B - Operations – Transporting – 41 – M
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
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M
B41M 1/40 (2006.01) B41F 15/08 (2006.01) B41M 1/30 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2262058
A balloon printing apparatus for printing an image on the outer surface of a number of inflatable elastic balloons of the type defining a main body and a neck opening allowing access into said main body, said apparatus comprising : a conveyor device movable in a closed path in an intermittent manner; a plurality of nozzles spacedly carried by said conveyor device, insertable into a balloon neck opening and for inflating a balloon; as many balloon supporting frames as air nozzles, carried by said conveyor device, each nozzles adjacent to a corresponding frame, each frame sized to partly surround and support the main body of an inflated balloon installed on the adjacent nozzle with a portion of said inflated balloon protruding from said frame, said body remaining in a stable position relative to said conveyor device while said inflated balloon is transported by said nozzle and frame through said closed path; a number of stations located along said conveyor device and comprising a balloon installing station for successively installing the balloons on said nozzles, at least one balloon inflating station wherein said nozzles inflate said balloons which fit inside their respective frames and at least one balloon printing station in which a printing plate moves towards a frame stopped at said station and apply ink onto the protruding portion of the inflated balloon supported by said stopped frame.
Arsenault Germain
Prevost Andre
Global Impression Inc.
Lesperance & Martineau
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