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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7854196 | Apparatus for the coating or flocking of articles, especially of textile materials and flocking machine The invention relates to an apparatus for the coating or flocking of articles, especially of textile material, mats, ceramic, plastic, paper, wood, metal or the like, with a container (12) for receiving a flock or coating material, and with a setting device (... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7373879 | Screen printing apparatus Disclosed is a screen printing apparatus for screen printing the cream solder including a squeegee assembly (30) provided with comb blade members (35) and with solder leakage prohibiting guides (36). The comb blade members partition a cream sold... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7320947 | Static dissipative textile and method for producing the same The present invention relates generally to a static dissipative textile having an electrically conductive surface achieved by coating the textile with an electrically conductive coating in a variety of patterns. The electrically conductive coating is comprised of a ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7287469 | Device and method for continuous screen printing of organic light emitting diodes Devices and method for continuous printing of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are described. A substrate with or without coating is provided as strip material on a roll, and is fed through a device with movable screens for imprinting by screen printing. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7127988 | Screen printing repetition systems and methods A screen printing manual repetition system semi-automates use of a screen with a manual printing press. The screen has a screen frame and a screen mesh. The manual repetition system (MRS) has an MRS frame mountable to the screen frame, a track system, and a height a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7121198 | Screen-printing machine with a device for transferring objects to be printed The screen-printing machine (10) comprises: a print station (12); at least one support surface (40A, 40B) for supporting the objects away from the print station (12); and ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7066086 | Stencil printer In a stencil printer, a diaphragm pump is used as an ink supply pump. ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7045011 | Dual-layer compliant polymeric nozzle An integrated circuit screen printing nozzle that has a nozzle body, a first inner layer on the nozzle body, a second outer layer on the first layer, and an opening through the nozzle body, the first layer, and the second layer. The first and second layers can be an... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040223 | Stencil printing ink container, stencil printing ink cartridge, method of manufacturing the ink cartridge, and inner plug for the ink container A stencil printing ink container includes an ink container body. An ink charge port is provided in an end wall of the ink container body and an inner plug is mounted on the ink charge port. The inner plug is provided with an ink discharge port smaller in the outer d... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7025349 | Mail location apparatus Mail location apparatus for a postal meter is disclosed in which a required location of a mail piece to receive a postal indicium imprint is defined by guide walls which are engaged by adjacent edges of the mail piece when the mail piece is in the required location.... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7013801 | Screen printing repetition systems and methods A screen printing manual repetition system semi-automates use of a screen with a manual printing press. The screen has a screen frame and a screen mesh. The manual repetition system (MRS) has an MRS frame mountable to the screen frame, a track system, and a height a... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6968780 | Hand accent stencil applicator system A hand accent stencil applicator system for positioning a design on a surface is provided. The applicator system comprises an applicator handle and a compression housing mounted to the applicator housing. A bladder is positioned within the compression housing for ho... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6955120 | Pressure control system for printing a viscous material A printer includes a print head for dispensing viscous material, such as solder paste. The print head defines a chamber and includes at least one source port and a dispensing slot. Within the chamber, a flexible membrane segregates the chamber into a dispensing regi... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6938547 | Overspray guard for a screen printing machine Method and apparatus for prevention of overspray during coating of a pallet used in a screen printing operation. After being coated with an adhesive, the pallet is capable of removably retaining textile fabrics and the like thereon. The apparatus comprises a spray g... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6911085 | Doctor blade dosing system Doctor blade dosing systems for devices used for coating material webs, particularly paper or paperboard webs, exist that have a doctor blade rod, which serves as a dosing element while being held inside a slot of a doctor blade bed that, in turn, is mounted in a su... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6899028 | Container A container is provided which comprises a cylindrical main body having an end wall at an end thereof; an outlet projecting from an outer surface of the end wall for allowing a content to be supplied; and a protecting member disposed on the outer surface of the end w... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6823783 | Blocking cap for use in a partial printing process and apparatus An apparatus for preventing media deposition in predetermined locations comprising at least one blocking cap connected to a pressurized squeegee head is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for partially printing a circuit board is disclosed. The method comprises ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6745687 | Screen printing with improved ink stop Screen printing to an edge of an object without the flow of print ilk over the edge and to a supporting platen is realized by applying a flow of gas from the platen over the edge of the object and opposing the flow of print ink. The platen can have a support surface... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6397742 | Single plane screen printer A stencil screen printing machine includes a screen retention frame horizontally reciprocable forwardly and rearwardly in one dimension for retaining and reciprocating a print stencil screen in a plane during a forward print stroke and a rearward return s... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6289803 | Method and apparatus for screen printing A screen printing apparatus and method for forming printed wiring on a substrate, such as a wafer. The apparatus includes a reservoir disposed beneath a screen having a plurality of openings forming a pattern thereon. Disposed within the reservoir is a pr... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6286422 | Method and apparatus for dispensing viscous material A novel apparatus for compressing viscous material through openings in a stencil is disclosed. The novel apparatus has a compression head cap which provides a contained environment to direct and to aid the flow of pressurized viscous material through the ... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6257136 | Registration control for quality silk screen printing Workpiece rotators are constructed for decoration registration control in spaced apart decoration stations for bottles rotatably supported by carriers of an endless chain conveyor. A screen drive at each decorating station linearly reciprocates a decorati... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6227108 | Magnet bar A magnet bar for exerting an attracting force on a doctor, which is arranged above the magnet bar, of a screen-printing or coating device comprises an elongate top plate and an elongate magnet carrier which extends below and substantially parallel to the ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6223653 | Screen printing apparatus In a screen printing apparatus for printing a conical object rotatable about a rotation axis (4) by means of a screen member (2) which must perform a circular motion about the cone intersection point (6) of the conical object, this circular motion is repr... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6216589 | Printing paste supply device A printing paste supply degree can stir up and knead past contained in a syringe extremely efficiently and extrudes the paste in a condition suitable for a screen printing through a discharge opening of the syringe. The paste supply device comprises a syr... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6186063 | Screen printing machine with improved device for aspirating excess ink A screen printing machine with an improved device for aspirating excess ink, comprising a printing bed for supporting a glass plate to be printed, which is provided in an upward region with a frame with a mesh surface forming a permeable portion. Ink is p... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6164199 | Printing machine with rotatably mounted object-carrier supports In a printing machine with object-carrier supports mounted to rotate, rotation drive units are used at printing stations and at processing stations to drive rotation of the object-carrier supports. The drive systems of the rotation drive units correspondi... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5996487 | Solder paste screen printing apparatus and solder paste screen printing method There is disclosed a solder paste screen printing apparatus and a solder paste screen printing method, in which a force of pressing of a squeegee can be adjusted delicately and accurately so as to effect the printing of solder paste with the optimum press... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5809878 | Rigid sheet printer/feed board assembly A stencil screen printing apparatus for printing rigid sheets comprising an intermittently rotatable cylinder, a reciprocable stencil screen frame, a power drive for the cylinder and stencil screen frame to move them in synchronism with each other, a vert... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5806423 | Printing squeegee apparatus A roller squeegee apparatus for screen printing includes a resilient receptacle receiving a supply of printing material at one open side thereof. The resilient receptacle is connected at another open side thereof to a printing squeegee. One or more driven... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5775219 | Squeegee for screen printing A squeegee (K1-K3) for screen printing, comprising: a squeegee body (1) which is formed by a metal sheet and has a squeegeeing face (1a) and a convexly curved pressing edge (3) on the squeegeeing face (1a); wherein when the squeegee (K1-K3) is set for squ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5713275 | Stencil printing machine A stencil printing machine includes a holding device for holding a stencil sheet perforated in accordance with an image; an ink supply device for supplying ink to one face side of the stencil sheet held by the holding means; a printing sheet conveying dev... | 02/03/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5685221 | Flood bar for screen printing An apparatus spreads and positions ink into orifices of a screen fabric for printing. The apparatus has a flooding portion having an ink interaction surface spaced and overlying the screen. The ink interaction surface is adapted for interacting with the i... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5680814 | Squeegee device for screen printing processes A screen printing device for screen printing a thick film ink through a screen so as to form a highly-defined thick film on a surface of a microelectronics circuit. The screen printing device achieves the above by bypassing excess ink that would otherwise... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5671671 | Rotary screen printing machine for sheet printing The rotary screen printing machine has a form cylinder (1) which carries a screen printing stencil (3), and an impression cylinder (2) having at least one cylinder pit (4), in which sheet grippers (5) are installed. In their closing position, the sheet gr... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5524535 | Method and apparatus for high speed decoration of bottles Bottles are decorated while advanced by intermittent motion to each of a plurality of decorating stations where a squeegee presses a decorating screen into line contact with a surface of the bottle which has a speed the same as the speed of which the deco... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5471924 | Method and apparatus for drying an object during transportation In a method and apparatus for printing on objects using a screen printing procedure, the print image applied to a respective object is dried by UV-rays produced by at least one UV-radiating device. Drying of the applied print image is effected during a tr... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5458060 | Screen printing squeegee system An improved squeegee holder for screen printing. A squeegee with a diamond or square shaped portion is clamped between two clamping plates inside V-shaped grooves in the clamping plates. Corner relief portions are provided within the clamping plates so th... | 10/17/1995 |
