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WO2007116271A1 - Appareil d'impression pour impression d'un côté et des deux côtés sur des produits support en continu - Google Patents

Appareil d'impression pour impression d'un côté et des deux côtés sur des produits support en continu Download PDF

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WO2007116271A1
WO2007116271A1 PCT/IB2007/000807 IB2007000807W WO2007116271A1 WO 2007116271 A1 WO2007116271 A1 WO 2007116271A1 IB 2007000807 W IB2007000807 W IB 2007000807W WO 2007116271 A1 WO2007116271 A1 WO 2007116271A1
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Marco Benato
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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
    • B41J3/60—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for printing on both faces of the printing material
    • 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
    • B41J15/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in continuous form, e.g. webs
    • B41J15/04—Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles

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  • the object of the present invention is a printing apparatus for single and double-sided printing of a continuous support, which is particularly, yet not exclusively, useful in the electrical plant construction branch for producing electrical cable identifying sleeves.
  • a continuous printing support constituted of a squashed tubular support on which reference codes suitable for identifying electrical cables are printed at preset distances on a single or on both sides of said support.
  • the identifying sleeves are obtained from the printed support by detaching smaller supporting portions from the same, each of which contains at least one reference code, and returning these individual portions from their squashed to a tubular condition, so as to allow inserting the cables.
  • specific printing devices are used.
  • An "Apparatus for Double-Sided Color Printing" is for instance already known and the subject of an international patent application PCT/US96/06799 filed on May 14, 1996 in the name of ASTRO- MED INC.
  • this apparatus comprises substantially a containing and supporting structure, at least first printing means supported by said structure and turned toward a first side of said support for printing said first side of said support, at least second printing means supported by said structure and turned toward a second side of said support opposite to said first side for printing said second side, feeding means supported by said structure to feed said first and said second printing means by said support, and dragging means supported by said structure to drag along said support between said first and said second printing means.
  • the operation of said apparatus is as follows. The support is fed by said feeding means and passes through said first and said second printing means while being dragged along jerkily by said dragging means.
  • said first and said second printing means perform the printing operation on said sides of the support.
  • the main drawback found in these devices consists in that the support printed by said devices cannot be used in its entirety. In these devices, the support printed on both sides in fact presents an initial and a final section of equal length, which must be disposed of as a special refuse, because they are printed only on one side.
  • This drawback derives from that the first printing means are set up in an advanced position with respect to the second means, in the direction of the forward motion of the support. The first and the second printing means consequently start and end the printing operations in offset positions on the support, so that the first and the final section of the support of equal length must be disposed of.
  • a second drawback found in these devices consists in that they exhibit great difficulties of adapting to the various types and formats of the supports available on the market, and in particular of the supports formed by a pair of parallel strips needed for the forward motion of the support, and by a plurality of sleeves orthogonally associated with these strips at regular intervals.
  • In order to print these supports in such devices it is therefore necessary to perform numerous even manual trials and adaptations for the purpose of identifying the optimum printing conditions. This involves lengthy periods of time for setting up the apparatus, and a waste of printing resources.
  • This drawback derives from that the distance existing between the first and the second printing means is fixed, and then the printing parameters, such as the forward motion and others, must be adapted depending on the type and format of the support to be printed.
  • the aim of the present invention is to set up a printing apparatus for single and double-sided printing of a continuous support able of solving the drawbacks encountered in the devices according to the prior art.
  • an important object of this invention is to develop an apparatus able of exploiting the entire printing length of a support, by executing the printing on both sides.
  • Another object of the present invention is to set up an apparatus that can be quickly and easily adapted to the various types and formats of printing supports available on the market.
  • a further object of the present invention is to set up an apparatus able of allowing the execution of one-sided prints on a support, with a few and simple fitting operations of the apparatus suitable for performing double-sided prints.
  • Another further object of this invention is to set up an apparatus with a support being free of feeding and forward moving problems while executing the prints.
  • Not the last object of this invention is to set up an apparatus of a simple design and construction, aimed at limiting the production costs and consequently limiting its selling price.
  • the apparatus comprises a containing and supporting structure, at least first printing means supported by said structure and turned toward a first side of said support to print said first side of said support, at least second printing means supported by said structure and turned toward a second side of said support opposite to said first side in order to print said second side, feeding means supported by said structure for the feeding said first and said second printing means with said support, and dragging means supported by said structure so as to drag along said support between said first and said second printing means.
  • said first and said second printing means are set up in a reciprocally facing manner.
  • This solution allows performing the prints in reciprocally facing positions on said first and said second side of said support, from the beginning to the end of the printing operation on said support.
  • this solution allows making the apparatus quickly and easily adaptable to the different types and formats of the supports available on the market, owing that it does not present fixed parameters, such as a fixed distance between the printing means, which are typical of the devices of the prior art.
  • the first and the second printing means respectively assume an operative condition such as to determine the configuration suitable for performing a double-sided printing and a semi-operative condition for performing a single-sided printing.
  • FIG. 1 represents a side view of a printing apparatus according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 represents a first detailed side view, on an enlarged scale, of the first and second printing means in the mentioned operative condition of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1 ;
  • FIG. 3 represents a second detailed side view, on an enlarged scale, of the first and second printing means in the mentioned semi-operative condition of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1 ;
  • the printing apparatus for the single and double-sided printing of a continuous support S comprises above all a containing and supporting structure designated as a whole by the reference number 6.
  • said structure 6 comprises a box-like body 7, inlet openings 8 and outlet openings 9 of said support S provided on said box-like body 7 and a wall 10 disposed internally and vertically in said box-like body 7.
  • the apparatus 5 also comprises first printing means indicated as a whole by the reference number 11 , supported by said structure 6 and turned toward a first side of said support S to print said first supporting side S, and second printing means indicated as a whole by the reference number 111 , supported by said structure 6 and turned toward a second side of said support S opposite to said first side, in order to print said second side.
  • Said first and said second printing means 11 , 111 are set up in a reciprocally facing manner to as to allow performing the prints in positions reciprocally facing each other on said first and said second side of said support S, from the beginning to the end of the printing operation on said support S.
  • Said first and said second printing means 11, 111 are able of respectively assuming an operative condition, as shown in particular in Fig.
  • said first and said second printing means 11 , 111 comprise first of all fixed elements 12, 112 attached to said wall 10 in a spaced position, mobile bodies 13, 113 inserted between said fixed elements 12, 112 and said wall 10, and rotating connection pins 14, 114 for a rotating connection of said mobile bodies 13, 113 to said fixed elements 12, 112 and to said wall.
  • said first and said second printing means 11 , 111 comprise thermal transfer printing heads 15, 115 fastened to said mobile bodies 13, 113 and turned toward said support S and toward said outlet opening 9, printing ribbons N cooperating with said printing bodies 15, 115, unwinding means 16, 116 and winding means 17, 117 for unwinding and winding said printing ribbons N, and finally, controlling means 18, 118 associated with said wall 10 and acting on said mobile bodies 13, 113 so as to induce said first and said second printing means 11 , 111 to assume said operative and semi-operative conditions.
  • said fixed elements 12, 112 comprise plate-like bodies substantially "L" shaped.
  • Said mobile elements 13, 113 in turn comprises central portions 19, 119 crossed by said connecting pins 14, 114, and front appendices 20, 120 ' and rear appendices 21 , 121 orthogonally extending from said central portions 19, 119 in offset positions.
  • Said printing heads 15, 115 are in turn applied to the front appendices 20, 120 next to the facing extremities.
  • Said ribbons N are also interposed between said support S and said printing heads 15, 115, and are moving forward with said support S between said first and said second printing means 11 , 111.
  • said unwinding means 16, 116 and said winding means 17, 117 comprise freewheeling and motorized rollers, respectively, associated with said wall 10.
  • Said controlling means 18 of said first printing means 11 further comprise a rod 22 connected at its first extremity to said wall 10, an elastic element 23 engaged at its first extremity to the second extremity of said rod 22 and at its second extremity to said rear appendix 21 of said mobile body 13 of said first printing means 11 next to the extremity lying behind it, and an operating element 24 applied to said wall 10 next to said rear appendix 21 and acting on said rear appendix 21.
  • said operating element 24 assumes at command a non-operative position, as shown in Fig. 1 and in particular in Figs. 2 and 3, where said elastic element 23 is in a shortened condition and in a non-operative position, as illustrated in Fig. 4, wherein said elastic element is in an elongated condition.
  • said elastic element 23 in a shortened condition disposes said mobile body 13 in a forward leaning condition, as shown in Fig. 1 and in particular in the Figs. 2 and 3, and said elastic element 23 in an elongated condition disposes said mobile body 13 in a backward leaning position, as shown in Fig. 4.
  • said mobile body 13 in said forward leaning condition disposes said printing body 15 in a condition drawn close to the support S, as seen in Fig. 1 and particularly in the Figs. 2 and 3, and said mobile body 13 in said backward leaning position disposes said printing head 13 in a condition spaced from said support S, as shown in Fig. 4.
  • the control means of said printing means 111 comprise an elongated rod 112 capable of engaging at one extremity with said wall 10 in a first and in a second position, and of engaging at the other extremity with said rear appendix 121 of said mobile body 113 of said second printing means 111.
  • said elongated rod 122 when said elongated rod 122 is engaged in said first position, said mobile body 113 is in a forward leaning position, as shown in Figs. 1 , 2 and 4, and when said rod is engaged in said second position, said mobile body 113 is in a condition leaning backward, as seen in Fig. 3.
  • said mobile body 113 in said forward leaning condition disposes said printing head 115 in a condition drawn close to said support S
  • said mobile body 113 in said backward leaning condition disposes said printing head 115 in a condition spaced from said support S.
  • the apparatus 5 comprises feeding means supported by said structure 6 for feeding with said support 5 said first and said second printing means 11 , 111.
  • said feeding means 25 comprise a holding bracket 26 applied at one extremity to said wall 10 next to said inlet opening 8, and a disc-shaped body 27 sustained in a rotating manner by said bracket 26 that carries said support S.
  • the apparatus 5 comprises dragging means 28 supported by said structure 6 for dragging along said support S between said first and said second printing means 11 , 111.
  • said dragging means 28 are arranged downstream of said outlet opening 9 of said support S and comprise a supporting body 29 applied to said box-like body 7 next to said outlet opening 9 and a pair of rollers 30, 31 set side by side, counter-rotating and supported by said supporting body 29, which receive said support S between them, so as to drag it forward continuously or at predetermined intervals.
  • said support S moves forward between said first and said second printing means 11 , 111 and through said dragging means 28 in a rectilinear fashion.
  • the apparatus 5 comprises resting means 32 to be arranged in contact with said second side of said support S, in a position underlying said printing head 115 of said first printing means 11 in said position drawn up close to the support S.
  • Said resting means 32 comprise a supporting element 33 attached to said wall 10 and a roller 34 hinged in a rotating manner to said supporting element 33.
  • the feeding means 25 feeds the support S which enters into the printing apparatus 25 through the inlet opening 8, proceeds in a straight line between the first and the second printing means 11 , 111 and exits from the printing apparatus 5 from the outlet opening 9 while being dragged along in pulses by the dragging means 28.
  • the first and the second printing means 11 , 111 perform a printing on both sides of the supports.
  • the operator acts on the control means 18, 118 to dispose the apparatus to the configuration of Fig. 3, wherein the first and the second printing means 11 , 111 are in a semi-operative condition which determines a configuration suitable for a single-sided printing of the support S.
  • the operation occurs in this case as described above, with the difference that the prints are carried out only on a single side of said support S.
  • the apparatus thus described achieves its expected aim and objects. It was in particular found that the apparatus is able of exploiting the entire printing length of a printing support while performing prints on both sides. It was also found that the apparatus is quickly and easily adapted to the various types and formats of printing supports available on the market. Moreover, it was found that the apparatus allows performing onesided stamps on a support by using only a few simple setting up operations of the apparatus suitable for performing double-sided prints. It was also found that the apparatus is free of any problems of feeding or forward moving the support while performing the prints. It was finally found that the apparatus is of a simple design and construction, so as to limit the production costs and contain the sales price.
  • the materials employed, the shapes, the dimensions and the executive details may differ from those described herein but be technically equivalent to the same, without thereby abandoning the scope of the invention.

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L'invention concerne un appareil d'impression (5) pour une impression d'un côté et des deux côtés sur un support continu (S), comprenant une structure de rétention et de support (6), au moins des premiers moyens d'impression (11) supportés par ladite structure et tournés vers un premier côté dudit support (S) pour imprimer ledit premier côté dudit support, au moins des seconds moyens d'impression (11) supportés par ladite structure et tournés vers un second côté dudit support opposé audit premier côté pour imprimer ledit second côté, des moyens d'alimentation (25) supportés par ladite structure pour alimenter avec ledit support lesdits premiers et lesdits seconds moyens d'impression, et des moyens d'entraînement (28) supportés par ladite structure pour entraîner ledit support entre lesdits premiers et lesdits seconds moyens d'impression. En particulier, lesdits premiers et lesdits seconds moyens d'impression sont agencés pour se faire face l'un à l'autre. Cette solution permet l'exécution d'impressions dans des positions faisant face audit premier et audit second côtés dudit support du début à la fin de l'opération d'impression sur ledit support. Cette solution permet également à l'appareil d'être rapidement et facilement adapté à divers types et divers formats de supports disponibles sur le marché.
PCT/IB2007/000807 2006-03-30 2007-03-29 Appareil d'impression pour impression d'un côté et des deux côtés sur des produits support en continu Ceased WO2007116271A1 (fr)

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WO1996006799A1 (fr) 1994-08-31 1996-03-07 Geno2X Corporation Generateur d'oxygene portable
WO1996039300A1 (fr) * 1995-06-05 1996-12-12 Astro-Med, Inc. Appareil d'impression couleur double face et ensemble de support reversible de tetes d'impression
GB2373481A (en) * 2001-02-23 2002-09-25 Eastman Kodak Co Method and apparatus for creating a display device via printing of a mask on a transparent medium
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US20050073565A1 (en) * 2003-08-08 2005-04-07 Kia Silverbrook Print engine for a pagewidth inkjet printer

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DE4034327A1 (de) * 1990-10-29 1992-04-30 Herbert Boehm Drucker zum bedrucken von computerendlospapier
WO1996006799A1 (fr) 1994-08-31 1996-03-07 Geno2X Corporation Generateur d'oxygene portable
WO1996039300A1 (fr) * 1995-06-05 1996-12-12 Astro-Med, Inc. Appareil d'impression couleur double face et ensemble de support reversible de tetes d'impression
GB2373481A (en) * 2001-02-23 2002-09-25 Eastman Kodak Co Method and apparatus for creating a display device via printing of a mask on a transparent medium
US20040066441A1 (en) * 2002-05-10 2004-04-08 Robert Jones Identification card printer-assembler for over the counter card issuing
US20050073565A1 (en) * 2003-08-08 2005-04-07 Kia Silverbrook Print engine for a pagewidth inkjet printer

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