Patent GB-694177-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the decoration of glassware, ceramic ware or other ware
Inventor: ALDRIDGE KENNETH GODFREY
IPC: B28B11/00
Filed: 1950-04-21
Abstract: 694,177. Transferring designs. JOHNSON, MATTHEY & CO., Ltd. March 5, 1951 [April 21, 1950], No. 9828/50. Classes 100(i) and 100(ii) Transfers are applied to glass, ceramic &c. ware such as milk or beer bottles by successively feeding them to the periphery of a rotating drum which conveys them first to an automatic transfer-backing removing mechanism, and then to a releasable ware-supporting means where they are automatically transferred to the ware. In the machine shown in Fig. 1 transfers (of the kind comprising a design on a transparent collodion, cellulose acetate &c. film carried by the gummed side of a paper backing, are successively fed by a mechanism C from the base of a pile in a magazine D (see below), to the resilient rubber surface, previously wetted from a water bath 116, of an intermittently anti-clockwise rotated drum 10 which presents them in turn to a spring-loaded less resilient rubber squeegee roller 115, to the spring-loaded rollers 119 of a transfer-wetting bath 15 fed through a pipe 120, to a backing removing mechanism B, and to the ware 43. The backing removing mechanism B comprises a roller 53 freely rotatable in a carriage 52, Fig. 6, slidable on guides 50 fixed to a frame 48 pivoted on a fixed rod 46; a spring 55a acting through a rod 55 biases the carriage to the position shown, and a counter-weight 49 reduces the pressure of the roller on the drum. During each drum dwell, a cam on a driving shaft 17, acting through a bell-crank lever 64, Fig. 1, adjustable link 63. lever 61 and cable 57, moves the carriage 52 and roller 53 axially of the latter against the spring 55a to strip the backing from the transfer; in the retracted position of the roller 53 the stripped backing drops off and the frame 48 with the carriage and roller is raised by another cam on the shaft 17 (acting through a lever-and-link train 74, 73, 71, 70) so that as the carriage 52 returns to the Fig. 6 position the roller 53 is held away from the drum surface. A crank disc 152 to drive the drum, and a number of cams connected by levers to the other components, are mounted on the main shaft 17; the cam-and-lever mechanisms may be replaced by fluid-pressure operated means. The shaft 17 is driven by an electric motor 16 through a belt 159, worm gearing 170, 171, Fig. 10, and a friction coupling: the worm gearing is initially disengaged and a pin 177 locks a slotted disc 173 secured to the shaft 17, but when an article 43, which may be manually or automatically fed and withdrawn, is in position, to receive a transfer it presses against a disc 184, Fig. 1, which through a bell crank lever, a link 178, Fig. 10, and an arm 176 withdraws the pin 177 and through a spring 187, link 186 and housing 162 pivoted in a yoke 168 engages the worm gearing; after removal of the ware this engagement is maintained by the periphery of the disc 173 until the pin 177 drops into the slot. The drum 10 may be driven by Geneva gear, or as shown by a rod 151 and an oscillating arm 150, free on the drum shaft, carrying a pawl 149 engaging a ratchet wheel 147, at each dwell the drum is locked by engagement of one of slots 156 therein by a pin 155 carried by a bell-crank lever 153, 154 cam-operated from the shaft 17. The ware is supported by a roller 42 mounted on adjustable arms, and during rotation of the drum is held down by compressed fibre-covered wheels 30 on arms 28 lowered by a cam on the shaft 17. Feeding sheets.-The transfers may be stored in one of a number of exchangeable fixed-size magazines or, as shown, in an adjustable magazine D comprising L-shaped strips 121-124, Figs. 1 and 9, connected by adjustable "scissors" 134 locked by screws 144; strip 122 is fixed; strips 123, 124 slide on rods 125, 126 (on which the pile of transfers 145 rests, Fig. 8) extending from strips 121, 122 to sleeves 129, 130; strip 121 and sleeve 129 are adjustably mounted in slots 121c, 133. A suction pad 95, on a tube 94 extending from a sleeve on a vertically movable boss having a suction connection 99a, is raised, against a spring 87, by a cam 92 on the shaft 17 and then lowered to withdraw the lowest transfer from the pile 145; it is then tilted, against a spring 94a, by another cam 108 acting through a bell-crank lever 106, 103 and a projection 101 on a plate 99 adjustably secured to the sleeve, to feed the adhering transfer between spring-mounted rollers 111, 112 to the drums 10.