Patent ID: 6234742
Filing Date: 2001-05-22
Classification: B41F,B41P,B65H,G11B

Abstract:
Apparatus for decorating a flat self-supporting article comprisingan article holding means with a receiving means for an article,a turning means including first and second pivoting means, each of which comprises a suction means, the first pivoting means including a bar portion adapted to co-operate with the second pivoting means and with an opening in the article for alignment of the article, andmeans mounting the pivoting means movably between a first position operatively associated with a receiving means for the article and an intermediate position and pivotably for an article carried by the suction means of the respective pivoting means to be successively pivoted by the first and second pivoting means relative to the plane in which the article extends in a receiving means, the first and second pivoting means being arranged in mutually opposite relationship in the intermediate position in such a way that the article is transferred from the first pivoting means to the second pivoting means by suitable control of the suction means.