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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5771801 | Front head for carousel screen printing machine An apparatus for securing a screen printing frame to a printing machine for screen printing, the apparatus has a retainer for the screen printing frame and a mounting head carried by the printing machine. A plurality of adjustment mechanism are interposed... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5765478 | Method and device for painting without the use of hands or arms A method and device for painting without the use of hands or arms is described in which a foot pad painting device has a generally planar paint pad secured to an attachment plate which in turn is connected to the painter's foot by an attachment mechanism.... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5749292 | Relief decorating of ceramic articles using screen printing processes A process for a production basis relief decorating of ceramic articles. In place of conventional, manual application of relief features, the process provides for a special technique for screen printing of relief features onto the surface of a transfer dec... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5746127 | Electroformed squeegee blade for surface mount screen printing A novel electroformed squeegee blade for the uniform deposition of printing material such as solder paste and the like onto printed wiring boards is disclosed. A method of fabricating the electroformed squeegee blade is also disclosed. The method of fabri... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5743182 | Stencil printing method and apparatus A stencil printing apparatus is provided, which comprises a pressure chamber having a first wall and a second wall both of which face each other and are built up together via a frame-like packing, said first wall comprising a frame member which has flexib... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5740733 | Method for producing a half-tone stencil including reference structures for assessing accuracy of printing with the stencil During the production of a half-tone stencil, a stencil pattern hole structure is engraved in a predetermined stencil pattern area of a basic stencil element in order to form a stencil pattern. A plurality of uniform reference hole structures having diffe... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5740729 | Printing apparatus and method for inspecting printed materials In a printing apparatus and method, printing material is printed on to-be-printed circuit boards in a predetermined pattern and a printing state of the material is inspected. The apparatus includes the following devices. A board supporting device has a ro... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5738009 | Method for direct electrostatic printing (DEP) Disclosed herein is a method for direct electrostatic printing with reduced banding, which comprising the steps of creating a potential difference between a back electrode and a magnetic brush assembly having a stationary mounted core and a sleeve rotatab... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5738904 | Method and apparatus for variable speed material deposition This invention provides for methods and apparatus for increasing the speed of material deposition by a blade element traversing across an apertured mask. The invention involves varying the velocity of the blade element as it sweeps across different sectio... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5735203 | Apparatus for printing solder paste to a printed circuit board and separating a screen mask plate from the printed circuit board An apparatus for printing a solder paste to a printed circuit board with use of a screen mask plate and a squeegee. The apparatus includes a device for moving one of the printed circuit board and the screen mask plate at a first moving speed in a directio... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5730052 | Method of high resolution silk screen printing A method for applying and reproducing an original visual image such as a computer generated image, an oil painting or photograph, onto various surfaces using silk screen ink techniques for a high resolution permanent image transformation, especially usefu... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5730051 | Apparatus and method for centering a printing screen over an object A screen printing apparatus includes: a positioning stage for positioning an object and a plate arranged above it; printing squeegees which are moved horizontally on the plate for printing through the plate onto the object; a driver for moving the positio... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5722322 | Emulsion ink for stencil printing process The present invention provides a stencil printing process for printing an object to be printed by passing an ink through perforations made in a stencil sheet which has undergone plate-making which includes the following steps: supplying a solid ink capabl... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5722321 | Blade mounting assmbly for sreen printing apparatus A blade mounting assembly for squeegee or flood bar blades of screen printing machines is provided which includes a clamping mechanism connected to a mounting bar that releasably secures the blade assembly to the bar and over a printing screen mounted in ... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5715849 | Perfume sampler A perfume sampler comprising a perfume sample support film (1), provided for adhering to a presentation sheet (3), such as of paper, cardboard, at least one perfume sample (5), applied onto the support film (1) under the form of a gel, and a releasable pr... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5709905 | Apparatus and method for automatic monitoring and control of stencil printing A stencil printing apparatus (100) is provided for printing a solder paste (108), through apertures (104) in a stencil (102), onto metallized portions of a printed circuit substrate (106). The printing apparatus contains a laser surface profiling device (... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5706722 | Process for controlling a cylinder-type silk screen printing machine A cylinder-type silk screen printing machine includes a printing cylinder that collects an object to receive the print and a screen carriage with printing blades applied against the screen pattern, which travels over the cylinder, wherein the screen patte... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5705664 | Mononoble metal dithiolates, preparations containing them and their use The invention relates to mononoble metal dithiolates, more particularly water-soluble monogold(I) dithiolates, to their production and to their use for the production of noblemetal-containing decorations on firing-resistant substrates. The mononoble metal... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5699742 | Method and device for exactly aligning a printing image relative to a geometrically correct print position of a printing machine A method and a device exactly aligning a printing image relative to a geometrically correct print position of a printing machine for printing carriers, for example CDs, which employ use of a printing foil having a hole system which has been aligned relati... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699733 | Screen printing on film coated substrates An improved method of screen printing is described wherein a double sided tape (dry film) is applied between the substrate and the screened-on paste. Since the dry film ensures the adhesion of the paste, no minimum thickness of paste is needed to attain g... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5687646 | Method of producing stencils for use in silk-screen printing The present invention relates to a method of producing stencils, which permits the substantial reduction of time involved for producing stencils, facilitating the producing of stencils and improving the precision with which stencils can be produced. The m... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5686525 | Polyimide precursor composition and the production of said polyimide precursor composition A polyimide precursor composition which is produced by (i) providing a polyamide acid solution obtained by reacting an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid component and a diamine component in the presence of an oxygen-containing solvent and (ii) subjecting said... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5685223 | Simulated jacquard fabric and method of producing same A simulated Jacquard fabric and method of fabrication. A flocked fabric is screen printed with specially engraved screens for each color of the design. Thereafter a blotch screen is used to overprint with dyes at a certain pressure that causes the formati... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5678482 | Sequencing method for printing machine A sequencing system for a printing press, the printing press having a plurality of print stations, each of the print stations for printing a respective portion of a design on an item with ink, the printing press also having a curing station for curing the... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5678481 | Method of screen printing a pattern on an edge of a glass substrate A print pattern is formed on a glass plate 1 by using a screen plate in which a second ink-permeable region 7 having a lower ink-permeating rate than a first ink-permeable region 4 is formed in a screen region which corresponds to a space between the flat... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5664495 | Print screen alignment system A system for registering printing screens used for printing in series on a substrate which includes a plurality of outwardly projecting electrical switches, with a pair of the switches being positioned to engage a first side of a screen frame and at least... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5662039 | Recording apparatus for selectively supplying a solvent to perforate a stencil sheet A recording apparatus is formed of a drum which is rotationally driven around a central axis of itself with a stencil sheet having a solvent-soluble resin layer wrapped around an outer circumferential surface of the drum, an ink supplying device disposed ... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5653166 | Method for molding a design in low relief in an ink printed on fabric A method of molding a design in low relief in an area of printing ink with a puffing agent placed on fabric which comprises applying a molding die with a reverse impression of the design to be molded on the ink under heat and pressure for a sufficient tim... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5651309 | Peel control means for off-contact screen printing press Peel control for an off-contact printing press. The peel control includes a clutch and a linkage assembly synchronized in its peeling action in a printing stroke with a conventional carriage assembly mounting the squeegee and flood bar. In the printing st... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5649480 | Touch-readable product and associated process The economic production of raised print characters such as Braille is achieved by a silk screen printing process, using a rotational printing machine in combination with high viscosity, "U/V" inks that make possible the depth of deposition and character s... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5647941 | Method of making a lipstick sampler A cosmetic sampler formed by screen printing a slurry of cosmetic powder and solvent onto a paper base. To prevent off-set of the cosmetic sample during packaging and handling, a protective thin film overlay is laminated to a perimeter adhesive printed on... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5641556 | Method for manufacturing a composite article having a high clarity icon and the article produced by the method A method of manufacturing a composite article having a front face containing a visible icon, which front face may be planer or arcuate. The method includes the steps of forming a core having perforate and imperforate portions in the core thereby creating ... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5640905 | Screen printing apparatus with controller An oval printing machine has a plurality of traveling pallets for moving about an endless path and sequentially through a plurality of screen printing stations. During set-up of the oval screen printing station, it is often desired to shift a pallet, here... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5632200 | Stencil discarding apparatus and process accommodating different length stencils A stencil-making-type printing machine in which, even if rotary cylindrical drums having printing regions of different sizes are frequently used while being replaced with one another, the machine accurately detects when a used-stencil accommodating box is... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5623872 | Apparatus and method for separating a mask plate and printed circuit board A screen printing apparatus and method suitable for applying solder paste on a printed circuit board, wherein a printed circuit board is brought just under a mask plate with patterned holes. The patterned holes are filled with solder paste. The printed ci... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5619919 | Silk-screen print head for the printing of halftones on the surface of a substrate A print head for silk-screen printing apparatus is provided. The silk-screen frame and squeegee of the print head are fixedly connected together to provide that the two move together in rotational manner. Thus, the squeegee can be made to always print acr... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5617787 | Process for perforating stencil printing sheet A process for perforating a stencil sheet comprising a thermoplastic resin film is disclosed which process comprises melting predetermined portions of the thermoplastic resin film with the heat from heat-generating elements to form perforations while appl... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5607243 | Rear section located and stabilized pallet support plate and method for accurate positioning of said plate A rear section pallet support plate locator and stabilizer is described for use in a screen printing machine. In place of traditional front plate locators or dual front and rear plate locators, a unique two tiered construction of the support plate provide... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5603260 | Rotary stencil printer having gear train for synchronizing inner press roller with printing drum and including clutch for press bias control The rotation of the inner press roller 16 is synchronized with the rotation of the printing drum 10 by the gear train including a gear wheel 22 coaxial with the printing drum, a gear wheel 24 meshing with the gear wheel 22 and rotatably supported by an ar... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5601019 | Rotary stencil printer having gear train for synchronizing inner press roller with printing drum and including brake for press bias control The rotation of the inner press roller 16 is synchronized with the rotation of the printing drum 10 by the gear train including a gear wheel 22 coaxial with the printing drum, a gear wheel 24 meshing with the gear wheel 22 and rotatably supported by an ar... | 02/11/1997 |
