Title: Thin flexible metal squeegee blade for rotary screen printer

Abstract: A rotary screen printing machine of the type including at least one cylindrical stencil is provided with a squeegee blade for each stencil to force a printing paint or paste through apertures in the stencil onto a textile web or sheet of paper. The squeegee blade comprises a thin flexible resilient metal strip having a thickness less than 1% of the width of the portion of such strip protruding from its holder. One edge of the squeegee blade is attached to a squeegee holder and the other or trailing edge of the blade contacts the inner face of the stencil. A covering layer of a synthetic plastic may be provided on the surface of the blade directed toward the inner face of the stencil.

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Inventors: Vertegaal, Jacobus Gerardus (Boxmeer, NL)

Application Number: 688613
Filing Date: 1976-05-21
Publication_date: 1978-01-31
Assignee: Stork Amsterdam B.V. (Amstelveen, NL)
Primary Class(es): 101/120
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

1546834	Jul, 1925	Hanington	101/122.
2071824	Feb, 1937	Engert	101/116.
2109336	Feb, 1938	Marsden	101/119.
2387390	Oct, 1945	Goodwin	101/120.
3778861	Dec, 1973	Goodnow	15/256.
3998158	Dec, 1976	Vertegaal	101/120.

Other Refs: 1,267,231

Feb, 1968	DT

Primary Examiner: Suter, Ronald E.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Jaskiewicz; Edmund M.