Anchor Hocking, LLC

Herbert C Shank, Jr

Apparatus for masking a selected area of the neck and/or sidewall of a container and for applying a coating to an adjacent area thereof. The apparatus comprises a container transport conveyor for transporting containers through a coating booth and a side masking conveyor for transporting side masks through the coating booth in parallel with the containers. As the containers move through the booth, the neck of the container is shielded by a neck mask carried by the container transport conveyor and a side portion of each container is shielded by a side mask carried on the side mask conveyor.

Container masking and coating apparatus

A glass article is decorated with a thermoplastic ink which contains no frit. A finely divided heat fusible polymeric coating material is applied to the article over the ink. The article is heated to a temperature at which the particles of coating material fuse to form a smooth continuous film over the ink while the latter is in melted, semi-liquid condition. The melted ink diffuses into (but not through) the polymer film over it, thereby forming a melt-melt bond. The polymeric film imparts a serviceability to the ink which it would not otherwise display.

Thermoplastic ink decorated, polymer coated glass articles

A glass decorating color is applied to a glass article but is not bonded permanently to the glass. A finely divided heat settable plastic material is applied to the article over the impermanently bonded color and onto glass surface areas beyond the area covered by the color. Heat setting of the plastic material, even though insufficient to permanetly bond the color itself to the glass, forms a smooth plastic film over the decoration and fixes the color with respect to the glass surface.

Method of making color decorated, plastic coated glass articles

A glass decorating color is applied to a glass article but is not bonded permanently to the glass. A finely divided heat settable plastic material is applied to the article over the impermanently bonded color and onto glass surface areas beyond the area covered by the color. Heat setting of the plastic material, even though insufficient to permanently bond the color itself to the glass, forms a smooth plastic film over the decoration and fixes the color with respect to the glass surface.

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Lancaster, OH, United States of America

Herbert C Shank, Jr