US3796618A - Method of decorating ceramic wall and floor tiles - Google Patents

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US3796618A
US3796618A US00136383A US3796618DA US3796618A US 3796618 A US3796618 A US 3796618A US 00136383 A US00136383 A US 00136383A US 3796618D A US3796618D A US 3796618DA US 3796618 A US3796618 A US 3796618A
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C04—CEMENTS; CONCRETE; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CERAMICS; REFRACTORIES
    • C04B—LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CERAMICS; REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE
    • C04B41/00—After-treatment of mortars, concrete, artificial stone or ceramics; Treatment of natural stone
    • C04B41/009—After-treatment of mortars, concrete, artificial stone or ceramics; Treatment of natural stone characterised by the material treated
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C04—CEMENTS; CONCRETE; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CERAMICS; REFRACTORIES
    • C04B—LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CERAMICS; REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE
    • C04B41/00—After-treatment of mortars, concrete, artificial stone or ceramics; Treatment of natural stone
    • C04B41/45—Coating or impregnating, e.g. injection in masonry, partial coating of green or fired ceramics, organic coating compositions for adhering together two concrete elements
    • C04B41/4505—Coating or impregnating, e.g. injection in masonry, partial coating of green or fired ceramics, organic coating compositions for adhering together two concrete elements characterised by the method of application
    • C04B41/4511—Coating or impregnating, e.g. injection in masonry, partial coating of green or fired ceramics, organic coating compositions for adhering together two concrete elements characterised by the method of application using temporarily supports, e.g. decalcomania transfers or mould surfaces
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C04—CEMENTS; CONCRETE; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CERAMICS; REFRACTORIES
    • C04B—LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CERAMICS; REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE
    • C04B41/00—After-treatment of mortars, concrete, artificial stone or ceramics; Treatment of natural stone
    • C04B41/80—After-treatment of mortars, concrete, artificial stone or ceramics; Treatment of natural stone of only ceramics
    • C04B41/81—Coating or impregnation
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1705—Lamina transferred to base from adhered flexible web or sheet type carrier

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  • the pattern comes oil the tile again or is at least displaced when one tries subsequently to remove the carrier paper from the pattern. All attempts in this direction have shown again and again that patterns or decals are not suitable for the automatic decorating of ceramic articles generally and for wall or floor tiles in particular, and it is always necessary to revert to the manual decorating techniques.
  • the present invention has as its object to disclose a process for machine decorating ceramic wall and floor tiles with patterns of ceramic dyes.
  • ceramic articles are decorated by utilizing decal-like members containing a design or a pattern of ceramic dyes printed on a carrier element which is provided with a water-soluble and/or meltable separating layer and bonded by at least one lacquer coating. Initially, the raw-glazed tile is sprayed with a solvent for dissolving the lacquer coating, the pattern is then placed on the sprayed surface and the gloss and decoration baking is effected in one working step.
  • the lacquer mask protects the underlying water-sensitive raw glaze. If, in a further development of the invention, the carrier of the pattern is a polyglycol-coated paper which is removed from the pattern by water, the lacquer coating and the polyglycol layer dissolved in water repel each other due to their contrasting non-hygroscopic and hygroscopic nature, which facilitates the removal of the carrier paper in an advantageous manner.
  • the raw-glazed tile is subjected to the following consecutive steps:
  • a spraying device for the solvent a dispensing device coacting with a supply container for the patterns which applies one pattern to each tile, at least one pressure roller which presses the pattern onto the tile, and a device for dissolving and removing the carrier from the pattern.
  • the carrier of the decal -or pattern be a wax-coated heat conducting toil .whichis removed from the pattern by the influence of heat,
  • an elongated conveyor belt 1 moves raw-glazed ceramic tiles 2 in the direction indi cated by'the arrow.
  • the tiles 2 are securedin'position on the conveyor belt 1 and are carried first, pasta spray device 3 which contains ethylglycolacetate as a. solvent.
  • pasta spray device 3 which contains ethylglycolacetate as a. solvent.
  • the tiles moveunder a storage container 4' forpatterns 5 of ceramic dyes from which a device 6 dispenses the patterns 5.
  • the tiles 2 travel under pressure rollers 7 to 10 by which the patterns arepressed jonto the tiles 2.
  • a second spraying device 11 containing heatedwater After leaving the rollers the tileslZj arelspra by a second spraying device 11 containing heatedwater.” Finally the tiles move under a further pres'sure'roller' 1'2; and a sponge member 13. Below .thef spraying device a collecting container 14 is providediwhich coj ectsthe; excess solvent and recycles it to the spraying'd e for further use. In addition, a collecting container 15 'fo r the excess water is arranged below the sprayjrneans 11, the pressure roller 12 and the sponge member 13.
  • the patterns S' are stacked so that. the lacquer coat bonding the pattern is dire'cted downwardly and, accordingly, the polyglycol-coated paper acting as a carrier is directed upwardlyg
  • the di pensing device 6 includes arubber roller whose rot'a drive is coupled with the driveof the .conveyor belt, not shown.
  • the ,rubber roller 6 When rotating, the ,rubber roller 6 fpushes" the lowermost pattern 5 from the storage,containerfiinthe direction of travel-of the conveyor'helt 1 between a" pair of rollers16, which'jdirectthe pattern 5 over a rolle'r 1"] to an abutment ls where the tile 2 to be deco r U
  • th'e'abutin is 1re ov d and the 18 tile. with the pattern is conducted along I belt 1.
  • the pressure roller '7 then presses h onto the tile ⁇ so that the solvent, ethylgly the raw-glaze is applied to the ila'oqu'er coat and' 'the ceramic dyes of the pattern.
  • This' application procedure is continued during the passage of tile with its pattern under the additional pressure rollers 8,9 and lfllf'The lacquer coat or layer and the ceramic dyes thus enetrate into the raw-glazed tile establishing aifihtimatebond between the pattern'and tile.
  • the tile "2 with the'patterns moves under the second spray device 11 it is sprayedc'with heated water on the polyglycol-coated carrier 'rpaper; facing upwardly; Due to the absorbencytof.-;-the.carrier
  • the tileZ is thereupon movedlpast the further pressure roller 12 which removes the excess water on the carrier paper.
  • the carrier paper is then removed by the sponge member 13.
  • This sponge member has the shape of a rotation roller ,whose tangential direction of movement forms a right angle with the direction of movement of the tile Z-and/or the conveyer belt 1. It is also possible, however, that-the two directions of movement form any other angle. Theiright angle is the most suitable because the removed carrier'paper in that case cannot fall back on the conveyer belt 1.
  • the decorated tiles 2 then reach storagechambers where they are stored until the baking step.
  • the spraying means 11, pressure roller 12 and the sponge band 13 are replaced by a heat source whose radiation is directed on thefoil and a blower which directs the foil away from thepattern.
  • a heat source whose radiation is directed on thefoil and a blower which directs the foil away from thepattern.
  • it is particularly suitable tocombine the heat source and blower in a single device, such; as, in a hot air producing drier unit.
  • the pattern 5 is slightly larger than the tile 2 so that at least one of the four edges 'can also be decorated,. at least one of the pressure rollers 7 to 10 has to be designed such that it contacts the edges of the tile.
  • the carrier element on the pattern is a polyglycol-coated paper, and using heated water for separating the carrier element from the pattern.
  • the size of the pattern is slightly larger than the surface of the tile being decorated so that at least one of the four edges of the tile can be covered by the pattern.
  • the carrier element of the pattern is a waxcoated heat conducting foil, and applying heat to the carrier element separating the carrier element from the pattern.

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EP1439045A3 (fr) * 2003-01-13 2005-10-26 Villeroy & Boch Ag Procédé et dispositif de décoration de carreaux
US10316518B2 (en) * 2016-01-29 2019-06-11 Daltile Corporation Glazed porcelain roof tile
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US10850379B2 (en) 2018-07-06 2020-12-01 Daltile Corporation System and method for installing roof tiles
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