Abstract: A machine screen-prints the surface of flat objects or objects with a convex, curvilinear transverse section, such as bottles or cans. It is formed to be adapted rapidly for the printing of containers with any radius of curvature, however small, without having to go through the laborious replacement of mechanical parts and without causing harmful mechanical vibrations, even during heavy duty use. The machine includes a printing station in which the container (2) oscillates around a longitudinal axis passing through the center of the mouth of the container, with the top surface of the container, tangent to a screen (3) which moves in a longitudinal direction. The upper surface of the screen is scraped by a squeegee fitted above it which presses the ink through the mesh of the screen and is synchronized to operate alternately with it (in opposite directions). The bottom edge of the squeegee follows an arcuate oscillating trajectory.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for transferring shaped articles, such as bottles, containers, small glasses, etc. from a first to a second belt by uniform orientation arrangement on the latter.More particularly, the device is for feeding the containers thus oriented to a machine for inscription printing on the surface thereof. The device comprises a lever oscillating between two positions of end of stroke at which one free end thereof is above either of said belts. Such a free end of the lever carries a gripping member for grasping one container at a time from the first belt, then releasing it on the second belt. The gripping member is rotatable about its own axis through the action of a pneumatic rotary cylinder, while said gripping member has an attitude or position which is strictly controlled by suitable guiding members.