公开(公告)号：US06810796B2

公开(公告)日：2004-11-02

申请号：US10215750

申请日：2002-08-09

申请人： Jose Luis Catalan ,  Ricardo Vazquez

发明人： Jose Luis Catalan ,  Ricardo Vazquez

IPC分类号： B41F1700

CPC分类号： B41F17/001 ,  B41F17/30

摘要： This invention relates to a method and apparatus for distributing mass copies of text and/or images on a novel medium, namely eggs, by using the eggshell of the egg as an advertising or message-bearing medium. Mass quantities of eggs are imprinted with a promotional image prior to distributing said eggs to consumers. The promotional image can be, for example, a corporate logo, a national flags, a charitable insignias, a messages or a trademark and can be multi-colored. A matrix of eggs are preferably imprinted by a like matrix of printing tampons. The eggs are preferably lifted and oriented by a like matrix of vacuum heads.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种方法和装置，用于通过使用蛋的蛋壳作为广告或信息承载介质，在新颖介质（即，蛋）上分发文本和/或图像的大量副本。 在将蛋分发给消费者之前，大量的鸡蛋印有促销图像。 宣传形象可以是例如公司标志，国旗，慈善徽章，消息或商标，并且可以是多色的。 蛋的矩阵优选地由类似的印花棉塞基质印刷。 蛋优选地被类似的真空头基体取出并定向。

公开(公告)号：US06796241B2

公开(公告)日：2004-09-28

申请号：US10446409

申请日：2003-05-28

申请人： Jose Luis Catalan ,  Ricardo Vazquez

发明人： Jose Luis Catalan ,  Ricardo Vazquez

IPC分类号： B41F116

CPC分类号： B41M1/40 ,  B41F17/001 ,  B41F17/30

摘要： This invention relates to a method and apparatus for distributing mass copies of text and/or images on a novel medium, namely eggs, by using the eggshell of the egg as an advertising or message-bearing medium. Mass quantities of eggs are imprinted with a promotional image prior to distributing said eggs to consumers. The promotional image can be, for indicative of a modification to the egg's content, or consist of warnings or instructions pertaining to security or emergency matters. The shells of the eggs are imprinted by a method comprising the steps of (1) repeatedly transferring one row of eggs at a time from a carton having M rows of N eggs to N empty egg-receiving cradles until all the eggs in the carton has been transferred, moving the cradles through a number of imprinting stations, imprinting N eggs at each such station with N tampons, and transferring N imprinted eggs at a time into each of the M rows in the cartons.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种方法和装置，用于通过使用蛋的蛋壳作为广告或信息承载介质，在新颖介质（即，蛋）上分发文本和/或图像的大量副本。 在将蛋分发给消费者之前，大量的鸡蛋印有促销图像。 宣传形象可以是表示对鸡蛋内容的修改，或者包​​括有关安全或紧急事项的警告或指示。 蛋的壳由以下方法印制，该方法包括以下步骤：（1）一次从具有M排N个卵的纸盒重复地转移一排卵到N个空卵收纳托架，直到纸箱中的所有蛋均具有 转移了摇篮，通过一些印迹站，每个这样的站用N个棉塞印上N个鸡蛋，并一次将N个印迹鸡蛋转移到纸箱的M行中。