WO2013155812A1

WO2013155812A1 - Print template

Info

Publication number: WO2013155812A1
Application number: PCT/CN2012/079701
Authority: WO
Inventors: 李贵宝; 李世强
Original assignee: 珠海天威飞马打印耗材有限公司
Priority date: 2012-04-18
Filing date: 2012-08-06
Publication date: 2013-10-24
Also published as: CN102632721A

Abstract

A print template used as a part for bearing the print media on a flat panel printer, comprising a body having a front side, a rear side, a top surface, a bottom surface, a left side, and a right side. The body comprises a bearing surface for bearing print media, and a position-fixing element, extended perpendicularly to the bearing surface, for fixing the position of the print media on the bearing surface.

Description

Print template

The present invention relates to a print template, particularly a print template for carrying a print medium in a flatbed printer. The present invention is based on a Chinese utility model patent application filed on Apr. 18, 2012, with the application number 201210115932.1, the content of which is incorporated herein by reference.

In the printing process of the flatbed printer, after the printing medium is placed on the printing template and fixed, the printing template is printed in a vertical linear motion with respect to the reciprocating linear motion printing nozzle, and the printing medium such as ceramic sheet, plastic shell, hard card, etc. Positioning on the print template will directly affect the accuracy of the print position, so each print must be manually positioned on the print template before printing. During the entire printing process, the time for positioning operation is often better than printing. The time is still long. If you print in batches, it is not only inefficient, but also labor intensive.

Chinese Patent Application Publication No. CN102271924A discloses a printer pallet assembly for printing a plurality of articles, the assembly having a support surface, a carrier mountable on the pallet, and a pallet The surface features are consistent, such as individual article platforms, such that each article can be placed on a support surface of the pallet that also substantially covers the remaining areas of the upper surface of the pallet to protect the pallet from unintentional ink application by the printer. The carrier also includes a support that allows the carrier loaded with the article to be removed from the pallet and transported for further processing. The assembly can also include a positioner that can be mounted on a carrier on the pallet. The locator acts as a clamp that aligns each article to a suitable location on the support surface of the pallet.

technical problem

Although the above technical solution can locate the printing medium, the assembly of the components is troublesome, and it is assembled once every printing, and the operation is cumbersome.

In addition, the printing medium suitable for flatbed printers is usually a thick object, so the total thickness of the printing template plus the printing medium is large, which makes the elastomer for pressing the printing template on the flatbed printer enter the printing template. In the process of leaving the compacting process, a sudden change of state occurs. For a printing medium having a large thickness, the sudden change of the state is more intense, which not only causes noise, but also often causes the elastic body to break.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a print template which has a simple positioning structure and is easy to operate;

Another object of the present invention is to provide a print template that can effectively prevent damage to the elastomer of a flatbed printer.

To achieve the above main object, a print template for carrying a print medium provided by the present invention includes a body having a front side, a rear side, an upper surface, a lower surface, a left side surface, and a right side surface. The body has a support surface for supporting the printing medium, and a positioning portion for fixing the printing medium on the support surface extends perpendicularly to the support surface.

One specific solution is that the positioning portion is constituted by a positioning surface for restricting movement of the printing medium in the support surface.

Another specific solution is that the positioning portion is constituted by a positioning surface for restricting movement of the printing medium in the support surface and a positioning pin.

Still another specific solution is that the positioning portion is constituted by three or more positioning pins for restricting movement of the printing medium in the support surface.

The advantages of the above three specific embodiments will be apparent from the description of the embodiments of the present invention.

In order to achieve another object of the present invention, the above aspects may be further improved by providing a front bevel on the print template, the front bevel being inclined upward from the front side to the upper surface. The other is to provide a rear bevel on the print template, the rear bevel being inclined downward from the upper surface to the rear side. Still another is to provide a front bevel and a rear bevel at the same time on the printing template, the front bevel is inclined upward from the front side to the upper surface, and the rear bevel is inclined downward from the upper surface to the rear side.

The invention has a support surface for supporting the printing medium on the body, and a positioning portion extending perpendicular to the support surface, so that the structure of fixing the printing template to the printing medium is very simple, and the mounting operation of the printing medium on the printing template is also very easy.

Figure 1 is a structural exploded view of a first embodiment and a printing medium;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the first embodiment after the printing medium is installed;

Figure 3 is a structural exploded view of the second embodiment and the printing medium;

Figure 4 is a structural exploded view of the third embodiment and the printing medium;

Figure 5 is a structural exploded view of the fourth embodiment and the printing medium;

Figure 6 is a schematic illustration of the operation of the first embodiment on a flatbed printer.

The present invention will be further described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and embodiments.

First embodiment

Referring to FIG. 1, the body of the printing template 1 has a front side 11, a rear side, an upper surface 12, a lower surface, a left side surface 13 and a right side surface, and a bearing surface 16 for supporting the printing medium 2 in the direction of gravity. For example, an example for printing a back cover of a mobile phone, the print medium 2 is a back cover of the mobile phone, and the support surface 16 may be only a support surface for the back cover panel 22 of the mobile phone, or may be used only for supporting the mobile phone. The support surface of the lower face 21 of the cover 2 of the cover plate may also be a combination of the two. The upper surface 12 is provided with a groove 17 which is recessed downwardly and adapted to the skirt of the mobile phone back cover. The two sides forming the groove 17 constitute a positioning portion, and it is obvious that the two groove sides are perpendicular to the support surface 16. In addition, a notch 18 for accommodating and removing the back cover of the mobile phone is respectively disposed before and after the upper surface of the printing template 1.

Further, the print template 1 is further provided with a front bevel 14 and a rear bevel 15 in which the front bevel 14 is inclined upward from the front side 11 to the upper surface, and the rear bevel 15 is inclined downward from the upper surface 12 to the rear side. The action of providing the front bevel 14 and the rear bevel 15 will be described later.

Referring to FIG. 2, this is a state diagram in which the skirt alignment groove 17 of the mobile phone back cover 2 is naturally lowered. The positioning portion, that is, the two sides of the groove 17 perpendicular to the support surface, restricts the back cover of the mobile phone on the support surface. The movement in the plane in which the mobile phone back cover 2 is attached to the print template 1 can only be installed or removed in the vertical direction of the figure.

Second embodiment

Referring to Fig. 3, for the printing medium 2 which is a relatively thin tile, a plastic plate or the like, the printing template 1 can be changed as follows with respect to the first embodiment, and only the differences will be specifically described below. The print medium 2 to which this example is applied is a hard photo board that can be hung on a wall, and has a nail hole for hanging on the board. The support surface 16 of the print template 1 is located below the upper surface 12 in parallel. Considering that the print template 1 should be suitable for a rigid photo plate of different widths, the support surface 16 should be as close as possible to the maximum print width of the flatbed printer. Large, and the positioning of the printing medium 2 on the supporting surface is completed by the positioning surface 19 and the positioning pin 4. It can be understood that the positioning pin 4 can be adapted to different rigid photo plates, and can be inserted into the supporting surface by the positioning pin 4 One of a plurality of preset holes is implemented, for example, a plurality of holes are arranged in a line on the center line. The role of the front bevel 14 and the rear bevel 15 in this example will also be described later.

Third embodiment

Referring to Fig. 4, the present embodiment differs from the second embodiment in that one of the front bevel 14 or the rear bevel 15 is eliminated because the printing medium 2 is thin so that the distance between the upper surface 12 of the printing template and the lower surface is printed. Smaller, the maximum stroke of the elastomer in the flatbed printer is also small, there is no noise that affects the environment, and the elastic body is not damaged. Therefore, the number of the inclined faces can be appropriately reduced. In addition, the engagement of the locating surface 19 with the locating pin 4 is in this example limited to the outer edge of the contour of the print medium 2.

Fourth embodiment

Referring to FIG. 5, it can be understood that the upper surface in this example is coincident with the support surface 16, and three

positioning pins

41, 42, 43 are disposed on the support surface 16, and the printing medium 2 may be an object as shown in FIG. It may be an object that is confined between the three

positioning pins

41, 42, 43 such as a disc-shaped stamp, and three

positioning pins

41, 42, 43 are disposed on the circumscribed circle of the stamp. For other plate-shaped printing media 2 having a profiled main surface, a plurality of positioning pins may be inserted into corresponding holes in the support surface 16 for fixing, as long as the positioning pins are located at the edge of the main surface of the printing medium 2.

The advantages of the front bevel 14 and the rear bevel 15 will be described below. The process of printing the printing medium 2 on the flatbed printer 3 will now be described as an example. Referring to Fig. 6, after the print medium 2 is fixed on the print template 1, the flatbed printer 3 is fed from the right side shown in Fig. 6. A rear bracket is provided at the rear of the rack of the flatbed printer 3 (the right side shown in FIG. 6), and a transport roller 32 is disposed on the rear bracket. When the print template 1 is not placed on the rear bracket, the elasticity of the flatbed printer 3 is provided. The body 34 is pressed against the active rotating shaft 31. When the front side of the printing template 1 is pushed to the active rotating shaft 31, it will be moved by the elastic body 34 and the active rotating shaft 31 in the direction of the arrow shown in the figure, and the front inclined surface 14 In order to avoid the sudden rise of the elastomer in the vertical direction, the elastic force of the elastomer is greatly changed. While the printing template 1 is being advanced, the printing head 5 reciprocates in the direction perpendicular to the direction in which it travels, that is, in the axial direction of the active rotating shaft, and after the printing is completed, the printing template 1 is sent out by the conveying roller 33 on the front tray. The elastic body 34 is gradually lowered along the rear inclined surface 15 before the rear side of the printing template is separated from the active rotating shaft 31, and the rear inclined surface 15 has the same advantages as the front inclined surface 14.

Since the supporting surface for supporting the printing medium and the positioning portion extending perpendicular to the supporting surface are disposed on the body, the structure in which the printing template fixes the printing medium is very simple, and the mounting operation of the printing medium on the printing template is also very easy. . The arrangement of the front bevel and the rear bevel serves to prevent the elastic body from rising abruptly in the vertical direction and to improve the dynamic change of the elastic body.

Claims

Print template for carrying print media, including

a body having a front side, a rear side, an upper surface, a lower surface, a left side surface, and a right side surface;

It is characterized by:

The body has a support surface for supporting the printing medium, and a positioning portion for fixing the printing medium on the support surface extends perpendicularly to the support surface.
The print template of claim 1 wherein:

The positioning portion is constituted by a positioning surface for restricting movement of the printing medium in the support surface.
The print template of claim 1 wherein:

The positioning portion is constituted by a positioning surface for restricting movement of the printing medium in the support surface and a positioning pin.
The print template of claim 1 wherein:

The positioning portion is constituted by three or more positioning pins for restricting movement of the printing medium in the support surface.
A print template according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that:

a front bevel that slopes upward from the front side to the upper surface.
A print template according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that:

a rear bevel that slopes downwardly from the upper surface to the rear side.
A print template according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that:

a front bevel, the front bevel is inclined upward from the front side to the upper surface;

a rear bevel that slopes downwardly from the upper surface to the rear side.