IP Library Granted Patent US 8,696,108
Granted Patent B2
US 8,696,108 · App. 13/322,230 · Granted Apr 15, 2014

Printing press

Inventors: Hideaki Sakurai (Hiroshima-ken, JP); Shoichi Aoki (Hiroshima-ken, JP); Makoto Kaji (Mihara, JP); Norifumi Tasaka (Mihara, JP)
Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery, Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,696,108
App. No.
13/322,230
Granted
Apr 15, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a printing press, it is configured such that a newspaper web offset printing press is composed by a feeder device, a printing device, a guiding device, a turn bar device, and a folding unit; as a guiding device, there are provided an upstream side guide roller and a downstream side guide roller which are disposed with a predetermined interval along a transportation direction of a web for guiding transportation of the web; and there is disposed an ink-jet printer for performing digital printing on the web guided between the guide rollers. By setting diameters of the upstream side guide roller and the downstream side guide roller to different values, vibration of the print medium which is transported while being guided by the guide rollers is suppressed, and the print quality is thereby improved.

Claims (11)

1. A printing press comprising:

a printing unit for performing printing to a print medium having a strip shape;

a guiding unit for transporting the print medium printed by the printing unit while guiding the print medium, wherein

the guiding unit includes an upstream side guide roller and a downstream side guide roller disposed with a predetermined interval along a transportation direction of the print medium configured to come into contact with the printing medium for guiding transportation of the print medium; and

a processing device for performing a predetermined process to the print medium guided between the respective guide rollers is disposed so as to face a printing surface of the print medium, wherein

diameters of the upstream side guide roller and the downstream side guide roller are set to different values for suppressing a vibration of the print medium, and wherein

the diameter of the upstream side guide roller and the diameter of the downstream side guide roller are set so that one is not an integer multiple of the other.

2. The printing press according to claim 1 , wherein at least one roller selected from the upstream side guide roller and the downstream side guide roller is configured to be dragged by traveling of the print medium.

3. The printing press according to claim 1 , wherein the upstream side guide roller and the downstream side guide roller are disposed on a downstream side of the printing unit and on an upstream side of a turn bar for changing a transportation route of the print medium.

4. The printing press according to claim 1 , wherein the processing device is an ink jet printer for performing printing on the print medium.

5. The printing press according to claim 1 , wherein the processing device is a print quality inspection device for inspecting a print quality of the printing surface of the print medium.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Mar 29, 2018
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRINTING & PACKAGING MACHINERY, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 045762/0325 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 23, 2011
From: SAKURAI, HIDEAKI; AOKI, SHOICHI; KAJI, MAKOTO; TASAKA, NORIFUMI
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRINTING & PACKAGING MACHINERY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 027276/0496 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-126642 · May 26, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
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