Screen printing apparatus
OwnerIan Patrick Mcevoy, John Bruce Knowlesinventors
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Abstract
A screen printing apparatus for printing a predeterminable pattern of deposits of printing material onto a workpiece, the screen printing apparatus comprising: at least one print module comprising, as a unitary assembly, a printing screen, a print head movably disposed above the printing screen and a drive mechanism for moving the print head with respect to the printing screen; and a positioning unit for positioning the print module with respect to the workpiece.
Claims27
A print module for a screen printing apparatus, the print module comprising, as a detachable unitary assembly, a printing screen, a print head movable across the printing screen, and a drive mechanism for moving the print head with respect to the printing screen.
The apparatus of any of clams 10 to 12, wherein the positioning unit is configured to rotate the print module about the X axis.
A method of printing a predeterminable pattern of deposits of printing material onto a workpiece, the method comprising the steps of:
- selecting a first print module;
- printing deposits of printing material onto a workpiece using the first-selected print module;
- returning the first-selected print module;
- selecting a second print module;
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- printing deposits of printing material onto the workpiece using the second-selected print module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.