Remote registration feedback pressure sensor assembly for improved print quality
AssigneeStolle Machinery Company, LLC
InventorBRYON LEE KAJFOSZ
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Abstract
A can decorator includes a blanket wheel having a plurality of blankets disposed on an outer circumference, a plate cylinder for an inker station, the plate cylinder structured to have rotational contact with the blanket wheel, a mandrel structured to hold a can and have rotational contact with the blanket wheel, and a pressure sensor structured to sense pressure between the plate cylinder and the blanket wheel or between the mandrel and the blanket wheel.
Claims16
A can decorator comprising:
- a blanket wheel having a plurality of blankets disposed on an outer circumference;
- a plate cylinder for an inker station, the plate cylinder structured to have rotational contact with the blanket wheel;
- a mandrel structured to hold a can and have rotational contact with the blanket wheel;
- and
- a pressure sensor structured to sense pressure between the plate cylinder and the blanket wheel or between the mandrel and the blanket wheel,
- wherein the pressure sensor is disposed on the mandrel, the plate cylinder or at least one blanket of the blanket wheel.
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A method of adjusting pressure in a can decorator having a blanket wheel having a plurality of blankets disposed on an outer circumference, a plate cylinder for an inker station, the plate cylinder structured to have rotational contact with the blanket wheel, and a mandrel structured to hold a can and have rotational contact with the blanket wheel, the method comprising:
- providing a pressure sensor structured to sense pressure between the plate cylinder and the blanket wheel or between the mandrel and the blanket wheel, wherein the pressure sensor is disposed on the mandrel, the plate cylinder or at least one blanket of the blanket wheel;
- sensing a first pressure between the plate cylinder and the blanket wheel or between the mandrel and the blanket wheel;
- determining a target pressure;
- and
- adjusting a position of at least one of the plate cylinder, the blanket wheel, and the mandrel such that the first pressure is adjusted to the target pressure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.