Printing – Special article machines – Rotating object
Patent
1992-10-13
1993-11-30
Burr, Edgar S.
Printing
Special article machines
Rotating object
101 381, 101 76, B41F 1708
Patent
active
052655326
ABSTRACT:
A continuous motion decorator for cylindrical containers is provided with a direct printing unit for printing an auxiliary image on the cylindrical surface of a container that has been imprinted with a main image by an offset blanket segment of the decorator. The direct printing unit includes a plurality of direct printing plates disposed in tandem on a closed loop belt means with each of these plates bearing a different auxiliary image. The offset blanket segments are mounted on the periphery of a continuously rotating blanket wheel. An individual direct printing unit, mounted to the blanket wheel, is provided for each blanket segment and includes an anvil disposed at the upstream end of the blanket segment to support one printing plate at a time in its printing position. For each revolution of the blanket wheel the belt means is advanced by an incremental length to bring a new printing plate to printing position. The direct printing unit is mounted on a pivot support and is adjustably positionable as a unit to adjust direct printing pressure. The direct printing unit may be positioned so that its plates do not contact containers to which main images are applied. In addition, the direct printing unit may be deactivated so that the belt means is not stepped as the blanket wheel rotates.
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Chrobocinski Chester
DiDonato Russell
Berliner Jerome M.
Bittman Mitchell D.
Burr Edgar S.
Hendrickson Lynn D.
Sequa Corporation
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