Patent ID: 8033216

Claim:
A cartridge device applied to production lines for automatic screen printing comprising a frame, a plurality of cartridges, two cartridge lifting members, two cartridge convey members, two printed substrate delivery members and two shift mechanisms, wherein: the frame is a metal rack; each one of the plurality of cartridges having an inner box and an outer box while a long slot corresponding to an opening of the inner box is disposed on a front side of the outer box; the two cartridge lifting members are arranged in parallel horizontally on the frame and each cartridge lifting member having a sliding rail post and a cartridge transmission mechanism slidingly arranged on a guide rail of the sliding rail post so that the cartridge is set on and moves along with the cartridge transmission mechanism; the two cartridge convey members corresponding to one of the cartridges are arranged at intervals vertically on the frame at the rear side of the two cartridge lifting members for delivering the cartridge out of each one of the two cartridge lifting members; the two printed substrate delivery members are arranged in front of the two cartridge lifting members for delivering articles to be printed to operation area of printing or storage of the production line; the two shift mechanisms arranged on the frame, corresponding to one of the cartridges and one of the printed substrate delivery members take out or put in the articles to be printed from one of the cartridges through the long slot of the outer box and deliver the articles to be printed between one of the cartridges and one of the printed substrate delivery members; wherein by one of the shift mechanisms, the articles to be printed on a work line of the production line are moved from one of the printed substrate delivery members to one of the cartridges for material collection and storage or from one of the cartridges to one of the printed substrate delivery members for material feeding so that the two work lines of the production line perform automatic material feeding, collection and storage simultaneously or respectively.