Automated multiple station cap printing apparatus

Details Automated multiple station cap printing apparatus Automated multiple station cap printing apparatus

1994-10-25

1996-02-13

Burr, Edgar S.

Printing

Special article machines

101114, 101115, 101126, 1011271, B41F 1700, B41F 1510

Patent

active

054904560

ABSTRACT:
A multiple station automated cap printer includes a plurality of printing heads mounted in fixed circumferentially spaced relationship to one another and are vertically movable between a raised non-printing position and a lowered printing position. A plurality of printing mandrels are disposed in fixed circumferentially spaced relationship to one another and rotatably mounted about a vertical axis between releasably fixed and precisely aligned positions below a respective one of the printing head. The mandrels include a cylindrical cap receiving platen which is rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation extending in a radial direction relative to the rotational path of the mandrel. Each mandrel includes a trolley frame which carries the cylindrical platen in a linear path which mirrors the linear path of travel of a squeegee mounted within each of the printing heads while the platen is rotated through an arcuate distance equal to the linear path of travel of the squeegee. The linear travel of the squeegee across a printing screen mounted in the printing head defines a tangential path relative to the rotary path of travel of the printing mandrels between printing stations.

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patent: 1252043 (1918-01-01), Shourt
patent: 4266476 (1981-05-01), Maloof
patent: 4381706 (1983-05-01), Harpold
patent: 4753161 (1988-06-01), Kimball
Richardson Industries sales brochure; Manual Cap Printer.
Richardson Industries sales brochure; Model 1101 Automatic Cap Printer.
"Cap Printing Headware Decoration", Hal Hammer, Screen Printing. Dec. 1983.

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