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US 4,010,057 AGranted
Printing apparatus
AssigneeKobayashi & Co., Ltd.
InventorMotoyasu Nakanishi
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Abstract
A printing apparatus wherein a thin film on which a pattern is printed is floated on the surface of liquid and the pattern is transferred onto a surface of an object to be printed with the pattern utilizing the liquid pressure by submerging the object into the liquid while pressing the object onto the thin film.
Claims26
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a printing means for printing a pattern on a surface of a thin film;
- a basin containing a liquid;
- feeding means for feeding said printed thin film with the printed surface face up onto the surface of said liquid so that the thin film floats on the liquid;
- means for submerging at least a part of an object, the surface of which is to be printed with said pattern into said liquid while said object is kept in contact with the upwardly facing pattern-printed surface of said thin film for transferring the pattern onto the surface of the object by the pressure of said liquid;
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- a thin film removing means for removing said thin film from the surface of said object on which said pattern is printed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.