Patent ID: 7677170

Claim:
A device for placing and removing a doctor blade in a screen printing cylinder mounted on a printing machine, the device comprising: a support mounted on a frame of the machine in continuation of said cylinder, and a track mounted on said support and designed to allow a slider to move parallel only to the axis of said cylinder between a first limit position situated outside of said cylinder and a second limit position situated inside said cylinder facing the working position of the doctor blade, wherein said slider is provided with a quick assembly and disassembly system for mounting of the doctor blade on the slider or removing of the doctor blade from the slider in said first and second limit positions, and wherein said track pivots on said support about an axis parallel to the axis of said cylinder in such a way that, in said second limit position of the slider, the doctor blade can be placed in the working position or withdrawn from the working position by pivoting the track and slider together about the axis.