Glass printing machine with continuous transport system for the glass
AssigneeTecglass Sl
InventorsJuan Javier Fernández Vázquez, José Manuel Barros López
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Abstract
Provided herein is a glass printing machine that comprises a loading station in which the glass to be printed is received, then a viewing or mechanical positioning system followed by a printing system, and finally an unloading station, with carriages running between an upper level along the above elements and returning to the starting point via a lower level. In some embodiments, the machine provided herein has a precision of less than 0.1 mm and allows the handling of large loads.
Claims8
A glass printing machine with continuous glass transport, wherein the machine comprises:
- a loading station receiving the glass panes to be printed
- a viewing means or a mechanical positioning system downstream of a charging station;
- and
- a printing bridge preferably arranged downstream of the viewing means or mechanical positioning system,
- an unloading station allowing the unloading of the printed glass panes
- wherein the machine comprises an upper level arranged above a lower level, with a series of carriages running continuously driven by linear motors travelling in one direction on the upper level and in the opposite direction on the lower level;
- to achieve this change of direction, a first vertical drive in the loading station raises the carriages from the lower level to the upper level and a second vertical drive in the unloading station lowers the carriages from the upper level to the lower level, and
- wherein each carriage is slotted, to be integrated and coupled with a loading or unloading belt system to transfer the glass smoothly.
A glass printing machine with continuous glass transport, wherein the machine comprises:
- a loading station receiving the glass panes to be printed
- a viewing means or a mechanical positioning system downstream of a charging station;
- and
- a printing bridge preferably arranged downstream of the viewing means or mechanical positioning system,
- an unloading station allowing the unloading of the printed glass panes
- wherein
- the machine comprises an upper level arranged above a lower level, with a series of carriages running continuously driven by linear motors travelling in one direction on the upper level and in the opposite direction on the lower level;
- to achieve this change of direction, a first vertical drive in the loading station raises the carriages from the lower level to the upper level and a second vertical drive in the unloading station lowers the carriages from the upper level to the lower level;
- each carriage is slotted, to be integrated and coupled with a loading or unloading belt system to transfer the glass smoothly;
- the time of printing the carriages are transported with a drive that has an optical linear encoder with a resolution of less than 4 microns;
- and,
- on the lower level there is a cleaning station consisting of several rollers, such when each carriage passes through said cleaning station it is subjected to a cleaning process to remove any traces of paint that may have fallen on the carriage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.