EP0943434A1 - Multi-purpose silk-screen printing unit for turntable machines for the multi-colour silk-screen printing of containers with curved surfaces - Google Patents
Multi-purpose silk-screen printing unit for turntable machines for the multi-colour silk-screen printing of containers with curved surfaces Download PDFInfo
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- B41F15/00—Screen printers
- B41F15/08—Machines
- B41F15/0872—Machines for printing on articles having essentially cylindrical surfaces
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- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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- B41F15/0863—Machines with a plurality of flat screens mounted on a turntable
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- said at least two screens are connected together by a linkage in such a manner that the sliding of one of them, at a linear speed equal to the peripheral speed of that portion of the container to be decorated, results in the sliding of the other at a linear speed equal to the peripheral speed with which the respective container portion to be decorated rotates.
- Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention from above, with parts cut away to show parts which would otherwise not be visible.
- Figure 2 is a section on the line II-II if Figure 1.
- Figure 3 is a view in the direction III of Figure 1.
- radial or radially and tangential mean directions along a radius or or a tangent to the circular path followed by the mandrel carrier ring of a turntable machine.
- Said travel stroke is effected by a radial horizontal rack 10 fixed in a height-adjustable manner to the base on the outside of said slider 9.
- Said screen is provided to silk-screen print the cylindrical portion 40 of the container 4, with it there being upperly associated an inking brush 118 visible in Figure 1.
- Said brush 118 is able to independently adjust its height for the reasons explained hereinafter.
- the ink contained in said screen 21 can be of the same colour as that contained in the screen 18, or not.
- said slider 20 supports in a height-adjustable manner an underlying tangential horizontal rack 22 constantly engaged with an interchangeable drive pinion 23.
- Said pinions 7, 23, 25 and 11 are changed, wholly or partly, if the dimensions of the containers 4 change.
- the invention operates in the following manner.
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Description
- This invention relates generally to silk-screen printing machines for containers with curved surfaces, and in particular to multi-colour silk-screen printing machines of turntable type.
- More specifically, the invention relates to a silk-screen printing unit able to be associated with similar printing machines of turntable type, a typical but not exclusive use of which is in decorating glass containers of cylindrical or conical shape.
- With particular reference to cylindrical glass containers, silk-screen printing machines of turntable type are known comprising a loading table for the containers to be decorated, a series of printing stations and a discharge station for the decorated containers, in which said stations are angularly equidistant along a horizontally extending circular path tangential to which the screens of the printing stations can slide, and along which an equal number of radial mandrels each arranged to support a coaxial container are rotated with a stepwise movement of angular width equal to the width of distribution of said stations.
- In a widely used embodiment, such known machines comprise four printing stations, hence six stations in total which are angularly spaced apart by 60°, in which all or part of said printing stations can be used depending on the number of component colours of the decoration.
- As stated, such known turntable machines are suitable for decorating containers with curved surfaces, for example glass bottles with a cylindrical body and plastic bottles with a conical body, but notwithstanding attempts made up to the present time for this purpose there is as yet no silk-screen printing machine of turntable type available which is able in one and the same silk-screen printing operation to decorate at least two curved portions of different type present on one and the same container, for example a cylindrical portion and a conical portion, as is often the case for example with glass bottles.
- Hence in this sector there is a deeply felt need for means which enable a silk-screen printing machine of turntable type to effect such operations.
- The main object of this invention is to provide, within the context of a simple, rational and reliable construction, means which are able to effect such operations and which can be defined as of universal type by being suitable for association with most of currently available multi-colour silk-screen printing machines of turntable type.
- According to the invention said object is attained by a silk-screen printing unit to be positioned along the circular path followed by the radial mandrels of a multi-colour silk-screen printing machine of turntable type, and comprises at least two screens arranged to slide parallel to each other tangentially to said circular path, of which one is intended to apply a decoration to a respective cylindrical portion of the container, and the other is intended to apply a decoration to a respective frusto-conical portion of the same container, said applications being made simultaneously.
- Preferably said at least two screens are connected together by a linkage in such a manner that the sliding of one of them, at a linear speed equal to the peripheral speed of that portion of the container to be decorated, results in the sliding of the other at a linear speed equal to the peripheral speed with which the respective container portion to be decorated rotates.
- The characteristics and the constructional and functional merits of the invention will be more apparent from the ensuing description given with reference to the figures of the accompanying drawings, which illustrate a particular preferred embodiment thereof by way of non-limiting example.
- Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention from above, with parts cut away to show parts which would otherwise not be visible.
- Figure 2 is a section on the line II-II if Figure 1.
- Figure 3 is a view in the direction III of Figure 1.
- Firstly, for reasons of clarity and simplicity, hereinafter unless otherwise indicated, the terms "radial" or "radially" and "tangential" or "tangentially" mean directions along a radius or or a tangent to the circular path followed by the mandrel carrier ring of a turntable machine.
- Said figures, and in particular Figure 2, show a peripheral portion of a
circular ring 1 rotatably mounted on a stationary vertical shaft (not shown) pertaining to a multi-colour silk-screen printing machine of turntable type. - The essential characteristics of a machine of this type have already been indicated in the introduction, hence a detailed description will be given hereinafter of a silk-screen printing unit according to the invention, which can be associated with such a machine.
- For completeness, it should be noted that along the outer peripheral edge of said
circular ring 1 there is positioned a circumferential series of angularly equidistantradial mandrels 100, for example six in number, so that thecircular ring 1 is rotated by a stepping motor with an angular step of 60°. - This is achieved by a known mechanism housed in the
machine base 2, where the drive means for the unit of the invention are also located. - As can be seen in Figures 1 and 2, said
radial mandrels 100 each consist of two horizontal, parallelcylindrical bars 3 which extend beyond the peripheral edge of thering 1, and on which afixing centre 5 and aseat 6 are positioned, with the facility for adjusting their position apart on the basis of the dimensions of thecontainers 4 being processed. - In the illustrated example, said
containers 1 consist of bottles, with their mouth engaging said fixingcentre 5 and their base engaging saidseat 6. - In particular the body of said bottles is cylindrical, hereinafter called the cylindrical portion and indicated by 40, between the body and mouth there being provided a frusto-conical part, hereinafter known as the frusto-conical portion and indicated by 41.
- With the
seat 6 there is associated aninterchangeable pinion 7, between saidseat 6 and thering 1 there being provided usual means for retracting and advancing saidseat 6 to release and lock thecontainer 4 respectively. - As can be seen, along the outer horizontal edge of the
base 2 there is a series of equidistant tangentialhorizontal guides 8, they being four in number in this example seeing that sixmandrels 100 are assumed to be provided. - With each
guide 8 there is associated a unit of the invention, this unit comprising aslider 9 which is engaged with saidguide 9, faces the free ends of saidbars 3, and is arranged to undergo one complete outward and return travel stroke each time thering 1 halts after rotating through one step. - Said travel stroke is effected by a radial
horizontal rack 10 fixed in a height-adjustable manner to the base on the outside of saidslider 9. - Said
rack 10 is constantly engaged by an underlyinginterchangeable pinion 11 of radial horizontal axis which is rotatably supported by saidbase 2. - As can be seen, on that side facing the
ring 1 theslider 9 is provided with a tangentialhorizontal shaft 12 which is height-adjustable and on which aflat frame 13 is hinged. - In an opposite position to said
shaft 12, saidframe 13 comprises a tangentialhorizontal plate 14 lying between two opposingidle wheels 15 of radial horizontal axis. - The two
wheels 15 are fixed to a salientvertical rod 16, therod 16 being height-adjustable and driven with to-and-fro vertical rectilinear motion, their purpose being described hereinafter. - An interchangeable
horizontal screen 18 is removably fixed in a height-adjustable manner below that part of theframe 13 which is close to saidplate 14. - Said screen is provided to silk-screen print the
cylindrical portion 40 of thecontainer 4, with it there being upperly associated an inkingbrush 118 visible in Figure 1. - Said
brush 118 is able to independently adjust its height for the reasons explained hereinafter. - Below said
rack 13 there is also positioned in a height-adjustable manner an interchangeable tangentialhorizontal rack 77 facing the circular path followed by theunderlying pinions 7. - As shown particularly in Figures 1 and 2, on the opposite side of said
frame 13 there is fixed a tangentialhorizontal guide 19 with which there is engaged aslider 20 which extends below theframe 13 where it supports ascreen 21 which is inclined downwards from the horizontal and can be adjusted in terms both of height and of inclination. - As shown particularly in Figure 2, said
screen 21 is intended to silk-screen print the frusto-conical portion 41 of thecontainer 4, and hence is correspondingly inclined to the longitudinal axis of this latter. - Again in this case there is provided a
respective inking brush 121, visible in Figure 1, which is able to move independently for the reasons stated hereinafter. - The ink contained in said
screen 21 can be of the same colour as that contained in thescreen 18, or not. - In addition said
slider 20 supports in a height-adjustable manner an underlying tangentialhorizontal rack 22 constantly engaged with aninterchangeable drive pinion 23. - Finally, said
pinion 23 is keyed onto the inner end of a radialhorizontal shaft 24, saidshaft 24 being rotatably mounted on saidslider 9, the outer end of saidshaft 24 carrying keyed thereon a secondinterchangeable pinion 25, saidsecond pinion 25 being constantly engaged with an overlying interchangeable tangentialhorizontal rack 26, saidrack 26 being supported in a height-adjustable manner by a verticalflat frame 27 lowerly secured to themachine base 2. - It should be noted that the pitch circle diameter of the
pinion 7 controlling theseat 6 is equal to the outer diameter of the cylindrical portion of the containers 4 (Figure 2). - Moreover the pitch circle diameters of the
pinions screen 21 slides, given by the combination of the tangential motion of theframe 13 relative to thebase 2 and the tangential motion of thescreen 21 relative to theframe 13, is equal to the peripheral rotational speed of the central point of the longitudinal development of thedecoration 210 to be applied to the frusto-conical portion 41 of thecontainer 4. - Said
pinions containers 4 change. - The invention operates in the following manner.
- During the rotation of the
ring 1 through one step, thepinion 11 is stationary and theframe 13 is slightly raised from the shown position because of the raised position of therod 16, hence thescreens cylindrical portion 40 and frusto-conical portion 41 of thecontainers 4, and thebrushes respective screens - When the
ring 1 stops, therod 16 firstly lowers theframe 13 to position the inking plates of thescreens cylindrical portion 40 and frusto-conical portion 41 of theunderlying container 4, after which thebrushes portions drive pinion 11 then receiving the command to undergo a rotation, for example in the (anticlockwise) direction indicated by the arrow A in Figure 3, the extent of which depends both on the dimensions of thecontainer 4 and on the type ofdecorations 210 and 180 (see Figure 2) to be applied to thecylindrical portion 40 and frusto-conical portion 41 of thecontainer 4. - Specifically, during said rotation of the
pinion 11 in the direction A, theslider 9 andscreen 18 slide rigid with each other in the direction B (see Figures 1 and 3), thepinions screen 21 slides in the direction D relative to the frame 13 (Figure 1), ie in the opposite direction to that of thescreen 18. - On termination of the printing stage, firstly the inking
brushes frame 13 is raised, then thering 1 undergoes a further step while simultaneously thedrive pinion 11 undergoes a rotation of an extent equal but opposite to the preceding, to return the entire arrangement into the initial starting configuration for printing, while awaiting thenext container 4. - The invention is not limited to that illustrated and described, but includes all technical equivalents of the described means and their combinations, if implemented within the context of the following claims.
- For example in the illustrated example the
screens conical portion 41 which is to receive thedecoration 210 has an average diameter less than the diameter of thecylindrical portion 40, but it is evident that they could be made to slide in a single direction, typically if the diameter of said frusto-conical portion 41 is greater than the diameter of thecylindrical portion 40. - It is also evident that during the printing stage the
container 4 can undergo a rotation of less than, equal to, or greater than one revolution, in the first case the decoration having for example the form of a narrow longitudinal strip, in the second case the form of a complete circumferential band, and in the third case the form of a helical band or stripe.
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- A multi-purpose silk-screen printing unit for the multi-colour decoration of containers (4) having at least one cylindrical portion (40) and at least one coaxial frusto-conical portion (41), and being rotatably supported by a circumferential series of angularly equidistant radial mandrels (100) of a silk-screen printing machine of turntable type, this latter provided with stationary printing stations to which said containers are presented by said mandrels which at that moment are stationary, characterised by comprising at least one first screen (18) arranged to slide tangentially to the circumferential path followed by the mandrels and to apply a decoration (180) to said at least one cylindrical portion (40) of the container (4), and at least one second screen (21) arranged to slide parallel to said at least one first screen and to apply a decoration (210) to said at least one frusto-conical portion (41) of the container simultaneously with the application of the relative decoration by said at least one first screen, the travel strokes of which govern the travel strokes of said at least one second screen.
- A unit as claimed in claim 1, characterised in that one (21) of said at least two screens is slidingly mounted on the support structure of the other screen (18), said structure being slidingly mounted on a fixed part (2) of the machine.
- A unit as claimed in claim 2, characterised in that said structure comprises a flat attachment frame (13) for said one screen (18), said frame (13) presenting:on one side a tangential horizontal shaft (12) for its hinging to a slider (9) which is slidingly mounted on a fixed part (2) of the machine, and which is provided with a rack (10) constantly engaged with a drive pinion (11) arranged to subject said slider to one complete stroke of to-and-fro travel during the printing stage, andon the opposite side a tangential horizontal rack (77) arranged to engage with and disengage from a pinion (7) associated with the mandrels (100) by virtue of a tangential horizontal plate (14) which is coupled, by an engagement which enables it to slide parallel to itself, with a vertically movable retention member (15).
- A unit as claimed in claim 2, characterised in that said other screen (21) is located, in a manner such that its operating position can be adjusted, on a respective slider (20) supported by said attachment frame (13) for said one screen (18).
- A unit as claimed in claim 2, characterised in that said at least two screens are connected together by a linkage such that the translational movement of said other screen (21) is derived from the translational movement of said one screen (18).
- A unit as claimed in claim 5, characterised in that said linkage comprises two pinions (25, 23) which are keyed on a rotatable radial shaft (24) mounted on said slider (9) of said screen-carrying structure, and of which one (25) is constantly engaged with a tangential horizontal rack (26) secured to a fixed point (27) of the machine, and the other (23) is constantly engaged with a tangential horizontal rack secured to said slider (20) of said other screen (21).
- A multi-colour silk-screen printing machine of turntable type, comprising a circumferential series of angularly equidistant radial mandrels (100) provided to rotatably support the containers to be decorated and driven to travel with stepwise movement along a circular horizontal path in order to present said containers to a series of printing stations positioned tangential to said circular path, characterised in that said printing stations each consist of a unit claimed in claims 1 to 6.
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IT1998RE000028A IT1304271B1 (en) | 1998-03-17 | 1998-03-17 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL SCREEN PRINTING UNIT FOR CAROUSEL MACHINES FOR MULTIPOLISH SCREEN PRINTING OF CONTAINERS WITH CURVED SURFACES. |
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