EP1918100A2 - Druckmaschine und Druckverfahren - Google Patents

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EP1918100A2
EP1918100A2 EP07291317A EP07291317A EP1918100A2 EP 1918100 A2 EP1918100 A2 EP 1918100A2 EP 07291317 A EP07291317 A EP 07291317A EP 07291317 A EP07291317 A EP 07291317A EP 1918100 A2 EP1918100 A2 EP 1918100A2
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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
    • B41F17/08—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for for printing on filamentary or elongated articles, or on articles with cylindrical surfaces
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F13/00—Common details of rotary presses or machines
    • B41F13/46—Printing units for inserting latest news
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/407—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
    • B41J3/4073—Printing on three-dimensional objects not being in sheet or web form, e.g. spherical or cubic objects
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/407—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
    • B41J3/4073—Printing on three-dimensional objects not being in sheet or web form, e.g. spherical or cubic objects
    • B41J3/40733—Printing on cylindrical or rotationally symmetrical objects, e. g. on bottles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/54—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed with two or more sets of type or printing elements
    • B41J3/543—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed with two or more sets of type or printing elements with multiple inkjet print heads

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  • a printing machine of this type comprises a rotary plate carrying mandrels on which the objects to be printed are fitted and several printing stations of different colors arranged next to each other around a turntable.
  • the turntable is adapted to move objects from one printing station to another.
  • the position of the object to be printed is marked at a tracking station.
  • the object is moved by the turntable next to a first printing station capable of projecting ink of a color on the object to achieve part of the pattern to be printed in this color.
  • the object is moved by the turntable to a second printing station suitable for projecting ink of another color to achieve another part of the pattern to be printed.
  • a pattern to be printed comprises two different colors juxtaposed, it is necessary that part of the pattern of one color is not printed on one part of the pattern of another color. Similarly, the parts of Different colors should be printed next to each other without an unprinted space appearing between them.
  • the triggering command for the ink projection of each printing station must take into account the angle defined between each printing station by relative to the center of the turntable, because the orientation of the object is changed from this angle of a print station to another.
  • the patent US 6,135,654 discloses a printing apparatus comprising an object conveying conveyor and three printing heads arranged facing the tread of the conveyor for feeding objects.
  • the objects are arranged on guides adapted to drive the objects in rotation about their axes of revolution.
  • the document FR 2,755,900 describes a machine for printing webs of variable speed fabric.
  • the machine is able to compensate for the deformations of the fabric. It comprises a fabric drive motor, printing heads facing the fabric, a position encoder disposed on the drive motor, a printing device arranged upstream of the printing heads and suitable for printing data. marks on the fabric and an optical system of reading marks.
  • the printheads are able to trigger printing on the fabric according to the signal delivered by the position encoder and the signal generated by the optical system.
  • the object of the invention is to propose a printing station having a high printing accuracy.
  • the subject of the invention is a printing machine according to claim 1.
  • the invention also relates to a printing method according to claim 10.
  • the printing machine 2 according to the invention is illustrated in FIG. 1. It comprises a frame 4 supporting a rotary plate 6 equipped with mandrels 8 of BB axes and processing stations 10, 12, 14 distributed around the plate 6.
  • a single mandrel 8 has been shown, the others being marked by their axes BB.
  • the frame 4 is formed by a rectangular metal frame 16 in which a partition wall 18 is fixed.
  • the partition wall 18 comprises an opening 20 through which the turntable 6 passes.
  • the wall 18 divides the machine 2 into a front part supporting the treatment stations 10, 12, 14 and a rear part in which the drive means machine 2 are mounted.
  • the turntable 6 is rotated about an axis of rotation A-A, disposed at its center, by rotational drive means 22 shown schematically in FIG.
  • the mandrels 8 are suitable for carrying the cylindrical objects to be printed.
  • Each mandrel 8 is rotated about an axis of rotation B-B, parallel to the axis of rotation of the turntable A-A, by rotary drive means 23.
  • the mandrels 8 are mounted on support carriages 24, 25 arranged regularly along the periphery of the front face 26 of the turntable 6.
  • Each support carriage 24, 25 is formed of a rectangular plate 27, equipped with two slides 28, 29 fixed on each longitudinal edge of the plate 27 and cooperating with a pair of guide rails 30, 32 fixed on the front face 26. of the turntable 6.
  • the guide rails 30, 32 extend in pairs in a radial direction to the turntable 6 to allow the displacement of each carriage 24, 25 between a position in which the carriage is close to the axis AA and a position in which the trolley is distant from this axis.
  • Each support carriage 24, 25 is ape to be driven along the guide rails 30, 32 by moving drive means 33 to move each mandrel 8 closer to or away from the treatment stations 10, 12, 14.
  • Radial cuts 40 are formed between each pair of rails 30, 32 for the passage of a portion of the rotational drive means 23 of the mandrels 8 and a portion of the displacement drive means 33 of the mandrels 8.
  • Each mandrel 8 is integral with a crank drive crank 100 (see Figure 2) projecting from a face of the plate 27 opposite to the face on which the mandrel 8 projects.
  • the driving crank 100 is formed by an arm comprising an orifice at one of its ends and a double follower roller 104 at its other end.
  • the orifice is able to hold a shaft 102 for driving the mandrel 8 in rotation.
  • the double follower roller 104 of the crank 100 is adapted to engage in a double groove 106 of a guide 108 when the support carriage 24 is vis-à-vis a treatment station and in a discontinuous groove of a cam path, not shown, when the support carriage 24 is between two treatment stations .
  • the drive guide 108 is adapted to rotate the crank 100 around the axis B-B to rotate the mandrel 8.
  • a pull amount 110 of the support carriage 24 extends from one side of the plate 27 of the support carriage.
  • Each support carriage 24 is adapted to engage in a carriage holder 116 when facing a treatment station.
  • the carriage holder 116 is connected to the displacement means 33 for moving the carriage 24 on the rails 30, 32 of the turntable between a position close to the treatment station and a position remote from it.
  • the carriage holder 116 is formed of a rectangular base having a central protrusion on which the yoke 114 is fixed.
  • the groove 118, formed in the yoke 114, is adapted to receive the cam follower 112 of the support carriage so as to be able to move the carriage 24.
  • a displacement motor gear unit 120 is fastened integrally to the frame 2. It is able to slide the carriage holder 116 on rails 121 of the frame shown in FIG. 3. The rails 126 extend radially to the turntable to move the carriage 24.
  • the carriage holder 116 is connected to the rotating drive means 23 for rotating a mandrel 8 when the support carriage 24 thereof is in a position close to a processing station.
  • the drive guide 108 is rotatably mounted on the front face of the carriage holder 116.
  • the guide 108 has a double groove and is adapted to receive the double follower roller 104 of the crank 100 to rotate the mandrel 8.
  • the guide 108 is integral with a drive shaft traversing transversely the base.
  • the drive shaft is attached to a homokinetic coupling 122 without a Schmidt coupling-type clearance and is rotated by a shaft drive unit 123 of a geared motor unit 122 driving in rotation of the mandrels 8.
  • the geared motor unit 122 is fixed to the frame.
  • the treatment stations 10, 12, 14 comprise a single printing station 12 according to the invention and possibly a loading station, a flame station, a varnishing station and an unloading station, not shown in FIG.
  • the printing station 12 according to the invention, illustrated in FIG. 4, comprises a plate 42 intended to be fixed to the frame 16 and four printing units 44, 46, 48 and 50 mounted next to one another on the platinum 42.
  • the plate 42 is provided with pairs of positioning rails 51, 52 extending radially around the center of a circular arc C-C disposed at a lower side of the plate 42.
  • the printing units 44 to 50 are arranged next to each other along the circular arc CC so that when the turntable 6 brings a mandrel 8 to the right of the printing station 12 in a position of impression, the axis BB of rotation of the mandrel 8 coincides with the center of the circular arc CC.
  • the printing units 44 to 50 are all facing the same mandrel 8.
  • the printing units 44 to 50 are arranged in a range of 180 ° around the object to be printed when the mandrel 8 is in a printing position. In this range, the printing units 44 to 50 are distributed evenly at an angle of 45 ° to each other.
  • Each printing unit 44 to 50 comprises a rectangular support plate 53, an inkjet printing head 54 mounted on the plate 53 and a base 56 for supporting the plate 52.
  • the print head 54 of substantially rectangular shape, is positioned in a notch on one side of the plate 53. It is fed by an ink pipe and electrical cables 70 attached to the print head 54 by a connector 72.
  • Each print head 54 is fed in a different color.
  • three printheads are powered by ink of a primary color and a print head is fed by black ink.
  • Each printing unit 44 to 50 also comprises micrometric screws 74, 75 adapted to adjust the orientation of each print head 54 in a direction tangential to the arc C-C and in the direction of the axis B-B.
  • Each base 56 has a rectangular front main face holding the support plate 53 and a rear main face equipped with slides 76, 77 cooperating with the positioning rails 51, 52.
  • a slice of the plate 53 is fixed to the front main face of the base 56 so that the plate 53 extends perpendicularly to the base 56.
  • An upright 58 is fixed to the plate 53 and the base 56 to support the fixing of the plate 53 to the base 56.
  • the bases 56 are adapted to be displaced along the positioning rails 51, 52 to move the printing units 44 to 50 towards or away from the mandrel 8 in the printing position according to the size of the object to be printed.
  • the printing station 12 comprises a ply of optical fibers 78, shown schematically only in FIG. 2. This ply of optical fibers 78 is directed towards the mandrel 8. It is suitable for freezing the ink printed on the object fitted on the mandrel 8.
  • the optical fibers 78 are mounted on a support, not shown, carried by the plate 42. They are able to be displaced by displacement means 80 between a drying position in which the optical fibers 78 are opposite the mandrel 8 when the latter is placed in the printing position, on the opposite side to the positioning range of the print heads 44 to 50, and a position out of drying in which the optical fibers 78 are spaced apart from the mandrel 8 to allow the displacement from it to the axis of rotation AA of the turntable 6.
  • the printing station 12 further comprises a control unit 82 connected to each printing unit 44 to 50 to control their release.
  • This control unit 82 comprises means of connection to the geared motor units 120 and 122 for receiving position and speed information of the mandrels 8.
  • the printing station 12 further comprises a first 124 encoder shown in Figure 3, connected to the control unit 82 and mounted opposite the drive shaft 123 of the motor 122 to determine the output speed of this drive shaft 123.
  • the printing station 12 furthermore comprises, during a calibration phase, a processing unit 125 connected to the first coder 124 and a second coder 126.
  • the second encoder 126 is mounted opposite the object to be printed to determine the peripheral speed of rotation of the mandrel 8.
  • the processing unit 125 is able to receive pulses representative of the speed of the drive shaft 123 of the first encoder 124 and the pulses representative of the peripheral speed of rotation of the mandrel 8 of the second encoder 126.
  • the processing unit 125 is able to verify whether the peripheral rotation speed of the mandrel 8 is constant by measuring the frequency difference of the pulses emitted by the coders 124 and 126. Indeed, when the center of the double follower roller 104 n is not exactly positioned at a predefined location of the double groove 106, the shaft 102 for driving the mandrel in rotation is not exactly opposite the drive shaft of the guide 108, it follows that the speed the rotation of mandrel 8 varies as a function of time.
  • the processing unit is adapted to correct these speed variations related to the difficulty of precisely positioning the double follower roller 104 in the groove 106 by controlling the motor 122 to change the speed of its drive shaft 123 so that the speed of the chuck 8 is constant.
  • the characteristic correction of each of the chucks of the tray 6 is set once and for all, and therefore the processing unit 125 and the second encoder 126 are disconnected from the printing station.
  • the control unit 82 is able to receive data representative of the pattern to be printed on the objects, data representative of the diameter of the objects, data relating to the rotational peripheral speed of the mandrel 8 carrying the object to be printed received from the second encoder 126, this mandrel being disposed in the printing position, and radial position data of the mandrel (relative to the axis AA) received from a not shown register means.
  • the control unit 82 is able to control the triggering of the ink projection of each printing unit 44 to 50 as a function of the position of the mandrel 8 and therefore of the object situated on the mandrel 8, as well as the speed of rotation of mandrel 8 during printing, as explained in the following description.
  • the control unit 82 is also connected to control means for triggering the radiation of the optical fibers 78 and the displacement means 80 of the optical fibers 78 to control the drying of the inks printed on the objects, as explained later.
  • the rotary plate 6, driven in rotation brings a mandrel 8 next to the printing station 12.
  • This mandrel 8 is then in a transfer position in which the carriage 24 corresponding is disposed near the axis AA of rotation of the plate 6.
  • the carriage 24 is moved away from the axis A-A and is brought closer to the printing station 12 until the mandrel 8 in question is in the printing position.
  • the axis B-B of rotation of the mandrel 8 is then in the center of the circle C-C.
  • control unit 82 is able to carry out beforehand a calibration method illustrated in FIG.
  • control unit 82 receives data representative of the diameter of the objects to be printed, data representative of the pattern to be printed, position data and rotational speed data of the mandrel 8 placed in position. print position.
  • control unit 82 calculates the theoretical instants of tripping of each printing unit 44 to 50 according to the pattern to be printed, the position and the speed of rotation of the mandrel 8.
  • an operator positions the bases 56 on the positioning rails 51, 52 so that the printing units 44 to 50 are at a predefined distance from the object to be printed.
  • the operator also adjusts the orientation of each print head 54 by manipulating the micrometer screws 74, 75.
  • test pattern a standard, sometimes referred to as a test pattern
  • control unit 82 transmits to each printing unit 44 to 50 the theoretical instants of tripping of each printing unit.
  • each print unit 44 to 50 prints a series of test lines on the standard.
  • each printing unit 54 is fed with different color ink, each series of lines is printed in a different color.
  • the operator removes the standard from the mandrel and checks whether the print lines correspond to pre-written registration lines on the standard.
  • the operator modifies the theoretical times of release of this printing unit 44 by the entry of correction data into the unit. 82, during a step 90.
  • Steps 88 and 90 are repeated until all of the print lines printed by each print unit 44 to 50 match the registration lines.
  • the mandrel 8 previously placed in the printing position is rotated during a step 92.
  • the encoders 124 and 126 measure the rotational speed of the drive shaft 123 and the peripheral rotational speed of the mandrel 8.
  • the processing unit 125 compares the rotational speed of the drive shaft 123 to the peripheral rotational speed of the mandrel 8. When the instantaneous speeds of the shaft 123 and the mandrel 8 are different, that is to say when the peripheral speed of the mandrel is no constant, the processing unit 125 calculates a variation model of the speed of the drive shaft 123 so that the peripheral speed of the mandrel 8 is constant and controls the motor 122 by this model.
  • a step 95 the plate 6 is rotated about the axis AA in the direction of clockwise so as to bring the mandrel 8 of the support carriage 24 disposed opposite the treatment station 10 vis-à-vis the printing station 12. Then, the mandrel 8 is moved away from the axis AA to arrive in a printing position in which the axis BB of rotation of the mandrel 8 is merged with the center of the arc of circle CC.
  • Steps 92 to 95 are repeated to adjust the peripheral rotation speed of each of the mandrels 8 of the plate 6.
  • step 96 the calibration method is completed in step 96.
  • the processing unit 125 is disconnected from the first encoder 124. The latter, as well as the second encoder 126 are no longer used when printing the object.
  • the machine 2 then proceeds to print the objects.
  • a mandrel 8 previously placed in the printing position is rotated during a step 97 illustrated in FIG. 6.
  • the printing units 44, 46, 48, 50 are successively triggered at the theoretical trigger times or at the corrected trigger times to project ink onto the object carried by the mandrel 8 driven in rotation.
  • control unit 82 controls the displacement means 80 of the optical fibers so that they are positioned vis-à-vis the mandrel 8. Then, the control unit 82 controls the triggering the radiation of the optical fibers 78 to freeze the inks printed on the object.
  • the mandrel is not displaced in translation towards the axis of rotation A-A and is only rotated about the axis B-B.
  • step 99 that is to say when the entire surface of the object has been at least once facing the optical fibers 78, the driving unit 82 controls the displacement means 80 so that they separate the optical fibers from their position vis-à-vis the mandrel 8.
  • the displacement means 42 move the mandrel 8 towards the axis of rotation A-A in a transfer position. Then, the turntable 6 is rotated to bring the mandrel 8 to the next processing station 14. Another mandrel is placed opposite the station 12 and then placed in the printing position. The printing process can then again be implemented.
  • the machine 2 described above makes it possible to obtain high print accuracy because the mandrels 8 are not moved in translation from one printing station to another. Each object is printed in several colors while it is positioned in the same position and it pivots on itself. The machine 2 makes it possible to increase the rate because the object is dried only once after printing the whole. four colors.
  • the machine 2 saves space on the perimeter of the turntable 6 since it is no longer necessary to provide a station specifically dedicated to drying.
  • the mandrels can be moved from their printing positions to their transfer positions by means other than a turntable.
  • the mandrels can be driven in translation by a conveyor.
  • the printing units comprise inkjet print heads instead of marking print heads.
  • the speed of each mandrel 8 is not determined by the encoders 124 and 126 and by the processing unit 125 but by injection of a speed profile at the motor 122.
  • the first 124 and second 126 encoders are connected to the control unit 82 which checks whether the peripheral rotational speed of the mandrels is constant by measuring the frequency difference of the pulses emitted by the coders 124 and 126. In in this case, it is not necessary to use a processing unit.
  • the machine 2 may comprise several printing stations 12, each having several printing units. Indeed, even if the preferred variant has only one printing station, such variants already allow to benefit from the advantages mentioned above compared to the machines of the state of the art.

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