US3589280A - Apparatus for applying ultraviolet normally transparent indicia to bottle caps - Google Patents

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US3589280A
US3589280A US776114A US3589280DA US3589280A US 3589280 A US3589280 A US 3589280A US 776114 A US776114 A US 776114A US 3589280D A US3589280D A US 3589280DA US 3589280 A US3589280 A US 3589280A
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    • 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
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    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
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  • ABSTRACT Apparatus for coding containers by marking with normally transparent and invisible indicia.
  • the containers are marked by advancing the container past a marking station and bringing a marking member past the station and into contact with the container while moving both t e con- MSOMS.
  • Apparatus includes [56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 970,839 9/1910 1,303,042 5/1919 Dowson et a1.
  • a marking mechanism comprised of a plurality of radially 101/37 101/35 UX igned wheels including a drive-transfer wheel frictionally engaged with the surfaces of an ink supply wheel and a marking wheel, and a variable speed motor connected to rotate said 2,375,362 5/1945 Hirsch 2,790,386
  • a method and apparatus for marking portions of containers such as bottle caps, in a manner that will not detract from the appearance of the package.
  • an apparatus and method for marking the surface of such a container with a normally transparent and invisible marking which is not readily discernible, under normal lighting conditions, but which may readily be observed simply by subjecting the surface to which the markings have been applied to reproduction environment, such as a special form of lighting which renders the markings visible for inspection.
  • One suitable medium for such use is ultraviolet ink, which when exposed to daylight and normal artificial light is substantially invisible and transparent. For this reason, markings formed from such ultraviolet ink can be deposited on top of previously printed decorative or informative material without interfering with the appearance of such material.
  • the normally transparent marks are applied to the surface of containers simply and readily by advancing the containers along a selected path, by bringing the surface to be marked in contact with a marking member moving at the same rate as the containers to be marked.
  • Apparatus for effecting application of the normally transparent marks includes a plurality of radially aligned wheels.
  • a first or marking wheel contacts the surface to be marked and is driven by a drive-transfer wheel in frictional contact therewith.
  • the drive-transfer wheel also drives an ink supply wheel, thereby controlling the amount of ink transferred to the marking wheel and to the container surface.
  • the surface of themarking wheel includes a repetitive pattern of marking elements, thereby avoiding the necessity of close synchronization between the wheel and the containers to be marked. Because the markings are normally transparent and invisible, a plurality of marking elements are designed to contact the surface to be marked without detracting from its appearance.
  • the apparatus is readily adjustable relative to the surface to be marked in order to allow various sizes and shapes of containers to be marked. Furthermore, by avoiding close synchronization between the marking wheel and the containers to be marked, different shapes and sizes of containers can be marked simply be adjusting the peripheral speed of the marking wheel to eliminate relative motion between the surface of the marking wheel and the container being marked as they make contact.
  • FIG. 1 is an end view partly broken away of one embodiment of a marking apparatus incorporating the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view of the apparatus of FIGURE 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a side view of the apparatus of FIGURE 1;
  • FIGS. 4, 5, and 6 are diagrammatic views showing how apparatus of the present invention can be adjusted to effect the desired imprinting on various containers.
  • various containers 10, such as caps 11 of bottles 12, or the tops 14 or sides 16 of cans 18 can have marked thereon normally invisible indicia by passing the containers 10 past a marking member 18, shown in the form of amarking wheel 20, whereby the surface of the marking member 18 contacts the container 10.
  • the marking apparatus includes the marking wheel 20, an ink supply wheel 22 having a portion of its surface passing through a supply 24 of marking material such as ultraviolet ink, and a drive-transfer wheel 26 having its surface frictionally engaged with the surfaces of the ink supply wheel 22 and the marking wheel 20.
  • a variable speed electric motor 28 is connected to the drive-transfer wheel 26 through a suitable coupling 30 to rotate the wheel 26 and the ink supply wheel 22 and marking wheel 20 through the frictional engagement therebetween.
  • the peripheral speed of the marking wheel 20 can be adjusted to coincide with the translational movement of the containers 10 to be marked to eliminate relative motion between the surface of the marking wheel and the container 10 in contact therewith.
  • the wheels 20, 22, and 26 and the motor 28 are mounted on a support plate 32, which is slidably supported on a vertically adjustable support stand 34! by means of a bolt and slot arrangement 36.
  • the support stand 34 includes a fixed outer member 38 and a telescoping adjustable inner member 40, the bottom 42 of which is provided with a threaded aperture 44.
  • An adjusting screw 46 provided in the outer member 38 is threaded into the aperture 44 to raise and lower the inner telescoping portion .40 relative to the fixed outer portion 38. Vertical movement of the inner telescoping portion 40 adjusts the vertical position of the marking wheel 20.
  • the containers to be marked such as bottles 12, are advanced along a conveyor belt 48 and contact the marking wheel 20.
  • a plurality of characters 50 on the printing wheel 20 come into contact with the surface to be marked, such as the bottle caps 11. Since precise location of the marks is not necessary due to their normal transparent and invisible condition, the location of the marking wheel character 50 need not be synchronized to the position of the containers being marked, as long as there is no relative movement between the periphery of the marking wheel 20 and the surface of the container with which it makes contact.
  • the containers may be inspected. In the case of ultraviolet ink, inspection is accomplished by simply exposing the marked surface to an ultraviolet light source 52 which renders the normally transparent marks visible. The marks are then dried by passing the marked containers under a drier 54, such as heating lamps.
  • Apparatus for applying ultraviolet normally transparent indicia to the top surface of bottle caps attached to bottles comprising in combination three rotatable wheels, said wheels including an ink pickup wheel having one surface passing through a source of ultraviolet ink, a markizig wheel having a plurality of closely spaced marking characters disposed about its surface, and a drive-transfer wheel having its surface engaged with the surfaces of said ink supply wheel and said marking wheel, drive means for rotating said drive-transfer wheel to rotate said ink pickup wheel and said marking wheel by frictional engagement therewith to transfer ink from said ink supply wheel to the said drive-transfer wheel and from said drive-transfer wheel to the surface of said marking characters, means for controlling the speed of said rotating means to rotate said marking wheel at a selected peripheral speed, means for laterally positioning said marking wheel to axially align said wheel with the advancing bottles, means for vertically adjusting the position of said marking wheel to locate one tangential surface thereof in the plane defined by the top surfaces of the bottle caps attached to the advancing bottles, and means for advancing a pluralit

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US3783777A (en) * 1971-11-30 1974-01-08 Liberty Glass Co Apparatus for imprinting objects such as bottles and the like
US3929066A (en) * 1972-12-22 1975-12-30 Pont A Mousson Machine for printing stamps, in particular on bottle caps
US4029007A (en) * 1975-10-24 1977-06-14 Armand L. Levinson Automatic date-stamping system for vehicles entering parking areas
US4037529A (en) * 1975-10-21 1977-07-26 Patrick Delligatti Bottom coders
US4193343A (en) * 1978-03-29 1980-03-18 R. W. Hartnett Company Pellet marking apparatus with frame raising and lowering mechanism
US5692629A (en) * 1993-05-05 1997-12-02 Supreme Corq Molded closure for a liquid container having printing thereon
US6153275A (en) * 1996-08-13 2000-11-28 Neocork Technologies, Llc Multilayer synthetic stopper
USD435217S (en) * 1999-04-15 2000-12-19 Supreme Corq Synthetic cork for a liquid container
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US2041574A (en) * 1934-02-12 1936-05-19 Harry M Smallen Marking device
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US2558542A (en) * 1947-08-25 1951-06-26 Pannier Bros Stamp Co Sheet marking apparatus
US2674939A (en) * 1947-11-14 1954-04-13 Anchor Hocking Glass Corp Marking device and mechanism
US2790386A (en) * 1954-10-21 1957-04-30 John B Klaus Rotary printing device
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US2041574A (en) * 1934-02-12 1936-05-19 Harry M Smallen Marking device
US2375362A (en) * 1943-07-13 1945-05-08 Albert W H Hirsch Automatic can marking machine
US2558542A (en) * 1947-08-25 1951-06-26 Pannier Bros Stamp Co Sheet marking apparatus
US2674939A (en) * 1947-11-14 1954-04-13 Anchor Hocking Glass Corp Marking device and mechanism
US2866402A (en) * 1953-10-02 1958-12-30 Sealright Oswego Falls Corp Apparatus for printing closures on containers
US2790386A (en) * 1954-10-21 1957-04-30 John B Klaus Rotary printing device
US2829589A (en) * 1955-03-31 1958-04-08 Gottscho Inc Adolph Marking apparatus
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US3724365A (en) * 1971-05-05 1973-04-03 Hc Ind Container marker and inking apparatus therefor
US3783777A (en) * 1971-11-30 1974-01-08 Liberty Glass Co Apparatus for imprinting objects such as bottles and the like
US3929066A (en) * 1972-12-22 1975-12-30 Pont A Mousson Machine for printing stamps, in particular on bottle caps
US4037529A (en) * 1975-10-21 1977-07-26 Patrick Delligatti Bottom coders
US4029007A (en) * 1975-10-24 1977-06-14 Armand L. Levinson Automatic date-stamping system for vehicles entering parking areas
US4193343A (en) * 1978-03-29 1980-03-18 R. W. Hartnett Company Pellet marking apparatus with frame raising and lowering mechanism
US5692629A (en) * 1993-05-05 1997-12-02 Supreme Corq Molded closure for a liquid container having printing thereon
US5855287A (en) * 1993-05-05 1999-01-05 Supreme Corq, Inc. Synthetic closure for removable insertion into a wine bottle
US6153275A (en) * 1996-08-13 2000-11-28 Neocork Technologies, Llc Multilayer synthetic stopper
US6248272B1 (en) 1996-08-13 2001-06-19 Neocork Technologies, Llc Multilayer synthetic stopper
US6695997B2 (en) 1997-09-19 2004-02-24 Neocork Technologies, Llc Multilayer synthetic stopper
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USD435217S (en) * 1999-04-15 2000-12-19 Supreme Corq Synthetic cork for a liquid container
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US7394383B2 (en) 2004-10-07 2008-07-01 West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. Closure for a container
CN102837494A (zh) * 2012-09-17 2012-12-26 泰兴市航联电连接器有限公司 一种圆形壳体色环滚印装置
CN102837494B (zh) * 2012-09-17 2014-08-20 泰兴市航联电连接器有限公司 一种圆形壳体色环滚印装置
US10286586B2 (en) 2014-06-20 2019-05-14 Vinventions Usa, Llc Multi-component synthetic closure and method of manufacture thereof

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