Patent ID: 6725769
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: B41F,H05K

Abstract:
An application device for use in a stencil printing machine, which includes a carriage for executing reciprocable strokes, to apply a fluid material to a surface of a stencil including a plurality of apertures and through the apertures onto a substrate disposed therebeneath, the device comprising:a main body slideably disposed along the surface of the stencil and including a main flow passage, and at least one outlet aperture in a lowermost surface thereof through which fluid material is in use delivered, the at least one outlet aperture being in fluid communication with the main flow passage and in use in sealing contact with the stencil; at least one fluid material reservoir in fluid communication with the main flow passage; and displacement means operable, during each stroke of the stencil printing machine, to displace an amount of fluid material from the at least one fluid material reservoir through the main flow passage which is greater than that delivered through the at least one outlet aperture.