EP1663646B1 - Racle de serigraphie et dispositif de serigraphie - Google Patents

Racle de serigraphie et dispositif de serigraphie Download PDF

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EP1663646B1
EP1663646B1 EP04764503A EP04764503A EP1663646B1 EP 1663646 B1 EP1663646 B1 EP 1663646B1 EP 04764503 A EP04764503 A EP 04764503A EP 04764503 A EP04764503 A EP 04764503A EP 1663646 B1 EP1663646 B1 EP 1663646B1
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Ewald König
Elmar Winterhalter
Klaus Messmer
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Thieme GmbH and Co KG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F15/00—Screen printers
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    • B41F15/44—Squeegees or doctors

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  • the invention relates to a screen printing squeegee with an elastic applicator element and a holding device, wherein the holding device is divided across the width of the squeegee seen in a plurality of mutually movable holding sections.
  • the invention also relates to a device for screen printing with a screen printing squeegee according to the invention.
  • Conventional screen printing devices are suitable for printing on flat objects, e.g. plane car glass panes.
  • the printed conductors of a rear window heater are applied to a flat glass pane by means of screen printing. After printing, the disc is heated and bent, at the same time curing the printed ink.
  • Subject of the European Patent Application EP 1 257 417 A is a doctor blade holder with a squeegee and a holding device.
  • the holding device is divided over the width of the squeegee into a plurality of holding sections, which are mutually movable.
  • a wiper arrangement for curved surfaces comprises a rubber lip and a holding device, which is divided over the length of the rubber lip into a plurality of mutually movable holding portions.
  • the British patent application GB 518,920 describes a wiper blade assembly for windshields with a wiper blade which is mounted in a holding device.
  • the holding device is divided over the entire length of the wiper blade into a plurality of mutually movable parts.
  • the printing of arbitrarily curved surfaces is to be made possible by screen printing.
  • a screen-printing squeegee with an elastic applicator element and a holding device is provided for this purpose, in which the holding device is divided over the width of the squeegee into a plurality of mutually movable holding sections, each guide section starting from each holding section at least during a printing operation on the applicator element.
  • the division into a plurality of mutually movable holding sections makes it possible to adapt the screen-printing squeegee to differently curved surfaces of an object to be printed. Since the holding sections can move relative to one another, the screen printing squeegee can already assume an approximately curved shape in the area of the holding sections, so that it is possible to ensure that the screen printing squeegees always print over their entire width on a printing screen and thus indirectly on the printing plate curved surface rests.
  • the guide plates By means of the guide plates, a uniform pressure distribution can be ensured on the pressure edge of thesecondalements. This is of particular importance because, with a curved course of the pressure edge of the application element, a distance from the pressure edge to a respective holding section changes. With constant material thickness and homogeneous material properties of the application element, this would result in a different contact pressure of the pressure edge, this effect can be compensated by the guide plates.
  • the material thickness and / or the elasticity of the applicator element could be adapted as a function of the distance of the pressure edge from a holding section.
  • the elastic applicator element is integrally formed and forms an elastic connection between the plurality of holding sections.
  • a pressure edge of the applicator element which faces an object to be printed, is designed to run curved.
  • a uniform support on a curved, to be printed object can be ensured and a uniform print image is achieved.
  • the course of the pressure edge is adapted to the curvature of the object to be printed.
  • a curvature profile of the pressure edge of the application element corresponds to a mean curvature of the article to be printed transversely to the direction of movement of the screen-printing squeegee.
  • the screen-printing squeegee can adapt within limits to a changing curvature profile of an object to be printed. If the curvature of the print edge is selected according to the mean curvature of the article to be printed, the required deformations of the screen squeegee are minimized during the printing process.
  • the guide plate extends from the holding section in the direction of the pressure edge of the applicator element, wherein an edge of the guide plate facing away from the holding section extends parallel to the pressure edge of the applicator element.
  • the guide plate is curved. In this way, an adaptation to the curvature of a surface to be printed can be improved.
  • a device for screen printing in which a screen-printing squeegee is provided with an elastic applicator element and a holding device, wherein the holding device is divided over the width of the squeegee seen in several, mutually movable holding sections and wherein each holding section at least one controllable adjusting element is assigned.
  • the contact pressure and / or the deflection of each holding section can be influenced individually in order to achieve the best possible adaptation of the screen-printing squeegee to the curvature of a surface to be printed.
  • the presentation of the Fig. 1 shows a Siebffyrakel 10 according to the invention with a plurality of holding sections 12, 14 and 15.
  • the Siebpecializingrakel 10 is connected to a doctor blade, not shown, a screen printing device, also not shown.
  • the screen printing blade 10 further comprises an elastic applicator element 18, which consists for example of an elastic rubber plate.
  • the elastic applicator element 18 is embodied in one piece over the entire width of the screen-printing squeegee 10 and accommodated in each of the holding sections 12, 14, 16.
  • the holding portions 12, 14, 16 are spaced from each other and connected only via the elastic applicator element 18.
  • the holding portions 12, 14, 16 are thereby movable relative to each other.
  • a printing edge 20 of the screen-printing squeegee 10 lying opposite the holding sections 12, 14, 16 is curved, the curvature of the printing edge 20 being adapted to the surface curvature of an article to be printed.
  • Each guide section 22, 24 or 26 is connected to each holding section 12, 14, 16, which extends from a respective holding section 12, 14, 16 in the direction of the pressure edge 20.
  • the guide plates 22, 24, 26 are applied to the elastic applicator element 18 to a uniform pressure distribution on the elastic applicator element 18th and thus to ensure a uniform contact pressure of the pressure edge 20 during a printing operation.
  • a lower edge of the guide plates 22, 24, 26 remote from the holding sections 12, 14, 16 runs parallel to the pressure edge 20 of the elastic applicator element 18.
  • left guide plate 22 of the left holding portion 12 extends on its, the middle guide plate 24 of the middle holding portion 14 side facing not in extension of the associated left holding portion 12, but starting from this towards a center of the pressure edge 20 and to this.
  • This side edge of the left guide plate 22 extends so far in the direction of the center of the pressure edge 20 that in the projection, in the Fig. 1 perpendicular to the top, one of the pressure edge 20 adjacent corner of the left guide plate 22, a left boundary of the middle holding portion 14 and thus partially covers a left boundary of the middle guide plate 24.
  • a left side edge of the middle guide plate 24 extends from the left boundary of the middle holding portion 14 also toward the center of the pressure edge 20 and approximately parallel to the right side edge of the left guide plate 22.
  • each holding section 12, 14, 16, each with two adjusting cylinders 30 is connected to the squeegee holder 28.
  • Each of the actuating cylinders 30 can be controlled individually by means of a control device 32 in order to set a relative position of the holding sections 12, 14, 16 relative to one another and a contact pressure of the pressure edge 20 of the screen-printing blade 10 over their length.
  • the contact pressure as well as the position of the pressure edge 20 of the squeegee blade 10 between a printing operation and, for example, a return movement of the doctor blade can be adjusted differently.
  • the curved extending pressure edge 20 of the squeegee 10 allows a uniform adaptation to the curved surface of an object to be printed 34, for example, a finished shaped car glass.
  • a printing screen which is necessarily to be arranged between the screen-printing squeegee 10 and the object 34 to be imprinted, is shown in FIG Fig. 2 not shown. Due to the mutually movable holding sections 12, 14, 16 and the individual adjustability of the holding sections 12, 14, 16 via the adjusting cylinder 30, the screen-printing blade 10 can be adapted to be verxenderde curvatures of the object 34 to be printed. In a longitudinal direction, that means in the direction of movement of the squeegee 10 changing curvature of the object to be printed 34, the curvature of the pressure edge 20 is selected according to a mean curvature of the object 34 to be printed.
  • the screen printing squeegee 10 can thus be printed by means of a conventional screen printing device transversely to the direction of printing curved objects, such as the object to be printed 34.
  • a screen printing device 40 are used together with the screen printing squeegee 10 according to the invention, as shown in the Fig. 3 is shown.
  • a printing unit frame 42 can perform a rocking motion during a printing movement of a squeegee holder 44 with a squeegee clamped therein, while the squeegee holder 44 is guided approximately parallel to a longitudinally curved surface of an object to be printed.
  • the doctor blade holder 44 is guided in slide tracks 46, which are adapted to the curvature of an article to be printed in the longitudinal direction, that is to say in the direction of movement of the doctor during the printing process.
  • slide tracks 46 are adapted to the curvature of an article to be printed in the longitudinal direction, that is to say in the direction of movement of the doctor during the printing process.
  • the rocking movement of the printing unit frame 42 which is caused by the movement of the guided on the printing unit frame 42 Ra Kelnalters 44, rolls a lower part of the printing unit frame 42 on a parallel to the slide track 46 extending from rolling surface.
  • the successive rolling surfaces are toothed, so that the printing unit frame 42 is fixed during a printing movement in the longitudinal direction.
  • the screen printing device 40 thus allows the printing of spherically curved objects, that is, objects which are curved both in the longitudinal direction and transversely to the longitudinal direction.
  • FIG Fig. 4 Another embodiment of a screen printing device 50 according to the invention is shown in FIG Fig. 4 shown.
  • a spherically curved object 52 is to be printed.
  • a surface curvature of the article 52 transversely to the longitudinal direction is taken into account by the screen printing squeegee 10 according to the invention, which in the Fig. 4 is indicated only schematically.
  • the curvature of the article to be printed 52 in the longitudinal direction is taken into account by a rocking movement of a printing unit frame 54, which is realized in the screen printing device 50 via four lifting columns 56 which are controlled by a control device, not shown.
  • the position of the printing unit frame 54 is adjusted so that the printing unit frame 54 and thus in the Fig. 4 not shown printing screen is always set tangentially to an imaginary line of contact between the pressure edge of the screen printing blade 10 and the surface of the object to be printed 52.
  • the screen printing device 50 can be freely programmed with respect to the control of the lifting columns 56, so that only a reprogramming is required to take into account different curvatures of objects to be printed.

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Claims (7)

  1. Racle de sérigraphie avec un élément applicateur flexible (18) et un dispositif de fixation, sachant que le dispositif de fixation vu sur la largeur de la racle de sérigraphie (10) est divisé en plusieurs segments de fixation (12, 14, 16) mobiles les uns par rapport aux autres, caractérisée en ce que, au moins pendant une impression, une plaque de guidage (22, 24, 26) s'appuyant sur l'élément applicateur (18) sort de chaque segment de fixation (12, 14, 16).
  2. Racle de sérigraphie selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que l'élément applicateur flexible (18) est constitué d'une seule pièce et forme une liaison flexible entre les différents segments de fixation (12, 14, 16).
  3. Racle de sérigraphie selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce qu'un bord d'impression (20) de l'élément applicateur (18) orienté vers l'objet à imprimer (34) est curviligne.
  4. Racle de sérigraphie selon la revendication 3, caractérisée en ce qu'une courbure du bord d'impression (20) de l'élément applicateur (18) correspond à une courbure moyenne de l'objet à imprimer (34) transversalement par rapport au sens de déplacement de la racle de sérigraphie (10).
  5. Racle de sérigraphie selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que la plaque de guidage (22, 24, 26) s'étend à partir du segment de fixation (12, 14, 16) en direction du bord d'impression (20) de l'élément applicateur (18), sachant qu'un bord de la plaque de guidage (22, 24, 26) opposé au segment de fixation (12, 14, 16) est parallèle au bord d'impression de l'élément applicateur (18).
  6. Racle de sérigraphie selon la revendication 5, caractérisée en ce que la plaque de guidage est curviligne.
  7. Dispositif de sérigraphie caractérisé par une racle de sérigraphie (10) avec un élément applicateur flexible (18) et un dispositif de fixation, sachant que le dispositif de fixation vu sur la largeur de la racle de sérigraphie (10) est divisé en plusieurs segments de fixation (12, 14, 16) mobiles les uns par rapport aux autres, et que chaque segment de fixation (12, 14, 16) est associé à au moins un élément de réglage (30) ajustable.
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PL04764503T PL1663646T3 (pl) 2003-09-16 2004-08-26 Rakiel do sitodruku i urządzenie do sitodruku
SI200430710T SI1663646T1 (sl) 2003-09-16 2004-08-26 Strgalo sitotiska in naprava za sitotisk

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DE10344023A DE10344023B4 (de) 2003-09-16 2003-09-16 Siebdruckrakel und Vorrichtung zum Siebdrucken
PCT/EP2004/009527 WO2005035250A1 (fr) 2003-09-16 2004-08-26 Racle de serigraphie et dispositif de serigraphie

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WO2005035250A1 (fr) 2005-04-21
SI1663646T1 (sl) 2008-08-31
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US20080034989A1 (en) 2008-02-14
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