Installation and a method for decorating profile strips
AssigneeGrosfillex Sarl
InventorMichel Coudert
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Abstract
An installation for decorating profiled strips comprises a conveyor suitable for transporting a plurality of strips, a separation station for separating the strips before they come onto the conveyor, and serving to place the strips in respective target positions in which they are spaced apart and parallel to the conveyor, a print station in which ink is applied to the surfaces of the strips, and a guide station disposed upstream from the print station and having spacer guides for the strips to constrain them to occupy their target positions before entering the print station. The method of decoration includes a step of separating the strips and of placing them in respective target positions, and a step of guiding the strips before printing on them.
Claims12
An installation for decorating profiled strips, the installation comprising a conveyor suitable for transporting a plurality of strips and a print station having at least one print unit suitable for applying ink to the surfaces of the strips, the installation including:
- a strip-separation station adjacent to the conveyor and disposed upstream therefrom, said separation station having both means for holding a plurality of strips in respective target positions, in which the strips are spaced apart, parallel, and disposed in such a manner that their longitudinal directions are parallel to the direction of advance of the conveyor, and means for bringing said strips occupying their target positions to the conveyor;
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- at least one guide station disposed upstream from the print station on the path of the strips driven by the conveyor, said guide station comprising spacer guides suitable for co-operating with the strips in the vicinity of the longitudinal edges thereof, so that said strips slide between said space guides and are constrained to occupy their target positions prior to entering the print station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.