Stencil and work support

Apparatus for printing on the exterior surface of a generally round container such as a plastic or glass bottle or the like includes several stations that perform or cooperate to print the container. The stations are in line with each other and preferably are in line with both the production fabricating...     

A screen printing press employs a screen carriage securing a printing screen frame and screen therein and which reciprocates through print and return strokes over a reciprocally rotating print cylinder. Printing stock is advanced between the print cylinder and the screen during printing strokes. The...     

A screen processing machine has a frame supporting a printing screen which is capable of upward or downward movement. The frame pivots along one side thereof transverse to the longitudinal direction of transverse of a carriage, while the opposite side of the frame has lifting means provided in the carriage...     

In a standard screen printing machine a linkage assembly is provided for connecting the screen support and the printing bed support in such a manner that the screen support is movable into and out of an operative position. The link arrangement is selectively connected to the screen support to provide,...     

A silkscreen printing machine, having a printing drum supporting material which is to be printed. Sensing means for indicating the position of the material are arranged on the drum, and an adjusting device is arranged to stop the front edge of the material at a predetermined position, in which gripper...     

A fabric printing machine having a conveyor belt for supporting a fabric to be printed. A drive unit is connected to the belt, and a control mechanism coacts with the belt and the drive unit for permitting intermittent unidirectional advancing movement of the belt through a selected distance. The drive...     

A stencil printer has a base mounting an ink container and yieldable guides adapted to be traversed by a stencil carrier and a card carrier. The ink container has curved bottom and end walls and is spanned by a removable flexible plastic sheet confined by removable bearing blocks which journal the ends...     

A device for maintaining a predetermined alignment of a running web and more particularly maintaining the alignment of the belt of an endless conveyor comprising an idler spool over which the web or belt passes and which is laterally movable relative to its supporting framework. Means are provided for...     

Stencilling apparatus for applying successive coatings to traveling web stock. The web stock may be advanced in successive wraparound turns to the same stencilling station. The adjacent turns are stencilled simultaneously at this station by a multipart squeegee in a multipart stencil frame, after each...     

Slit registry apparatus and method for registry of flexible, generally planar stock as for stencilling thereon, involving formation of periodic transverse slits and adjacent edges in the stock, at least one of the edges and the adjacent stock zone or area being offset from the plane of the stock for...     

Web stencilling and drying apparatus for web stock with at least one intermittent feed stencilling station and slit registry means for stock therefor, a continuous feed ultraviolet drying station, and first and second dynamic flow pressure differential web controllers upstream and downstream of the ultraviolet...     

The invention provides for a screen printing method for printing on ceramic articles, wherein color in the form of an image to be printed is transferred via intermediate carriers on to the article to be imprinted wherein the improvement resides in that four intermediate carriers are each provided simultaneously...     

A work holder comprising a fixed frame, a movable supported frame supported on upwardly movable columns urged upwardly by springs and a work holder frame hinged to the movable support and hydraulic cylinder connected to the fixed frame and to the work support frame so that when the hydraulic cylinder...     

A toy spray painting system which includes a hand-held manually powered spray gun along with an easel for holding a substrate such as paper to receive a paint spray from the spray gun. The hand-held spray gun includes a frame having a pistol-grip handle with a trigger for one hand operation. Squeezing...     

A group of cylindrical printing screens, rotatable about parallel axes, are journaled on a machine frame and carry coaxial gears in mesh with driving pinions on the frame. A bed, designed to support a substrate to be imprinted, is supported underneath each screen on the frame through the intermediary...     

An automatic screen printing machine is disclosed in which a squeegee and doctor blade are synchronized with the vertical position of a reciprocating receiving roller carried by a lifting frame. The squeegee and doctor blade are positioned by rack gears on a common support mounted for reciprocation on...     

An adjustable securing base has a surface radius of curvature which can be adjusted to support an adjacent part on the base surface. The securing base comprises a flexible thin plate with an adjustment mechanism connected on opposite edges of the base for adjusting the plate curvature. An opening in...     

A simple, manually operable screen printing apparatus is provided, which is particularly suitable for small scale, custom printing. The apparatus permits relative adjustment between the printing screen and the workpiece in a side-to-side direction, a forward and backwards direction, a vertical direction...     

Axially adjacent first, second and third carriages are independently rotatable about a common vertical axis. The first carriage supports a plurality of platens which are spaced from the axis of rotation. The second and third carriages have a plurality of mechanisms which support a circumferentially disposed...     

A printing station includes a printing screen and an endless gas-permeable carrier band of screen material is provided which has a workpiece supporting run extending beneath the printing screen and on which a sheet-material workpiece to be printed is transported. A suction device is arranged below the...     

An improved silk-screen printing machine is provided which includes a squeegee and means for urging the squeegee against an elastic stencil and the material to be printed. Means are also provided to impart movement to the stencil relative to the material to be printed upon during the printing process...     

A stencil printing apparatus for printing a workpiece web at a printing station has a support on which the workpiece web is to be located so that a pattern can be printed on it in a plurality of successive printing operations. A magazine is located above the support at the printing station and accommodates...     

A printing machine having a reciprocatingly movable printing table, preferably of the type having a stencil and a squeegee associated therewith is disclosed. Said squeegee being intended, in a printing position for the material, to press printing ink through the stencil to a rigid material arranged beneath...     

A silkscreen printing machine, having a plurality of gripper arms, arranged to grip in a first position material to be printed upon and to move said material to a second position, the printing position, in which said material is printed upon. Each gripper arm is arranged to be registered at least in...     

A screen printing machine for a web intermittently pulled forwardly to receive a succession of closely interspaced prints, has a printing table over which the web is intermittently pulled beneath a printing screen which contacts the web, and during each web stop a printing material knife is reciprocated...     

The machine for serigraphic printing on planar or circular objects is of the type comprising a support block having a device for holding the object to be printed and a printing screen above which is vertically movable ink squeegee is suspended. The screen and squeegee undergo a relative movement of reciprocating...     

In a screen printing process and machine for stepwise printing a succession of images, the screen printing stencil is moved along with the material during the printing operation, while the material is supported by a rotatable backing roller against the force applied to the material by the screen and...     

A holder accessory is described for use with screen printing presses for adapting the screen printing on three-dimensional objects of revolution of different sizes, all at high speeds. The holder accessory is capable of being loaded manually or automatically and comprises a nesting assembly which is...     

A cap painting apparatus for printing on the curved surfaces of baseball caps and like pre-formed caps comprises a curved hat platform for supporting the cap with a panel of the cap positioned on a curved printing area of the platform. A clamping device holds the cap stretched tightly in place and a...     

In a screen printing press having a squeegee and flood bar mounted on a movable support carriage, a movable actuator means is provided by the present invention which includes a pivotal lever having a brake pad on its upper end to firmly engage an upper braking surface at the point of transition from...     

A screen drive assembly is described for use with screen printing presses for facilitating the printing of elongated articles. In the printing press of the subject invention, the screen is driven towards and away from the press over the article to be printed by a unique drive which converts the reciprocal...     

A plane printing machine comprising a table rotatable intermittently in one direction, a plurality of printed-object holders provided self-rotatably around said table, planet gears aligned coaxially with respective printed-object holders, and a sun gear rotatable alternately in normal and reverse directions...     

A bottle printer includes a carriage reciprocated along a fixed screen and a squeegee and flood bar carried by the carriage. A bottle support and a nose cone are adjustably supported on the carriage to accommodate bottles of different sizes. A bottle registration mechanism is supported on the carriage...     

The apparatus has a gas-permeable support for a web to be printed. Below the support is a suction box which applies suction through the support to the web. Above the support is a flat printing stencil which can be raised and lowered relative to the support. Above and in wiping contact with the stencil...     

The specification discloses a screen printing machine comprising a platen connected with a frame, and a printing head rotatably mounted on the frame and having at least two printing screens pivotally connected therewith for pivoting the same between a printing position, and a raised storage position....     

A dye printing system for multi-color patterning or pile face sheet materials, such as tufted carpet, includes a stencil, in which the pattern elements are formed by divider walls extending perpendicularly to the plane of the sheet material. The stencil is lowered into contact with the pile face of the...     

Hinge apparatus for connecting first and second associated members which includes a pivot shaft, a bracket for releasably fixing the shaft to the first associated member, and a bracket for mounting the shaft on the second associated member for relative angular motion. The pivot shaft may be biased to...     

A screen printing machine has a carrier for an article to be printed, comprising first and second carrier members interconnected by a transverse connecting member. The carrier is reciprocal along the stencil between an article-receiving and an article-discharge station. The connecting member is adapted...     

Apparatus for screen printing on cylindrical surfaces in which the driving force is created by rotation of the object to be imprinted. The force is transmitted by a belt mechanism and by direct friction between the object being printed and the stencil frame. The stencil frame is mounted for linear movement...     

The invention relates to screen printing apparatus which comprises a printing station, means for feeding a web of material to be printed to the printing station and away therefrom, a squeegee mounted at the printing station for cooperation with a screen printing mesh, means for attaching a screen printing...     

A screen for printing curved surfaces comprises a frame having a substantially rigid end segments, and resilient, semi-rigid side segments, which are flexed traversed to the plane of the frame into an arcuate configuration for printing. During assembly of the printing screen, the frame side segments...     

A screen printing device for T-shirts and the like including a flat perforated portion on which the T-shirt is positioned, a vacuum being applied to cause the ink to go through the printing screen.

An automated screener in which print and flood squeegees are sequentially driven across a stencil screen framed in a chase. After a print stroke, the print squeegee is retracted and the chase is raised a short distance to make contact with the flood squeegee, which is driven in a flood stroke, whereupon...     

In a screen printing machine having a plurality of workpiece supporting pallets that are driven along an oval path and which cooperate with a plurality of printing heads that are adapted for movement between an operative, printing position at each of a plurality of printing stations and an inoperative,...     

In a system for plating precisely located spots on an intermittently moved strip of metal, a spring loaded pawl on the spot defining mask is positioned to grasp holes in the strip and move just the mask a short distance with the strip so as to insure mask alignment with the strip.

A centrally mechanically controlled printing machine is disclosed comprising a conveyor equipped with spaced-apart article carriers for accommodating articles to be printed, a plurality of work stations comprising a singeing station, a prepositioning station, a printing station and a drying station disposed...     

A printing apparatus applies material to a carrier through a planar screen aving a pattern including a number of lines substantially parallel to a first direction. The screen and carrier are mounted so material forced through the lines of the screen is deposited on the carrier in the same pattern as...     

A serigraphy printing assembly for bottles comprises a conveyor having at least a portion situated between a bottle-picking up station and the entrance to a drying station, and lying in a vertical plane along which the bottles are held so that their longitudinal axis is substantially horizontal and so...     

Printing on a cylindrical or conical surface of a container is carried out by a method and apparatus wherein the container is supported against rotation about a support axis. A squeegee is positioned at one side of a decorating screen to establish line contact between the opposite side of the screen...     

A conveyor chain moves along the periphery of a table. A number of balloon-carrying members are fixed in spaced-apart relationship to the conveyor chain. Each member carries a nipple for engaging the neck of a balloon and a balloon-positioning member movable with respect to the balloon-carrying member...     

An improved cap printing sytem for silk screen printing on the soft, curved surfaces of baseball caps and the like, comprises a method of printing which includes the steps of forcing both the soft fabric of the cap and the printing screen to take cooperating curvatures which cooperate to facilitate silk...     

In a known hot melt screen printing machine the printing ink is heated by an electrical current which is conducted through a stainless steel mesh of a screen plate. In the known machine, the printing accuracy is not good, mainly because of variation of tension and thermal expansion of the mesh. The mesh...     

A machine comprises, to feed a printing station, a conveyor comprising spaced supports each adapted to support an object to be printed and, at said printing station, a screen carried by a carriage, a squeegee carried by a carriage, and a block adapted, by bearing the object to be printed, to control...     

A silk screening fixture for umbrellas to enable limited quantities of umbrellas to be silk screened in local shops. The fixture is adjustable in height for umbrellas of different length handles, in width, for umbrellas of different diameter, and in angle, for umbrellas of differing curvature. Two legs...     

An apparatus and method are disclosed for individually transporting large sheets of stock which may have curled ends from a planar support surface such as a printing bed to another location, such as a delivery station. The present invention includes lifting members for positioning a leading end of each...     

The basic module comprises a frame, a support which is mounted to reciprocate vertically on the frame adjacent the rear thereof, and a printing screen, which projects horizontally forwardly from the support in cantilever fashion. A cable, which is attached at one end to the support and at its opposite...     

A carriage drive mechanism for a screen printing press includes a stroke adjustment mechanism which enables the length of the printing stroke to be altered quickly and conveniently from the exterior of the press without interrupting operation of the press. The preferred drive mechanism includes a pivoting...     

A drying arrangement located in a drying station and intended for drying printed material includes a material-conveying path (10), preferably arranged to convey the material through the print drying station, and further including one or more drying and/or curing means (19). The print drying and/or curing...     

An article decorating device, particularly for the decorating of eggs, having a formed, article receiving and cushioning surface, a slotted and formed or formable template receivable over the article to be decorated and a cover member arranged to be positioned over the article and template to positively...     

An automatic peel control mechanism for use in a screen printing press employs a cam-driven mechanical linkage to raise the front end of the screen frame at a controlled rate to a predetermined height above the printing bed in timed relation to the motion of the carriage which transports the squeegee....     

A molded plastic resin contact lens marking fixture is provided having a cup-like base with an upstanding internal pedestal having an upper surface which is a segment of a sphere for receiving a contact lens. The axis of the segment is tipped from the vertical so that a peripheral portion of the lens...     

An improved screen printing apparatus for printing conductive, resistive and insulative films to the surfaces of ceramic or glass substrates. The screen printing apparatus is characterized by a carriage having a substrate to be printed resting thereon and a frame member extending about the periphery...     

A device for decorating ceramic flatware includes color applicators rotatable about a common axis for simultaneously decorating a central portion and a rim portion of the flatware.

Stencil printing machine including one or more printing tables, a number of movably arranged material gripping and displacement arrangements, a stencil tensioned in a frame located above each printing table and doctor blade arrangement which can interact with the stencil. At least one material gripping...     

A stencilling apparatus having a single drive means operating a container fixture screen support and wiper fixture, so that the container fixture rotates and moves toward and away from the screen, and the screen moves laterally and the wiper moves toward and away from the screen all in timed sequence...     

A method and apparatus are provided for silk screen printing the tops and fronts of completed painter's cap. An oval-shaped platen is dimensioned so that a painter's cap fits over it, the bottom of the top portion of the painter's cap engaging the platen and held to the platen by an adhesive. A silk...     

A printing machine for webs of paper or the like has a flat horizontal screen which is stationarily but removably mounted in the machine frame above the path of intermittent longitudinal movement of the web. A hollow air-permeable counterpressure cylinder is mounted below the path of the web and is reciprocable...     

A manually operated silk screen printing apparatus having a printing bed and a chase overlying the printing bed for removably mounting a screen in alignment with the overlying printing bed. Preferably, a single ball-shaped handle or joystick is mounted on the top of the squeegee carriage for pushing...     

A multiple registration position screen mounting apparatus or printing head assembly particularly well-suited for screen printing of jersey numerals of like indicia on garments. The printing head assembly of the present invention includes a screen receiving socket portion slideably mounted for horizontal...     

A stencil manufacturing and printing process reduces printed image distortion by matching screen deflection in the photostencil preparation phase with stencil deflection in the printing phase. The usual squeegee is replaced by atmospheric pressure and screen/stencil deflection is induced by producing...     

The present invention entails a relatively simple foot actuated screen printing apparatus for printing designs, insignias or the like on apparel and which is particularly adapted for the printing of caps. The printing apparatus of the present invention includes an article holder that in the design disclosed...     

A screen printing machine comprises a support frame comprising vertical and horizontal members and having a rear side, a front side spaced horizontally forward therefrom, and a plurality of stanchions projecting upward between the front and rear sides and an auxiliary frame lying and horizontally movable...     

A platen for use with a conventional screen printing machine for printing designs or patterns onto garments includes a window or windows formed in the body of the platen. The windows permit backlighting therethrough and through the garment material to enable the positioning and registration of a pattern...     

A silk-screen printer wherein the clamp holding the silk screen may be adjusted along X, Y and Z axes. The screen is held on an arm secured to a cylindrical post by an anchor plate. The anchor plate is pivoted by means of adjustment bolts that extend through the plate into contact with the cylinder surface.

A screen printing apparatus particularly useful for printing numerals on athletic wear characterized by a plurality of printing head assemblies, each of which include a screen receiving socket, are mounted in a horizontal extending side by side relationship in a plane disposed above a printing station...     

An adjustable pocket printing platen is disclosed for use with the printing platen of a prior art type of silk screen printing machine. The adjustable pocket printing platen includes a frame having a pair of spaced, transverse rails having end flanges positioned to bottomly underly the marginal edges...     

A numbering machine for use in the printing of numbers, wherein the machine includes a base, a carriage reciprocally mounted to the base, a platent pivotally mounted to the carriage for supporting material upon which the number will be printed, and a scale member provided with indicia which cooperates...     

A silkscreen printer which comprises a printing table which can be moved to a first position (printing position) to support material when a pattern is applied thereto with the aid of a stencil and squeegee. A further table is arranged for horizontal movement from a second position, located to one side...     

A compact machine consistently prints sharp, silk screened images on balloons. This is accomplished by a machine with a rotatable table and a number of operating stations located around the perimeter of the table. One station inflates the balloons to a predetermined size. At a print station a silk screen...     

A screen printing apparatus has a holder for a printing plate which includes a screen master composed of a thermoplastic synthetic resin film and a porous screen stuck together and an inner frame attached to the screen master on its film side. The holder includes a lower outer frame for supporting the...     

A method and apparatus for silk screen printing the tops and fronts of completed painter's cap. An oval-shaped platen is dimensioned so that a painter's cap fits over it, the bottom of the top portion of the painter's cap engaging the platen and held to the platen by an adhesive. A silk screen may be...     

A form for lettering and illustrating shirts is disclosed, said form being a stiff, generally rectangular sheet with a handle projecting from its upper edge, arm tabs projecting outward from its upper side edges, and clips disposed along its lower edge for holding a shirt flat on the form. The clips...     

A printing method which is practiced with a flat bed screen printing machine wherein the material to be printed is intermittently movable with or relative to an assembly including a flat bed at one side and a screen at the opposite side of the path for the material. The material moves with the assembly...     

A screen printing system and method is provided in accordance with the invention by using a circular base, a screen, an article to be printed and ink. The circular base has a planar top face. The circular base supports the article to be printed, such as an item of clothing made from cloth. The screen...     

A cap printing device for printing various logos on the surface of billed caps comprises a lower support structure, with one end of this structure connected to a flat platen. The platen is connected to a guide mechanism which contains a slot, for mounting the cap bill, and a framing bar, for flattening...     

A silk screen printing machine having a track about which the printing screens and platens are free to be moved relative to one another in the course of a multi-step printing process. An embodiment is disclosed having the printing screens supported by spokes and platens manually rotatable about a circular...     

An installation for printing fabric pieces having: a fixed printing frame; two take-up drums, situated spaced apart from and facing the terminal edges of the frame, each drum having a horizontal rotary shaft; drive means for causing said drums to rotate; a printing band as a support for the fabric piece...     

Mechanism is disclosed for wiping solder paste onto a printed circuit board through a stencil superposed on the board, including a first squeeges for wiping solder paste onto the stencil, a second squeegee for depositing solder paste at a location for engagement by the first squeeges and a tray, alternatively...     

The process for applying print matter to a flexible portion of a shoe, the process comprising providing a mandrel having a contact element provided with a substantially flat surface adapted to underlie and support the flexible portion under tension, positioning the shoe on the mandrel with the portion...     

During printing operations, the rack of a print frame and the rack of an operation piece attached to the bottom face of the print frame are continuous. These racks are engaged by gears attached to a print cylinder. The print frame is moved in synchronization with rotations of the cylinder. When printing...     

A pocket printer attachment for use in combination with the printing platen of a conventional screen printing press includes a pocket platen which is mounted onto and vertically spaced above the printing platen. The pocket printer attachment includes a mounting bracket integrally formed with the pocket...     

A solder paste stencil printing process and apparatus in which a stencil plate having a porous figure printing area may be used for single component solder paste application. The printing operation is performed by alignment of the stencil pattern figure over the appropriate component substrate pads....     

A multiple screen screen-printing apparatus (10) is disclosed which is specifically design to print numbers on sports jerseys and the like. The apparatus has a rectangular frame (15) in which a screen printing carriage rack (35) is slidably mounted and movable in a vertical direction. A rack and pinion...     

A printer plate locating device used in the alignment of printer plates with respect to a screen or stencil holder of a screen printing machine. The present invention is particularly useful when used in a multi-station printing machine where the printing machine sequentially moves the printer plates...     

The carriage of a printing machine, in particular a silkscreen printing machine, carrying the printing device is mobile on a guide carried by arms forming with uprights a set of deformable parallelograms. Lifting means include a cam whose edge cooperates with a cam follower roller carried by a longitudinal...     

A screen printer effects a printing by moving a squeegee in contact with a screen to force a printing paste through a printing pattern formed on the screen. The squeegee is held by a squeegee head. The squeegee head includes a support member for supporting the squeegee in such a manner as to move the...     

A screen printing machine comprises a conveyor for conveying a substrate to a positioning station, an XY.theta. table on which the substrate is to be put, and a printing device for printing a pattern onto the substrate in a printing station. The XY.theta. table is movable in an XY.theta. plane in the...     

An improved transfer printing press of the type having a plurality of beds having a top surface, a device for squeegeeing ink through a screen onto a substrate, a device for curing the ink remaining on the substrate, and a device for drawing air through the bed, wherein the improvement comprises an air...     

A clamping apparatus (10) for use in screen printing of curved articles comprising a housing (12) having mounted thereon a holding device (14). In a preferred embodiment the holding device (14) in its operative position is supported by an arm (34) and a post (78). A cable (236) is used to move the post...     

A pallet assembly for a printing machine used to print designs on garments such as tee shirts. The pallet assembly generally forms the outline of a human torso, arms and neck. The assembly is comprised of a pair of arm members rotatably attached to a plate.