Doctor blade carrier intended mainly for a silk-screen printing machine

A doctor blade carrier intended mainly for a silk-screen printing machine, printing machine, or other similar application, and comprising a body (4) whose base (6) is intended to be gripped and moved;

• a vise (5) for removably fixing a doctor blade (3) and having two jaws (9a, 9b) with which are associated clamping means (10), wherein said doctor blade carrier has a first pair of projecting fastening reliefs (13a, 13b) arranged facing each other and located at the ends of two branches (11a, 11b) extending the jaws (9a, 9b) having the shape of a quarter cylinder;
• a second pair of a plurality of hollow fastening reliefs (14a, 14b) arranged facing each other and located on support means (8) fixed to the base (6), having the shape of two half cylinders in extension, the spacing between two reliefs (14a, 14b) facing each other varying in a discrete fashion from a maximum value (E1) to a minimum value (E2), the reliefs (13a, 13b, 14a, 14b) being complementary so as to interact in a removable fashion;
• the same clamping means (10, 15) allowing the angular blocking of the vise (5) with respect to the base (6) about the main axis (12) between two limiting positions;
• the base (6) being intended to be fixed to the chassis (7) of the machine.