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Processing apparatus for individual items, having an inkjet print head, and an activation method therefor

US10538083B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Francotyp-Postalia GmbH · DE

Inventors

Wolfgang Muhl · Hohen Neuendorf, DE
Karsten Von der Waydbrink · Potsdam, DE
Volker Baum · Berlin, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 24, 2018
Grant date	Jan 21, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 24, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG07B2017/00532
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a processing apparatus, with an inkjet print head, that processes individual items, a drive motor that operates a transport mechanism to transport the individual items in the x-direction of a Cartesian coordinate system past the inkjet print head in a printing position so as to execute a printing operation with the inkjet print head on each individual item. The drive motor arrangement also moves the inkjet print head in the y-direction into a first position that is any of an exchange position, the printing position, a cleaning position or a sealing position. The drive motor arrangement also moves the inkjet print head vertically, in the z-direction of the exchange position or the sealing position, into at least one other position that is either the printing position or the cleaning position.

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