Abstract: In order to make the bulging out deformation of the printing drum of a rotary stencil printer having a flexible cylindrical body by the internal press roller to be more easy and more uniform over the entire width of the printing, a flexible perforated sheet (20) forming the flexible cylindrical body of the printing drum is beforehand constructed to be a cylindrical body with its opposite annular edge portions being laid over a pair of annular portions (10a, 10b) connected with one another by a transverse bar portion (12), wherein the internal circumferential length of the cylindrical body made of the flexible perforated sheet is larger than the outer circumferential length of the annular portions by a determinate amount for allowing a part of the flexible cylindrical body to bulge radially outwardly, and the flexible cylindrical body is latched at a portion thereof laid one over the other with the transverse bar portion against relative circumferential movement while relatively movable in the radial direction

Abstract: In a stencil printing machine, when a printing drum is set at its operating position in the direction of its axis, a drum switch is turned on, and a locking piece is engaged with a groove formed in an engaging rod integral with the printing drum, so that a lock switch is also turned on, In the case where the printing drum pushed into the printing machine is not at the operating position, the drum presence/absence switch is turned on, and the locking piece is not engaged with the groove, so that the lock switch is off. In this case, the locking piece is reciprocated a predetermined distance in both directions.

Abstract: To allow data to be exchanged between a printing drum and a stencil printing device main body in a highly adaptable manner with regard to the increase in the kinds of data to be transmitted without requiring any change in mechanical structures, light emitting devices 43, 65 and light receiving devices 45, 63 are arranged in mutually opposing parts of the printing drum 7 and the main body frame 1 to allow optical communication between them. Other modes of wireless communication may be used in place of the optical communication. This invention is particularly useful when the printing drum 7 is detachably mounted on a main body frame 1 of the stencil printing device, and the main control unit is required to adapt itself to different printing drums.

Abstract: In a stencil duplicating machine, uniform tension is applied to a stencil so that a new stencil is wound around a printing drum and a used stencil is taken up on a stencil take-up spool without being creased or stretched. A quantity of the stencil bearing an original image can be saved.

Abstract: In a stencil printing device, a plurality of printing drums are mounted on a turret-like printing drum supporting member, and the indexing rotary movement of the printing drum supporting member and the rotary actuation of each of the printing drums thereon are effected by a common motor without regard to the number of the printing drums so that the overall structure can be simplified, and the control of the indexing rotary movement of the planetary plate disk and the rotary actuation of each of the printing drums can be accomplished in a centralized manner. The present invention is particularly useful in a stencil printing for full color printing.

Abstract: A stencil duplicating machine comprises a rotary cylindrical drum, an ink supply disposed inside the rotary cylindrical drum, a stencil supply unit, a stencil take-up unit, and a stencil making section. The rotary cylindrical drum is adapted to support a stencil on an outer circumferential surface thereof and is rotatable with the stencil. During the printing process, the rotary cylindrical drum, stencil supply unit and stencil take-up unit rotate together.

Abstract: In a stencil printer in which a printing drum is carried by a carrier mounted in a frame body of the printer to be transversely withdrawable from the frame body on its one side for maintenance, etc., the carrier is selectively engaged with a transverse position adjustment device at its operating position inside the frame body, wherein the transverse position adjustment device engages the carrier to adjust its transverse position for adjustment of transverse position of print image via a latching mechanism so that, when the carrier is to be disengaged from the transverse position adjustment device for the withdrawal, the transverse position adjustment device once shifts the carrier to its terminal biasing position toward the withdrawal direction and returns to its standard transverse position, while disengaging the latching mechanism at the moment of reversing its biasing movement.

Abstract: In a cylindrical drum 1 for stencil printing which consists of a porous cylindrical plate 2 and a screen layer 3, in which a stencil sheet is attached to the outer surface of the screen layer having an ink permeability, an ink is supplied from the inner surface of the porous cylindrical body which rotates around its own central axis, the present invention provides a screen layer consisting of a woven fabric of conjugated fibers of a sheath-and-core or a side-by-side type consisting of a lower melting component and a higher melting component and making the intersections of the fibers fixed together through the melt-adhesion of the lower melting point component by means of thermocompression bonding.

Abstract: To the end of reliably and accurately detecting a failure to properly eject a master plate and positively preventing the occurrence of secondary failures due to a failure to properly eject a master plate, the passage of both the leading edge and the trailing edge of the ejected master plate beyond a prescribed point in the conveying path of ejected master plates is used as an indication of a successful ejection of a master plate.

Abstract: A printing drum mounted rotatably in a printing machine, the printing drum including an ink-permeable peripheral wall, with ink being fed from the inside of the ink-permeable peripheral wall, and an ink-permeable screen formed of a heat-shrinkable material and held in a heat-shrinkable manner in close contact with the outer peripheral surface of the ink-permeable peripheral wall.

Abstract: A reliable, small and light stencil duplicating machine comprises a printing section, a sheet feeding section, and a sheet discharging section. The printing section includes a printing drum for wrapping a stencil thereon, a press roller and parts associated with a printing process. The sheet feeding section feeds each printing sheet into a space between the printing drum and the press roller. A printed sheet is stripped off from the printing drum by a sheet separating member of the sheet discharging section, and is discharged onto a tray.

Abstract: The present invention provides a printing drum for a rotary stencil printing device, comprising: a clamp for clamping a leading edge of a stencil master plate sheet along a line extending axially on an outer circumferential surface of the printing drum; and cutting device mounted on the printing drum for cutting the stencil master plate sheet to define a trailing edge of the stencil master plate sheet mounted on the printing drum. By thus providing the cutting device on the printing drum, the stencil master plate can be accurately cut because the cut length of the stencil master plate can be determined in relation with the circumferential length on the printing drum, and the cut edge of the stencil master plate can be made always exactly parallel to the axial line of the printing drum because there is no relative movement in the feeding direction between the stencil master plate sheet and the cutting device.

Abstract: A printing drum is rotatable supported by a fixed hollow cylindrical member at two axially spaced positions thereof so that the printing drum may be supported in a highly stable fashion and any mis-alignment of the printing drum can be avoided. Also, the interior of the fixed hollow cylindrical member provides an easily accessible space for accommodating a printing ink container and a pump for supplying printing ink. In particular, by using a squeegee blade instead of a squeegee roller, a particularly advantage can be obtained because the diameter of the fixed hollow cylindrical member can be such that an annular chamber defined between the fixed hollow cylindrical member and the inner circumferential surface of the printing drum is barely sufficient to accommodate the squeegee blade in the annular chamber, and the fixed hollow cylindrical member can provide a highly rigid support structure.

Abstract: The stencil printing device of the present invention comprises a mixing unit for receiving the first liquid from the first liquid storage container and the second liquid from the second liquid storage container, and producing printing ink by mixing the two liquids, a printing ink supply passage for conducting the printing ink produced by the mixing unit to an ink squeegee unit of a printing drum, ink amount sensor for detecting the amount of the printing ink in the ink squeegee unit, and ink supply control unit for controlling the amount of the printing ink that is supplied from the mixing unit to the ink squeegee unit according to the amount of printing ink detected by the ink amount sensor. Thus, a relatively large number of prints can be made with each bottle of printing ink so that the frequency of replacing the ink bottle may be reduced.

Abstract: A master making device incorporated in a stencil printer. The operation for feeding the leading edge of a web or stencil toward a master clamper provided on a print drum is assigned to a platen roller. When the web is to be wrapped around the print drum, the operation for causing the web to form a slack and the operation for applying a tension to the web are implemented only by a tension member which selectively blocks or unblocks a web passageway.

Abstract: In a rotary stencil printer in which a back press roller 12 is provided with a transverse groove 26 for receiving a transverse bar 16 of a printing drum 10 and a printing sheet applied with a printing at a nipping region 32 between the printing drum and the back press roller is transferred for a while as attached onto the cylindrical outer circumferential surface of the back press roller by a pinch roller or rollers 40 provided at an outlet side of the nipping region so as to press at a side edge portion or portions of the printing sheet against the outer circumferential surface of the back press roller, the position control of the pinch roller or rollers to conform to the sheet width is carried out in a condition that the pinch roller or rollers are aligned with the transverse groove of the back press roller.

Abstract: To provide a stencil printing device of a multi printing drum type which can be reduced in size without complicating the path of conveying printing paper and without compromising the ease of maintenance, a plurality of printing drums are arranged along an inclined line of a prescribed angle of inclination, and the path of conveying printing paper between each pair of adjacent printing drums is defined, for instance, as a straight line. A plate making unit, a plate ejection unit and a paper feeding unit are arranged in the space defined above and below the inclined line along which the printing drums are arranged so that a compact design may be accomplished.

Abstract: A mimeographic transfer printing machine includes a stencil support drum for supporting a stencil, an ink supply device for forcing ink through the stencil supported on the stencil support drum, an ink receiving transfer drum to which the ink forced out from the stencil is to be transferred, and a sheet support device for supporting a printing sheet to which the ink on the ink receiving transfer drum is to be transferred. The stencil support drum has a slightly larger diameter than the transfer drum so that the circumferential speed of the stencil support drum is greater than that of the transfer drum to provide to the stencil a tension acting in a direction opposite to the rotation of the stencil support drum.

Abstract: In order to positively dispose of a used stencil sheet from a printing drum of a rotary stencil printer, an endless belt element expanded between one of a pair of used stencil sheet transfer rollers for nipping and transferring a used stencil sheet disposed of from a printing drum and a pulley is positioned to oppose a claw means with a space left therebetween so that a leading end portion of the used stencil sheet detached from the printing drum by the claw means is guided by the endless belt element until it reaches a nip portion of the pair of used stencil sheet transfer rollers.

Abstract: Device for driving at least one rotary screen printing stencil, comprising first main drive means having a first gear wheel which meshes with a circular toothed element which is connected to the stencil, and the axis of which coincides with the axis of the stencil, second main drive means for moving a web to be printed at right angles to the axis of the stencil and against the stencil, the first and second main drive means being synchronized with each other and an auxiliary drive means with a second gear wheel which meshes with the toothed element, while the auxiliary drive means constantly deliver such a couple that one of the gear wheels drives the stencil and the other gear wheel retains the stencil.

Abstract: Screen printing device, comprising an endless printing belt on which a web of material can be fixed temporarily, a printing belt drive device, and a number of rotary stencils driven by stencil drive devices, the printing belt drive device being coupled to the stencil drive devices at a predetermined angle presetting thereof for a synchronous movement thereof. The device also has a signal generation device which can produce a signal forming a measure for a displacement of the printing belt. One or more markings are provided on or in the printing belt and can be detected by detectors securely fixed at predetermined intervals. A comparison device compares the signal coming from the signal generation device, during a displacement of a marking on the printing belt from one detector to a next detector, with a predetermined reference signal, following which a correction device adjusts the angle presetting of one or more stencils on the basis of the comparison result of the comparison device.

Abstract: A printer for printing out an image formed in a stencil on a sheet. The stencil formed with perforations representative of an image is wrapped around a drum which is made up of a hollow cylindrical support and a mesh screen covering the support. The cylindrical support has an apertured portion and a non-apertured portion and accommodates an inking roller therein for supplying ink to a sheet via the stencil. The sheet is pressed against the stencil by a press roller that faces the inking roller with the intermediary of the drum. A high friction member is located at a predetermined position on the non-apertured portion of the drum or a predetermined position on the mesh screen corresponding to a position where the press roller begins to press a sheet against the stencil.

Abstract: A printer for printing out an image formed in a stencil on a sheet. The stencil formed with perforations representative of an image is wrapped around a drum which is made up of a hollow cylindrical support and a mesh screen covering the support. The cylindrical support has an apertured portion and a non-apertured portion and accommodates an inking roller therein for supplying ink to a sheet via the stencil. The sheet is pressed against the stencil by a press roller that faces the inking roller with the intermediary of the drum. The press roller is biassed by a cam having a profile such that the press roller contacts the drum before the sheet arrives between the press roller and the drum. The cam is also profiled such that the press roller gradually comes into contact with the drum to reduce oscillations between the press roller and the drum.

Abstract: In a stencil printing including the steps of supplying ink in the form of a layer on one side of a perforated stencil sheet, contacting another side of the stencil sheet to a surface for printing, applying a pressure to the ink layer by a pressing means so as to transfer the ink of the ink layer through perforations of the stencil sheet from the one side to the other side of the stencil sheet and to attach the ink thus transferred onto the surface for printing, and detaching the surface for printing from the other side of the stencil sheet, the improvement is which the surface for printing is detached from the other side of the stencil sheet at a portion thereof where a movement of the ink layer relative to the stencil sheet is substantially impeded by the pressing means so that a drawing out of the ink from the ink layer onto the surface for printing due to the adhesiveness and viscosity of the ink does not occur when the surface for printing is detached from the stencil sheet, thus also allowing the extrusi

Abstract: In a stencil master plate making printing device which can lay out duplicated images on printing paper on either side of a central line thereof without regard to the size of the originals or the printing paper that is used so that each sheet of the printed paper may be easily cut apart into a plurality of parts each serving as a desired printed copy or so that two-sided printed leaves may be obtained by folding each sheet of the printed paper along the central line and binding them together. This can be accomplished by appropriately controlling the feeding of a stencil master plate according to the size of the original images and the size of the paper on which the original images are to be reproduced in a plurality of frames.

Abstract: The rotary screen printing apparatus is designed for ease of operation including adjustments and changes. The apparatus is also designed to fit into a press between the last print station and the first die cut station without modification to the press due to use of a 5 o'clock print position.

Abstract: A screen printing machine comprises a frame in which one or more stencils are supported for printing a web of material fixed on a supporting belt. The stencils are each directly connected by means of a rigid coupling to the rotor of a corresponding rotary drive device. An elongated squeegee, supported near the ends of the stencil, is provided in the interior of each stencil. The drive device is provided with a central through hole running in the axial direction, for allowing through at least the end of the squeegee with radial play.

Abstract: A control device for a stencil duplicating machine having a stencil or master making section, printing section, paper feeding section and discharging section in an integrated assembly. Whether or not a master sheet is wrapped around a drum included in the printing section is determined to execute adequate processes stably at all times. During a master making process, whether or not a used master sheet is on the drum is detected. If one is present, a discharge command is issued. If one is not present a master is made and placed on the drum. During a printing process, whether or not a new master sheet is on the drum is detected. If one is present, printing is executed. If one is not present, printing is inhibited.

Abstract: Described is a method for pattern repeat presetting of a multi color screen printing machine wherein the screen printing stencils to be used are pre-set on the basis of independently determined stencil-data and printing position data by establishing a fixed predetermined relation between these data. Also described is a multi color screen printing device having means for setting the lengthwise, widthwise and diagonal pattern repeat with use of a computer and independently determined printing position and stencil data. The invention also relates to a device of determining stencil data.

Abstract: A chambered doctor blade utilizes parallel, axially extending spaced working and sealing doctor blades, together with spaced end plates to define an ink chamber. Free axial ends of the working doctor blade extend beyond the ends of the end plates and remove built-up ink beads. This removed ink flows down the surface of the inwardly inclined end plates.

Abstract: A multiple screen printing apparatus is disclosed which can be manufactured to loose manufacturing tolerances but yet can print "all screens-down" with accurate and repeatable registration. The registration is a result of having two complementary components for both distance and angular registration which are located near the printing end of the apparatus. The apparatus includes a spring biased loose carrying connection that causes the registration components to seat accurately with one another as the screen is brought into engagement with the workpiece.

Abstract: In a mimeographic printing machine, a stencil discharge apparatus comprises a device for peeling a stencil from the outer circumferential surface of a rotary cylindrical drum, a rotary unit rotatably located near the peeling device, the rotary unit having a receiving portion opening backwardly with respect to the rotating direction of the rotary unit, and a disposal unit located near the rotary unit. The disposal unit has an introducing plate which is operable in response to the rotation of the rotary unit for compressing the stencil to discard.

Abstract: A mimeographic printing machine comprises a rotary cylindrical drum having an ink-penetrable tubular wall for supporting a stencil on an outer circumferential surface thereof, and a device disposed outside the cylindrical drum for holding a paper sheet between the stencil on the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical drum to perform printing. The ink-penetrable tubular wall of the cylindrical drum has an opening communicating with a hollow interior of the cylindrical drum, and an ink-impenetrable portion ahead of the opening in the rotating direction of the cylindrical drum, with a trailing end of the ink-impenetrable portion being inserted into the opening.

Abstract: A mimeographic printing machine comprises a cylindrical drum rotatable with a stencil supported thereon, a lower pusher roller located under the cylindrical drum coactive with the cylindrical drum to hold a paper sheet therebetween, an inside pusher roller movably received in the cylindrical drum for pushing the cylindrical drum toward the lower pusher roller, a drive gear drivable for rotation with the cylindrical drum, a support arm pivotally received in the cylindrical drum; an intermediate gear supported on the support arm and meshing with the drive gear, and an inside pusher gear mounted on the drive shaft of the inside pusher roller and meshing with the intermediate gear for pushing, with rotating, the inside pusher roller against the inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical drum.

Abstract: A stencil carrier apparatus including a semi-cylindrical driving feed roller, driven feed rollers, a pressure guide plate, and a control cam enables a used stencil from a printing drum to be reliably transported to a stencil receiver so as to be discharged out of a printing apparatus.

Abstract: An installation for printing fabric pieces having: a fixed printing frame; two take-up drums, situated spaced apart from and facing the terminal edges of the frame, each drum having a horizontal rotary shaft; drive means for causing said drums to rotate; a printing band as a support for the fabric piece to be printed and which is provided with end portions attached to the take-up drums and adapted to slide over the horizontal surface, alternately between a position of maximum take-up on the first drum and a position of maximum take-up on the second drum.

Abstract: A mimeographic printing apparatus having a printing drum wound with a stencil and a clamping plate for fastening one end of the stencil on the drum. An elastic holding device is provided over a clamping position with a gap from the drum enough to receive one end of the supplied stencil. The holding device is, at the clamping state, pressed by the clamping plate to fasten one end of the stencil on the printing drum. At the non-clamping position, the holding device returns to the original position and here restrains the external curling of the stencil. The result is that the stencil thereafter reliably introduced to the removing device, thereby realizing a normal stencil-removing operation.

Abstract: A magnetic beam for a roller squeegee of a rotary screen printing installation including an elongated upper plate on the underside of which a number of magnet coils are attached. The upper plate is connected to a lower container which extends over virtually the entire length of the upper plate and surrounds the magnet coils. The lower container has a projecting journal at each end which rests on a vertically adjustable stop connected to the frame of the printing installation. In order to avoid warping of the magnetic beam as a result of temperature differences, the upper plate is connected to the lower container in such a manner that the upper plate can expand freely in the longitudinal direction. The lower plate has a stop member in its center region between the journals which member interacts with an adjustable stop of the frame. By stressed in order to make the beam insensitive to stresses resulting from temperature differences.

Abstract: A printing cylinder composed of extruded equally curved cylindric sections joined at the axial edges thereof, one of said sections having a channel recess to provide for a stock gripper assembly, the other sections having axial channels in the outer periphery closed at both ends by end members, with one end member providing a means of communication between groups of these axial channels for evacuation air flow, these sections and end members being surrounded by a perforate cylindrical jacket covering said channels, and journal support shafts on the ends.

Abstract: A processor-controlled device for application to the control board of single-sheet fed silk-screen printing machines is described, of the type having a cylinder with sheet delivery and transfer grippers which is pivotally mounted for bidirectional alternating rotation through an oscillating d.c.

Abstract: An apparatus for inserting stencil ferrules into the ends of a screen printing cylinder comprising chamber means, having a floor and a ceiling; base means secured within the chamber means and adaptable to releasably support a first stencil ferrule which engages one end of the screen printing cylinder; pivoting guide means positioned concentrically above the base means by a longitudinally adjustable support means, the guide means being adaptable to releasably support a second stencil ferrule which engages the other end of the screen printing cylinder, the support means being secured within the chamber means; means for supplying a heated fluid to the chamber means; and means for evacuating the heated fluid from the chamber means.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of printing a substrate in a pattern with a viscous mass in the form of a foam using a screen printing machine.In order to provide new structures, especially in combination with the printing of fibrous webs, the invention is characterized in that the foam used has meta-stable foam properties. The structure of the foam is maintained intact during transfer and subsequent treatments.

Abstract: A printing system incorporating a re-usable ink image transfer surface. A material which forms a thin hydrophobic layer is arranged by various techniques over a substantially hydrophilic transfer surface in a configuration which defines the desired latent image in terms of exposed, contiguous hydrophilic and hydrophobic areas. In some cases, a hydrophilic layer may be in direct contact with the hydrophobic layer. Depending upon the configuration of the layers, either an aqueous or oleo ink may be used to develop and print an image. If desired, the layer configuration may be replaced by a different configuration without substantial interruption to the printing process. No photo-induced chemical reaction or latent image developing steps are required at any time. The ink image transfer surface may be a planographic printing screen or a printing screen.

Abstract: The stencil duplicator includes: a cylindrical porous rotary printing drum and a means for selectively rotating it in a preferred direction; a means for clamping the leading edge of a stencil master along a generator of the printing drum; a means for supplying printing ink to the inner surface of the printing drum; a press roller means for pressing a paper sheet to the outer surface of the printing drum with a progressive rolling action; a means for feeding a paper sheet between the printing drum and the press roller means; a means for making a stencil master, including a light transmitting plate, a light source which selectively illuminates the light transmitting plate, and a pressure plate facing the light transmitting plate, with the light transmitting plate and the pressure plate being selectively able either to be separated or pressed together; a means for feeding the leading edge of a stencil master which has passed between the light transmitting plate and the pressure plate towards the clamping means s

Abstract: A rotary stencil unit for screen printing machines has a tubular stencil provided at its opposite axial ends with respective end rings. One or both of these end rings has in its circumferential wall one or more openings which afford radial or diagonal access to the interior of the respective end ring and to the adjacent end portion of the stencil.

Abstract: Variegated composite designs (11) are printed on a surface of a length of fabric (12) by a two-stage printing process in which first, sharp, unmodulated color background portions (14) of the design are first applied by a conventional contact printer (13) such as a rotary screen printer in one example. Next, the partially printed fabric is advanced to an airbrush printing station located downstream from the final stage of the contact printer, where a plurality of airbrushes (21) are selectively operated to apply variable color tone portions or features (22) to the fabric adjacent to the background portions previously printed, in either the same or contrasting color or colors so as to produce a variegated composite design including the airbrushed portions superimposed on and embellishing the background sharp color portions previously printed. Operation of the airbrushes and contact printer is synchronized (FIGS. 1, 2-24, 27; FIGS.

Abstract: In a rotary screen printing machine, which comprises a frame and at least one cylindrical stencil with end rings, each of which is rotatably mounted within a bearing on the frame. At least one of these end rings is provided with driven memebers for rotating the respective stencil. A coupling maintains a driving connection between the driven members, and a stop is operable upon the coupling to break the driving connection between the driven members for rendering the drive force of the driven members inactive during the printing operation, thus arresting the respective stencil. The stop subsequently can be actuate to permit a restoration of the said drive force. The provision according to the present invention thus allows a rapid addition or removal of one or more pattern portions of a design to be printed during the printing operation without any loss of time and material.

Abstract: A rotary stencil unit for screen printing machines has a tubular stencil provided at its opposite axial ends with respective end rings. One or both of these end rings has in its circumferential wall one or more openings which afford radial or diagonal access to the interior of the respective end ring and to the adjacent end portion of the stencil.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for establishing and maintaining control of the operation of a printing equipment such as for example the type of equipment which is used for printing fabric webs. The equipment includes a series of printing elements such as rotary screens each of which is required to apply a single color to the moving web and all of the colors required to be in registration. The type of equipment with which the invention is especially concerned has a plurality of printing elements and most often these comprise more than the number used in printing on paper and the like webs although the invention is applicable thereto. The invention is concerned with the operating parameters for the equipment and for the several printing elements, these being recorded on a suitable carrier for a given printing project and used for adjustment of the elements and related components of the printing equipment for repetitions of the same project, the information being recorded digitally.

Abstract: An assembly for supporting a cylindrical screen used for printing fabrics and the like. The assembly includes a screen supporting ring which may or may not have teeth on the perimeter thereof. A tensioning ring is nested in the screen supporting ring and is in axial alignment therewith. A bearing is carried between the tensioning ring and the screen supporting ring. Circular seals are carried on opposite sides of the bearing for protecting the bearing from contaminants and the like. Tension is imparted on the screen by pressing against the tensioning ring which forces the screen supporting ring outwardly.