Abstract: A printing apparatus including a circular turret for carrying a plurality of flexible membrane collectors thereon. The collectors are hingeably mounted near a peripheral edge of the turret and sequentially engage printing stations for receiving a design portion on one side thereof. The collectors are indexably rotated into a transfer station whereupon they are deployed outboard of the turret. A flexible plunger engages a backside of the collector for stretching the same into engagement with ware for transferring the design from the collector to said ware.

Abstract: A mechanism for automatically and sequentially feeding each of a plurality of pins, for supporting aperture masks adjacent the glass face plates or viewing panels of color television picture tubes, to a mechanism or gun for insertion of each of the pins into the glass of the face plates or viewing panels. The mechanism includes a rotatable turret or cylindrical pin magazine or canister which holds a relatively large quantity or plurality of the pins vertically stacked in columns adjacent the outer periphery of the turret or magazine for the pin feeding operations and which can readily and rapidly be removed from the mechanism and replaced by another full turret or pin magazine when the first one is empty of pins.

Abstract: A pin or stud for support of a shadow or an aperture mask in or on a color television picture or cathode ray tube envelope, such pin or stud comprising a generally channel-shaped member having side portions longer than the central portion of the member and such member having geometric symmetry both on opposite sides of a first plane extending through the center of the central portion of the pin parallel with a first pair of opposite edges of such portion and also on opposite sides of a second plane extending through said center parallel with the other or second pair of opposite edges of the central portion of the pin and normal to said first plane. A pair of corresponding ends of said side portions of the pin are adapted for embedment in said envelope.