Screen-printing device with a cleaning unit which is displaceable inside a stencil
AssigneeStork Prints B.V.
InventorWilhelmus J. A. L. M. Claassen
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Abstract
A screen-printing device for printing a substrate, comprising at least one printing station having a removable stencil, a printing-medium feed and a squeegee device, a cleaning unit which can be displaced to and fro in the stencil at least in the longitudinal direction, feed means for feeding cleaning liquid into the stencil, and discharge means for removing printing medium and/or cleaning liquid from the stencil. The discharge means comprise a suction nozzle for sucking printing medium and/or cleaning liquid out from the stencil, which nozzle is arranged on the displaceable cleaning unit and can be moved to and fro in the longitudinal direction inside the stencil together with this unit.
Claims19
Screen-printing device for printing a substrate, comprising:
- at least one printing station having a removable stencil, a printing-medium feed and a squeegee device;
- a cleaning unit which can be displaced to and fro in said stencil at least in a longitudinal direction;
- feed means for feeding cleaning liquid into said stencil;
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- discharge means for removing printing medium and/or cleaning liquid from said stencil;
- wherein said discharge means comprise a suction nozzle for sucking printing medium and/or cleaning liquid out of said stencil, which nozzle is arranged to move to and fro in the longitudinal direction inside said stencil during cleaning operation of said screen-printing device.
Screen-printing device for printing a substrate, comprising:
- at least one printing station having a removable stencil having a predetermined length, a printing-medium feed and a squeegee device;
- a cleaning unit which can be displaced to and fro in said stencil at least in a longitudinal direction substantially over the length of said stencil;
- feed means for feeding cleaning liquid into said stencil;
- and
- discharge means for removing printing medium and/or cleaning liquid from said stencil, said discharge means comprising one or more suction nozzles for sucking printing medium and/or cleaning liquid out of said stencil, said one or more nozzles being movable to and fro in the longitudinal direction inside said stencil substantially over the length of said stencil during cleaning operation of said screen-printing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.