Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Printing pads and print pad machines
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Application No.: US16878174Application Date: 2020-05-19
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Publication No.: US11485130B2Publication Date: 2022-11-01
- Inventor: James Cheng
- Applicant: Printex Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Poway
- Assignee: Printex Inc.
- Current Assignee: Printex Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Poway
- Agency: Roach Brown McCarthy & Gruber, P.C.
- Agent Kevin D. McCarthy
- Main IPC: B41F17/00
- IPC: B41F17/00 ; B41M1/40

Abstract:
A printing pad machine that can print a 360 degree image on a cylindrical object. That objective is achieved by modifying a conventional printing pad machine having a support member—interconnected to an overhead gantry—and an adjustable and moveable actuator system and power source. The modifications include using a single angled print pad having a contact wall having a first height, a lower wall having a second height that is less than the first height, an angled surface interconnecting the contact wall's distal end and the lower wall's distal end, and a base wall (a) interconnecting the contact wall's proximal end and the lower wall's proximal end and (b) connectable to a base. Another modification includes a flexion-extension hinge positioned between (a) the support member and the base or (b) the support member and the overhead gantry and controlled by the adjustable and moveable actuator system and power source. That objective can be accomplished with the conventional printing pad machine using the single angled print pad. Both objectives can also be accomplished by adding ridges to the single angled print pad.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210362488A1 PRINTING PADS AND PRINT PAD MACHINES Public/Granted day:2021-11-25
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