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EP0324141A2
EP0324141A2 EP88121339A EP88121339A EP0324141A2 EP 0324141 A2 EP0324141 A2 EP 0324141A2 EP 88121339 A EP88121339 A EP 88121339A EP 88121339 A EP88121339 A EP 88121339A EP 0324141 A2 EP0324141 A2 EP 0324141A2
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inking unit
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Norbert Weisbrod
Norbert Köbler
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F31/00—Inking arrangements or devices
    • B41F31/02—Ducts, containers, supply or metering devices
    • B41F31/027—Ink rail devices for inking ink rollers

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  • the invention relates to an inking unit, in particular a short inking unit, for printing presses, in particular offset printing presses, with at least one anilox roller, which is assigned a chambered doctor blade arrangement with two doctor blades, which are preferably accommodated on a doctor blade holder and are offset with respect to one another in the circumferential direction of the anilox roller and which delimit an ink chamber which can be acted upon by ink. in which the anilox roller is immersed.
  • the roller arranged downstream of the anilox roller in short inking units this is already the applicator roller, and the peripheral section of the anilox roller that is running is not only no longer fully dyed, but usually contaminated with impurities in the form of dampening solutions and the like.
  • the doctor blade behind in the direction of rotation of the anilox roller which should strip these contaminants from the anilox roller and act as a front or closing doctor blade, wears out comparatively quickly, since the said contaminants, particularly in the form of the dampening solution, cause doctor blade wear to be extremely high favor.
  • this object is achieved in that the ink chamber is preceded by an inkable pre-chamber outside of the doctor blade, which acts as a front or closing squeegee and is upstream in the direction of rotation of the anilox roller, and into which the anilox roller is immersed.
  • the inking of the anilox roller in the area of the pre-chamber ensures that the entire length of the doctor blade, which is at risk of wear due to the contaminants to be wiped off, is applied over its entire length, which also ensures gentle operation in the event of an unfavorable angle of attack of this doctor blade.
  • Measures according to the invention it is therefore possible to ensure a long doctor life even if the doctor blade located upstream is turned negative.
  • the prechamber can be supplied with paint from the paint chamber, which can preferably be pressurized, via at least one overflow opening.
  • a particularly simple design results in an advantageous manner in that the prechamber is separated from the ink chamber only by the doctor blade located upstream and that at least one overflow opening is provided in the area of this doctor blade and / or its receptacle.
  • the prechamber can expediently be provided with a paint overflow, which can be formed in a simple manner in that the prechamber is delimited by a baffle plate which does not touch the anilox roller.
  • the short inking unit on which Firgur 1 is based consists of a rubberized applicator roller 2 which cooperates with a plate cylinder 1 which can be covered with hard offset printing plates, has the same diameter as the plate cylinder and an anilox roller 3 which cooperates with the applicator roller 2 and has a smaller diameter.
  • the circumference of the anilox roller 3, which can have a ceramic cover, is provided with cups 5 indicated in an enlarged manner in FIG. 1 and webs 6 delimiting them. The cups 5 are filled with paint, the webs 6 are scraped off, so that there is an exact dosage of the paint corresponding to the capacity of the cups 5.
  • a chamber doctor blade arrangement designated as a whole by 7 in FIG. 1, which, as can best be seen from FIG. 2, has an ink chamber 13 and 12 delimited by two doctor blades 11, 12 offset from one another in the circumferential direction of the anilox roller 3 one of these upstream, that is to say arranged upstream from the ink chamber 13, has pre-chamber 41.
  • a plurality of chamber doctor blade arrangements 7 arranged next to one another for example two chamber doctor blade arrangements 7 each comprising half a roller length, can be provided.
  • the use of a plurality of chamber doctor blade arrangements 7 arranged next to one another simplifies handling and enables the ink supply of the anilox roller 3 to be shut down zone by zone.
  • the chambered doctor blade arrangement 7 comprises, as can further be seen in FIG. 2, a bar-shaped doctor holder 9 which can be received on supports 8 fixed to the frame and on which the two doctor blades 11, 12 which are offset with respect to one another in the direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3 are accommodated.
  • the doctor blades 11, 12 are held by jaws 10.
  • the jaws 10 can thus be designed as clamping jaws which clamp the respectively assigned doctor blade on the doctor holder 9.
  • the jaws 10, together with the doctor holder 9, are each intended to limit an insertion slot into which the doctor blade assigned in each case is clamped, ie can be inserted loosely.
  • the clear width of the insertion slot is three to four hundredths of a millimeter larger than the thickness of the doctor blade assigned in each case. This ensures that the doctor blades can expand laterally in the event of heating to be feared, in particular when processing offset ink, so that even with low contact force and thus gentle operation, ripple of the doctor blades is prevented and reliable contact of the doctor blades is achieved.
  • both doctor blades 11, 12 rest against the circumference of the anilox roller 3 with a negative angle of attack, that is to say with the circumferential section lying behind an obtuse angle in the direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3. If the direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3 should be reversible, a symmetrical, roof-shaped doctor blade arrangement could also be provided, wherein only the doctor blade located downstream in the direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3 would be negative.
  • the two doctor blades 11, 12 offset from one another form the rear and front limits of the ink chamber 13 in the direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3, the radial limits of which are formed by the doctor blade holder 9 and the circumference of the anilox roller 3.
  • the ink chamber 3 and the pre-chamber 41 are closed on the end face by sealing jaws 43 resting on the end faces of the doctor blades 11, 12.
  • the sealing jaws 43 are gripped in the region of their contact with the doctor blades 11, 12 by finger-shaped abutments 44 which extend in the longitudinal direction of the doctor blades 11 , 12 are resiliently supported on the squeegee holder 9, as indicated at 45.
  • the ink chamber 13 is supplied with paint.
  • the doctor blade holder 9 is provided with a distributor chamber 17 formed by an axial bore, of which several Inlet holes 19 which are uniformly distributed over the length of the doctor holder 9 and exit into the ink chamber 13 and which can be connected via a connection hole 18 to a supply line 15 leading to an ink pump 16.
  • the ink in the ink chamber 13 should be present with a slight overpressure, so that the anilox roller 3 is reliably inked without further aids.
  • the pre-chamber 41 is also supplied with paint.
  • the pre-chamber 41 can be provided with its own paint supply.
  • the pre-chamber 41 is acted upon by excess paint emerging from the ink chamber 13.
  • the ink chamber 13 is in fact provided with overflow openings 24, via which ink can flow, which is returned to the pump 16, so that a color cycle results.
  • These overflow openings 24, as can be seen further in FIG. 2, can be designed as bore-shaped recesses, spaced from the doctor edge, of the upstream doctor blade 11, which acts as a preliminary or closing doctor blade.
  • slots arranged in the area of the doctor blade holder could also be provided as overflow openings.
  • overflow openings 24 are provided which are distributed uniformly over the entire chamber length.
  • the antechamber 41 is delimited by a dust plate 40 arranged approximately parallel to the adjacent doctor blade 11, which does not touch the circumference of the anilox roller 3.
  • the roller-side edge of the baffle plate 40 thus forms an overflow edge delimiting an outlet slot 42.
  • the baffle plate 40 can be molded onto the squeegee holder 9 or the closing squeegee jaws 10 or, as here, be attached.
  • the ink penetrating through the overflow openings 24 is accumulated in the antechamber 41.
  • the excess ink can swell out of the pre-chamber 41 in the area of the outlet gap 42, so that only a complete filling of the pre-chamber 41 is guaranteed, but the occurrence of an undesirable overpressure is not possible.
  • the outlet gap 42 is covered by a drainage channel 14 which catches the excess paint dripping off.
  • a return line 26 leads from the drainage channel 14 to a paint reservoir or directly to the paint pump 16.
  • the circumference of the anilox roller 3 immersed in the pre-chamber 41, to which residues in the form of residual ink, penetrated dampening solution, penetrated dust particles and the like can adhere, is pre-inked in the area of the pre-chamber 41 filled with ink the entire length. This entire order is stripped off by means of the doctor blade 11 arranged downstream of the prechamber 41.
  • the wear of the doctor blade 11 caused earlier by the residues, in particular in the form of the dampening solution is eliminated or at least greatly reduced.
  • doctor blade 41 anilox roller receives its final inking in the region of the ink chamber 13, which is here under slight overpressure, that is to say the filling of the cells 5 is supplemented where something is still missing.
  • the webs 6 are scraped off by means of the doctor blade 12 located downstream. This is referred to as the squeegee.
  • the opposite doctor blade is referred to as the front or closing doctor blade. In the exemplary embodiment shown, both doctor blades 11, 12, as already mentioned above, are made negative.
  • a fixed predetermined direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3 is used, so that only one prechamber 41 is provided which is adjacent to the doctor blade, which acts in each case as a pre-doctor or closing doctor. If the direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3 can be reversed, prechambers could be provided in the area of both doctor blades, with no prechamber not being used in each case by applying a doctor blade with overflow openings only in the region of the prechamber required.

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DE3800411A DE3800411A1 (de) 1988-01-09 1988-01-09 Farbwerk

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EP0324139B1 (fr) 1992-07-08
EP0324139A2 (fr) 1989-07-19
JPH01222959A (ja) 1989-09-06
US5072669A (en) 1991-12-17
EP0324141A3 (en) 1990-08-22
DE3872693D1 (de) 1992-08-13
DE3872692D1 (de) 1992-08-13
JPH07102687B2 (ja) 1995-11-08
EP0324141B1 (fr) 1992-07-08
DE3800411C2 (fr) 1990-03-29
US5010815A (en) 1991-04-30
DE3800411A1 (de) 1989-07-20
JPH01225555A (ja) 1989-09-08
EP0324139A3 (en) 1990-08-08

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