Abstract:
A portable one-piece foam frame for use in securing a screen and/or screen stencil film for use in an off-contact stenciling operation. The assembly includes a paper or release covering an adhesive on one side of the frame. A non-skid coating may be applied to the base of the frame to keep it from shifting or moving during a stenciling operation.
Abstract:
A screen printing apparatus includes: a barrier member which butts against a screen mask and a squeegee to prevent paste on the screen mask from escaping to an outside of a printing width of the board; and an urging mechanism which urges the barrier member toward the screen mask. The urging mechanism includes: a first magnetic member held by the squeegee head such that a first pole surface having a first magnetic pole is directed toward the barrier member; and a second magnetic member held by the barrier member such that a second pole surface having a second magnetic pole opposite to the first magnetic pole is directed toward the first magnetic member, whereby the urging mechanism urges the barrier member by an attracting magnetic force acting between the first pole surface and the second pole surface.
Abstract:
A screen printing apparatus includes: a barrier member which butts against a screen mask and a squeegee to prevent paste on the screen mask from escaping to an outside of a printing width of the board; and an urging mechanism which urges the barrier member toward the screen mask. The urging mechanism includes: a first magnetic member held by the squeegee head such that a first pole surface having a first magnetic pole is directed toward the barrier member; and a second magnetic member held by the barrier member such that a second pole surface having a second magnetic pole opposite to the first magnetic pole is directed toward the first magnetic member, whereby the urging mechanism urges the barrier member by an attracting magnetic force acting between the first pole surface and the second pole surface.
Abstract:
A stencil for printing solder paste on a printed circuit board improves an assembly process, cuts production costs, and saves storage space. The stencil is coupled to a fixing frame having a plurality of fixing portions and a motor unit. The motor unit generates a plurality of pulling forces. The stencil includes a solder paste printing region and a plurality of fixing regions. Vias are disposed in the solder paste printing region. The directions of the pulling forces are coplanar with the solder paste printing region. The edge of the solder paste printing region extends outward to define the fixing regions. The fixing regions are movably fixed to the fixing portions and bear the pulling forces to flatten the solder paste printing region of the stencil.
Abstract:
A screen cap printing device has a saddle secured to a frame for mounting a cap for printing. The saddle has a flat platen which supports the front panel of the cap so that the peak of the cap lays flat on the platen. The saddle also includes side forming members used to position the cap with a registration plate that engages the bill of the cap. The saddle and the registration plate triangulate the positioning of the cap prior to printing and maintain the cap in position during printing. The registration plate is secured to the frame in a spaced-apart perpendicular relationship to the platen and defines a channel between the platen and the side forming members for receiving the sweatband of the cap. Adhesive may be provided on the platen to hold the cap in place and hold the front panel of the cap in position while printing. Also connected to the frame is a screen in a screen frame which is adapted to move between an advanced position wherein the screen contacts the front panel of the cap which is mounted upon the saddle and a retracted position wherein the screen is withdrawn for changing caps. The screen printing device may be used to print on caps of the fused buckram type and may be used to prints such as three dimensional images and four color process images.
Abstract:
A frame for supporting the screen of a screen printing machine having elongated frame members coupled together each providing support for an edge of the screen. The frame further includes a reinforcing member supported by the frame to extend in intimate proximity along at least a portion of at least one of the frame members to provide a prestress and/or camber of the frame member. The reinforcing member may include a cable extending within an interior of the frame member. The reinforcing member may also include an elongated secondary member affixed to the frame member while the frame member and secondary member are subjected to an applied condition imposing differential strains on confronting surfaces of the frame member and secondary member.
Abstract:
A silk screen printing frame having screen tensioning rollers which are rotatable to stretch a printing screen edgewise across the frame and are mounted on the frame by improved roller mounting assemblies that secure the rollers to roller mounting members at the roller ends. Each roller mounting assembly has an end block portion fixed within the adjacent roller end, a wrench engaging portion beyond the roller end by which the roller may be turned and which may be integral with or a separate part from the end block portion, a bolt extending axially through the end block and wrench engaging portions and the adjacent roller mounting member, and a lock nut threaded on the outer end of the bolt for releasably securing the roller against turning. A head on the inner end of the bolt engages the inner side of the end block portion to restrain the bolt against being pulled outwardly through the assembly when the lock nut is tightened to secure the roller against turning.