Cap printing apparatus
OwnerFerris A. Maloofinventor
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Abstract
A cap painting apparatus for printing on the curved surfaces of baseball caps and like pre-formed caps comprises a curved hat platform for supporting the cap with a panel of the cap positioned on a curved printing area of the platform. A clamping device holds the cap stretched tightly in place and a curved screen frame including a printing screen curved to conform to the curvature of the hat platform printing area fits over the hat platform with the screen in alignment with the platform printing area for contacting the convex surface of the baseball cap on the platform. A support structure adjustably supports the hat platform and the screen frame relative to one another.
Claims6
Apparatus for silk screen printing on curved flexible panels of baseball caps and like objects, said apparatus comprising;
- a curved printing platform for supporting a panel of a cap thereon, said platform defining a predetermined curvature;
- cap shaping means associated with said platform for causing a flexible panel of a cap supported by said platform to take a curvature conforming to said predetermined curvature of said platform;
- a flexible silk screening printing screen;
- means for transferring ink through said printing screen to a panel supported on said printing platform;
- means for maintaining said printing platform and said printing screen stationary relative to one another in a print position during the transfer of ink through said printing screen to a panel on said printing platform;
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- screen shaping means for causing said silk screening printing screen to take a curved configuration defining a curvature which cooperates with said predetermined curvature of said platform to enhance the transfer of ink to the panel, whereby the printing screen and the panel which is to be printed are formed into cooperating curved configurations by which the transfer of ink to the panel can be effected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.