US 12,441,099 B2
Printing apparatus
John D. Efner, Westminster, CO (US); Michael Allen Bombulie, Westminster, CO (US); and Charles Cooper, Westminster, CO (US)
Assigned to BALL COPORATION, Westminster, CO (US)
Appl. No. 18/547,432
Filed by Ball Corporation
PCT Filed Feb. 24, 2022, PCT No. PCT/US2022/017663
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 22, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/182848, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/153,116, filed on Feb. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0140084 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. B41F 17/22 (2006.01); B41F 13/004 (2006.01); B41F 13/008 (2006.01); B41F 13/193 (2006.01); B41F 33/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41F 17/22 (2013.01) [B41F 13/0045 (2013.01); B41F 13/008 (2013.01); B41F 13/193 (2013.01); B41F 33/0009 (2013.01); B41P 2213/124 (2013.01); B41P 2213/20 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A decorator for printing onto cylindrical structures comprising:
a plurality of inkers, each inker comprising:
a pair of opposing frame plates;
a printing plate affixed to a printing plate cylinder carried by a rotational printing plate cylinder shaft disposed between the opposing frame plates;
a main shaft supporting the inker on the decorator wherein the pair of opposing frame plates are slidable along a length of the main shaft;
a plurality of lateral adjustment servomotors, each lateral adjustment servomotor acting on a corresponding inker to impart a movement by the inker on the length of the main shaft in a direction parallel to the length of the main shaft.