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US 2006/0075908 A1Published application
Apparatus for printing objects of the tablet type, in particular medical tablets and process therefor
OwnerLaurent Volderinventor
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Printing apparatus for printing relatively small light objects having a certain fragility and/or porosity, in particular of the tablet type, more particularly medical tablets (6), comprising a movable print head (25), a printing liquid tank (30), and a conveyor unit (32) supplying and discharging the objects to be printed (6) to, respectively from the print head (25), remarkable in that the print head (25) is arranged in a linear pad printing system a closed ink system with wherein said printing liquid tank or system (30) is arranged, wherein said conveyor unit (32) is comprised of a rotating table (14, 17) having predetermined locations, (24; respectively 24′, 24″) which are intended for receiving temporarily the objects (6) during the printing stage and process therefor.
Printing apparatus for printing relatively small, light objects including medical tablets (6), having a certain brittleness and/or porosity comprising a movable print head (25), a printing liquid tank (30), and a conveyor unit (32) supplying and discharging the objects to be printed (6) to, respectively from the print head (25), wherein the print head (25) is arranged in a linear pad printing system with a closed ink system wherein said printing liquid tank (30) being arranged to slide over a cliché (33) in substantially only a horizontal motion with said conveyor unit (32) including a rotating table (14, 17) having predetermined locations (24;
Process for printing objects, in particular medical tablets, comprising a pad printing head (31) that starts from the starting position (A), wherefrom the pad printing head (31) is moved downwardly to take over a quantity of printing liquid, in particular ink, from a plate (33) in an ink take-over position (B), after which the pad printing head (31) loaded with ink is moved upwardly again into position (A), after which the pad printing head (31) with the image take-over is moved forwardly until above the object to be printed (6) in segment (17),
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