WO2004109581A2 - Digital can decorating apparatus - Google Patents
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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
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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
- B41J3/40733—Printing on cylindrical or rotationally symmetrical objects, e. g. on bottles
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- the present invention relates to decorating apparatus for decorating an object
- the invention is applicable to decorating any object, and particularly a generally cylindrical or
- each color ink is contained in a separate inking station that transfers the ink to a blanket.
- inks are then simultaneously applied from the blanket to the can in register. If a different image
- U.S. Patent No. 5,799,574 discloses a
- Decorations are applied to the containers as they engage a rotating blanket of a decorator that is adjacent the periphery of the carrier. During engagement between the containers and the blanket the containers track the blanket surface through the printing region where the containers and the blanket surface are engaged.
- This type of decorating equipment includes a number of relatively heavy elements that move at high speed. Because there must be precise coordination between the various elements, inertia forces, lubrication and operating power are significant engineering design considerations, as are equipment down time, maintenance, cost and setup procedures.
- Digital printing is used in many environments. Digital printing might be broadly defined as printing without use of printing plates.
- An example of digital printing is ink jet printing, of which there are several different techniques including the use of a piezo element to apply pressure to a nozzle chamber to force a drop of ink onto a medium, continuous ink supply with required ink droplets channeled onto the medium, thermal printing where a gas bubble in a nozzle chamber creates pressure forcing an ink droplet onto the medium, or ink in solid form is melted as needed and then applied like a liquid ink jet. Ink might be sprayed by a spray jet.
- Other non-plate techniques of applying ink include thermal wax or resin tracer, dye sublimation, etc.
- the inventive apparatus includes means for digitally and electronically controlling the timing and configuration of a printed image on a can surface.
- Such digitally controlled means may include any known type of non-contact print-head, such as an ink jet print-head.
- the inventive apparatus includes means for transporting the cans in an indexed fashion in front of or opposed to the print-heads and for rotating the cans in registered alignment from one print-head to the next.
- Each of the print-heads is preferably operative to print a single color ink.
- Each can is held on a rotatable turret by a respective one of a plurality of mandrels
- Each mandrel is driven to rotate on its own axis by a respective servo motor.
- Each can to be printed is mounted on a respective one of the mandrels.
- the servo motors rotate and register the mandrels, with the cans mounted thereon, in front of the print-heads which print a respective part of the entire image that is to be printed on the cans.
- the mandrel turret is rotated by an indexing drive, such as a servo motor, so that the mandrels follow a circular movement as the turret rotates and so that each mandrel with a can thereon pauses in front of each print-head for a period of time sufficient to permit digitally controlled printing on the can and rotation of the servo motor for registering the can to the image being printed.
- the turret is mounted to its servo motor by a support shaft.
- the servo motor and the support shaft are mounted on a main support, such as a Rutherford decorator support, which is in turn mounted on a machine base.
- a valve arrangement provided on the support shaft and the turret connect supplies of vacuum and/or of compressed air to each of the mandrels for initially holding and thereafter releasing the cans on the mandrels.
- a computer controls the indexed rotation of the turret as well as the rotation and registering of the cans in front of the print- heads. Digital control of the individual print-heads may also be by the same computer. This computer control allows tremendous flexibility in the control of the printing apparatus itself as well as in the ability to instantaneously change the image being printed.
- An additional support is provided for holding the print-heads so that they are
- One group of print-heads is arranged on a circular arc having a radius smaller than the radius of the circular path of movement of the mandrels while the other group of print-heads is arranged on a circular arc having a radius larger than the radius of the circular path of movement of the mandrels.
- Each print-head in one group is positioned to oppose, i.e. on the same radius as, a respective print-head of the other group so that the cans are printed on from opposite directions as they pass between the print- heads.
- Figure 1 is a view of a prior art offset printing apparatus
- Figure 2 is an isometric schematic view of the inventive decorating apparatus
- Figure 3 is an enlarged schematic view of a portion of the inventive apparatus
- Figure 4 is a view showing a mandrel which supports the cans
- Figure 5 is a schematic side view of the apparatus
- Figure 6 is a front view of a second embodiment of the printing apparatus of the invention.
- Figure 7 is a detail showing the relationship between the mandrel and the print- heads in the second embodiment.
- the invention can be used to decorate any objects that are moved relative to print heads, especially circular objects or other objects that are rotated to expose their surface for printing.
- inkers 52 each for supplying a particular ornamental pattern component in one color.
- inkers 52 are shown, allowing printing of up to eight different patterns and/or eight different
- the inkers include an ink receiving section and the ink is transmitted radially inwardly
- the inkers 52 and the image is transferred to the cans 62.
- the cans are sent for subsequent treatment in the usual manner, e.g. over- varnishing, curing, etc.
- Figure 2 generally and schematically shows a digital print-head apparatus for
- Figure 2 shows the apparatus 20 including a base 21 on which a main support 22
- a print-head support 23 Forward of the main support 22 on the base 21 is a print-head support 23.
- the turret supports a plurality of can holding mandrels 27 that rotate with the turret 26.
- Each mandrel is of conventional design, as in U.S. Patent 6,167,805 or 6,467,609 incorporated herein by reference, including a conventional servo motor behind the turret at 28 for rotating each mandrel 27 around its own axis.
- the mandrels 27 also rotate around their axes on the turret.
- a conventional in-feed station 29 for the cans receives the cans from a supply chute and delivers the cans for being drawn onto the mandrels by suction.
- a plurality of digital print-heads 30 are aligned around an arcuate part of the circular path of the mandrels as the turret rotates.
- Each print-head 30 is a digital print-head of a known type which delivers a particular color ink in a preselected digitally controlled pattern to the surface of a can on the mandrel that is then radially aligned with or at the particular print- head.
- twelve print-heads 30 are illustrated in Figure 2, but the number of print-heads on a support 23 is a matter of choice. Providing twelve digital print-heads
- One or more reservoirs of ink for the digital print-heads is provided at 31 on the
- print-head support and is connected to the print-head support for supplying ink as required to
- the mandrels arrive at the transfer station 34, and the individual now decorated and varnished cans are transferred by the mandrel operating system 41 to individual transfer elements 36 at the transfer station which then carry the decorated cans to further treatment.
- Each head prints its respective color ink directly to a can surface as the can 38 passes the respective print-heads 30.
- the print-heads in the present embodiment are similar to ink jet print-heads used in computer printers. Any appropriate size and configuration digitally controllable print head able to apply ink to a can, and preferably a non-contact print head, may be used.
- the mandrels 27 and their servo motors 28 are mounted on a turret 26, which in turn is mounted on a support shaft 26a.
- the support shaft is mounted in the main support 22, which stands on the base 21.
- An indexing drive, such as a servo motor 25 is connected to the support shaft 26a so as to rotate the turret 26 so that each mandrel 27 along with the can 38 mounted on
- the cans are held and released on the mandrels respectively by vacuum and air pressure.
- the vacuum and air pressure are supplied to the respective mandrels by a valve assembly 41 which is mounted on the support shaft 26a. See the above-noted patent.
- Print-head printing control information is provided from a control unit, such as a computer 42.
- This control allows the image being printed to be easily changed by merely programming the desired image into the computer.
- the programming instructs the print-heads on the precise printing job to be performed by each print-head. This avoids the need for changing printing plates, as is necessary in the offset printing process of the prior art. It also avoids machine wear, printing pressure supply and support, and printing plate and blanket replacement, and possible wear thereof, all occurring in known contact printing. Furthermore, in the present invention, it is even possible to print a different image on each can due to the individual control of the print-heads and the non-contact
- heads 30-30f are mounted, as described for the first embodiment, also on an arc coaxial with the movement of the mandrels.
- the heads 43a-f are inward while the heads 30a-f are outward of the mandrels.
- Each of the print-heads 43a-f is arranged on a common radius of the turret 26 with a respective one of the print-heads 30a-f so that respective print-heads in each row face one another.
- the print-heads 43 are radially spaced from the print-heads 30 so as to permit the mandrels 27 with the cans 38 mounted thereon to pass therebetween, as shown in Figure 7.
- the print-heads 43 are arranged along an arc having a smaller radius than the arc of the print-heads 30.
- the print-heads are mounted to the support frame 23 by a bracket 44 so that all of the print- heads are supported by a single support frame and the spacing and orientation of the print-heads is maintained constant.
- Figures 2 and 6 also schematically illustrates the infeed station 29 at which the cans are supplied to the printing apparatus and mounted on the mandrels. See the above-noted patent incorporated herein by reference. From here the cans are driven through the print-heads by the indexing means 25, which may be a servo motor. As each can reaches the respective print- head 30 (Fig. 3) or pair of print-heads (Fig. 6), the indexing means 25 pauses the shaft 26a and then the individual servo motors 28 rotate the mandrels 27 while the print-heads 30 emit ink.
- the indexing means 25 pauses the shaft 26a and then the individual servo motors 28 rotate the mandrels 27 while the print-heads 30 emit ink.
- the indexing means 25 advances the cans to the next print- head or pair of print-heads where the indexing means 25 again pauses and the servo motors 28 rotate the cans so that the ink pattern sprayed by the next print-heads are in appropriate register with the ink sprayed by the previous print-heads.
- the printed cans pass a varnishing station 32 at which a varnish is applied over the ink pattern. Then the cans are subsequently removed from the mandrels at a transfer station 34. See the above-noted patent incorporated herein by reference.
- successive cans can be provided with different images, or with the same images in different colors without having to stop the printing apparatus or change printing plates of any type.
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