EP1957276B1 - Dispositif et procede pour imprimer des bouchons de bouteille cylindriques - Google Patents

Dispositif et procede pour imprimer des bouchons de bouteille cylindriques Download PDF

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EP1957276B1
EP1957276B1 EP06829193A EP06829193A EP1957276B1 EP 1957276 B1 EP1957276 B1 EP 1957276B1 EP 06829193 A EP06829193 A EP 06829193A EP 06829193 A EP06829193 A EP 06829193A EP 1957276 B1 EP1957276 B1 EP 1957276B1
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Wilfried Philipp Philipp
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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
    • B41F17/14—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 on articles of finite length
    • B41F17/20—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 on articles of finite length on articles of uniform cross-section, e.g. pencils, rulers, resistors
    • B41F17/22—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 on articles of finite length on articles of uniform cross-section, e.g. pencils, rulers, resistors by rolling contact

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  • the invention relates to an apparatus and a method for printing on cylindrical bottle closures by means of a direct gravure printing process, with a bottle cap feeder, and with a cliché roller associated with a inking station, a doctoring station and a printing station.
  • the device has a central transport wheel, which has two discs, between which the individual corks are clamped coaxially to the axis of the wheel. After clamping, the corks are passed in the circumferential direction of a device on which they are surface treated by means of a corona discharge. Then they go through a printing station, in which the outer surfaces of the corks are printed.
  • This printing station has a pressure roller with distributed over the circumference arranged printing plates, which in turn are printed by printheads. The image is thus transferred from the print head to the printing plate and from the printing plate to the cork.
  • the corks then pass through a drying station and are then dispensed into a collection container.
  • the invention has for its object to provide an apparatus for printing bottle caps, which is insensitive to contamination and therefore has long pressure intervals.
  • the bottle caps are printed by means of a direct gravure printing process.
  • the term bottle caps is understood to mean both natural corks and plastic corks that gradually replace the natural corks. However, the term bottle cap should not be understood as meaning a screw cap.
  • An advantage of the device according to the invention is that after coloring the cliché or the Cliché roller is doctored off, so that the surface of the cliché roller is clean and there are no printing ink or impurities on the surface.
  • the ink is only in the recesses of the cliché. Therefore, the bottle cap can roll directly on the surface of the plate roller, so that the ink can be transferred directly to the bottle cap.
  • the cliché is contaminated by the adjacent bottle cap. This is because the bottle cap is dusty, because it either adheres to abrasion or, in the case of a plastic cork, electrostatically adheres plastic flour which is produced when the extruded plastic bars are cut to length.
  • the contaminated, especially with cork dust or flour soiled cliché is dyed again after printing and doctored.
  • doctoring the surface is cleaned again as described above, so that the subsequent bottle cap can roll back on the cliché surface.
  • the scraped-off cork dust mixes with the printing ink and is partially removed with it during each printing process, ie transferred to the subsequent bottle cap. Therefore, the device according to the invention requires no extensive cleaning as in the prior art, so that the device according to the invention has a significantly higher throughput of bottle caps and no cleaning-related downtime. In addition, an always consistent quality of the print is guaranteed.
  • the contact pressure and guide device acts on the casing or the circumferential surface, in particular on the edge of the casing, of the bottle closure.
  • This form the Cliché roller, the bottle cap and the bottle cap encompassing pressure and guide a kind of planetary gear, the cliché roller the driven sun gear, the bottle cap represented by the sun gear and rolling on the Anpress- and guide planetary gear and the Anpress- and guide the stationary ring gear.
  • the pressing and guiding device attacks in particular on the edge of the jacket of the bottle closure, which ensures that the still fresh paint application is not smeared.
  • surface contact or support is also conceivable instead of line contact.
  • the pressing and guiding device comprises the cliché roller encompassing and at a distance to this having baffles. Between these baffles, on which the bottle caps lie linearly, and the central plate roller are the rolling bottle caps.
  • the distance between the contact pressure and guide to the surface of the plate roller is smaller than the diameter of the cylindrical bottle closure, so that it is held securely with clamping and rotating in cliché roller is taken from this and rolls on the pressure and guide.
  • the distance is adjustable.
  • Another variant provides that the contact pressure and guide spring-applied to the bottle cap. As a result, too large deformations of the Bottle closure avoided, which could possibly cause distortion of the printed image.
  • the scraped off by means of the doctor blade excess ink runs back into the ink tray.
  • the paint can pass over a dirt filter so that the soil scraped off the surface of the cliché roll is discarded.
  • this is only necessary for extremely heavily soiled bottle closures, or for very small print images, which have a low consumption of ink result.
  • the supply device has a separating station for the bottle caps.
  • the bottle caps are introduced at a distance to the plate roller, which corresponds to the distance of the individual clichés on the surface of the plate roller.
  • the bottle caps are registered, that is accurately brought to the printing plate to the cliché roller.
  • the recesses of the plate roller are formed, in particular, by grids and / or lines engraved on the surface. Such rasters and / or lines can be introduced, for example by means of laser in the surface of the plate roller.
  • the grid and lines have a diameter or a width of 60 to 140 .mu.m.
  • the surface of the plate roller may in particular consist of ceramic and / or have a ceramic layer.
  • the doctoring and / or printing process can take place in particular in a closed doctor blade housing.
  • the invention also relates to bottle closures which are produced by means of the device according to the invention and / or according to the method according to the invention.
  • Such bottle caps can be characterized in particular by the fact that they have a rich, very fine and very high quality print.
  • the FIG. 1 shows a generally designated 10 printing device for printing on bottle caps 12.
  • the printing device 10 has a feeding device 14, in which the bottle caps 12 are arranged axially parallel to each other and one behind the other.
  • the feeding device 14 is adjoined by a separating device 16, which receives the respective foremost bottle closure 12 and feeds it to a cliché roller 18.
  • a Einfärbestation 20 To the cliché roller 18, a Einfärbestation 20, a doctoring station 22 and a printing station 24 are arranged.
  • the inking station 20 has a color trough 26, in which a Farbgeberwalze 28 is immersed, the ink fountain roller 28 rolls on the circumference of the plate roller 18.
  • both the cliché roller 18 and the inking roller 28 are driven in the direction of the arrows 32 via a gear 30.
  • the doctoring station 22 has a doctor blade 34, which rests against the peripheral surface of the plate roller 18 and this doctored off so that only ink remains in the recesses of the plate. Thus, not only excess ink but also any contaminants are removed from the surface of the plate roller 18.
  • This doctoring station 22 is located immediately in front of the printing station 24.
  • FIG. 2 shows, the pressing and guiding device 36 on two baffles 38, which are arranged at a distance from each other and at a distance from the plate roller 18.
  • the mutual distance of the two baffles 38 is selected so that it is smaller than the length of the bottle closure, so that the curved guide surface 40 bears against the edge 42 of the jacket of the bottle closure 12. Between this contact surface at the two ends or edges 42 of the bottle closure 12 is the imprint.
  • the guide surfaces 40 of the guide plates 38 have a curvature which is concentric with the axis 44 of the plate roller 18.
  • the baffles 38 are resiliently mounted in the direction of the plate roller 18.
  • the distance between the baffles 38 or the baffles 40 and the surface or peripheral surface of the plate roller 18 is selected to be slightly smaller than the diameter of the bottle cap 12. In this way, the bottle cap 12 from the baffles 38 on the surface of the plate roller 18 pressed.
  • the distances between the baffles 38 and the plate roller 18 are adjustable.
  • the bottle closure 12 is thus located between the driven cliché roller 18 and the rigid contact pressure and guide device 36 and thus rolls on the surface or peripheral surface of the plate roller 18 and lifts the located in the recesses of the cliché located printing ink. After passing through the pressing and guiding device 36, the bottle closure 12 leaves the printing station 24 downwards and falls into a collecting device (not shown).
  • An essential to the invention advantage of the printing device 10 is that after the doctoring of the peripheral surface of the plate roller 18, this is completely cleaned and that of excess ink and other impurities such as cork dust and the like.
  • the bottle cap 12 is therefore not contaminated by the cliché roller 18 and it is only transmitted in the wells of the cliché located printing ink. If, for example, cork dust settles on the surface of the cliché roller 18 during the entire printing process, then it mixes with the printing ink present in the ink tank 18 and is applied to the cliché roller 18 via the ink fountain roller 28. This means that cork dust is also mixed in the printing ink in the recesses of the cliché, so that it is gradually discharged again.
  • the printing device 10 Since the individual bottle caps 18 are continuously fed to the printing station 24, the printing device 10 according to the invention has a much higher printing capacity than the prior art, which is also not interrupted by cleaning operations.

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  1. Dispositif (10) pour imprimer des bouchons de bouteille cylindriques (12) au moyen d'un procédé d'héliogravure, comportant un dispositif d'alimentation (14) pour les bouchons de bouteille (12) et un cylindre porte-clichés (18) auquel sont associées une station d'encrage (20), une station de raclage (22) et une station d'impression (24), caractérisé en ce que le bouchon de bouteille (12) peut être amené par le dispositif d'alimentation (14) au cylindre porte-clichés (18) parallèlement à l'axe de ce dernier et passe entre le cylindre porte-clichés (18) et un dispositif de pression et de guidage (36).
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de pression et de guidage (36) repose contre la jupe du bouchon de bouteille (12).
  3. Dispositif selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de pression et de guidage (36) repose contre le bord (42) de la jupe du bouchon de bouteille (12).
  4. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de pression et de guidage (36) présente une tôle de guidage (38) qui enveloppe en partie le cylindre porte-clichés (18) et qui présente une distance par rapport à ce dernier.
  5. Dispositif selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que la distance est inférieure au diamètre du bouchon de bouteille cylindrique (12) et est en particulier réglable.
  6. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de pression et de guidage (36) repose de façon élastique sur le bouchon de bouteille (12).
  7. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la station d'encrage (20) présente un bac à encre (26).
  8. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il est agencé dans la station d'encrage (20) un cylindre distributeur d'encre (28) destiné à appliquer de l'encre sur le cylindre porte-clichés (18).
  9. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la station de raclage (22) présente une racle (34) qui enlève le surplus d'encre du cylindre porte-clichés (18).
  10. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'alimentation (14) présente une station de séparation (16) pour les bouchons de bouteille (12).
  11. Dispositif selon la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce que la station de séparation (16) amène les bouchons de bouteille (12) avec précision au niveau du ou des clichés sur le cylindre porte-clichés (18).
  12. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le bouchon de bouteille (12) passe sur le pourtour du cylindre porte-clichés (18).
  13. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le cylindre porte-clichés (18) est entraîné.
  14. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le cylindre porte-clichés (18) présente plusieurs clichés agencés en étant répartis sur son pourtour.
  15. Procédé pour imprimer ou décorer des bouchons de bouteille (12), caractérisé en ce que les bouchons de bouteille (12) sont imprimés au moyen d'un cylindre porte-clichés (18) dans un procédé d'héliogravure direct.
  16. Procédé selon la revendication 15, caractérisé en ce que les bouchons de bouteille (12) sont appliqués élastiquement contre le cylindre porte-clichés (18) pendant le processus d'impression.
  17. Procédé selon la revendication 15 ou 16, caractérisé en ce que le cylindre porte-clichés (18) est d'abord encré, en ce qu'il est ensuite raclé et en ce que les bouchons de bouteille (12) sont imprimés directement sur le cylindre porte-clichés (18).
  18. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 15 à 17, caractérisé en ce que la jupe des bouchons de bouteille (12) pendant le processus d'impression passe sur le cylindre porte-clichés (18).
  19. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 15 à 18, caractérisé en ce que avant ou après l'impression de la jupe des bouchons de bouteille (12), on procède à l'impression des faces des bouchons de bouteille (12) au moyen d'un procédé d'héliogravure direct.
  20. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 15 à 19, caractérisé en ce qu'on utilise comme encre des colorants pour denrées alimentaires et/ou des solvants ou encore des encres à base d'eau.
  21. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 15 à 20, caractérisé en ce que le cylindre porte-clichés (18) présente sur son pourtour une trame et/ou des repères gravés.
  22. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 15 à 21, caractérisé en ce que le cylindre porte-clichés (18) est en céramique ou présente une couche de protection en céramique.
  23. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 15 à 22, caractérisé en ce qu'au moins une partie de la trame et/ou des repères est réalisée de telle façon qu'il en résulte, lors de l'impression des bouchons de bouteille (12), des teintes irrégulières.
  24. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 15 à 23, caractérisé en ce que l'impression du bouchon de bouteille (12) se fait dans un boîtier qui ferme.
EP06829193A 2005-12-06 2006-11-30 Dispositif et procede pour imprimer des bouchons de bouteille cylindriques Not-in-force EP1957276B1 (fr)

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DE102005059503A DE102005059503A1 (de) 2005-12-06 2005-12-06 Verfahren zum Bedrucken oder Dekorieren von Flaschenkorken aus Naturkork oder aus Kunststoff, und Flaschenkorken
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PCT/EP2006/011492 WO2007065593A1 (fr) 2005-12-06 2006-11-30 Dispositif et procede pour imprimer des bouchons de bouteille cylindriques

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