Patent ID: 7134389

Claim:
A screen printing apparatus wherein a long film-like body is supplied continuously from a supply apparatus to a take-up apparatus on a substantially straight predetermined printing path, wherein the long film-like body is taken up continuously by said take-up apparatus, and wherein a printing material is applied through a screen mask to said long film-like body between said supply apparatus and said take-up apparatus, the screen printing apparatus comprising: a mask support body including a pair of annular bodies that have the same outer diameters and are spaced axially away from each other in parallel; a plurality of bearing rollers disposed on the outer peripheries of said annular bodies and spaced away from each other at a given distance on the outer peripheries, the bearing rollers supporting said mask support body; a cylindrical screen mask mounted on the outer peripheries of said annular bodies; a bed plate roll opposed to said cylindrical screen mask and rotatably supported on a support table so that said long film-like body can move in a direction tangential to the outer periphery of said screen mask on the printing path as said long film-like body contacts with a part of the outer periphery of said cylindrical screen mask, said bed plate roll being displaceable in a straight moving direction of said long film-like body and in a direction perpendicular to said straight moving direction; a squeegee apparatus disposed inside said cylindrical screen mask to oppose said bed plate roll; a printing material supplying apparatus disposed inside said cylindrical screen mask to supply said printing material near to said squeegee; and rotary means for rotating said mask support body in accordance with a moving speed of said long film-like body.