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US 5,199,353 AGranted
Printing machine pallet assembly
AssigneeM&R Printing Equipment, Inc.
InventorAleksander Szyszko
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Abstract
A pallet assembly for a printing machine used to print designs on garments such as tee shirts. The pallet assembly generally forms the outline of a human torso, arms and neck. The assembly is comprised of a pair of arm members rotatably attached to a plate.
Claims12
In combination:
- printing means for applying inked indicia to a garment;
- and a pallet assembly connected to said printing means for supporting said garment during the inking thereof, said pallet assembly including a first plate around which the body of a garment is to be disposed to receive on a side thereof ink for forming a pattern, said plate having a pair of outside surfaces, a free end, a fixed end and a periphery, and means for presenting a flat garment body surface to the ink applying means of said printing means comprising a pair of arm members around which the sleeves of said garment are to be disposed to stretch the body of said garment and thereby flatten the same, said pair of arm members being rotatably attached to said plate, and extending from opposite sides of the periphery of said plate said arms being rotatable toward each other to a position in which they extend from the free end of said plate to facilitate/application of the garment around said plate and arm members and away from each other so that the arm members project in opposite directions and extend outwardly from said periphery of said plate, wherein said arm members of said pallet assembly have a thin portion over one of said plate outside surfaces and a thicker portion opposite to said periphery.
A pallet assembly for a printing machine that prints on garments, the pallet assembly comprising:
- a plate having a pair of outside surfaces, a free end, a fixed end and a periphery;
- and,
- a pair of arm members rotatably attached to said plate and extending outwardly from said periphery of said plate, each of said arm members being rotatably attached to said plate by a pin and bushing assembly, and wherein said plate and arm embers have openings therein, said pins have first and second ends and a middle portion, said openings in said plate are smaller in diameter than said pin, said openings in said arm members are larger in diameter than said pin, said first end of said pin is attached to said plate by pressure fitting said first end into said openings in said plate, and said middle portion of said pin is surrounded by said bushing, said bushing spacing said arm member from said pin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.