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US 4,708,057 AGranted
Platen assembly for screen printing
AssigneeT. Parker Distributing Company, Inc.
InventorTad C. Hogenson
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AssigneeT. Parker Distributing Company, Inc.
InventorTad C. Hogenson
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A platen for use with a conventional screen printing machine for printing designs or patterns onto garments includes a window or windows formed in the body of the platen. The windows permit backlighting therethrough and through the garment material to enable the positioning and registration of a pattern on one side of a garment (the front side, for instance) to be registered with a pattern to be printed on the opposite side of the garment. The platen windows may be formed of a plexiglass material, either transparent or translucent, sufficient to permit light to pass therethrough. Light sources are positioned directly below the windows of the platen to enhance the backlighting effect for more accurate registration of patterns to be printed on the garment. A closed loop frame is adapted to fit around the periphery of the platen to hold a garment in position on the platen during the screen printing process. In this manner, registration is maintained for the patterns on multiple silk screens to enable multi-colored patterns to be silk screened onto both the front and the back of a garment.
A method of aligning and printing meeting designs on items to be printed, comprising the steps of printing the first design on the item to be printed wherein said printed design extends to an edge of the item where it is to meet with a second design to be printed;
A platen assembly for use in screen printing wrap around designs on tee shirts and the like, wherein designs are to be printed on the front and back of the shirts with the designs meeting at the edges of the shirts below the sleeves, and wherein the platen assembly allows easy alignment of the designs at the edges of the shirt, comprising a printing platen adapted to receive thereon the shirt to be printed and the edges of the shirt where the designs are to meet and having at least the portions thereof which intersect the edges where the designs are to meet when the shirt to be printed is in normal printing position on the platen adapted to transmit light therethrough;
A platen assembly for use in screen printing which allows easy alignment of items for multi-step printing of designs wherein the designs in at least two of the steps are arranged end-to-end and meet at at least one edge of the item to be printed, comprising a printing platen adapted to receive thereon the items to be printed and the at least one edge of such items where the designs are to meet and having at least the portion thereof which intersects the at least one edge where designs are to meet of the item to be printed when in normal position on the platen adapted to transmit light therethrough;
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