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US 2022/0111631 A1Published application
Device for printing cans, a process for printing cans, a printed can and a transfer blanket
AssigneeBall Beverage Can South America S.A.
InventorsJoao Vilas Boas, Jeffrey Lewis
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Abstract
A device for imprinting cans comprises a plurality of ink cartridges that supply ink to a plurality of printing plates; the printing plates communicate with transfer blankets fixed to a drum, the transfer blankets move ink from the printing plates and apply it to cans; each transfer blanket includes a different art in low relief which produces an image on cans in addition to the image produced by printing plates; the device is preferably a rotary dry offset printer.
Claims14
A method of producing a plurality of beverage cans on a beverage can imprinting device, the method comprising the steps:
- applying ink to a first printing plate surface in a first ink pattern to a first printing plate;
- transferring the first ink pattern to a first transfer blanket surface of a first transfer blanket, wherein the first transfer blanket surface has a first finished art in low relief recessed thereon;
- transferring the first ink pattern to a first beverage can, wherein the first beverage can exhibits a first decoration comprising a first shape corresponding to the first ink pattern and a first transfer blanket shape corresponding to the first finished art;
- applying ink to the first printing plate surface in the first ink pattern to a first printing plate;
- transferring the first ink pattern to a second transfer blanket surface of a second transfer blanket, wherein the second transfer blanket surface has a second finished art in low relief recessed thereon;
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- transferring the first ink pattern to a second beverage can, wherein the second beverage can exhibits a second decoration comprising the first shape corresponding to the first ink pattern and a second transfer blanket shape corresponding to the second finished art.
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