EP1806233B1 - Vorrichtung zum Bedrucken von Flaschen oder dergleichen Behälter - Google Patents

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EP1806233B1
EP1806233B1 EP06024563.6A EP06024563A EP1806233B1 EP 1806233 B1 EP1806233 B1 EP 1806233B1 EP 06024563 A EP06024563 A EP 06024563A EP 1806233 B1 EP1806233 B1 EP 1806233B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/407—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
    • B41J3/4073—Printing on three-dimensional objects not being in sheet or web form, e.g. spherical or cubic objects
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/015—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process
    • B41J2/04—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand
    • B41J2/06—Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by electric or magnetic field
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J25/00—Actions or mechanisms not otherwise provided for
    • B41J25/304—Bodily-movable mechanisms for print heads or carriages movable towards or from paper surface
    • B41J25/316—Bodily-movable mechanisms for print heads or carriages movable towards or from paper surface with tilting motion mechanisms relative to paper surface
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/407—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
    • B41J3/4073—Printing on three-dimensional objects not being in sheet or web form, e.g. spherical or cubic objects
    • B41J3/40733—Printing on cylindrical or rotationally symmetrical objects, e. g. on bottles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/26—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for marking or coding completed packages
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/0015—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form for treating before, during or after printing or for uniform coating or laminating the copy material before or after printing
    • B41J11/002—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/0015—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form for treating before, during or after printing or for uniform coating or laminating the copy material before or after printing
    • B41J11/002—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating
    • B41J11/0021—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating using irradiation
    • B41J11/00214—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating using irradiation using UV radiation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M5/00—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
    • B41M5/0082—Digital printing on bodies of particular shapes
    • B41M5/0088—Digital printing on bodies of particular shapes by ink-jet printing

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  • the invention relates to a device according to the preamble of claim 1 and to a method according to the preamble of claim 20.
  • inkjet printers with inkjet printheads, which each produce a linear or line-shaped imprint during printing, which consists of individual printing dots and whose height corresponds to the height of one letter.
  • inkjet printheads which each produce a linear or line-shaped imprint during printing, which consists of individual printing dots and whose height corresponds to the height of one letter.
  • a method or a print head with which a plurality of printing dots in a line close to each other or at a very small distance from each other, for example at least 150 printing dots per inch, can be generated on a surface to be printed, through a variety of individually controllable individual nozzles.
  • the active print width of this printhead which is also known under the name "Tonejet”, is only dependent on the capacity of the computer power of the printhead driving computer.
  • printheads from 1.7 to 6.8 inches print width (corresponding to a 256-bit control or a 1024-bit control) possible.
  • the EP 1 225 053 A2 deals with a method of printing the sidewall of a three-dimensional object such as a plastic cup.
  • the article in question is rotated around its main axis.
  • several inkjet heads are passed, which are driven in dependence on the angular position of the object about the axis.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a device with a printing, especially a direct printing of bottles or similar container preferably on a rotationally symmetric surface with high print quality and high performance (printed container per unit time) is possible.
  • a device according to the patent claim 1 is formed.
  • a method of operating a device according to claim 1 is defined in claim 20.
  • a printing of containers with non-rotationally symmetric surfaces For example, the printing of containers with square, triangular, n-square or oval cross-sectional area is made possible.
  • the respective print image is achieved purely digitally in the apparatus according to the invention by corresponding control of the at least one print head or the individual nozzles of this print head with data stored in a memory, so that print masks, as hitherto in the large-area printing of containers, especially in Sieb- or Pad printing methods are required, not needed. This will u. a. greatly reduces the procedural effort and also created the ability to quickly and easily change the print or the print image, even during an ongoing work process.
  • the at least one print head is a Tonejet print head or a print head corresponding to such a Tonejet print head, i. H. it has at a printing area a plurality of individual nozzles, which are provided in succession in a print head longitudinal axis at a very close distance and each formed by a nozzle opening and at least one of each nozzle opening associated electrode.
  • the existing ink in the print head exits at each Elnzeldüse or from the associated nozzle opening only when the activation of a single nozzle the associated electrode is subjected to an electrical voltage whose polarity and / or voltage potential of the polarity and / or the voltage potential of the Printhead or the ink in the printhead deviates so that a certain amount of ink is ejected or discharged from the nozzle opening of the activated individual nozzle by electrostatic forces.
  • a printhead of this type will also be referred to hereinafter as an "electrostatic printhead".
  • 1 containers are in the form of bottles, for example glass or plastic bottles (for example PET bottles), which are to be provided on their outer surfaces directly with an at least single-color imprint 2.
  • At least one electrostatic print head 3 is used to achieve the highest possible performance (number of bottles printed per unit time) and optimum print quality.
  • This consists in Essentially from a housing 4, which forms, inter alia, a closed housing interior 5 for receiving a liquid or viscous ink.
  • the housing 4 is formed so that its inner space 5 narrows funnel-shaped or wedge-shaped towards a lower housing section 4.1.
  • a plurality of individually controllable individual nozzles 6 for the controlled application of the ink is provided, in at least one row in the direction the printhead longitudinal axis DL successively and in a tight arrangement, so that, for example, 150 individual nozzles 6 per inch or more are formed on the housing section 4.1.
  • the nozzle head 3 is arranged at a predetermined, small distance from the area of the respective bottle 1 to be printed, in such a way that the longitudinal axis of the print head DL or the longitudinal extension of the housing section 4.1 is parallel to the surface line of the bottle outer surface is oriented parallel to the bottle axis FA at the current pressure range and at a region to be printed on an example circular cylindrical outer surface of the bottle.
  • the bottle outer surface of the bottles to be printed is not circular cylindrical, it is provided to adjust the at least one nozzle head 3 and the rotating bottle axis FA to each other so that the individual nozzles 6 and each surface to be printed surface of the bottle outer surface to the optimum distance have each other.
  • Each individual nozzle consists of an opening 7 in the housing section 4.1 and a needle-shaped electrode 8 assigned to this opening, which is arranged coaxially with the axis of the respective opening 7 and ends at a slight distance from this opening within the housing interior 5.
  • the print head 3 is arranged so that at least during the printing process, the ink received in the housing interior 5 is present with a certain hydrostatic pressure against the openings 7 of the individual nozzles 6, wherein However, the cross-section of the openings 7, taking into account the viscosity and / or the surface tension of the ink is chosen so that when not activated Elnzeldüse 6 despite the hydrostatic pressure ink at the respective opening 7 does not exit.
  • the electrodes 8 can be controlled individually, in such a way that when the individual nozzle 6 is not activated, the corresponding electrode 8 is at the same electrical potential as the printing ink in the housing interior 5.
  • the voltage potential of the associated electrode 8 becomes Electrode 8 changed by appropriate control short-term or pulse-like, so that over the opening 7 printing ink for generating a pressure point 10 is applied to the bottle 1.
  • the print head 3 is part of a printing station 11, which has at least one such print head.
  • To adjust the print head 3 with respect to the respective bottle 1 or its upper or outer surface adjustment or spacer elements are provided on the print head 3, for example in the form of rollers 12 which are freely rotatably mounted about an axis parallel to the print head longitudinal axis DL and over which the print head 3 is supported on the bottle 1 outside the area to be printed.
  • the selected representation is the bottle to be printed 1 with its bottle axis FA in the horizontal direction oriented below the nozzle head 3, ie the nozzle head 3 is also oriented with its printhead longitudinal axis DL in the horizontal direction.
  • the bottle 1 is rotated about its bottle axis FA by a controlled drive (arrow A).
  • the print job 2 is thus carried out in rows or lines 2.1, each extending parallel to the bottle axis FA over the entire width of the area to be printed, namely progressively in the circumferential direction of the bottle 1.
  • the drying or curing of the printing ink or the printing takes place, for example, by setting or drying in ambient air, by heat and / or UV treatment, etc.
  • the respective bottle 1 is thus accurately positioned or centered in the printing station 11.
  • the print head 13 is exactly positioned with respect to the outer surface of the bottle 1, so that even with tolerances in the bottle diameter of the required for optimal pressure narrow distance between the print head 3 and the outer surface of the bottle 1 is exactly maintained.
  • a corona element 15 is provided in the illustrated embodiment at the printing station 11, with which the outer surface of the bottle 1 at least on the to be printed Area is charged elektrostatlsch, with a the electrical potential of the ink in the housing interior 5 opposite polarity.
  • this corona element 15, which extends parallel to the bottle axis FA or printing station axis DA, the area to be printed is moved before the printing process by turning the bottle 1.
  • the bottle 1 before the printing process via the bottle mouth 1.1 with a deionized or electrically charged gaseous medium For example, to apply deionized or electrically charged air, so as to achieve a print quality improving electrostatic charge of the bottle 1.
  • the imprint 2 takes place with only one single ink and the printing station 11 therefore has only one single printhead 3.
  • a multi-color printing is required, namely using at least three different printing inks (eg red, blue and yellow) and, if necessary, an additional black printing ink.
  • the printing station 11 is then formed with a plurality, ie with at least three print heads 3, as shown in the FIG. 3 is shown schematically.
  • the individual print heads 3 are provided, for example, offset relative to one another by the bottle axis FA or about the print station axis DA, in such a way that the axes of the openings 7 and electrodes 8 of all print heads 3 are radial to the print station axis DA or bottle axis FA and thus oriented perpendicular to the respective currently printed surface area of the bottle 1.
  • the printing operation is then carried out in such a way that applied in several temporally successive operations each turning the bottle 1 to the bottle axis FA and using a print head 3 of a color set of multicolor printing corresponding pressure and then after drying or setting using another printhead 3, the application of the further color set takes place.
  • each print head 3 is positioned in the printing plane DE before the printing operation with the axis of its individual nozzles 6, for example by virtue of the printheads 3 are provided on a common carrier, which surrounds the bottle axis FA or the printing station axis DA is pivotable, as with the double arrow B of the FIG. 3 is indicated.
  • a common carrier which surrounds the bottle axis FA or the printing station axis DA is pivotable, as with the double arrow B of the FIG. 3 is indicated.
  • Other measures are conceivable.
  • centering means are again provided at the printing station 11 a, for example in the form of rollers 12. Furthermore, the respective bottle 2 in the printing station 11 a also held by the Einspannhalterung 13 and the support member 14 and centered. To increase the quality of the multicolored imprint 2, the printing station 11 a, for example, also the corona element 15 and / or means in order to pressurize the respective bottle 1 inside with the electrically charged or deionized gaseous medium.
  • the motor drive for the Einspannhalterung 13 is further designed so that at the beginning of each printing process, especially at the beginning of printing each color set of multiple printing the Einspannhalterung 13 has a clearly defined position, for example, by a control operation with feedback of the current position of the Einspannhalterung 13 the control device 9 and by comparing the current position (actual value) with a predetermined desired value.
  • FIG. 4 shows a schematic representation and in plan view of a machine 16 of rotating design for printing bottles 1.
  • the bottles 1 are the machine 16 via a conveyor 17 standing upright supplied as a single-lane bottle flow (arrow C) and arrive at a bottle inlet 18, inter alia via an inlet star 18.1 in each case individually to a printing station 19 on a rotatably driven around a vertical machine axis MA in the direction of arrow D rotor 20.
  • Die in the FIG. 4 only each indicated by their printing station axis DA printing stations 19 are formed, for example, according to the printing station 11a and provided at equal angular intervals on the circumference of the rotor 20.
  • the printed bottles 1 reach the bottle outlet 21 and are forwarded via a local outlet star 21.1 to the conveyor 17 and fed upright on this another use.
  • FIG. 5 shows a printing stations 19 more in detail.
  • Each printing station 19 is corresponding to the printing station 11 a with a plurality of print heads 3, of which in the FIG. 5 only one is shown, provided with the Einspannhalterung 13 and with the support element 14.
  • the other elements described in connection with the printing station 11 or 11a are also present at each printing station 19, for example.
  • each printing station 19 is provided on a shaft 22 which is mounted in a pivotable bearing support 23, on which the motor drive 24 for the shaft 22 and Einspannhalterung 13 is provided.
  • the bearing support 23 is pivotally provided at 25 on the rotor 20 about a horizontal axis tangential to the rotational movement D of the rotor 20, for example, controlled by a control cam, not shown such that the Einspannhalterung 13 received at the bottle inlet 18, the respective bottle 1 and then is brought by pivoting the bearing support 23 about the axis 25 in a horizontal position radially oriented to the machine axis MA.
  • the relevant bottle 1 is then arranged clamped between the Einspannhalterung 13 and the support member 14 under the print heads 3, in such a way that the respective bottle 1 is oriented with its bottom 1.2 in the direction of the machine axis MA.
  • the print heads 3, the support element 14 as well as the other functional elements of the individual printing stations 19 are fixed in this embodiment, i. not mitschwenkbar provided with the Einspannhalterung 13 on the rotor 20.
  • the print heads 3 are oriented at least during the printing process with their longitudinal axes L radially or approximately radially to the machine axis MA.
  • FIG. 6 16 very schematically shows a machine 16a which differs from the machine 16 substantially in that the printing heads 3 are arranged not horizontally and radially to the machine axis MA at least during the printing process with their print head longitudinal axis DL, but with the machine axis MA or parallel to it Axis include an angle ⁇ , which opens to the top of the machine 16a out.
  • Each print head 3 is thus radially after inclined outside and is at least during the printing process with its print head longitudinal axis DL in a common plane with the machine axis MA, in such a way that the individual nozzles having housing portion 4.1 relative to the machine axis MA radially outward and thus the distance of the individual nozzle 6 of the machine axis MA increases from the lower end of the respective nozzle head 3 to the upper end.
  • the bottles 1 are also inclined at least during the printing process, i. the generatrix of the bottle outer surface on the currently printed line 2.1 in turn closes with the machine axis MA or the axis parallel to this the angle ⁇ .
  • the angles ⁇ and ⁇ are the same.
  • each bottle 1 is oriented with its bottle axis FA during the printing process parallel to the printing longitudinal axis DL.
  • the individual printing stations 19a which in turn have all the elements of the printing station 19 and 11 a, designed so that the bottles 1 are held during the printing process with its bottom of the bottle 1.2 above and with its mouth of the bottle 1.1 down.
  • FIG. 7 shows as a further possible embodiment of a machine 16b, which differs from the machine 16a substantially only in that the bottles 1 point during the printing process with its held on the Einspannhalterung 13 bottle mouth 1.1 upwards and thus inclined radially inwardly below the rotor element 20.1 are arranged and not, as in project the machine 16a radially during printing over the rotor element 20.1.
  • FIG. 8 again shows the machine 16b, but in their training for printing bottles 1 a on a conical peripheral region.
  • the printheads 3 in turn have the inclination ⁇ with respect to the machine axis M.
  • the inclination ⁇ of the bottle axes FA with respect to the machine axis MA differs significantly from the inclination ⁇ .
  • the machines 16a and 16b have in common that the respective print head 3 is at least during the printing process between the respective bottle 1 and the machine axis MA, i. the respective bottle 1 is offset radially outward with respect to the machine axis MA with respect to the print head 3.
  • the printhead arrangement having the printheads 3 is designed, for example, such that the respectively used printhead 3 can be moved into the optimum printing position, for example by means of the printhead arrangement FIG. 3 pivoting indicated by the double arrow B, and that each print head 3 on the Drückkopfhalter 26 and / or each print head holder 26 on the rotor 20 and the rotor element 20.1 about an axis perpendicular to the print head longitudinal axis DL is pivotable and adjustable in particular in the print head longitudinal axis DL to the respective printing station 19a and 19b to adapt to the shape of the bottles to be printed 1 and 1 a and / or adjust the inclination angle ⁇ corresponding to the rotational speed of the rotor 20 and so as to achieve the most uniform pressure distribution along the individual nozzles 6 during the printing process ,
  • FIG. 9 shows as another not belonging to the invention embodiment of a machine 16c, which differs from the machines 16 and 16b substantially in that the printheads 3, at least during the printing process with its printhead longitudinal axis DL tangential or approximately tangential to the rotational movement D of the rotor 20 and Rotor element 20.1 are oriented.
  • the printheads 3 may be appropriate to the printheads 3 during Orient the printing process so that the axes of the individual nozzles 6 relative to the vertical or machine axis MA are slightly inclined, ie with the vertical ⁇ include an acute angle that opens to the bottom of the machine 16c out.
  • the bottles 1 are arranged under the respective nozzle head 3, in such a way that the surface line on which the current line 2.1 is printed, is oriented parallel to the print head longitudinal axis DL and thus also tangential or approximately tangential to the rotational movement D of the rotor 20th ,
  • Other orientations of the printhead longitudinal axes DL are conceivable, for example in the form that the respective printhead longitudinal axis DL is inclined in or counter to the direction of rotation D of the rotor 20, and instead of or in addition to the inclination radially outward or radially inward.
  • the Fig. 10 shows a not covered by the claims machine 16d, which is not designed as a rotary machine, but as a linear machine, for example as a clock system.
  • the bottles to be printed 1 are each supplied to the printing station 19d individually in this machine and centered in the printing station by local lower rollers 27.
  • each bottle 1 horizontally oriented with its bottle axis FA is clamped on the bottle bottom 1.2 between a gripping holder 28 on the bottle mouth 1.1 and a supporting element 29 corresponding to the supporting element 14.
  • Above the respective bottle is the at least one print head 3 having printhead assembly, which is supported by upper rollers 30 on the bottle circumference.
  • the upper rollers 30 are driven about a common axis parallel to the bottle axis FA, namely for the rotational movement of the bottle 1 during the printing operation.
  • the gripping holder 28 is together with several Einspannhalterept 28 at a rotatable about a machine axis MA rotatable rotor 32 is provided, which is further rotated after printing a bottle 1 by a respective rotation step or a division to remove the printed bottle 1 from the not moving with the rotor 32 printing station 19d and a new, to be printed bottle 1 in the printing station.
  • the machines 16, 16b, 16c and 16d have in common that means are provided at each printing station 19-19d which make it possible to align the respective imprint 2 with design features which are present on the bottles 1 and 1a, respectively.
  • the (angular range) after printing on the bottles 1 or 1a or on the printing station follows to provide means to achieve accelerated drying or curing of the ink, for example by exposure to heat and / or UV radiation.
  • the machines 16, 16b, 16c it is possible, for example, to swivel the bottles 1 or 1a held on the clamping holders 13 into a channel 33 extending on a partial angle of the rotary movement of the rotor 20 when the rotor 20 rotates, and to move it along this channel ,
  • both the label, and the imprint for all containers are forcibly identical or constant. It is also known to provide the containers in a second step with variable information, this information from container to container (eg count number), from container group to container group (eg batch number) or even from day to day (eg ) may differ from each other.
  • container to container eg count number
  • container group to container group eg batch number
  • day to day eg
  • the presented device is characterized u. a. in that the printed image or the container equipment to be applied to the containers is stored in digital form within the electronic control device 9, and is then applied to the container without the use of labels or printing masks.
  • the printed image to be applied is kept in digital form, it is possible for the first time to reshape this printed image for each container to be equipped, and thus to reassemble it, for example, for each container from constant and variable contents or information.
  • variable information can also be image information.
  • image information e.g. allows beverage packaging in any order and quantity distribution with visual representations of the players of popular team sports, such as football, equip.
  • variable information is numerical or even alpha-numeric information, for example may be a date of manufacture or best before date or a numerical code.

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