Abstract: 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 that they are moved in parallel. A printing station is situated at right angles to the outermost front part of the conveyor portion so that the assembly is kept as narrow as possible and free access is provided to the printing station.

Abstract: 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 along the conveyor, each of the work stations being equipped with a mandrel transfer unit for selectively picking up an article from a said article carrier and dropping it off. A single cam controlling the operation of the mandrel transfer units of at least two of the work stations synchronously with the advance of the conveyor, a cam follower cooperable with the single cam, an arm fixed for rotation with a central control shaft common to the at least two work stations and carrying the cam follower, and an actuating lever for controlling each of the mandrel transfer units being fixed for rotation with the central control shaft.

Abstract: A printing machine using the `Bienne transfer` process, comprising a pad-holder carriage and a plate-holder carriage which, for their horizontal movement, are connected to links respectively coupled themselves to a control rod subjected to pivotal reciprocating motion about a fixed pivot under the action of a pneumatic actuator.