Patent ID: 11964500
Assignee: nan
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A tile printing kiosk with a small footprint to print a custom design on a plurality of plain tiles to create a plurality of custom designed printed tiles, comprising:
a) an upright frame comprising of a top level, a middle level and a bottom level, said upright frame has a front wall;
b) a feeding module and a printing module placed in the top level;
c) a coating module placed in the middle modulo level;
d) a drying module placed in the bottom level;
e) a first elevator to transfer the tile from the top level to the middle level;
f) a second elevator to transfer the tile from the middle level to the bottom level;
g) a computer unit configured to command said modules and to
i) receive a design, a size of the design, and a tile size,
ii) breakdown the design into a set of individual tile designs based on the size of the design and the tile size, and
iii) assign a reference number to each of the individual tile designs to ease assembly after the print,

h) said printing module has an elevated plane to move the tile up and down to be placed in a proximity of a printer nozzle;
i) said feeding module comprising:
a) a tray, wherein the plurality of plain tiles is placed on a top surface of the tray;
b) a first mechanical arm to pick one plain tile at a time from the plurality of plain tiles on the tray and place it on a first horizontal conveyer, and
c) the first horizontal conveyer to receive the plain tile from the tray and move the plain tile to the printing module.