Patent ID: 8365658
Filing Date: 2013-02-05
Classification: B21D,B41F,B41M,B44C,B65D

Abstract:
1. A process for manufacturing a decorated vessel by decorating a surface of a vessel performed on a manufacturing line of an outer surface printing process which holds the vessel with a holder, performing an outer surfacing printing process and an embossing process simultaneously or successively by depressing a drum to the surface of the vessel held by the holder, the drum having a blanket barrel and a blanket, the blanket arranged to rotate around an outer perimeter of the blanket barrel in a rotation direction, the blanket having an embossing-blanket having an embossing plate arranged in a perimeter of the blanket barrel, and a printing-blanket arranged at a perimeter of the blanket barrel, rotating the drum such that the embossing plate of the embossing-blanket embosses a design on a first surface the vessel, and the printing-blanket of the blanket transfers a design to a second surface of the vessel, and wherein the holder is a mandrel (