Patent ID: 6962110

Claim:
Apparatus for decorating stiff objects comprising an arcuate conveyor path, holders for carrying respective objects and movable along the conveyor path for displacing the objects therealong, means for conveying the holders along the conveyor path, a plurality of treatment stations for treating said objects disposed along the conveyor path, said treatment stations including at least one printing station for decorating the objects and at least one drying station arranged downstream of the printing station in the direction of conveying movement of the objects for drying printing ink applied to the objects, wherein the at least one drying station is at a level at a spacing below the level at which the at least one printing station is disposed, and motion means for moving the holders downwardly and upwardly between a treatment procedure in a printing station and a treatment procedure in the respectively following drying station and between a treatment procedure in a drying station and a treatment procedure in the respectively following printing station, wherein the objects are printed upon from above and dried from below.