US 12,434,470 B2
Apparatus for printing on cylindrical objects having device to prevent loading of objects onto mandrels
Benzion Landa, Nes Ziona (IL)
Assigned to LANDA LABS (2012) LTD., Rehovot (IL)
Filed by LANDA LABS (2012) LTD., Rehovot (IL)
Filed on Jan. 28, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/424,809.
Application 18/424,809 is a division of application No. 18/053,428, filed on Nov. 8, 2022, granted, now 11,926,144.
Application 18/053,428 is a continuation of application No. 17/199,487, filed on Mar. 12, 2021, granted, now 11,541,652, issued on Jan. 3, 2023.
Application 17/199,487 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/IB2019/057474, filed on Sep. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 1814882 (GB), filed on Sep. 13, 2018; and application No. 1907890 (GB), filed on Jun. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0165944 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. B41F 17/22 (2006.01); B41F 1/16 (2006.01); B41F 13/00 (2006.01); B41F 17/00 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41F 17/22 (2013.01) [B41F 1/16 (2013.01); B41F 13/0008 (2013.01); B41F 17/006 (2013.01); B41J 3/4073 (2013.01); B41J 3/40733 (2020.08); B41J 11/002 (2013.01); B41J 11/00214 (2021.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for printing on three-dimensional objects, the apparatus including a printing station and a conveyor for transporting objects through the printing station, wherein the printing station includes a movable imaging surface for bearing an ink image and the conveyor comprises mandrels mounted on one of a turret, a chain and a toothed belt, a loading station at which objects are mounted onto the mandrels prior to passage through the printing station and an unloading station for removing objects from the mandrels after passage through the printing station, wherein during continuous passage of the imaging surface through the printing station, printing is periodically inhibited during no-print periods and a device is provided in the loading station, operative during continuous operation of the conveyor, to prevent loading of objects onto mandrels that will pass through the printing station during the no-print periods.