Patent DE-102006011619-A1 (DE)
Title: Procedure for decoration of tubular hose material by using a device, comprises continuously or batch-wise supplying of tubular hose material after the production by extruding or laminating, into a decoration station
IPC: B29C63/02
Filed: 2006-03-14
Abstract: The procedure for decoration of tubular hose material by using a device, in which the tubular hose material is led after being produced (e.g. by extruding or laminating) continuously or batch-wise, possibly also with buffering, into a decoration station, in which the decoration of the tube material is fixed on the continuous tubular hose material continuously or batch-wise and parallel to the direction of transportation, by foil directly or indirectly or by other suitable materials by adhesive bonding, foil welding, pressing, impregnation or other suitable joining processes. The procedure for decoration of tubular hose material by using a device, in which the tubular hose material is led after being produced (e.g. by extruding or laminating) continuously or batch-wise, possibly also with buffering, into a decoration station, in which the decoration of the tube material is fixed on the continuous tubular hose material continuously or batch-wise and parallel to the direction of transportation, by foil directly or indirectly or by other suitable materials by adhesive bonding, foil welding, pressing, impregnation or other suitable joining processes. The tube material including the applied foil and/or applied decoration materials is cut to desired length or buffered by means of well-known methods. The continuous foils come from thermo-shrinking foil supply reels, laminate foil supply reels, and from single- or multi-layered functional foil supply reels. The foils are fixed on the tubular hose material and render with special characteristics, e.g. sealability, light-proofing, metallization, isolation, barrier layer and the like. The continuous foils that come from supply reels is/are fixed as segment strips on the tubular hose material and thus form an overall design of the complete decoration pattern, where the individual foil segment strips are fixed with a combination of impact pressure application, intermediate spacing and overlapping. The continuous foils are composed of special effect foils for rendering graphic-, optical-, haptic-, fragrance-, taste- and sound effects, bonding capabilities, e.g. hook and loop (velcro), adhesive, magnetic foils, and rendering identification- and information characteristics. The continuous foils are composed of transfer material, which serves as a base for the decoration material and transfers it on to the tube material. The tubular hose material or the applied foil is printed continuously or batch-wise with decoration material, e.g. by means of ink jet printing, other digital printing processes, screen printing, tampo-printing, offset printing, flexo-printing, low pressure printing or similar procedures, coated continuously or batch-wise with decoration material, e.g. by transfer of dyes, lacquers or similar materials on the tubular hose material, sprayed continuously or batch-wise with the decoration material, labeled continuously or batch-wise e.g. subsequent processing with dyes, which are visible only under UV-light, and provided continuously or batch-wise with impregnations. The tubular hose material is led continuously or batch-wise over a fixed or an alternating transfer piston rod, which is subjected in an outwardly-opened cavity to positive pressure-air, in order to optimize the decoration of the labile exterior surface of the tube material and/or to accomplish a calibration of the hose dimensions.