Decoration device and decoration method
AssigneeRoland Dg Corporation
InventorFumihiro TAKAHASHI
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Abstract
A decoration device decorates a decoration subject by foil transfer and imprinting and includes a holding table holding the decoration subject, at least one grasping tool grasping a foil transfer tool and/or an imprinting tool at the same time or selectively, a conveyor moving one of the holding table and the at least one grasping tool with respect to the other, and a controller driving the at least one grasping tool and the conveyor. The controller defines or includes a foil transfer controller executing foil transfer control and an imprinting controller executing imprinting control before and/or after the foil transfer control by the foil transfer controller.
Claims10
A decoration device for decorating a decoration subject by foil transfer and imprinting, the decoration device comprising:
- a holding table holding the decoration subject;
- at least one grasping tool grasping a foil transfer tool and/or an imprinting tool simultaneously or selectively;
- a conveyor moving one of the holding table and the at least one grasping tool with respect to the other of the holding table and the at least one grasping tool;
- and
- a controller communicably connected with the at least one grasping tool and the conveyor and configured or programmed to drive the at least one grasping tool and the conveyor;
- wherein
- the controller is configured or programmed to include:
- a foil transfer controller configured or programmed to move the grasping tool grasping the foil transfer tool and the holding table with respect to each other by use of the conveyor to execute foil transfer control to perform foil transfer onto the decoration subject;
- and
- an imprinting controller configured or programmed to move the grasping tool grasping the imprinting tool and the holding table with respect to each other by use of the conveyor to execute imprinting control to perform imprinting onto the decoration subject;
- and
- the imprinting controller is configured or programmed to execute the imprinting control at least either before the foil transfer control by the foil transfer controller or after the foil transfer control by the foil transfer controller.
A decoration method for decorating a decoration subject, the method comprising:
- a foil transfer step of performing foil transfer to the decoration subject;
- and
- an imprinting step of performing imprinting on the decoration subject before or after the foil transfer step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.