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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
• • 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
  • 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
  • B28B11/048—Apparatus or processes for treating or working the shaped or preshaped articles for coating or applying engobing layers by spraying or projecting
• • 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
  • B28B11/049—Recycling of the coating material
• • 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
  • 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
  • B05C19/06—Storage, supply or control of the application of particulate material; Recovery of excess particulate material

Definitions

• the present invention generally relates to the decoration of articles, and more particularly it relates to an apparatus for decoration of an article, typically but not exclusively of ceramic material, with a colored image, that is formed by a composition of a plurality of colors, wherein the decorating apparatus advantageously comprises in combination one or more printing units, of the inkjet type, adapted to form a virtual image, with adhesive properties, on the article to be decorated, and one or more dispensing units adapted to dispense a ceramic toner or simply a pure pigment on such virtual image, in order to form the final colored image on the article.
• the apparatus of the invention advantageously associates the inkjet printing technology with the use of ceramic toners and pure pigments in order to produce high quality images and decorations on an article to be decorated.
• system for decorating an article of ceramic material, includes:
• an inkjet printing unit capable of printing on the article to be decorated a virtual image, corresponding to the final decoration to be obtained on the article, consisting of a liquid adhesive substance able to capture by adhesion a ceramic toner; and - a dispensing unit, in particular similar to that used in digital laser toner printing, comprising a continuously rotating dispensing roller, designed to receive on its surface a thin layer of ceramic toner and cooperate with the article, bearing the virtual image, coming from the inkjet printing unit, so as to dispense and transfer, by adhesion, the ceramic toner from the surface of the dispensing roller to that of the article,
• the ceramic toner which is transferred to the article, forms on the surface of the latter a decoration of ceramic toner corresponding to the virtual image printed with the inkjet printing unit, and the ceramic toner that is not transferred remains on the dispensing roller surface.
• patent document WO 2009/118611 A1 describing a device and a method for dispensing a solid loose powdered material onto a ceramic article by means of a container in the form of a hopper, similarly to the apparatus of the invention.
• a primary and general object of the present invention is to propose and carry out a new apparatus for the decoration of articles, in particular of ceramics, with colored images, which combines advantageously the inkjet printing technology with the use of ceramic toners and pigments, wherein this new decoration apparatus offers significant innovative and improved performances with respect to the decoration system described in patent application No. 102016000015344, filed by the same Applicants of the current patent application, in particular as regards the dispersion phase of the ceramic toner or pigment on the virtual image printed by an inkjet printing unit on the article to be decorated and the subsequent removal of the ceramic toner or pigment that has not adhered to that virtual image, in order to further improve the quality of the final decorated article.
• Another important object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for serial and industrial production of articles decorated with a colored image formed by ceramic toner, which apparatus by combining inkjet printing technology with the use of materials such as colored ceramic toners and pigments, typically used in article decoration, allows high production levels at a cost-effective and great efficiency degree, so as to be competitive with the machines and equipments currently used in industrial production of ceramic articles decorated with a ceramic toner or pigment.
• a further object of the present invention is to provide an industrial apparatus, for the decoration in series and in large numbers of articles of ceramic material, which is characterized by the excellent quality of the products, i.e. of the articles which are decorated with this apparatus.
• Fig. 1 is a first scheme showing the essential parts and the way in which these parts work and cooperate with each other, of an apparatus, according to the present invention, for the decoration of an article of ceramic material with a colored image formed by a plurality of colored ceramic toners, wherein this decorating apparatus comprises a plurality of decoration groups each of which in turn includes an inkjet printing unit, an oscillating hopper dispensing unit of a ceramic toner; and an aspiration removal unit;
• Fig. 2 is a second more detailed scheme which shows the oscillating hopper dispensing unit and the removal unit included in each decoration group of the decorating apparatus of Fig. 1 and in particular shows the modalities of capture, by adhesion, on the surface of the article coming from the inkjet type printing unit, of the ceramic toner dispensed by the oscillating hopper of the dispensing unit of the decoration group;
• Fig. 3 is a further scheme illustrating a removal system, included in each single decoration group of the decorating apparatus of Fig. 1 , directed to remove at least a part of the ceramic toner in excess that has not adhered to the surface of the article to be decorated;
• Fig. 4 is a block operative diagram illustrating the operation of the decorating apparatus of the invention.
• Figs. 5A-5P are photographic images showing by a variety of observation points a prototype of the decorating apparatus of the invention, some detached parts of which the decoration apparatus is composed, and some examples of articles decorated with the apparatus of the invention.
• an apparatus or a system, according to the present invention provided for decorating an article, in particular of ceramic material, indicated by MF, with a colored image or decoration D in order to obtain a final decorated ceramic article A, is indicated in the whole with 310.
• the scheme of Fig. 1 shows both the essential parts of which the decorating apparatus 310 is composed and the ways in which these essential parts operate and interface each other to decorate the article MF and thus obtain the final article A decorated with the decoration D.
• the decorating apparatus 310 of the invention reduced to its essential parts, comprises:
• a system or transfer line generally designated with 20, and schematized in Fig. 1 with a conveyor belt 20a, stretched between two rollers 20b, which advances at a given velocity V and along which the decoration groups are arranged in succession, wherein this transfer line 20 has the function of transferring the article MF from a decoration group to the next, in order to decorate the article MF, as described in detail below; and a baking furnace 14 adapted to receive the article MF from the last of the decoration groups arranged along the transfer line 20 and to firmly fix on the surface of the same article MF the colored ceramic toner decoration formed by means of the decoration groups, so as to obtain the final decorated article A.
• the decoration groups arranged successively along the transfer line 20 can be four as shown in Fig. 1 , wherein these four decoration groups, designated respectively with 311-1 , 311-2, 311-3, 311- 4, correspond to the four basic colors, namely Cyan C, Magenta M, Yellow Y, Black K, at the base of the classic quadrochromic model CMYK, for subtractive synthesis of which a colored image can be obtained in all possible shades of colors.
• the first decoration group 311-1 arranged at the entry of the decorating apparatus 310 and for instance corresponding to the cyan color C, comprises:
• a respective printing unit indicated by 312-1 , which in turn includes a respective printing head 312-1 ' of the inkjet type, of known characteristics and therefore not described in detail, suitable for ejecting, according to a programmed sequence, a plurality of drops consisting of a glue or adhesive substance, indicated by S1 , so as to print on the article MF, which advances at the speed V through the first decorating group 31 1-1 , a virtual image IV, consisting of such glue or adhesive substance S1 , defining the portion, justly of the cyan color C, of the final colored image or decoration D.
• the second decoration group 311-2, the third decoration group 31 1 -3, and the fourth decoration group 311-4, arranged after the first decoration group 31 1-1 and one following the other along the transfer line 20, each comprise a respective printing unit, indicated by 312-2, 312-3, 312-4, and in turn including an ink jet printing head, 312-2', 312- 3', 312-4', which prints a virtual image, consisting of the glue or adhesive substance S1 , defining the portion of the color magenta M, yellow Y and black K of the final colored image or decoration D.
• each decoration group 31 1 -1 , 31 1- 2, 31 1-3, 31 1-4, included in the decorating apparatus 310 includes, in addition to the inkjet type printing unit 312-1 , 312-2, 312-3, 312-4, a respective dispensing unit, with an oscillating hopper, indicated by 313-1 , 313-2, 313-3, 313-4 and a respective removal unit indicated by 314-1 , 314-2, 314-3, 314-4.
• each dispensing unit 313-1 , 313-2, 313-3, 313-4, included in the corresponding decoration group 31 1-1 , 311-2, 31 1-3, 311-4 of the decorating apparatus 310 in turn comprises a respective oscillating hopper, indicated by 313-1', 313-2', 313-3', 313-4', extending in a normal direction with respect to the feed direction, indicated in the drawings by an arrow f1 , of the article MF through the decorating apparatus 310 of the invention, wherein this oscillating hoper is provided for being charged and filled with the colored ceramic toner, that is of color cyan C, magenta M, yellow Y, black K, corresponding to the decoration group of which the oscillating hopper 313-1', 313-2', 313-3 ', 313-4' is part.
• Means of command of known characteristics and for this reason not described in detail are suitable to impart to the hopper 313-1', 313-2", 313-3 ', 313-4', included in each decoration group 31 1-1 , 311 -2, 31 1-3, 311-4, an alternating movement back and forth along the longitudinal axis of the hopper, i.e. in a normal direction to the feed direction through the apparatus 310, indicated by the arrow f1 , of the article MF to be decorated.
• the hopper 313-1', 313-2', 313-3 ', 313-4' of the dispensing unit 313-1 , 313-2, 313, 313-4 of each decoration group 31 1-1 , 311 - 2, 31 1-3, 31 1-4 favours a uniform and regular delivery and distribution of the colored ceramic toner C, M, Y, K, loaded in the same hopper, on the surface of the article MF that advances through the apparatus 310 and comes from the previous inkjet type printing unit included in the same decoration group 31 1-1 , 31 1-2, 31 1-3, 311 -4, as further described below.
• the oscillating hopper 313-1', 313-2', 313-3', 313-4' which is included in each of the various decoration groups 31 1-1 , 31 1-2, 311-3, 31 1-4 is a fundamental part of the decorating apparatus 310 of the invention and will therefore be described in detail.
• each of these hoppers 313-1', 313-2', 313-3', 313-4' has a bottom that allows to pass and drop down the ceramic toner that is loaded and fills the hopper, and presents in section a funnel shape exhibiting two inclined walls, indicated by 313a and 313b, converging from top to bottom, i.e. towards the bottom of the hopper itself.
• One of the two walls of the hopper 313-1 ', 313-2', 313-3 ', 313-4', and in particular the one, indicated in the drawings with 313a, arranged on the side of the access of the article MF to be decorated to the hopper area, has a grid or a similar element, wherein this grid essentially serves to favour, together with the hopper oscillation motion, the mixing of the ceramic toner that is loaded into the hopper and its exit and drain downward, through the bottom of the hopper.
• each hopper 313-1 ', 313-2', 313-3', 313-4' arranged on the side of the output of the article MF from the hopper area, has a cloth which has a relevant role both in the delivery and distribution of the ceramic toner on the surface of the article MF to be decorated coming from the inkjet printing unit, which precedes the hopper along the feeding path of the article through the decorating apparatus 310, and in the removal of the ceramic toner that does not adhere to this surface.
• this cloth in particular consisting of a felt, appears capable, as effect of the rubbing of the ceramic toner particles caused by the oscillating motion of the hopper, of generating an electrostatic charge system inside the same ceramic toner, which plays a positive role in favouring both a correct and uniform distribution of the ceramic toner on the surface of the article MF coming from the previous inkjet printing unit and thus bearing the virtual image, consisting of an adhesive substance, printed with the same inkjet type printing unit, and a regular and optimal evacuation from the article surface of the ceramic toner that has not been captured, and therefore has not adhered to the virtual image, formed by the adhesive substance, printed on the article MF.
• a cover 313c can be associated with each hopper 313-1', 313-2', 313-3', 313-4".
• Each removal unit 314-1 , 314-2, 314-3, 314-4, included in the corresponding decoration group 31 1-1 , 311-2, 311-3, 31 1-4 of the decorating apparatus 310 has the function, as further described below, of completely cleaning the article MF, i.e. totally removing the ceramic toner that has not adhered to the virtual image printed on the article MF and which remains on its surface even after the article MF, in its advancement through the decorating apparatus 310, has passed the zone of the oscillating hopper 313-1', 313-2', 313-3', 313-4'.
• This removal unit 314-1 , 314-2, 314-3, 314-4 can for example be carried out in the form of an aspiration or suction blade associated with an aspirator indicated respectively by 314- 1 ', 314-2', 314-3', 314-4', wherein this aspiration blade covers the width of the path along which the article MF advances through the decorating apparatus 310 and has an opening 314a which is licked by the article MF, during its advancement, so as to create an air flow, indicated by an arrow f4, suitable for removing from the article MF the particles of ceramic toner or pigment that have not adhered to the virtual image printed with the printing unit of the inkjet type.
• the scheme of Fig. 2 shows in more detail than Fig. 1 one of the decoration groups, for example the decoration group 3 -1 corresponding to the color cyan C, included in the decorating apparatus 310, and in particular the respective dispensing unit 313-1 including the oscillating hopper 313-1', and the respective removal unit 314-1 in the form of an aspiration blade including the aspirator 314-1 '.
• Fig. 1 one of the decoration groups, for example the decoration group 3 -1 corresponding to the color cyan C, included in the decorating apparatus 310, and in particular the respective dispensing unit 313-1 including the oscillating hopper 313-1', and the respective removal unit 314-1 in the form of an aspiration blade including the aspirator 314-1 '.
• FIG. 2 shows with an arrow f3 how the ceramic toner C is dispensed and dispersed from the bottom of the oscillating hopper 313-1 ' on the virtual image IV, consisting of the adhesive substance S , printed on the article MF by the printing unit, of the inkjet type, which precedes the dispensing unit 313-1 along the advancement path of the article MF in the decorating apparatus 310, and also with arrows f4 how the ceramic toner C in excess, which did not adhere to the virtual image but remains on the surface of the article MF, is completely removed from the removal unit 3 4-1 which is arranged after the dispensing unit 313-1 along the path of advancement of the article MF in the decorating apparatus 310.
• each of the oscillating hoppers 313-1 ", 313-2', 313-3', 313-4', included in the decoration groups 311-1 , 311-2, 312-3, 312- 4 is preferably associated with an evacuation system, indicated generally with 40, which is used to evacuate most of the ceramic toner that, during the passage of the article MF below the oscillating hopper 313-1 ', 313-2' , 313-3', 313-4' to receive the ceramic toner delivered from the hopper itself in its oscillation movement, did not adhere to the virtual image, with adhesive features, printed on the article MF.
• this evacuation system 40 can be, for example, carried out in the form of a closed loop belt 41 , animated with a velocity V1 , which is arranged and extends longitudinally below a perforated support grid 42, on which the article MF advances in its passage through the area of the oscillating hopper 313-1 ', 313-2', 313-3', 313-4' to receive the ceramic toner.
• the closed loop belt 41 is adapted to receive and evacuate, for example, in a collection container 43, as indicated by an arrow f6, the ceramic toner or pigment that did not adhere to the virtual image printed on the article MF but falls, at the sides of the article MF, in the holes of the grid 42, between an article and the other, as indicated by arrows f5 in Fig. 3.
• an article MF raw, i.e. not still decorated, of ceramic material, such as a tile or a similar article, is supplied by means of the transfer line 20 to the first decoration group or station 311-1 , corresponding to the cyan color C, where the article MF is received from the respective first printing unit 312-1 of the inkjet type, which prints on the MF article, by emitting through the printing head 312-1' a plurality of droplets of the liquid adhesive S1 , a virtual image IV defining and corresponding to the portion of cyan color C of the decoration to be formed on the final decorated article A, as indicated by a block 131 in Fig. 4.
• the article MF is transferred by means of the transfer line 20 to the dispensing unit 313-1 included in the same decoration group 31 1-1 , where the article MF, while advancing continuously at the velocity V determined by the transfer line 20, receives the ceramic toner of color cyan C from the oscillating hopper 313-1 ' included in the dispensing unit 313-1.
• the ceramic toner of cyan color C which is supplied and dispensed by the oscillating hopper 313-1 ', is selectively captured, because of the adhesion action exerted by the adhesive substance S1 constituting the virtual image IV printed on the article MF by the inkjet type printing unit 312-1 , by the article MF, so as to form on the surface of the latter a layer of ceramic toner, of cyan color C, which corresponds exactly to that virtual image and defines the portion of ceramic toner of cyan color C, which, by composition with the other colored layers of ceramic toner, forms the decoration D to be obtained on the final decorated article.
• the most portion of the ceramic toner of cyan color C which has not adhered to the virtual image printed on the article MF is evacuated, in particular by dropping it, at the sides of the article MF, in the holes of perforated grid 42 on which the article MF advances, and then by removing the ceramic toner by means of the evacuation system 40.
• the article MF is transferred by means of the transfer line 20 to the removal unit 313-4 included in the same decoration group 31 1-1 , where the residual ceramic toner, of cyan color C, which has not attached to the virtual image and remains on the surface of the MF article even after the latter has passed the area of the hopper 313-1', is completely removed and aspirated by the removal unit 313- 4, so as to completely clean the article MF.
• the article MF is transferred, always by means of the transfer line 20, from the first decoration group 311-1 to the second decoration group 311-2, where the article MF is subjected to the same operations to which it was subjected in the first decoration group 31 1-1.
• the article MF presents on its surface a decoration D constituted by the overlapping of the various layers of ceramic toner, of cyan C, magenta M, yellow Y, black color K, formed during the passage of the same article MF through the various decoration groups 311-1 , 31 1-2, 31 1-3, 311-4 included In the decorating apparatus 310.
• the article MF bearing on its surface the colored decoration D at the end of the various cycles to which it has been subjected through the decorating stations 311-1 , 311-2, 311-3, 311-4, is introduced into the baking furnace 14, so as to stabilize and firmly fix the decoration D on the surface of the article MF and thus obtain the final decorated article A.
• the present invention fully achieves its intended purpose and in particular proposes a new apparatus or equipment for the decoration of articles of ceramic material which combines and exploits synergistically the characteristics and performances of the inkjet printing technology and materials such as ceramic toners and pigments, typically used for decorating articles, so as to be advantageously implemented in the form of a line or plant for serial production and in large quantities of decorated articles of ceramic material.
• the decoration groups can be arranged, along the transfer line 20 of the article from a decoration group to the successive, in a different way with respect to that described with reference to the embodiment 310 of the decorating apparatus of the invention.
• the decorating apparatus in the preferred embodiment 310 as described above, comprises a plurality and in particular four decoration groups corresponding to the conventional colors of quadrichromy C, M, Y, , it can include only one decoration group, which corresponds to a unique color of ceramic toner, and therefore also a single ink jet printing unit and a single dispensing unit associated with the inkjet printing unit and containing a ceramic toner of such unique color, whereby in this case the decorating apparatus is adapted to produce ceramic articles bearing a decoration exhibiting a unique and specific color.
• the decorating apparatus of the invention can be configured with three decoration groups that operate according to the CMY trichromy model, namely based on cyan, magenta, and yellow colors.
• the decorating apparatus of the invention may comprise and handle a number of stationary or decoration groups arranged in line one after the other, each comprising an inkjet printing unit and a oscillating hopper for dispensing a ceramic toner or pigment, which number is not limited to a particular model, as the quadrichromy, of color composition, but is virtually unlimited and can be any.
• the decorating apparatus of the invention may include, in each decoration group or station of which it is composed, a heating and drying system comprising an IR infrared lamp or UV ultraviolet lamp, wherein such lamp has the function of generating heat so as to partially dry the MF article immediately after it has received the ceramic toner C, M, Y, K from the oscillating hopper, and thereby improve the effectiveness of the next suction step directed to clean completely the article MF from the ceramic toner that did not adhere to the virtual image printed on the article MF by the inkjet printing unit.
• a heating and drying system comprising an IR infrared lamp or UV ultraviolet lamp, wherein such lamp has the function of generating heat so as to partially dry the MF article immediately after it has received the ceramic toner C, M, Y, K from the oscillating hopper, and thereby improve the effectiveness of the next suction step directed to clean completely the article MF from the ceramic toner that did not adhere to the virtual image printed on the article MF by the inkjet printing unit.
• This heating and drying system designed to dry at least partially the ceramic toner deposited on the article MF, may also be of the hot air type and/or include heat-generating electrical heaters.
• the decorating apparatus of the invention may include a conventional crown system to create an electrostatic charge state in the ceramic toner for the purpose to facilitate its dispensing and dispersion from the oscillating hopper to the article to be decorated.
• the oscillating hopper, containing the ceramic toner or pigment can advantageously be associated with one or more rotating dispensing rollers which have the function of cooperating with the same oscillating hopper in order to improve and regularize the dispensing and distribution of the ceramic toner or pigment on the virtual image printed on the article through the inkjet printing unit.
• the decorating apparatus of the invention has the remarkable advantage that it allows the use, to decorate articles, even of enamels in the form of dry powder, or in pure and undiluted powder form, both for ceramics and for glass, in the same way as a ceramic toner or pigment.
• the decorating apparatus of the invention allows not only to use a ceramic toner or pigment but also a pure enamel, i.e. dry in the form of pure undiluted powder, thereby without having to mix the enamel with oils or other substances, or having to use serigraph vehicles and pastes.
• the decorating apparatus of the invention implies considerable economic advantages and in particular allows industrial production of decorated articles without implying the costs and problems, mentioned above, of the prior art.
• the decorating apparatus of the invention is not limited to the manufacture of decorated articles of ceramic material, but it can be advantageously applied, with excellent results, to decorate glass articles and the like, as well as sheet metal and wood articles.
• FIGs. 5A-5M partially illustrate a prototype of the decorating apparatus 310 of the invention, and some of its relevant parts, in a separate form from the other, such as the respective oscillating hopper, which has been used to perform numerous and in-depth tests directed to decorate various types Of articles.
• FIG. M, N show a generic printing unit 312-1 , 312-2, 312-3, 312-4, of inkjet type, which is included in a corresponding decoration group 311-1 , 311-2 , 312-3, 312-4 of the decorating apparatus 310 of the invention and is used to print the virtual image IV, constituted by the adhesive substance S1 , on the article MF to be decorated.

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