Stencil duplicator

Details Stencil duplicator Stencil duplicator

1979-05-08

1982-01-26

Feyrer, James R.

Printing

Stenciling

Stencil-web machines

B41L 1308

Patent

active

043122701

ABSTRACT:
An automatic control mechanism for the thickness of an ink layer on a duplicator cylinder employs a sensing roller mounted for movement along a path which extends both peripherally and radially of the cylinder where the ink is to be measured and thus the drag on the ink pulls the cylinder to an equilibrium position where it just maintains sufficient contact with the layer of ink to be subject to that drag whereas any further movement will move it radially away from the ink layer to lose contact. The pivoting support for the sensing roller engages a switch when an extreme position is attained and this provides an "enough ink" signal.
An adjustable biasing mechanism enables the position of the sensing roller to be additionally subject to a biasing selective manually by the operator to control ink layer thickness and another adjustment in response to the speed of rotation of the duplicator.
In one form, the sensing roller is able to skew so that a sensing switch at one end of the duplicator cylinder may be tripped before the sensing switch of the other end of the cylinder, for the purposes of providing a control which at least to some extent is responsive to local thickness of the layer. A further possibility envisages providing several different such rollers which between them cover the entire axial extent of the cylinder and thus they are each able to control the application of ink locally.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2993371 (1961-07-01), Greubel
patent: 3442121 (1969-05-01), Wirz
patent: 3762324 (1973-10-01), Ivary
patent: 3804012 (1974-04-01), Bosshardt
patent: 3869984 (1975-03-01), Toth

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