Method and apparatus for producing a thermal transfer print by means of tape-like transfer films

US6222567A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Alfons Schuster · Augsburg, DE
• Armin Weichmann · Kissing, DE
• Bernhard Feller · Friedberg, DE
• Dirk Probian · Gersthofen, DE
• Michael Muller · Harper Woods, US
• Thomas Hartmann · Altdorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 15, 1999
• Grant date: Apr 24, 2001
• Expiry date: Mar 15, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41M5/38221
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method of producing a thermal transfer print on a substrate cylinder using a tape-like transfer film, the method including exerting a contact force on a substrate using the transfer film for producing a static friction force, and controlling exact synchronism between the tape-like transfer film and the substrate cylinder by using the magnitude of the static friction force.