Tube aligning assembly for tube printer

Details Tube aligning assembly for tube printer Tube aligning assembly for tube printer

1985-10-29

1987-06-02

Crowder, Clifford D.

Printing

Special article machines

Rotating object

198378, B41F 1722

Patent

active

046693769

ABSTRACT:
A tube printing apparatus includes a rotatable mandrel wheel which successively moves tubes to be printed to different stations of the apparatus; a plurality of mandrels which hold the tubes on the mandrel wheel; a printing station including a printing blanket which prints the tubes successively moved to the printing station in contact with the printing blanket; a tube orienting head which circumferentially orients the tubes which are moved to the printing station so as to always provide printing on the tubes at the same circumferential position thereof; a reciprocating control assembly which intermittently reciprocates the tube orienting into engagement with the tubes at the printing station; a rotating control assembly which intermittently rotationally orients the tubes for printing to a desired circumferential position; and a common drive connected to the reciprocating control assembly, rotating control assembly and printing blanket to synchronously drive each of the same, thereby eliminating any complex electronic synchronous adjustments.

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patent: 2882818 (1959-04-01), Vowles
patent: 3097593 (1963-07-01), Makowski et al.
patent: 3363546 (1968-01-01), Johnson
patent: 3538845 (1970-11-01), Peck et al.
patent: 3897725 (1975-08-01), Derrickson
patent: 4175993 (1979-11-01), Robertson

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