Abstract: An improved card holder or jacket of the kind adapted for supporting a hospital patient identification card on a printer anvil. The holder comprises a card supporting base panel having along one edge an upstanding flange for guiding the card against sliding displacement from the panel. The panel also has along said one edge a card hold-down and protector for said edge and located in spaced clearance protective adjacent relation to the guide flange. At least the base panel is made of ferromagnetic material for cooperation with magnetic hold-down such as a magnetic strip on the printer anvil.

Abstract: An improved transfer printing press of the type having a plurality of beds having a top surface, a device for squeegeeing ink through a screen onto a substrate, a device for curing the ink remaining on the substrate, and a device for drawing air through the bed, wherein the improvement comprises an air permeable material interposed between the top surface of the bed and the substrate to be printed to keep said substrate at a substantially uniform temperature.

Abstract: A pallet for supporting shirts for printing over the entire surface of the shirt, particularly including the sleeves. A shirt is telescoped over a thin upper panel whereafter separate sleeve panels mounted to the upper panel are slid outward into the sleeves of the shirt to provide support thereto. The sleeve panels may be provided with means for moving to their extended position automatically. With the sleeve panels still maintained outward, the upper panel is then lowered down into abutment with the lower panel to secure the shirt between the upper and lower panels. Lowering of the upper panel with the sleeve panels mounted thereto causes the sleeve panels to be raised so that the pallet forms a generally planar overall surface upon which the shirt is supported and maintained in a stationary position during printing.

Abstract: A method of temporarily attaching items to be screen printed to a pallet. The invention includes providing a pallet pad of adjacently adhered sheets on a pallet. Each sheet of the pad has a non-transferable adhesive coating on a substantial portion of its upper surface. The upper coating on each sheet permits the superjacent sheet to be removed without adversely affecting the adhesion of the coating. The upper coat on each sheet, once exposed, is capable of removably retaining textile articles thereon. Providing a bottom most sheet of the pad has a non-transferable adhesive coating over a substantial portion of its lower surface as well, adhering this lower coating of the pad on to the pallet and removably mounting a textile article to the adhesive coating of the upper surface on a topmost sheet of the pallet pad.

Abstract: A pallet assembly for "over-all" garment printing on a multi-station printing machine where the pallet assembly comprises a planar pallet having a pallet support positioned beneath the pallet and hinge means serving to pivotably mount the top edge of the pallet to the top portion of the pallet support. The pallet support includes laterally outwardly extending sleeve support portions on opposing sides thereof, and securement means are provided for releaseably securing the pallet against the pallet support.

Abstract: Flat bed thermal printing apparatus adapted to print information on to an elongate substrate, or on to products disposed upon the substrate, at a printing area within the apparatus, the said substrate being movable through the apparatus in a step by step movement, with a stop for printing between each step, along a path which causes the substrate to be disposed in a substantially flat position as the substrate is stopped at the printing area after each step wherein the apparatus comprises a printing head provided with a multiplicity of individually energizable dot type thermal elements, means to move the printing head relative to the substrate while the substrate is stationary at the printing area between its stepwise movements through the apparatus with the substrate in its substantially flat disposition, means selectively to energize the said printing elements during movement of the printing head to effect printing and means positively to hold the substrate in position at the printing area during printing.

Abstract: A cap printing device for printing various logos on the surface of billed caps comprises a lower support structure, with one end of this structure connected to a flat platen. The platen is connected to a guide mechanism which contains a slot, for mounting the cap bill, and a framing bar, for flattening the front panel of a cap and holding it on the platen. The platen is curved so as to alleviate stresses which arise upon flattening. An upper support arm supports a silk screen carrier with removable silk screen frames. The arm is movably connected at the opposite end of the support structure.

Abstract: A screen printing system and method is provided in accordance with the invention by using a circular base, a screen, an article to be printed and ink. The circular base has a planar top face. The circular base supports the article to be printed, such as an item of clothing made from cloth. The screen is held in a planar position by a rigid frame. The plane of the screen is positioned above and parallel to the plane of the top face of the circular base. The circular base has a side face with a groove therein which is adapted to hold a resilient flexible annular member. The resilient flexible annular member evenly holds the article to be printed to the circular base so that no wrinkles are allowed to remain in the article to be printed. If wrinkles were allowed to remain in the article to be printed then the pattern of the design to be printed would be distorted on the printed article. The screen includes a fine mesh cloth of fibrous material, such as, silk or nylon or similar filament.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for the three-dimensional screen printing of images onto pallet-supported articles allow more than one layer of ink to be printed upon an article to form a three-dimensional design. A pallet having a compressible substrate is described; the substrate compresses to receive previously printed image masses during subsequent printing steps. A screen having baffles may cooperate with the substrate. A screen comprising dimples in its article-contacting surface is provided, whereby previously printed images may be protected from screen contact during a printing operation. Multiple printing steps may be performed without intermediate drying steps.

Abstract: An elongated base block of hard metal material has a flat upper surface to act as an anvil for a key resting on such surface. A narrow key-clamping rail extends lengthwise of the anvil and thumbscrews at its opposite ends may be turned to clamp the key. A die for debossing indicia in the key can be positioned vertically by holding it against a vertical surface of the rail. Alternatively, a die can be positioned in an upright guide slot of a carriage or saddle movable along the rail and sized to closely receive the die. By maintaining the die with its length precisely perpendicular to the upper surface of the anvil and, consequently, the key, a uniform impression in the key is assured when the die is struck.

Abstract: A pallet assembly for a multi-station printing machine, where the pallet is transported by an indexing arm, is secured to the arm by a ball and socket hinge assembly with the distal end of the pallet engaged over a keeper pin so that the pallet can selectably be disengaged from the pin and rotated about its longitudinal axis in order to turn over a garment disposed on the pallet and thereby permit imprinting the garment on both sides. A support structure extends laterally beyond the edges of the pallet in order to support an overhanging screen and squeegee whereby printing of the garment surface can be effected to the extreme side edges.