Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
  • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
  • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
  • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
  • B41J2/01—Ink jet
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
  • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
  • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
  • B41J11/66—Applications of cutting devices
  • B41J11/68—Applications of cutting devices cutting parallel to the direction of paper feed
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
  • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
  • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
  • B41J3/407—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
  • B41J3/4078—Printing on textile

Definitions

• the invention relates to a system for the continuous production of printed label tapes according to the preamble of claim 1.
• the object of the invention is to improve a system of the type mentioned at the outset so that a higher output is possible.
• the delivery station provides a textile web whose width corresponds to a multiple of the width of the printed textile tape
• the individual units of the stations of the system can be used more economically, so that the system a performance is possible that corresponds to a multiple of the performance of conventional systems.
• the output is practically multiplied by the number of textile tapes produced at the same time.
• an ink jet printer is particularly preferred, which can be configured in one or more colors and in which the individual characters are composed in a mosaic-like manner from the finest ink jet droplets. In particular, this also enables a relatively small printhead that can be configured to reciprocate across the textile web.
• Such an inkjet printer can be designed according to claim 4 for processing water-based printing inks.
• An embodiment according to claim 5 is more advantageous for processing printing inks that can be polymerized by electromagnetic steel.
• the printing station is also advantageous to design the printing station as a laser printer, in which a laser beam, which is programmed in its direction, writes the characters onto an electrostatically preloaded photo semiconductor film.
• the resulting charge image is transferred from the printing drum covered with the film onto the textile web with the aid of toner particles.
• the printing station can print in one color, but an embodiment according to claim 7 is also advantageous, according to which the printing station is designed as a multicolor printer and preferably has a plurality of print heads arranged one behind the other for different colors.
• a conditioning station to the printing station in order to set the temperature and / or the humidity of the textile web to a predetermined value suitable for the printing station. This is particularly advantageous for printers that use the electrostatic method.
• the printing station according to claim 9 is preceded by a treatment station for applying a pressure-improving agent and a subsequent fixing station.
• a uniform surface of the textile web can be achieved by means of the treatment agent and / or the flow properties of the textile web can at least be reduced or even eliminated.
• the print station In order to fix or dry the print on the textile web, the print station is followed by a fixation station.
• the fuser is designed according to the printing principle used. It is particularly important to ensure that the fixation takes place as quickly as possible and that the pressure is as resistant as possible.
• a fixing station for emitting polymerizing electromagnetic steels, preferably a UV lamp is particularly suitable.
• an IR fixing station is preferred, which supplies the heat necessary for melting the toner particles onto the textile web.
• an additional pressing station is advantageous, which presses the pressure into the textile web and thus improves the connection.
• system according to claim 12 has a tape fixing station for the printed textile web in order to free and smooth the textile web from tensions.
• An embodiment of the system according to claim 13 is particularly advantageous, according to which a printing station is followed by a coating station in order to provide the printed textile web with a protective layer.
• a protective layer protects the print on the textile web against mechanical and chemical stress.
• the system can be provided with a folding station according to claim 14 in order to fold the edge regions of the printed textile bands against one another and thus to lay an unsightly or rough cut edge inwards from the edge region.
• the folding can be permanently fixed by a fixing station downstream of the folding station.
• the printed textile tapes can either be rolled up or placed in a container in a tangled position.
• a cross-cutting station is provided in order to divide the printed textile strip into sections.
• This cross cutting station can advantageously a stacking device can be arranged to compose the textile tape sections in an orderly form.
• a particularly economical system is obtained if polymerisable agents are used for the pretreatment and / or for printing and / or for the aftertreatment, which enable application and rapid fixation, which is necessary for mass production, as is the case with the production of labels, is of great importance.
• Very different types of electromagnetic radiation can be used for fixing by polymerization according to claim 16.
• infrared rays can be used.
• electromagnetic radiation in the ionizing region, in particular in the X-ray or gamma radiation region is also suitable.
• UV rays are particularly preferred which enable rapid fixation at favorable costs.
• Figures 1 and 2 show a first system for the continuous production of printed textile tapes, in particular printed label tapes.
• the system contains a delivery station 2, on which a textile web 4 is wound, the width B1 of which is a multiple, here five times the width B2, of the textile strips to be produced.
• the textile web 4 is fed to a printing station 8 via a device for running compensation 6.
• the device for barrel compensation 6 contains two deflecting rollers 10, 12 which are mounted on a rocker 14 which is pivotally connected to the machine frame 16.
• the printing station 8 can be designed in very different ways and preferably has an inkjet printer which prints the polymer web with a polymerizable color.
• the printer provides the textile web with a pressure, not shown, which is specific for the textile band 18 to be produced.
• the printing station 8 is followed by a fixing station 20, which fixes the pressure by means of electromagnetic steel by polymerization.
• the textile web 4 is divided into textile strips 18.
• the longitudinal cutting station contains a cutting head 24 which corresponds to the number of desired cuts and which is provided, for example, with a thermal cutting wire 26.
• the longitudinal cutting station 22 is followed by a folding station 28, at which the edge regions 30 of the textile strips 18 are folded against one another.
• the folded textile strips are fixed in their shape in a downstream strip fixing station 32.
• the fixing station has a heating roller 34 and two pressing rollers 36 which press the folded textile strips against the heating roller 34.
• the textile tapes folded in this way are in turn cut into textile tape sections 40, which are stacked in a stacking device 42.
• An electronic control device (not shown in more detail) is used to control the system, which controls the printing station in particular and also coordinates the other stations of the system.
• FIG. 3 shows a further system for the continuous production of printed textile tapes, in particular printed label tapes, which has a delivery station, not shown, from which a wide textile web 4 is first fed to a treatment station 44, in which the textile web is provided with a means 46.
• the agent serves to balance the textile structure and / or to reduce the flowability of the fiber material of the textile web in order to improve the pressure at the printing station.
• the applied agent is fixed at the following fixing station 48, which is preferably designed as a UV lamp.
• the textile web 4 travels through a printing station 8a, a fixing station 20a and a longitudinal cutting station 22a, in which the textile web 4 is cut into textile bands 18, which are pulled off by a take-off device 50, as in the first example.
• the textile strips 18 can be cut into textile strip sections or wound up on a roll or placed in a container in a tangled position.
• the treatment station 44 is designed as an application device and contains a trough 52 for the means 46, into which a dipping roller 54 is immersed, in order to receive the agent 46 and to deliver it to a transfer roller 56, which is connected to the textile web 4, which is connected via a counter roller 58 is guided.
• the amount of agent 46 to be applied can be adjusted in a manner not shown by adjusting the immersion depth of the immersion roller 54 and the play or the contact pressure between the different rollers.
• the agent can also be applied by an immersion bath, not shown, through which the textile web is guided, or by means of a spray device, which is also not shown.
• FIG. 4 shows a further system for the continuous production of printed textile tapes, in particular printed label tapes.
• the system contains a delivery station 2a, in which a supply roll 60 from the textile web 4 to be printed is arranged.
• a drive motor 62 serves to drive the supply roll 60 in a controlled manner.
• the delivery station 2a is combined with a conditioning station 64 in order to give the textile web 4 the temperature and / or humidity required for the respective printing process.
• the conditioning station 64 is followed by a printing station 8b, which in the present example works according to the electrostatic printing process and has corresponding transfer rollers 65.
• the printing station is followed by a fixing station 20b to fix the print.
• the fixing station works with a heat source 66, for example an IR radiator, in order to melt the toner on the textile web 4.
• a subsequent cooling station 68 the textile web is cooled with the pressure, for example by means of a blower 70.
• a belt fixing station 72 in order to press the pressure into the textile web.
• various heated rollers 74 over which the textile web with the printed side is drawn in a meandering manner.
• the rollers are adjustable relative to each other, so that pressure is exerted on the patterns due to the tension created in the textile web.
• the rollers 74 can be provided with a controlled drive device in order to coordinate the peripheral speed of the rollers and to keep them synchronized.
• a coating station 76 is also connected to the belt fixing station 72 in order to provide the printed surface of the textile web 4 with a coating that protects the pressure.
• the coating station contains a tub 78 with the coating agent 80, for example a clear resin solution, into which a transfer roller 82 is immersed.
• the textile web 4 rests on the transfer roller 82 and is pressed against the latter by means of a coating roller 84 in order to distribute the coating agent on the textile web in a metered amount.
• the coating station 76 contains a fixing device 86, for example a UV lamp, in order to fix the coating agent 80 on the textile web 4.
• the wide textile web 4 is cut into individual textile strips 18 in a subsequent longitudinal cutting station 22b.
• a subsequent folding station 28a the edges of the textile strips 18 are folded against one another.
• a subsequent cross-cutting station 38a the textile strips 18 are cut into textile strip sections 40 and stacked in a stacking device 42a.

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• Preliminary Treatment Of Fibers (AREA)
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• Accessory Devices And Overall Control Thereof (AREA)
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• Record Information Processing For Printing (AREA)
• Laser Beam Printer (AREA)
• Treatments For Attaching Organic Compounds To Fibrous Goods (AREA)
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