Patent ID: 6584895
Filing Date: 2003-07-01
Classification: B41F

Abstract:
Apparatus for printing on dimensionally stable individual articles, comprising:a transport means, a plurality of holders for respective articles on the transport means, means for continuously circulating the transport means for transporting the articles carried by a respective holder along a transport path through the apparatus, at least one treatment station operatively associated with the transport path including at least one printing station, at least first and second transfer stations operatively associated with the transport path, one said transfer station being a feed station operable to fit articles to be printed upon to said holders on said transport means and the other transfer station being a removal station operable for removal of printed articles from said holders of the transport means, and means operable during a printing operation to rotate an article about a longitudinal axis thereof in a first direction determined by the printing procedure and the transport direction and after termination of the printing procedure to rotate the article back into its initial position by rotation thereof about said longitudinal axis in a second opposite direction.