EP1745903B1 - Vorrichtung zum trocken Aufbringen von Dekorationen auf Gegenständen - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum trocken Aufbringen von Dekorationen auf Gegenständen Download PDF

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EP1745903B1
EP1745903B1 EP20060117388 EP06117388A EP1745903B1 EP 1745903 B1 EP1745903 B1 EP 1745903B1 EP 20060117388 EP20060117388 EP 20060117388 EP 06117388 A EP06117388 A EP 06117388A EP 1745903 B1 EP1745903 B1 EP 1745903B1
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    • 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
    • B05C19/00—Apparatus specially adapted for applying particulate materials to surfaces
    • B05C19/04—Apparatus specially adapted for applying particulate materials to surfaces the particulate material being projected, poured or allowed to flow onto the surface of the work
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28B—SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
    • B28B11/00—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles
    • B28B11/001—Applying decorations on shaped articles, e.g. by painting
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28B—SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
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    • B28B11/04—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles for coating or applying engobing layers
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28B—SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
    • B28B11/00—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles
    • B28B11/04—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles for coating or applying engobing layers
    • B28B11/047—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles for coating or applying engobing layers by pooring, e.g. curtain coating

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  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for dry application of decorations on items, in particular ceramic floor or furring tiles, as per the preamble of claims 1 or 2.
  • the dry decoration includes a first step, in which a suitable quantity of powdered enamel of prefixed granulometry, or granule size, is put down on the surface to be decorated, according to a prefixed scheme, so as to reproduce the pattern of the desired decoration.
  • the tile and the decoration are subjected to baking, so as to vitrify the enamel and fasten it to the tile.
  • the European Patent Application EP 1 419 863 relates to an apparatus for dry application of powder dry enamel to items, in particular ceramic tiles, which includes an endless belt of elastic material, whose outer surface has a plurality of pits, defining a decoration matrix and receiving powder enamel, so as to place it on the passing items, carried by a conveying line.
  • the belt known as "sleeve” in technical jargon, is placed sloping above the conveying line, and is stretched between a driving roller, situated above, and a lower cusp, whose tip is rounded and turned downwards, not far from the upper surface of the tile to be decorated.
  • the sleeve is operated by the driving roller in the same direction and synchronously with the motion of the tiles on the conveying line, so as to define a sleeve forward run, upstream of the rounded cusp, and a backward run, downstream of the cusp.
  • the powder enamel is overfed to the forward run, near the cusp and directly upstream of means for removing exceeding enamel, which has not entered the pits, and for compacting the enamel in the pits.
  • the pits When the pits reach the rounded tip of the cusp, whose curvature radius is suitably small, they result to be turned downwards and stretched due to the sleeve curving on the cusp, and consequently the enamel powder contained therein falls, due to gravity, onto the surface of the tile below, so as to define the decoration.
  • the aforementioned means for removing exceeding enamel include a close belt, wound endlessly on relative rollers, one of which is a driving roller.
  • the belt is placed sloping, with the lower roller tangential to the sleeve forward run, near the rounded cusp.
  • the powder enamel is fed between the belt upper run and the sleeve forward run.
  • the belt is operated with a counter-rotation with respect to the forward run, so as to graze continuously the latter, in order to remove the exceeding enamel and to compact the enamel, which has entered the pits.
  • the quality of the obtained decoration intended as the definition details, the effect and fading of various hues tones, in practice, the accuracy of the reproduced image with respect to the starting one, depends not only on the apparatus constructive characteristics, but also on the characteristics of the used enamel, in particular on the granulometry and residue humidity of the powder materials constituting it, which define its flowability.
  • This flowability has an effect on the bigger or smaller enamel capacity of remaining inside the pit in the portion of the forward run comprised between the end of the pit charging step and the pit discharging step, as well as on the discharge manner, in the latter step.
  • the object of the present invention is to propose an improved apparatus with the features of claims 1 or 2 for dry application of decorations to items, which derives from the technical solutions described in the above mentioned patent application, and whose characteristic features ensure higher quality of the thus obtained decoration with respect to the previous one.
  • the quality of the decoration must be affected as less as possible by small differences of the characteristics of the powder enamel used each time.
  • Another object of the present invention is to propose an improved apparatus, which allows a high decoration quality to be maintained also with high operation speeds.
  • a further object of the present invention is to propose an apparatus, which reduces the wear of the elements which make it up.
  • the reference numeral 100 indicates the proposed improved apparatus, as a whole.
  • the proposed apparatus is aimed at dry applying of powder enamel S to the items 2, in particular ceramic tiles, and includes a ring-like, endless band 10 (or sleeve) of elastic material, having on its outer surface a series of pits 1, which define the decoration pattern and which are aimed at receiving powder enamel S, so as to place it on the passing tiles 2, carried in a horizontal arrangement by a conveying line 20 with a uniform speed in a direction V
  • the sleeve 10 is positioned above the conveying line 20 and is stretched between a motor roller 11, situated above, and a lower cusp12, whose tip 120 is rounded and turned downward, at a short distance from the upper surface of the tile 2 to decorate.
  • the radius of curvature of the rounded tip 120 is suitably small (about 5 - 6 mm), so as to facilitate rapid emptying of the pits 1 of the enamel, as it has been already mentioned in the introductory note.
  • the sleeve 10 is operated by the motor roller 11 in a direction W, concordant and synchronized with the movement of the tiles 2 on the 20, so as to define a forward run 13 of the sleeve 10, upstream of the lower cusp 12, and a backward run 14, downstream thereof.
  • the forward run 13 is vertical, while the backward run is sloping.
  • the forward run 13 is inclined, so that the smaller angle, formed with respect to the horizontal direction, is located downstream, in the tile 2 feeding direction V.
  • the rounded tip 120 can be fixed and the sleeve 10 grazes it with sliding friction, possibly reduced with suitable devices.
  • the tip 120 has revolving means, aimed at making the friction with the sleeve 10 rolling.
  • the powder enamel S is overfed by a feeding device of a known type, situated next to the sleeve 10, on the side of the forward run 13.
  • the enamel S falls onto the upper run 30a of an endless belt 30, which is stretched between relative rollers and inclined, so that the lower part of said upper run 30a, where the belt winds around a corresponding idler roller, is tangent to the sleeve 10.
  • a station R for filling the tips 1 is defined in the contact area between the belt 30 and the sleeve 10.
  • the belt 30 is operated to counter-rotate with respect to the sleeve 10, so as to slide thereon, and is aimed at removing the exceeding enamel from the sleeve in a way known in itself, and at compacting the enamel, which has entered the pits 1 in the filling station R.
  • the exceeding enamel goes up the upper run 30a of the belt 30, so as to be recovered and reintroduced into the circulation, in a known way.
  • the powder enamel S introduced into the pits 1 is transferred, by the movement of the sleeve 10, to a decoration station D, situated below, in a region corresponding to the rounded tip 120, where the powder enamel S leaves the respective pits 1, due to gravity, and settles on the upper surface of the passing tiles 2, so as to reproduce thereon the decoration pattern.
  • the filling station R is situated close to the to rounded tip 120 of the lower cusp 12, immediately upstream of the decoration station D, so as to reduce as much as possible the distance, which the pits 1, filled with the powder enamel S, must cover before being emptied.
  • the belt 30 must be guided, at the outlet of the filling station R, along such a path that does not interfere with the tiles 2 passing below.
  • the fully safe working of the apparatus 100 is assured by the adjusting of the idler roller 31 height, so that a difference G of about 2 ⁇ 3mm remains between the lower edge of the belt 30 and the one of the sleeve 10.
  • the idler roller 31 can be not only of traditional kind, with an idle axis ( Figures 2 and 3 ), but it can be also formed by a fixed tubular element ( Figure 4 and 5 ), having fastened thereto blowing means 32, aimed at giving off compressed air toward the inner part of the belt 30, which pass over the fixed tubular element 31, so as to create an air cushion 40, interposed between the element 31 and the belt 30, in order to reduce the friction therebetween.
  • the blowing means 32 include members, not shown, for supplying compressed air into the fixed tubular element 31.
  • the compressed air goes out through a series of calibrated holes 33.
  • the described invention allows to improve the quality of obtained decorations, due to the fact that the distance from the filling station R to the decoration station D, that the pits 1, filled with enamel, must cover, is reduced to few millimeters, thus the possibility of an accidental enamel leakage on the way is almost eliminated.
  • the above feature makes the possible small smoothness variations, which can occur between one lot of enamel and another, practically irrelevant to the decoration quality.
  • the apparatus obtained according to the claims, allows to maintain high quality of decorations, also at high working speed.
  • the described constructive solutions are aimed at reducing the frictions, and consequently the wear, which in such apparatuses can be really rapid, in consideration of the nature of vitreous elements contained in the powder enamels, that are strongly abrasive.

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  1. Verbesserte Vorrichtung zum Trockenaufbringen von Dekorationen auf Gegenständen, worin diese Vorrichtung ein ringartiges Endlosband (10) aus elastischem Material beinhaltet, das gespannt ist zwischen einer oben angeordneten Antriebsrolle (11) und einer unteren Zacke (12), deren Spitze (120) abgerundet und nach unten gerichtet ist, wobei das Band (10) oberhalb einer Förderlinie (20) für die Gegenstände (2) angeordnet ist und an seiner Außenfläche eine Reihe von Vertiefungen (1) aufweist, die das Dekormuster bilden und zur Aufnahme von Glasurpulver (S) dienen, das auf ein schräggestelltes ringartiges Endlosband (30) zugeführt wird, welches zwischen entsprechenden Rollen gespannt ist und an einer Station (R) zur Befüllung der Vertiefungen (1) tangential zu dem Band (10) angeordnet ist, wobei das Band (30) in eine gegenläufige Drehung relativ zum Band (10) versetzt wird, um das überschüssige Glasurpulver zu entfernen, das nicht in den Vertiefungen (1) aufgenommen wurde, wobei die zuletzt genannten dafür ausgelegt sind, das darin enthaltene Glasurpulver (S) an eine darunterliegende Dekorationsstation (D) auszugeben, die in dem Bereich der abgerundeten Spitze (120) des Zackens (12) angeordnet ist und in der das Glasurpulver (S) die entsprechenden Vertiefungen (1) durch Schwerkraftwirkung verlässt und sich auf den darunter durchlaufenden Gegenständen (2) ablagert, um das Dekor auf diesen zu reproduzieren,
    worin die Füllstation (R) in der Nähe der abgerundeten Spitze (120) der unteren Zacke (12) unmittelbar stromaufwärts vor der Dekorationsstation (D) angeordnet ist, wobei das Band (30) am Auslauf der Füllstation (R) so entlang einem bestimmten Pfad geführt wird, dass es außerhalb des Störbereichs der darunter durchlaufenden Gegenstände (2) verläuft, wobei die Vorrichtung (100) dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass eine Umlenkrolle (31) des Bandes (30), die in der Füllstation (R) angeordnet ist, sich im Leerlauf um ihre Achse dreht und einen Durchmesser aufweist, der so beschaffen ist, dass der dem Band (30) auferlegte Krümmungsradius ähnlich dem Krümmungsradius ist, der dem Band (10) durch die abgerundete Spitze (120) der Zacke (12) auferlegt wird.
  2. Verbesserte Vorrichtung zum Trockenaufbringen von Dekorationen auf Gegenständen, worin diese Vorrichtung ein ringartiges Endlosband (10) aus elastischem Material beinhaltet, das gespannt ist zwischen einer oben angeordneten Antriebsrolle (11) und einer unteren Spitze (12), deren Spitze (120) abgerundet und nach unten gerichtet ist, wobei das Band (10) oberhalb einer Förderlinie (20) für die Gegenstände (2) angeordnet ist und an seiner Außenfläche eine Reihe von Vertiefungen (1) aufweist, die das Dekormuster bilden und zur Aufnahme von Glasurpulver (S) dienen, das auf ein schräggestelltes ringartiges Endlosband (30) zugeführt wird, welches zwischen entsprechenden Rollen gespannt ist und an einer Station (R) zur Befüllung der Vertiefungen (1) tangential zu dem Band (10) angeordnet ist, wobei das Band (30) in eine gegenläufige Drehung relativ zum Band (10) versetzt wird, um das überschüssige Glasurpulver zu entfernen, das nicht in den Vertiefungen (1) aufgenommen wurde, wobei die zuletzt genannten dafür ausgelegt sind, das darin enthaltene Glasurpulver (S) an eine darunterliegende Dekorationsstation (D) auszugeben, die in dem Bereich der abgerundeten Spitze (120) des Zackens (12) angeordnet ist und in der das Glasurpulver (S) die entsprechenden Vertiefungen (1) durch Schwerkraftwirkung verlässt und sich auf den darunter durchlaufenden Gegenständen (2) ablagert, um das Dekor auf diesen zu reproduzieren,
    worin die Füllstation (R) in der Nähe der abgerundeten Spitze (120) der unteren Zacke (12) unmittelbar stromaufwärts vor der Dekorationsstation (D) angeordnet ist, wobei das Band (30) am Auslauf der Füllstation (R) so entlang einem bestimmten Pfad geführt wird, dass es außerhalb des Störbereichs der darunter durchlaufenden Gegenstände (2) verläuft, wobei die Vorrichtung dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass ein feststehendes röhrenförmiges Element (31) des Bandes (30) in der Füllstation (R) angeordnet ist und einen Durchmesser aufweist, der so beschaffen ist, dass der dem Band (30) auferlegte Krümmungsradius ähnlich dem Krümmungsradius ist, der dem Band (10) durch die abgerundete Spitze (120) der Zacke (12) auferlegt wird, und dadurch, dass Blaseinrichtungen (32) an dem an dem feststehenden röhrenförmigen Element (31) angebracht sind, die dazu dienen, Druckluft an die Innenseite des Bandes (30) auszugeben und ein Luftkissen (40) zu erzeugen, das sich zwischen dem feststehenden röhrenförmigen Element (31) und dem Band (30) befindet, um die Reibung zu vermindern.
  3. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Höhe der Umlenkrolle (31) derart reguliert ist, dass eine Differenz (G) von etwa 2 - 3 mm zwischen dem unteren Ende des Bandes (30) und dem des Bandes (10) bestehen bleibt.
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