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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7261033 | Printing machine with a drive system for displacement of each mandrel A printing machine includes a support stand, a plate rotational with respect to the stand about an axis of rotation, elements for driving the plate in rotation, at least two mandrels for holding two articles to be printed in succession, the mandrels being carried by... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258424 | Printer with a MEMS printhead A printer provided with a micro-electro-mechanical printhead for producing wallpaper, the printer comprising: a micro-electro-mechanical printhead extending at least the width of a media web; drive means to drive the media web past the printhead; at least one proces... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7237888 | Self contained wallpaper printer A self contained printer produces rolls of wallpaper on demand. The unit is contained in a cabinet through which runs a media path. The path extends from a replaceable media cartridge a to a winding area which holds a customer tote. A full width digital color printh... | 07/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7047878 | Flexographic printing on containers A flexographic press of conventional design is used to print on a container, with the container to be printed upon replacing the web and the impression roll of the conventional press. In order to maintain the registration between the print stations, the container is... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047879 | Cantilever type screen-printing machine with double platform The present invention discloses a cantilever type screen-printing machine with double platforms that possess a gear reducer motor with a hollow shaft to rotate a screw of a threaded screw unit and further drive a threaded rod to move upward and downward without rota... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7011728 | Container-labeling and-printing synchronization apparatus and process An apparatus for printing and labeling an object such as a container is provided. The apparatus includes a printer and a label applicator. The object is presented to both the printer and the label applicator during processing. ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6966421 | Apparatus for vehicle-body transport carriage A jig switching apparatus includes a locator jig slidably arranged on a transport carriage and having at a front end a locate pin with clamp function. The locator jig has two switching positions selectively switched in accordance with the type of a vehicle body to b... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6948425 | Machine for printing on articles A printer machine for printing on articles, includes a plurality of article-carriers suitable for moving in indexed manner in a plane around a circular path. Each article-carrier is stationary in an indexed position and mobile between the indexed positions, and a pl... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6907822 | Dry offset rotary printer for labeling wine corks A rotary printing machine for the printing of synthetic cork stoppers of the type having a surface which is normally non-ink receptive. A Ferris wheel mechanism is provided, having a plurality of evenly spaced carriers mounted a predetermined radial distance from an... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6907823 | Flexographic printing on containers A flexographic press of conventional design is used to print on a container, with the container to be printed upon replacing the web and the impression roll of the conventional press. In order to maintain the registration between the print stations, the container is... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6840166 | Mandrel trip apparatus An independent mandrel trip system wherein a mandrel support block retaining a mandrel is connected to a shaft mounting block in a manner such that the mandrel support block can be reciprocatingly retracted and extended relative to the shaft mounting block in a dire... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6823781 | Workpiece steady for a decorating machine A reduction to the traveling motion of bottles along a delivery conveyor in an intermittent motion decorating machine is provided by one of a pair of workpiece feed cams rotatably supported in a side-by-side relation to rotate about spaced horizontal axes lying in a... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6631673 | Transfer device for hollow bodies printed or to be printed in a printing machine A transfer device with which the hollow bodies to be printed in a printing machine may be transferred from a supply conveyor means to a capstan plate associated with the printing device. Since the hollow bodies are supplied by the supply conveyor means wi... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6578476 | Print product on demand A system and process for placing printed color images on a series of objects including: generating digital data representing a plurality of different color images; providing a print medium composed of a substrate carrying a releasable coating which is for... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6526880 | Dry offset rotary printer for labeling wine corks A rotary printing machine for the printing of synthetic cork stoppers of the type having a surface which is normally non-ink receptive. A Ferris wheel mechanism is provided, having a plurality of evenly spaced carriers mounted a predetermined radial dista... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6504331 | Drive mechanism for transaction printer A compact drive mechanism for both driving a paper web and severing a printed receipt in a transaction or point-of-sales printer. Both driving the paper web and cutting the printed receipt is accomplished through a bi-directional stepper motor that is ope... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6478485 | Process and apparatus for decorating articles In a process and apparatus for decorating an article, printing ink or electrostatic charges is or are applied in dependence on a digital program in dot form to the article carried by a holder, with individual dots going together to at least form a partial... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6220154 | Dry offset rotary printer for labeling wine corks A rotary printing machine for the printing of synthetic cork stoppers of the type having a surface which is normally non-ink receptive. A Ferris wheel mechanism is provided, having a plurality of evenly spaced carriers mounted a predetermined radial dista... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6213011 | Loading and offloading systems for printing machine A printing machine includes a printing table for printing groups of objects presented in an entry support and an exit support, a transfer system disposed between the printing table and a loading system, on the one hand, and an offloading system, on the ot... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6105493 | Elevator card transporting mechanism for a printer The present invention provides a transport mechanism, and method, for transporting plastic cards, such as credit cards, identification cards, and the like, past a printing apparatus within a printer. The transport mechanism includes a lifting and rotating... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6084603 | Optical information medium and method for printing on the surface of the medium An optical information medium comprises an optically transparent substrate and a protective layer formed on the substrate for protecting a record portion so that information which is optically readable by means of a laser beam can be recorded. A hydrophil... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6073553 | Workpiece conveyor with barrel cams including a dwell period for a decorating machine The traveling motion imparted to bottles in an intermittent motion decorating machine is provided by a pair of workpiece feed cams rotatably supported in a side-by-side relation to rotate about spaced horizontal axes lying in a common horizontal plane, th... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6070524 | Process and machine for decorating containers or similar articles The present invention is referred to a method and a machine for decorating bottles or similar articles of the type that includes: a supporting structure; a rotatable shaft (12) coupled in the supporting structure, to rotate over its own axis with an inter... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6026743 | Can-holding device for holding beverage cans for printing their surfaces Can-holding device for holding filled beverage cans for printing on their surfaces, consisting of a frame (1) and two jaws (2) displaceable in the axial direction of the beverage can (D)to be held between a closed position (FIG. 2) and an open position (F... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5711216 | Apparatus for decorating articles An apparatus for decorating articles comprises a transport path with at least one decorating station, and at least one article carrier displaced by a circulating transport system along the transport path. The transport system circulates in a horizontal pl... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5682816 | Two stage feeding apparatus and method for feeding articles to a printing machine A two stage feeding apparatus and method for feeding articles to a printing machine are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a transfer tray between a conventional stack loading mechanism and a conventional printing machine feeding mechanism. The transfer t... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5651308 | Apparatus for printing on individual articles An apparatus for printing on individual articles has at least two rotatably disposed holders, each of which carries an article. Each of the holders which can comprise first and second holder portions is provided with separate drives for transporting the r... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5564334 | Pin ovens and transfer devices therefor A pin oven for curing a decorative or other coating laid down by a rotary decorator on cans has an associated transfer device by which the cans are decelerated and transferred in succession from the decorator onto the chain of the oven. The chain carries ... | 10/15/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5317967 | Method and apparatus for applying printing to an at least partially conical article In a method and apparatus for applying printing or decoration to the conical surface of an article using screen printing, the screen printing stencil performs a pivotal movement during the printing operation in a plane extending parallel to the longitudin... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5272970 | Pin ovens and transfer devices therefor A pin oven for stoving a decorative or other coating laid down by a rotary decorator (28") on cans has an associated transfer device (40") by which the cans are decelerated and transferred in succession from the decorator onto the chain (20") of the oven.... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5253580 | Apparatus for conveying a printed object This invention relates to an apparatus and process for conveying a printed object, such as a printed bottle. The apparatus comprises a vacuum pump for supplying a vacuum and a rotationally driven central shaft operably associated with the vacuum pump. The... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5184546 | Fully automatic curved surface printing machine This invention relates to a fully automatic curved-surface printing machine, which has a feeding mechanism, a screen block reciprocating mechanism, an elevation printing mechanism, a transmission system and a circulatory conveyor belt. The transmission sy... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5142975 | Apparatus suitable for rapid silk-screen printing of plastic containers Apparatus for the transfer of ware in step-wise fashion from one point to another with silk-screen printing of the ware between the remote points. The articles of ware, in spaced-apart locations, are moved by an elongated horizontally disposed beam having... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5120392 | Container transport and manipulator for use with a label or screen printing applier A container transport and manipulator includes opening and closing beams mounting therealong spaced supports for engaging the ends of parallel horizontally disposed containers, and a swing platform, timed with the supports, for carrying the containers fro... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5029523 | Apparatus for, and a method of, printing a pattern on a container component A printing apparatus for printing a pattern on an endless side wall of a container component comprises six handling mechanisms 13 mounted on an indexing table 11, four printing heads 10 located at spaced apart positions on the indexing table 11, and a car... | 07/09/1991 |
| 4907504 | Apparatus for repositioning containers Apparatus for moving a container from a first container position to a second container position in which the container is spaced from the first position and in a different orientation, the apparatus including a drive member that is rotatable about a first... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4893559 | Method and apparatus for printing quasi random number tables in a flexographic press Method and apparatus for printing quasi random number tables comprising a printing press having one or more printing stations incorporating a plurality of endless belts, each entrained around a printing plate cylinder and an idle roller, each belt being a... | 01/16/1990 |
