US3255695A - Method of printing and apparatus therefor - Google Patents

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US3255695A
US3255695A US316584A US31658463A US3255695A US 3255695 A US3255695 A US 3255695A US 316584 A US316584 A US 316584A US 31658463 A US31658463 A US 31658463A US 3255695 A US3255695 A US 3255695A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M1/00—Inking and printing with a printer's forme
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F7/00—Rotary lithographic machines
    • B41F7/02—Rotary lithographic machines for offset printing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M1/00—Inking and printing with a printer's forme
    • B41M1/26—Printing on other surfaces than ordinary paper
    • B41M1/30—Printing on other surfaces than ordinary paper on organic plastics, horn or similar materials
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M5/00—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
    • B41M5/025—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein by transferring ink from the master sheet
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44C—PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; MOSAICS; TARSIA WORK; PAPERHANGING
    • B44C1/00—Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing decorative surface effects
    • B44C1/16—Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing decorative surface effects for applying transfer pictures or the like
    • B44C1/165—Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing decorative surface effects for applying transfer pictures or the like for decalcomanias; sheet material therefor
    • B44C1/17—Dry transfer
    • B44C1/1712—Decalcomanias applied under heat and pressure, e.g. provided with a heat activable adhesive

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  • the printing or decorating of objects is conventionally accomplished by a variety of means, among which are direct printing, the silk screen process, applying transfers, or by conventional offset printing.
  • Each of these processes has one or more shortcomings which limit its effectiveness in high rate of production applications requiring opaque transfers with accurate detail.
  • neither in the processes mentioned nor in any other similar processes is it feasible to change the printed design or type after each impression, as in the case of articles printed with consecutive number, except at prohibitive cost in changing screens or transfers or with unsatisfactory results in dry offset printing because of blurring of the impression due to build-up of traces of ink retained on the offset surface after each impression.
  • ink is squeezed through a stencil by a squeegee blade onto the object being printed.
  • the process allows the laying down of heavy layers of ink of reasonably good definition, but it is generally possible to screen only one color at a time and the production rate is slow because of the necessity of passing the squeegee over the stencil area in order to obtain the image transfer.
  • the heavy thick layer produced requires a relatively long drying time.
  • the method of applied transfer comprises applying a pre-printed multi-color design which gives good coverage and good definition, but it is an expensive practice requiring the pre-printing of the design on a removable backing in another location (which involves inventory and spoilage problems because of packing, storage, and deterioration) and because of the relatively low production rate resulting from the necessity of peeling the transfer from its backing and applying it to the piece being printed or decorated, or from the use of special solvents or adhesives to bond the transfer to the desired surface.
  • Another object of this invention is to provide immediately substantially dry multicolor image transfers of high quality, yet to do so with a process which differs from the decalcomania type transfer method with its attendant inventory deterioration, and low production drawbacks.
  • Still another object of this invention is to provide a process and apparatus for producing, at the high speed of conventional offset printing, multicolor image transfers that are immediately substantially dry, yet of a density not heretofore obtainable by conventional offset methods.
  • Yet another object of the invention is to provide a process and apparatus which retains the multicolor advantages of the dry offset principle in printing on various articles, but provides additional versatility by enabling the characters or decorations printed to be changed after each image transfer is made, as is required, for example, in consecutively numbering articles being printed with an automatic indexing printing head, without interrupting the cyclic operation of the process to remove residual deposits of ink from the offset pad.
  • a still further object of this invention is to provide generally a film forming and transfer method and apparatus which can rapidly produce and transfer intact a continuous or interrupted integral film of prescribed material with a controlled thickness to selected objects in a substantially dry condition suitable for immediate subsequent operations, if desired.
  • a yet further object of this invention is to provide a process for separating and removing a thin, partially dry film from its carrying support without the necessity or use of any release agents.
  • FIGURE 1 shows a schematic View of a preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the herein invention, depicting an offset pad with a heating element contained therein;
  • FIGURE 2 depicts an enlarged cross-sectional view of an ink film carried by the offset pad.
  • the ink must necessarily be of film forming composition and be capable of wetting the offset pad or other carrying surface when initially applied thereon in its fluent state.
  • the film carrying surface or offset pad should, in relation to the article being printed, exhibit a relatively non-adhesive (i.e. highly adhesive) characteristic for the particular converted film of ink or other film material carried thereon.
  • the film receptor surface or article to be printed on should exhibit characteristics opposite to those of the carrying surface, i.e. at time of image transfer it should be highly adhesive to the film being transferred to it.
  • the film receptor surface should exhibit a greater adhesive attraction for the film than does the film carrying surface.
  • Film forming compositions are well known in the art and no particular explanation of this parameter is deemed necessary.
  • the bonding energy between the converted ink film and the carrying pad must be less than the bonding energy between that ink film and the article to be printed. Therefore, in order that these conditions may exist, the residual surface free energy of the carrying pad material must not exceed the residual free surface energy of the article to be printed, and as a (practical matter it is preferable that the residual free surface energy of the carrying pad be less than that of the article to be printed.
  • FIGURE 1 which comprises a drum 10 mounted on shaft 12 for rotation about its axis.
  • a chain 14 and sprocket 16 are provided for rotating the drum in a counter-clockwise direction at the desired rate of speed from any suitable source of power (not shown).
  • an offset surface or pad 18 of material displaying the following characteristics: (a) a totally polymerized material exhibiting a relatively non-adhesive characteristic for the particular ink or fluid film to be employed thereon (i.e. a material having a residual surface free energy which is less than that of the ink film material) and yet be wetted thereby: (b) remains operative over a wide temperature range as dictated by the ink selected; and (c) should preferably be elastomeric in nature.
  • a totally polymerized material exhibiting a relatively non-adhesive characteristic for the particular ink or fluid film to be employed thereon (i.e. a material having a residual surface free energy which is less than that of the ink film material) and yet be wetted thereby: (b) remains operative over a wide temperature range as dictated by the ink selected; and (c) should preferably be elastomeric in nature.
  • pad 18 may consist of, but is not limited to, any one of the following materials which exhibit these characteristics in relation to the ink formulations desired to :be used; chloroprene; polyvinyl chloride; carboxy methyl cellulose; polytetrafluoroethylene; dimethyl siloxane; polyethylenepropylene; polyester; polyurethane (isocyanate polymer); polyamide; poly-isobutylene; butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer; and polyvinyl alcohol.
  • a thermostatically controlled electrical heater 20 Positioned adjacent offset sur-face 18 withinthe drum is a thermostatically controlled electrical heater 20 conventionally adapted to maintain the temperature of the offset surface 18 at any desired value within the range from room temperature to 400 F. throughout the rotation of the drum 10.
  • inking mechanisms 22, 24, 26, mounted adjacent the periphery of the drum are three separate and independent inking mechanisms 22, 24, 26, each of which comprises an ink reservoir 30, 32, 34, adapted to contain a supply of fiuent film-forming printing ink at room temperature (approximately 60 to F.), each ink being a different color, if desired.
  • An inkapplying roll 36, 38, 40 is included in each of the respective inking mechanisms, each roll carrying, in the embodiment shown, a conventional printing plate having raised type or characters of the desired shape and configuration to which ink is applied from the respective reservoir by means of inking rolls 42, 44, 46, in the usual manner.
  • the fluent layers of ink carried by the respective printing plates are applied successively to offset surface 18 as the drum is rotated to bring the offset surface into contact with the successive printing plates.
  • Each inking mechanism 22, 24, 26, is spaced from the others about the periphery of drum 10 providing a time lag in successive applications of fluent ink from each of the respective mechanisms. Such a time lag permits some degree of change of phase (i.e. film formation) in the applied ink layer before deposition of the next successive ink layer.
  • the final ink-applying mechanism 22, which is the last one from which an ink layer is applied to offset surface 13 as the drum is rotated counter-clockwise, is spaced about the periphery of the drum a predetermined distance from the transfer station 48 at which the ink impression is applied by the offset surface 18 to the surface to be printed.
  • the ensuing film formation reaches a transitory condition whereby two condition-s co-exist, namely 1) the cohesive forces within the ink-film reach a level which exceeds the adhesive force between the ink film and the offset pad sunface, and (2) the adhesive force or bonding energy between the converted ink film and the surf-ace of the article to be printed, when placed in contact therewith, will be of greater magnitude than the adhesion or bonding between the ink film and the offset pad surface.
  • the aforementioned increase in cohesive forces can be effected in various ways: for example, in the case of solvent based ink formulations, air-drying at room temperature for a sufficient time or alternatively heating the ink film on the offset pad for correspondingly shorter periods of time, will evaporate the solvents and produce the required degree of phase change; in the case of rplastisols or organisol type inks, the use of controlled applications of heat to the ink film will produce the desired results by conversion; in other cases either air drying or heating will result in oxidation, polymerization or other chemical or physical actions to produce the desired results.
  • the ink film S on offset pad 18 should be transferred to the object to be printed when these above ink film surface conditions exist, to wit, when ink film S becomes a coherent mass, and surface F exhibits sufficient adhesive affinity for the article to be printed to overcome the adhesion between surface F and its carrying pad 18. Therefore, it is at this point of time that the article to be printed, for example, a metal tray 50,'is carried by a conventional reciprocating table 52 which is reciprocated in a horizontal plane beneath drum 10 by conventional means. not shown, in timed relation to the rotation of drum 10 so as to bring tray into intimate touching contact with tacky ink film surface F; as table 52 moves to the right as shown in the drawing.
  • ink film surface F adheres to tray 50 with a force, transmitted through coherent ink mass S, sufficient to overcome the relatively weak adhesive force between surface F and offset pad 18 and thereby completely strips the entire ink film, intact, from the offset pad as tray 5% and pad 18 are separated. Pad 18 is left completely clean without any residual ink film thereon and immediately ready for a subsequent ink application.
  • the selected image carrying surface (either an offset pad or selected type face) should be sufiiciently smooth so as not to introduce any deleterious effects of mechanical bonding with the ink film, it has been found that smooth surface irregularities on such an image carrying member do not appreciably effect the release characteristics and in turn impart a textured pattern on the exposed surface of the transferred film.
  • Such texturing provides a three dimensional appearance to the image which may be highly desirable, particularly if the transferred image is of a decorative character.
  • the offset pad or other film carrying surface should preferably exhibit a low level of residual surface energy, as for example, a totally polymerized surface, in order to effect the film release characteristics required by our process. Accordingly, once the residual surface energy of the film carrying surface begins to increase, as for example, by depolymerization, the carrying surface must be restored or replaced. Such surface degradation may be caused by the heat from coils 20 or from active reagents in the inks employed.
  • the nature of the ink employed for any specific application will be determined by the relative residual surface energies between the article to be printed and the offset pad material, the speed at which the printing operation is to be performed and other printing requirements.
  • each subsequent ink impression will be clear and free from irregular or blurred edges. It also makes possible the printing of multicolored designs by overcoming the need for close register of colors because it is possible to position impressions of different colors so that a portion of each successive impression overlies at least a portion of previous impressions on the offset surface.
  • the very thick natures of each ink impression made according to the present invention and the subsequent high color density thus make possible multicolored images without the necessity for precise registration of separate impressions.
  • the thickness of the film of ink in the impression can be increased by providing identical printing rolls and colors of ink in two or more successive ink-applying mechanisms, the successive ink impressions being truly additive.
  • the surface to be printed will generally be at room temperature, our process does not necessarily require this condition and printing may be accomplished at elevated temperatures above room temperature so long as the temperature of the article being printed is below the liquifying temperature of the particular ink employed so as to preserve cohesive integrity of the film.
  • our process can be carried out at below room temperatures so long as the surface to be printed remains dry and uncontaminated by moisture condensate, therebypermitting a good adhesive bond between the ink film and the surface.
  • the herein disclosed invention requires no excessive contact pressure of image film against the article being printed; only an intimate surface contact sufiicient to permit adhesion between image and article is necessary.
  • film carrier pad ink, receptor surface, and temperatures are typical examples of those which may be employed in the present invention, but it will be understood that there are other combinations which may be equally satisfactory.
  • Example 1 Ink ingredients: Percent (by weight) Cellulose acetate 10-20 Gamma butyrolactone 60-80 Carbon black 10-15
  • the above ink formulation when deposited in a layer of 0.1 to 5.0 mils on a carrier surface of chloroprene maintained at 200 F. for approximately & to /5 second will transfer in accordance with the principles herein disclosed on receptor surfaces of polystyrene, Delrin, cellulose acetate, glass, brass, copper, chromium plate, vinyl and paper.
  • Example 2 Ink ingredients: Percent (by weight) Maleic resin 10-20 Nitrocellulose (V2 sec. type) 5-l5 Diethylene glycol ethyl ether -40 Vinyl chloridedispersion resin 10-15 Titanium dioxide -40 Phthalocyanine blue 4-6 This ink formulation when deposited in a resultant layer of 0.1 to 5.0 mils thick on a carrier surface of polyisobutylene maintained at 250 F. for approximately ,6 to /5 second, will transfer intact to polystyrene and paper.
  • a carrier surface of polytetrafiuoroethylene at 200 F. will transfer this ink film Well to polystyrene.
  • a carrier of chloroprene a-t 225 F. will transfer such a film intact to polystyrene.
  • Example 3 Ink ingredients: Percent (by weight) Vinyl toluene-butadiene copolymer 20-30 Diethylene glycol ethyl ether 45-50 Toluidine toner 10-15 Lithol toner l-3 Titanium dioxide 5-10 This formulation when deposited in a layer of 0.1 to 5 .0 mils thick on a carrier surface of butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer maintained at 200 F. for approximately to /s second will transfer intact to a polystyrene surface.
  • Example 4 Ink ingredients: Percent (by weight) Vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer -45 Plasticizer 40 Stabilizer (barium type) 1-2 Stabilizer (cadmium type) 1-2 Titanium dioxide 10-20 This formulation when deposited in a layer of 0.1 to 5 .0 mils thick on a carrier surface of chloroprene maintained at 325 F. for approximately to /5 second, will transfer intact to surfaces of polystyrene, paper, Delrin, and vinyl.
  • Example 5 Ink ingredients: Percent (by weight) Isophorone 50-60 Vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer 15-20 Oil based extender 5 Dimethyl phthalate 5-15 Carbon black 10 This formulation'when deposited in a layer of 0.1 to 5.0 mils thick on a dimethyl siloxane carrier surface maintained at 275 F. for approximately V to /s second will transfer intact to surfaces of paper and vinyl.
  • the present invention provides a method and apparatus of great flexibility and adaptability for printing a variety of articles inasmuch as the temperature of the inking mechanism and ink itself, as well as the offset surface can be varied over a considerable range above and below room temperature and the time interval during which the ink impression is maintained on the offset surface can also be varied over a considerable range, either by increasing the size of the drum, decreasing the speed of rotation, or changing the spacing between the ink-applying mechanism and the printing station about the pe- 9 riphery of the drum.
  • the offset pad below room temperature
  • an offset pad maintained at below room temperature would control this action and thereby permit the ink to be employed in accordance with the herein disclosed principles.
  • thermoelectric effects or other similar effects the ink reservoir and its associated printing plates may be economically maintained over a wide range of temperatures substantially below room temperature which will maintain the ink on the inking mechanism at an equivalently low temperature.
  • the numerous variable factors make it possible to employ a wide variety of film forming inks which may be especially tailored for application to particular surfaces.
  • an ink may be presented to the printing plates or offset pad in states other than being fluent, for example, such inks could be in a solid or powder form equally as well, and so long as the image attained the desired conditions at moment of transfer as hereinbefore set forth, it will transfer in accordance with these principles.
  • the ink formulations employed in the practice of this invention do not depend upon the use of so called release agents or parting compounds. Should any of the ink ingredients disclosed in the numerous examples be regarded as exhibiting such ch-anacteristics, they are included for other reasons, but not as parting compounds.
  • a method of forming an integrated film and trans-- ferring such a film intact from its carrying surface leaving no film residue thereon, to another surface comprising the steps of: providing a supply of fluid film-forming material having a first level of residual surface energy; depositing a layer of such film-forming material upon a carrying surface, said carrying surface exhibiting a second level of residual surface energy which is less than that of the layer of film forming material; heating the fluid layer of material to alter the physical state thereof so as to increase its cohesive integrity to a magnitude in excess of the bonding energies between the layer of film forming material and said carrying surface, while concurrently maintaining tack on the exposed film surface; bringing into intimate contact the exposed tacky surface of the film on the carrying surface with a film 10 receptor surface, said receptor surface exhibiting a third level of residual surface energy in excess of that of the exposed tacky surface of the film; and separating said filmcarrying surface from said film receptor surface whereupon because of the energies involved said film is completely transferred from said carrying surface as an integral mass adhering intact to said
  • said carrying surface consists of an elastomer selected from the group consisting of chloroprene, polyvinyl chloride, carboxy methyl cellulose, polytetrafluoroethylene, polymerized 'dimethysiloxane, polymerized ethylene-propylene, polyester, urethane (isocyanate) polymer, p-olya-mide, polyisobutylene, butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer, and polyvinyl alcohol.
  • an elastomer selected from the group consisting of chloroprene, polyvinyl chloride, carboxy methyl cellulose, polytetrafluoroethylene, polymerized 'dimethysiloxane, polymerized ethylene-propylene, polyester, urethane (isocyanate) polymer, p-olya-mide, polyisobutylene, butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer, and polyvinyl alcohol.
  • a method of forming and transferring a continuous and completely integrated multi-layer film comprising the steps of: providing a supply of fluid solution filmforming materials at room temperature exhibiting a first residual surface energy level; continuously depositing a plurality of successive layers of said film-forming materials which overlay one another at least in part upon a continuously moving, smooth, totally polymerized carrying surface exhibiting a second residual surface energy level, said second residual surface energy level being less than said first residual surface energy level; increasing the cohesive integrity and viscosity of the composite layer to a magnitude in excess of the interface bonding energies between the composite layer and said carrying surface while concurrently maintaining tack on the exposed surface of the composite film; pressing into intimate contact the exposed surface of the composite film with a continuous moving film receptor surface, said receptor surface exhibiting a third residual surface energy level which is in excess of the first residual surface energy level of the fluent film forming material; and separating said carrying surface from said receptor surface, such separation adapted to cause a complete interfacial separation between said carrying surface and said film.
  • the method of printing wherein the inked image is completely transferred intact from the printing element to the surface being printed comprises the steps of: providing a fluid supply of film-forming ink exhibiting a first residual surface energy level; applying a layer of said fluid ink to a heated, polymerized elastomeric offset heating pad exhibiting a second residual surface energy level, said second energy level being lower than the first; converting the fluid ink layer so as to increase the cohesive forces within the ink layer to a level of magnitude in excess of the bonding energies between the ink layer and the offset pad, while concurrently attaining a tacky condition on the exposed surface of the ink layer; bringing into intimate contact the tacky exposed surface of said ink film with the surface to be printed, said surface exhibiting a third residual surface energy in excess of that of the exposed tacky surface of the film; and separating said offset pad from said latter surface to completely transfer the ink film intact from the offset pad to the surface being printed as an integral mass.
  • the method of multi-color offset printing comprising the steps of: depositing successive impressions of different colored film-forming inks having a first viscosity level, and a first residual surface energy level so that a portion of each successive ink impression overlies at least a portion of the previous ink impression, upon an offset surface exhibiting second residual surface energy level which is less than the first level; providing a time lag between the successive impressions to increase the ink viscosity of the previous impression to a second viscosity level sufiicient to pre vent comingling of the colors with the succeeding impression; continuing to increase the cohesive integrity and viscosity of the composite ink impression to a magnitude in excess of the bonding energies between the composite impression, and the offset surface, while preserving tack on the exposed surface of the ink impression; bringing into intimate contact the exposed tacky surface of the impression with the surface to be printed, said surface exhibiting a third residual surface energy level which is in excess of that of the exposed tacky surface of the composite film; and separating the offset pad from the surface

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