Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Dana Pulvino

Tracy Kucaba

Robert W Hitchcock

Christopher Thomas Schaafsma

Robert Hitchcock

Sam Peterson

Christopher T Schaafsma

A liquid supply assembly for use with a printing system of a type in which a liquid is deposited from the liquid supply assembly in a receiving region on a plate and any excess of the liquid in the receiving region is scraped from the plate by the liquid supply assembly. To this end, the liquid supply assembly employs a reusable cup, a disposable cup insert and a scraping element. As assembled, the reusable cup includes a reusable liquid reservoir, the disposable cup insert includes a temporary liquid reservoir holding the liquid within the reusable liquid reservoir, and the scraping element includes a conduit facilitating a flow of the liquid held by the temporary liquid reservoir through the conduit to the plate.

Disposable cup insert for pad printing and decorating

A rotating clich&#xe9; pad printer includes a frame, a flat clich&#xe9; operably mounted to the frame, an ink cup configured to reside on the clich&#xe9; and a pad applicator. The clich&#xe9; includes at least one etched region and is adapted to receive ink thereon in the etched region. The ink cup is configured to reside on the clich&#xe9; and to deposit ink into the at least one etched region. The clich&#xe9; and ink cup are rotatably movable relative to one another. The pad applicator includes at least one pad adapted to move into and out of contact with the at least one etched region to receive ink from the etched region. The pad is further configured to contact an associated object to transfer the received ink to the associated object.

Rotating clich&#xe9; pad printer

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Crystal Lake, IL, United States of America

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