.