EP1210230B1 - Dispositif et procede d'impression - Google Patents

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EP1210230B1
EP1210230B1 EP00956429A EP00956429A EP1210230B1 EP 1210230 B1 EP1210230 B1 EP 1210230B1 EP 00956429 A EP00956429 A EP 00956429A EP 00956429 A EP00956429 A EP 00956429A EP 1210230 B1 EP1210230 B1 EP 1210230B1
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Michael Zimmer
Bernd Schultheis
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Schott AG
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Schott Glaswerke AG
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03G—ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY
    • G03G15/00—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern
    • G03G15/14—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base
    • G03G15/16—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern, e.g. magnetic transfer
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F15/00—Screen printers
    • B41F15/08—Machines
    • B41F15/0895—Machines for printing on curved surfaces not otherwise provided for
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M1/00—Inking and printing with a printer's forme
    • B41M1/40—Printing on bodies of particular shapes, e.g. golf balls, candles, wine corks
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M5/00—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
    • B41M5/025—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein by transferring ink from the master sheet
    • B41M5/03—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein by transferring ink from the master sheet by pressure
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
    • B41P2200/00—Printing processes
    • B41P2200/40—Screen printing
    • B41P2200/41—Offset printing
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S101/00—Printing
    • Y10S101/37—Printing employing electrostatic force

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  • the invention relates to a printing device with at least one transfer roller, that on their roller surface at least partially with a toner can be acted upon as a coating material, the Coating material indirectly or directly on a support surface of a Transfer element can be applied.
  • the invention also relates to a printing method in which, with the aid of a Transfer element a coating is applied to a workpiece.
  • a coating method is known from EP 0 647 885 A1 which is used for Printing of ceramic and glass products is used.
  • Coating material a toner is used, the toner particles a Have pigment core.
  • the ceramic pigments and glassy river existing ones are surrounded by a binder resin shell.
  • charge control means are coupled.
  • the toner particles with the help of an electrostatic copying process Gum arabic coated paper applied.
  • the paper can then be opened the workpiece to be coated (a ceramic or glass product) is placed and be moistened.
  • the paper that serves as a transfer element can then peeled off, leaving the gum ariabic layer and the applied thereon colored coating adheres to the workpiece.
  • EP-OS 0 834 784 and EP-OS 0 072 778 each have one Known printing device having a ribbon-like transmission device, which consists of a flexible band with a silicone coating. In the field of Transfer of the toner to the workpiece is carried out on this belt by means of a roller the workpiece is pressed on, however, is not a coating of 2D surfaces possible.
  • a screen printing device in which as An elastic rubber band is used for the transmission means for the screen print image that is provided with upper and lower run. Between the upper and lower run of the endless belt, a vacuum device is arranged with which Creating the screen print image a system on the screen print template and at Printing a system on the workpiece is ensured. The slight unevenness between the areas to be printed and those not Compensate for the printing areas in the print image so that the contours are sharp Print image is created.
  • the expansion element can be deformed by means of the expansion device in such a way that it adapts to the contour of the surface to be printed. Leave this way complex courses from three-dimensionally shaped areas to simple ones Print wise.
  • the printing method or the printing device is suitable for Printing of glass, glass ceramic, ceramic or deformed out of the plane Plastic workpieces.
  • 3D deformed parts from above
  • the materials mentioned cannot currently be easily used with the previous ones Print conventional screen printing techniques inexpensively.
  • the printing process or the printing device can be 3D-shaped glass panes, for. B. domed Oven front panes, glass control panel, furniture glass doors or curved ones Architectural glass, 3D-shaped glass ceramic cooktops with, for example lower lying cooking areas or deformed out of the plane, higher horizontal operating areas, as well as curved glass-ceramic fireplace windows, 3D-deformed Ceramic parts, such as dishes, such as plates and bowls and Print 3D-shaped plastic surfaces.
  • the transmission element is designed as an endlessly circulating band is that along its longitudinal extent at least in regions Expansion elements is equipped or that is itself designed as an expansion element.
  • the endless belt enables a continuous, economical coating of Workpieces. It can in particular be provided that the transmission element is designed as a rubber band.
  • the printing device can, for example, be such that the stretching device has a stamp, that the stamp has a stamp surface, which is adapted to the printing surface of the workpiece to be printed, and that the support surface of the expansion element from its extended starting position can be pressed onto the printing surface by means of the stamp.
  • the Stamp the expansion element.
  • the stamp surface the stamp is formed from an elastic, resilient material.
  • the transmission element is a cleaning device is assigned by means of which the support surface of the expansion element Completion of the printing process is cleanable.
  • the support surface of the expansion element with a Silicone coating is provided or is formed by a silicone rubber.
  • a Such surface design prevents coating material after the printing process sticks to the support surface.
  • the printing process can be designed in this way be that the transmission element rotating as an endless belt on the stretching device is passed, and that the endless belt while stretching the support surface and the execution of the printing process is stopped. At the same time as the endless belt is clocked, the conveyor belt must also be stopped.
  • a continuous manufacturing process can be achieved if provided is that the circulating transmission element on the stretching device can be passed that during the expansion of the support surface and Execution of the printing process, the stretching device and at the same time Workpiece with the endless belt.
  • the invention is also characterized in that that the stretching device is associated with a corona that the Transfer of the coating material to the printing surface of the Workpiece causes or supports.
  • the drawing shows in a schematic Representation of a printing device that is carried by a transport device 10
  • Workpieces 11 are continuously fed.
  • the workpieces 11 are present formed as a plate having an upwardly facing pressure surface 12.
  • This printing area 12 applies with the one described in more detail below Printing device to print. Without being limited to the general public, it can the workpieces 11 are also others previously described Trade workpieces made of glass, glass ceramic or plastic.
  • the printing device has a first transfer roller 24, which is known in the art Electrostatically charged and then with toner particles 27 of a toner 26th can be coated.
  • the toner 26 is held in a storage container 25.
  • the storage container 25 is colored black Toner 26 stored.
  • Transfer rollers 28 are provided in addition to the transfer roller 24, there are three more Transfer rollers 28 are provided. These transfer rollers 28 are more Storage container 29 assigned. In the individual storage containers 29 are colored Filled with toner. The transfer rollers 28 can with these colored toners be coated.
  • a transfer device 20 is located below the transfer rollers 24 and 28 arranged.
  • the transmission device 20 has an expansion element 22 trained endless belt.
  • This endless belt 22 is in the present case as a rubber band designed.
  • the rubber band 22 is spaced apart from one another by two held transport rollers 21 deflected.
  • the left of the two transport rollers 21 is driven by a motor, not shown in the drawing. Accordingly, the rubber band forms an upper run 22.1 and a lower run 22.1.
  • the left transport roller 21 is too assigned a clamping unit 40. By means of this clamping unit 40, the Rubber band 22 are biased.
  • the right transport roller 21 is assigned a cleaning device 23, the functioning of which will be explained below.
  • the stretching device 30 has a drive 31, the plunger 32 linear moves.
  • the plunger 32 carries at its end facing away from the drive 31 a stamp 33.
  • the stamp 33 has a stamp surface facing downward 34.
  • the stamp surface 34 is on the pressure surface 12 of the workpiece 11 adapted and curved accordingly.
  • the transfer roller 24 is with coated the toner particles 27. If necessary, the transfer rollers 28 coated with colored toner particles.
  • the transfer rollers 24 and 28 rotate clockwise.
  • the rotational speed of the rubber band 22 and the surface of the Transfer rollers 24 and 28 are coordinated.
  • corones 35 are used to transfer the Color particles 27 on the run-up strand 22.2 of the rubber band 22.
  • the color particles 27 are transported past the left transport roller 21 on the rubber band 22 and then get into the area of the running run 22.1.
  • the transport roller 21 is stopped. Then can the punch 33 in the direction of the workpieces 11 by means of the drive 31st be moved. The rubber band 22 expands and lies against the Stamp area 34. The stamp 33 then presses the rubber band 22 on the Printing area 12 on.
  • the stamp 33 can also be used at the same time be provided with a heating device which fixes the color particles 27 on the Workpiece surface reached.
  • the stamp 33 becomes again retracted to its upper starting position.
  • the rubber band 22 can then can be rotated further, for which purpose the transport roller 21 is rotated.
  • the transport device 10 also moves and sets the next one Workpiece 11 under the stretching device 30.
  • the one provided with the pressure 13 Workpiece 11 is transported out of the effective range of the printing device.
  • the cleaning device 23 can be, for example, a heated roller that is on the rubber band 22 rolls.
  • the heated roller is in turn a brush assigned, which decreases the toner particles 27.
  • a carryover of toner particles To safely prevent 27, the rubber band 22 can also on his Carrier surface with a silicone coating. It is also conceivable apply a layer of silicone rubber to the rubber band 22.

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  1. Dispositif d'impression avec au moins un cylindre de transfert (24) pouvant être chargé électrostatiquement, qui peut être alimenté en teinture (26) au moins partiellement sur sa surface de cylindre, la teinture (26) pouvant être appliquée directement ou indirectement sur une surface porteuse d'un élément de transfert, l'élément de transfert présentant un élément extensible (22) qui forme la surface porteuse, et la surface porteuse étant extensible au moyen d'un dispositif d'extension (30) et une couronne étant affectée au dispositif d'extension (30), couronne qui a pour effet ou appuie le transfert de la matière de revêtement sur la surface d'impression (12) de la pièce (11) à imprimer.
  2. Dispositif d'impression selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'élément de transfert est conçu comme une bande rotative sans fin qui est équipée le long de son étendue longitudinale au moins localement d'éléments extensibles (22) ou qui est elle-même conçue comme un élément extensible (22).
  3. Dispositif d'impression selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que l'élément de transfert est conçu comme une bande en caoutchouc.
  4. Dispositif d'impression selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'extension (30) présente un piston (33), en ce que le piston (33) présente une surface de piston (34) qui est conçue de façon à s'adapter à la surface d'impression (12) de la pièce (11) à imprimer, et en ce que la surface porteuse de l'élément extensible (22) peut être pressée depuis sa position de départ tendue contre la surface d'impression (12) au moyen du piston (33).
  5. Dispositif d'impression selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que la surface de piston (34) du piston (33) est formée d'une matière souple élastique.
  6. Dispositif d'impression selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce qu'un dispositif de nettoyage (23) au moyen duquel la surface porteuse de l'élément extensible (22) peut être nettoyée après la fin de l'opération d'impression, est affecté à l'élément de transfert.
  7. Dispositif d'impression selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que la surface porteuse de l'élément extensible (22) est pourvue d'un revêtement en silicone ou est formée d'un caoutchouc siliconé.
  8. Procédé d'impression avec au moins un cylindre de transfert pouvant être chargé électrostatiquement, qui est alimenté sur sa surface de cylindre en teinture comme matière de revêtement, procédé dans lequel la matière de revêtement est appliquée directement ou indirectement par le cylindre de transfert sur une surface porteuse d'un élément de transfert, et dans lequel la matière de revêtement est appliquée au moins partiellement par l'élément de transfert sur une pièce à revêtir, l'élément de transfert présentant un élément extensible (22) qui forme la surface porteuse, et la surface porteuse étant étendue dans le sens de la surface au moyen d'un dispositif d'extension (30), et une couronne étant affectée au dispositif d'extension (30), couronne qui a pour effet ou appuie le transfert de la matière de revêtement sur la surface d'impression (12) de la pièce (11) à imprimer.
  9. Procédé d'impression selon la revendication 8, caractérisé en ce que l'élément extensible (22) réalisé en forme de structure de forme plane est étendu au moins dans une région partielle de la surface porteuse de manière unidimensionnelle, bidimensionnelle ou tridimensionnelle.
  10. Procédé d'impression selon la revendication 8 ou 9, caractérisé en ce que l'on fait passer l'élément de transfert (20) sous forme de bande rotative sans fin devant le dispositif d'extension (30) et en ce que la bande sans fin est arrêtée pendant l'extension de la surface porteuse et la réalisation de l'opération d'impression.
  11. Procédé d'impression selon la revendication 8 ou 9, caractérisé en ce que l'on fait passer l'élément de transfert (20) sous forme de bande rotative sans fin devant le dispositif d'extension (30), en ce que pendant l'extension de la surface porteuse et la réalisation de l'opération d'impression, le dispositif d'extension (30) et en même temps la pièce (11) à imprimer sont entraínés conjointement avec la bande sans fin.
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