Abstract: A screen printing apparatus is described. The apparatus has a plurality of radial arms each having a printing head associated therewith. A target area is in alignment with at least one of the printing heads wherein a design is applied to a target article at the target area by the printing head. A means for providing relative movement between the target area and the printing head provides multiple passes between a squeegee associated with the printing head and the target area. A means for providing a pressure between the squeegee and the target area is regulated such that a first pressure between the squeegee and the target area on a first stroke is not equal to a second pressure between the squeegee and the target area on a subsequent second stroke.

Abstract: A tattoo applicator for applying temporary tattoos to a subject, the tattoo applicator including a handheld housing and a sponge moveably supported by the housing to moisten the temporary tattoo and to apply pressure to the temporary tattoo. In some examples, the housing defines a retaining slot for receiving a tattoo-forming sheet. In some examples, the tattoo applicator includes a timer. In some examples, the tattoo applicator includes a push rod and a tattoo mount supported by the housing, the tattoo mount defining a port through which the push rod extends. In some examples, the tattoo applicator includes a fluid reservoir mounted to the housing.

Abstract: A tension is applied to a film-like printing body to be processed in each of steps such as a printing step, a parts mounting step and the like. Further the processed film-like printing body is automatically fed out by a predetermined stroke. A supply unit (1), a printing unit (2), parts mounting units (3, 4), a heating unit (5) and a take-up unit (6) are sequentially arranged. Tension apparatuses (7, 7) which apply a tension to the film-like printing body during a process and automatically feed out the processed film-like printing body are arranged between the respective units among the supply unit (1), the printing unit (2), the parts mounting units (3, 4) and the heating unit (5).

Abstract: A thermal stencil sheet for use in a laser stencil printing system comprising a stencil sheet comprising a base layer, a radiation absorbing layer, and a thermal film overlying the radiation absorbing layer. The base layer comprises a porous fibrous material which is saturatable with liquid.

Abstract: A belt-like screen carrying a row of printing patterns is held between two roller screen holders. The printing patterns are advanced one by one to a printing position by the rotation of the roller screen holders. This allows the printing patterns to be changed from one to another. Frames are provided for locking and unlocking the printing patterns at the printing position. The completion of a run of printed circuit boards can be monitored to automatically change the printing patterns.

Abstract: In a method for forming a duplicate image by reading an original image from an original sheet and forming a duplicate image according to the original image, to allow the designation of a number of regions for forming duplicate regional images, from an overall image, with desired color separation or other various attributes to be carried out accurately, promptly and simply by mounting the original sheet only once on a digitizer or the like without regard to the number of processes of forming a duplicate image, a plurality of regions designated on a single original sheet are stored in a storage device such as computer memory, either the designated region stored in the storage device or the region other than the designated region is defined as an effective region, a duplicate image of only the effective region is formed for a first process of forming a duplicate image, only the region other than the effective region for the first process of forming a duplicate image is defined as a new effective region, and a du

Abstract: A printing station conveys a supply of molten lithium from a heated tank to a nozzle within a protective shroud. A web traverses a chiller also within the shroud. The nozzle dispenses discrete amounts of the molten lithium onto successive portions of the web in contact with the chiller. The chilled lithium solidifies into solid lithium patterns. A sealer also within the shroud prevents exposure of the solid lithium patterns to ambient air. The station can be incorporated into an in-line press for forming a succession of electrochemical cells.

Abstract: An apparatus for spreading and depositing a viscous liquid or paste-like material on a substrate includes a housing removably insertable into a diamond- or square-shaped squeegee blade holder, the blade holder itself mounted to a squeegee head assembly of a screen or stencil printer. The squeegee head assembly is driven in a linear direction over and above the substrate, dragging the blade over the substrate and forcing deposition of the material onto the substrate. The housing includes a pair of oppositely-disposed locking clamps that attach to both ends of the housing. A shaft having a blade secured thereto is disposed through the channels of the clamps and within a groove of the housing, and the shaft is rotatable within the housing and the locking clamps so that the angle of attack between the blade and substrate can be selectively adjusted and, once the appropriate angle of application is selected, the blade is fixed in position by tightening the clamps against the shaft.

Abstract: To positively compress ejected master plates at a high compression ratio without requiting any complex structure, a piston member for compressing ejected master plates is placed in an ejected master plate box for receiving ejected master plates from an ejected master plate receiving inlet so as to be moveable between a first position and a second position, and the movement of the piston member toward the second position causes the stencil master plates to be compressed against an end wall of the ejected master plate box. The piston member is provided with a motor-driven suction fan which draws air out of the ejected master plate box to move the piston member toward the second position, and is biased toward the first position by a spring member.

Abstract: A squeegee apparatus for a screen printing machine wherein the vertical operation rod being connected to the moving shaft of the air cylinder fixed to the horizontal movement plate of the squeegee drive section, the cushion member being provided between the vertical operation rod and the vertical movement support rod of the squeegee holder, and the guide posts having stoppers at their top ends being provided on the vertical movement support rod which are slidably inserted through the guide sleeves of the vertical operation rod.

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: To eliminate wasteful use of thermal stencil paper and thereby provide an inexpensive stamp device, a single thermal head is employed for both the thermal recording on a reversible thermal recording sheet for confirmation of a stamp image and the thermal perforation through the thermal stencil paper for creation of a stamp original. The stamp image is first thermally recorded on the reversible thermal recording sheet; the stamp image thus recorded is then confirmed; and the thermal stencil paper is thermally perforated in accordance with the stamp image to create the stamp original.

Abstract: In a stamping device, a stamping stencil is produced and used which does not require manual application of ink to the stencil. Data concerning an image, which may include character, figure and/or symbol data, is input by a input unit, a thermal head generates heat on the basis of the data and transmits the heat to the thermal stencil paper disposed at the printing position. As a result, a corresponding pattern of pores is produced, by the heat of the thermal head, in the thermal stencil paper. Ink is supplied to the pores by an ink supply unit at an ink supplying position when pressure is applied to the back of the ink supply.

Abstract: A compact portable stamp device which can prevent the ink stains on an operator and his/her clothes and the occurrence of nonuniform printing and, further, simplifies the operation of changing the color of the ink. The stamp device comprises a heat sensitive stencil paper fed between first and second rollers. The heat sensitive stencil paper has a laminate structure including a thermoplastic film layer and a porous carrier layer.

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 screen printing machine includes a lifting block liftably provided relative to a movable block. The movable block is reciprocatingly movable in a horizontal direction above a screen disposed on an article to be printed. A printing member includes at least one of a scraper and a skid mounted to the lifting block to facilitate screen printing by extruding ink on the screen. Mounting structure pivotally supports the lifting block so as to be displaceable in a widthwise direction of the lifting block so that the printing member can automatically follow the upper surface of the screen even though it is inclined.

Abstract: A squeegee head for the printing of bodies by the screen printing method, the head including a squeegee rubber and a holder for retaining the rubber, the holder comprising a plurality of adjacently arranged holder members which are each guided in the squeegee head for mutually independent reciprocating movement in the contact direction, and are held under a contact force.

Abstract: A winding apparatus for removing a used stencil in a printing machine having a stencil lift-off mechanism for lifting the leading end of the used stencil from a printing drum assembly and transporting mechanism for transporting the used stencil onto the winding apparatus, the winding apparatus comprises a generally cylindrical floating core for taking up the used stencil therearound, a support mechanism for rotatably supporting the core in contact directly therewith or through the used stencil when the core is at least partially wound with the used stencil, and a drive mechanism for rotating the core about the longitudinal axis thereof at a speed synchronized with the speed of transport of the used stencil.