Patent Document ID: 9713920
Application ID: 14422732
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A screen printing method for printing on an object ( 12 ) after production of the object by a production machine, the method comprising: providing the object produced by the production machine directly to a printing machine ( 10 ), the object having a region ( 13 ) configured to receive a print image, the print image being comprised of at least two partial print images, the region ( 13 ) being comprised of at least two portions ( 13 a , 13 b ) displaced relative to each other in a peripheral direction of the object; transporting the object ( 12 ) by a transport element ( 22 ) continuously through at least two printing stations ( 30 ) of the printing machine ( 10 ), each printing station ( 30 ) comprising: a printing screen ( 34 ) having a stencil ( 38 ) corresponding to at least one individual print ( 53 ) to be produced, at least one squeegee ( 46 ) which is moveable in a transport direction ( 28 ) along the stencil during a printing operation synchronously with the respective object to be decorated in the at least two printing stations ( 30 ), and holders ( 24 , 26 ) which respectively carry the objects rotatably about their longitudinal axes ( 50 ), the holders being mounted to the transport element ( 22 ) and being arranged at a spacing ( 44 ) from each other in the transport direction ( 28 ), the spacing being smaller than a spacing that would be required for peripheral printing around 360° on the object in one working operation; and printing one of the at least two partial print images upon a respective one of each of the at least two portions ( 13 a , 13 b ) separately during a transport by rolling the objects against the printing screen ( 34 ), the speed of the transport element ( 22 ) being predetermined by an output of the production machine.