EP0681526B1 - Tampondruckverfahren - Google Patents

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EP0681526B1
EP0681526B1 EP94905023A EP94905023A EP0681526B1 EP 0681526 B1 EP0681526 B1 EP 0681526B1 EP 94905023 A EP94905023 A EP 94905023A EP 94905023 A EP94905023 A EP 94905023A EP 0681526 B1 EP0681526 B1 EP 0681526B1
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tampon
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Hans-Rainer Hoffmann
Bodo Asmussen
Klaus Schumann
Walter Müller
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F17/00—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05C—APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05C3/00—Apparatus in which the work is brought into contact with a bulk quantity of liquid or other fluent material
    • B05C3/20—Apparatus in which the work is brought into contact with a bulk quantity of liquid or other fluent material for applying liquid or other fluent material only at particular parts of the work
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F1/00—Platen presses, i.e. presses in which printing is effected by at least one essentially-flat pressure-applying member co-operating with a flat type-bed
    • B41F1/26—Details
    • B41F1/40—Inking units
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F17/00—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for
    • B41F17/001—Pad printing apparatus or machines

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  • the invention relates to a tampon printing method using a printing plate having at least one printing form on its surface, the printing form being filled with printing medium at intervals and the printing medium subsequently being transferred from the printing form to a support using a tampon.
  • Pad printing processes as a special type of gravure printing process have been known for some time.
  • the print image is deepened, etched or engraved in the printing form of a printing plate as a negative.
  • the negative can also be produced by electroerosion in the printing plate.
  • a transfer body usually designed on the basis of silicone rubber, the so-called tampon, takes up the printing medium which has remained in depressions in the printing form after a doctoring process, and transfers the printed image to the support or object to be labeled or decorated.
  • Such a pad printing device is described for example in DE-OS 19 39 437.
  • the invention has for its object to overcome the aforementioned disadvantages, technical limits and difficulties by improving the previous tampon printing process and to provide a tampon printing process through which work can be carried out with high precision, in particular in the metering of active pharmaceutical ingredients, and with increased production speed with high precision.
  • the filling of the printing form with printing medium from the bottom of the printing form using the printing form with a memory of the printing medium connecting and the printing plate from below penetrating feed channels is made.
  • the printing medium flows through feed channels penetrating the printing plate from below and emerges directly in the bottom of the printing form.
  • the channels are arranged and designed in a geometrically sensible manner at a correspondingly large number of locations over the bottom area of the printing form, with round, angular or slot-like or sieve-like mouth forms ensuring a uniform distribution of the printing medium on the bottom of the printing form.
  • the filling process is controlled by the action of an intermittent pressure on the printing medium, the metering of the amount of printing medium to be entered into the printing form being controlled by the length of the phase of the delivery pressure and / or the level of the delivery pressure.
  • Another possibility is to convey the pressure medium into the printing form by means of a volume metering unit, for example a piston or hose pump.
  • a volume metering unit for example a piston or hose pump.
  • the pressure medium Before entering the supply channels, the pressure medium is advantageously passed through a collecting space for pressure equalization and introduced from there into the individual supply channels. It may be expedient that, in order to build up different flow resistances when pressure medium passes through the individual channels, these are formed with different flow cross sections and / or length dimensions.
  • the new tampon printing process can advantageously be used to fill the printing form with printing medium at a temperature which differs from room temperature and is preferably elevated.
  • the desired temperature levels for the filling process can be set by means of temperature control elements in the pressure plate and / or on the prechamber. One reason for this may be the need to influence the viscosity of the printing medium.
  • a very advantageous tampon printing process the printing form being filled with printing medium at repeated intervals of a sequence of working cycles, results from the invention in that the support in the form of a tape is intermittently and under tension at a short distance over the printing form and while doing so the phase of filling the printing form is promoted by one grid spacing and then stopped for the duration of a printing process and brought into contact with the printing form by means of a tampon, whereupon the tampon is raised, the ribbon is lifted off the printing form, further conveyed by a grid spacing and in the meantime the Printing form for the following working cycle with printing medium from is filled below. In this way, the tampon remains free of print medium and clean, so that smearing of the printed image is completely avoided.
  • the entire movement in this tampon printing process relates to the conveyance of the carrier tape and a pure upward and downward stroke of the tampon as well as the supply of the pressure medium from below, which can be accomplished, for example, by a displacement conveyor similar to a fuel injection pump.
  • a displacement conveyor similar to a fuel injection pump.
  • an air jet can be used to lift the ribbon off the printed image at the same time as lifting the tampon.
  • Figure 1 shows a printing form 1, which is incorporated in a printing plate 2, with feed channels 9, which are in the bottom of the Open printing form 1, are connected to a collecting space 7.
  • This collecting space 7 serves to equalize the delivery pressure for the pressure medium conveyed under pressure from a pressure medium reservoir, not shown, through the supply line 15. It can be seen that by supplying the pressure medium from below from the line 15 via the collecting space 7 and through the large number of channels 9, the printing form 1 is filled with pressure medium from the bottom with great advantage.
  • the channels 9 pass through the pressure plate 2.
  • Figure 2 shows another embodiment of the feed channels 9 with ramifications 10, a collecting space 7 and mouth areas 14 in the bottom of the printing forme 1.
  • the channels 9 can, for example, be cannulas of very small diameter and expediently open out as a sieve plate 4, the pressure medium then being due to the large number of Pores 4 is evenly distributed over the surface of the printing form, as shown in the top view of Figure 4.
  • the top view of a part of the printing plate 2 with a printing form 1 in FIG. 3 shows a large number of orifices 5 of individual channels 9 in the bottom or in the mouth region of the channels 9 in the bottom of the printing form 1, which are distributed geometrically over the area of the printing form 1.
  • FIG. 5 shows a cross section through part of a printing plate 2 which has a bottom of the printing form 1 provided with passages, which can be filled with pressure medium from below via a collecting space 7.
  • the header 16 forming the collecting space 7 is connected to the pressure plate 2 by means of a seal 11 and screw connections 17.
  • temperature control elements 12 and 13 are attached, by means of which a thermostatting of the pressure plate is made possible.
  • the doctoring process previously required from above when filling the printing form, including the associated process is of great advantage Disadvantages avoided.
  • the metering of the pressure medium - in particular in the case of medium containing the active substance - can be carried out with the greatest precision, with a significant increase in productivity and thus a reduction in production costs being achievable as a result of significantly shorter cycle times.
  • Such short cycle times as are now possible with the invention, were previously not achievable due to the required mechanical working movement of the device parts.
  • the method can advantageously be used in transfer processes in which flowable media are to be transferred from a storage container to a substrate as a carrier by means of cyclically defined metering.
  • a carrier 20 is printed with a medium which is introduced from a memory (not shown) with a geometric pressure delivery device (also not shown) through the pressure line 15 via the collecting space 7 into the printing form 1 of the printing plate 2 in the manner shown in FIGS. 1 to 5 .
  • the carrier 20 is unwound in the form of a tape under tension from a supply roll 21 and is intermittently guided at a short distance over the printing forme 1 and thereby conveyed by one grid spacing during the phase of filling the printing forme 1.
  • the belt 20 is then stopped for the duration of a printing process and brought into contact with the printing form under pressure by the tampon 22.
  • the print image is then transferred or printed from the printing form 1 onto the carrier 20.
  • the tampon 22 is raised, the band is lifted off the printing form 1 and conveyed on by a grid spacing.
  • the printing form 1 is filled with printing medium from below for the following printing process. Taking off the printed Tape 20 from the printing form 1 can be made, for example, with the aid of blowing nozzles 23. Now there are printed images 24 on the underside of the tensioned belt which have to be dried.
  • a drying station 25 can be located at a distance from the printing station, in which the fresh printed image is dried using known means, for example in a hot air tunnel.
  • the printed carrier can then be wound onto a winding drum 26.
  • devices for assembly can also be provided.
  • the invention is not limited exclusively to the embodiments shown in the examples, for example, configurations of the devices for multiple printing can be provided, printing forms can be produced by etching, engraving, electro-erosion and the feed channels at the base of a printing form 1 can be arranged in any distribution.
  • the new printing process according to the invention opens up new and economical ways for exact dosing, in particular of active pharmaceutical ingredients, with extremely economical means and working processes. In this respect, the invention represents an optimal solution to the problem stated at the beginning.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Printing Methods (AREA)
  • Absorbent Articles And Supports Therefor (AREA)
  • Manufacture Or Reproduction Of Printing Formes (AREA)
  • Inks, Pencil-Leads, Or Crayons (AREA)
  • Production Of Multi-Layered Print Wiring Board (AREA)
  • Electronic Switches (AREA)
  • Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
  • Preparation Of Compounds By Using Micro-Organisms (AREA)
  • Printing Plates And Materials Therefor (AREA)
EP94905023A 1993-01-29 1994-01-10 Tampondruckverfahren Expired - Lifetime EP0681526B1 (de)

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DE4302445A DE4302445A1 (de) 1993-01-29 1993-01-29 Tampondruckverfahren
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PCT/EP1994/000051 WO1994016894A1 (de) 1993-01-29 1994-01-10 Tampondruckverfahren

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EP (1) EP0681526B1 (hu)
JP (1) JP3544662B2 (hu)
KR (1) KR100288312B1 (hu)
AT (1) ATE143864T1 (hu)
AU (1) AU683639B2 (hu)
CA (1) CA2155033C (hu)
CZ (1) CZ175495A3 (hu)
DE (2) DE4302445A1 (hu)
DK (1) DK0681526T3 (hu)
ES (1) ES2095743T3 (hu)
FI (1) FI107901B (hu)
GR (1) GR3021860T3 (hu)
HR (1) HRP940031B1 (hu)
HU (1) HU218065B (hu)
IL (1) IL108236A (hu)
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NO (1) NO305737B1 (hu)
NZ (1) NZ259856A (hu)
PL (1) PL173000B1 (hu)
SI (1) SI9400047A (hu)
SK (1) SK90895A3 (hu)
WO (1) WO1994016894A1 (hu)
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