Patent · US Expired

Printing device or printing method

US6745684B1 · kind B1 · utility

3Cited by

6References

17Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Schott Glas · DE

Inventors

Michael Zimmer · Beit Elazari, IL
Bernd Schultheis · Bad Kreuznach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 17, 2002
Grant date	Jun 8, 2004
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 17, 2022

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S101/37
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A printing method using at least one transfer roller, whose roller surface is charged with a coating material, for example a toner. The coating material is directly or indirectly transferred from the transfer roller to a support surface of a transfer element, before being transferred at least partially from the transfer element to a workpiece to be coated. According to this invention, the transfer element has a stretching element which forms the support surface and the support surface is stretched in the direction of the surface by a stretching device. This ensures that this method can also be used to easily coat 3-dimensional surfaces which are curved in space.

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