Revlon Consumer Products Corporation

Revlon, Inc.

Deco Patents, Inc.

Other

The Procter Gamble Company

Melvin E Kamen

Philip A Bernstein

Bhupendra Patel

Ming Hu

Marvin Wells

Rene T Rivero

Augustine Defazio

August DeFazio

Amit R Shah

Phillip Bernstein

Sol Levine

Peter Cueli

Jerry Schuler

Dexin Luo

Josef Landwehr

Morris Bernfeld

John C Pelc

An apparatus includes a rotary printing assembly operative for directly printing a layer of radiation curable material onto the cylindrical surface of individual articles. The rotary printing assembly includes a rotationally supported belt defining an interior region, the belt having a planar portion for contact with the cylindrical surface of the articles for directly printing a layer of the radiation curable material thereon. At least one squeegee is arranged within the interior region of the belt having a portion engaging the belt for contacting the planar portion of the belt with the cylindrical surface of the article. The squeegee is moveable longitudinally within the interior region of the belt during the printing operation. A radiation emitting device can be positioned adjacent the rotary printing assembly for at least partially curing the layer of radiation curable material applied to the articles.

Apparatus and method for direct rotary printing compositions onto cylindrical articles

An apparatus and method for decorating cylindrical articles using direct rotary screen printing of a UV radiation curable composition in various predetermined patterns and registrations. A rotary screen printing assembly is arranged in either a horizontal or vertical orientation to achieve production rates of about at least 250 articles per minute, and up to 1000 articles per minute. The UV radiation curable compositions are at least partially cured between a plurality of screen printing workstations using a UV radiation source.

Apparatus and method for direct rotary screen printing radiation curable compositions onto cylindrical articles

A method for decorating a vitreous substrate with a radiation curable ink composition, comprising applying an ink composition comprised of an N-vinyl lactam to the glass in a predetermined design, the ink being operable when cured to bond to the vitreous substrate, curing the ink on the vitreous substrate by exposing it to the radiation by which it is curable, thereby bonding the ink composition to the substrate; and a method for decorating a vitreous substrate with hot stamping foil comprising applying an ink composition comprised of an N-vinyl lactam to the glass in a predetermined design, the ink being operable when cured to bond to the vitreous substrate, curing the ink on the vitreous substrate by exposing it to the radiation by which it is curable, thereby bonding the ink composition to the substrate, pressing a sheet of hot stamping foil against the substrate with a die heated to a temperature sufficient to cause a portion of the hot stamping foil to adhere to the heated, cured, ink design but not to the ink free areas of the vitreous substrate, removing the die, thereby leaving behind a portion of the foil adhered to the ink design but not to the ink-free areas of the glass.

Glass decorating method using ink compositions containing N-vinyl lactams

Articles such as glassware, ceramicware and hollowware are decorated with hot stamping foil along their exposed edge. The hot stamping foil is adhered to an underlying radiation curable adhesive ink which avoids the use of inks or frits having heavy metals such as lead which are leachable. The hot stamping foil may have a metallized noble metal decorative layer. The hot stamping process employs a polymer die having a hardness in the range of from about 50 to 80 durometer for adhering the hot stamping foil to the article under applied heat and pressure.

Edge decorated articles and method of making same using hot stamping foils

A primer composition for radiation curable inks comprising 75-99.99% water, 0.01-20% of a silane coupling agent having the general formula: ##STR1## and 0.001-20% of a nonionic surfactant which is a polyethylene glycol glyceryl fatty acid ester; a method for pre-treating a vitreous article prior to application of organic radiation curable decorative indicia with said primer composition; and a method for applying decorative indicia to the surface of a vitreous article comprising the steps of (a) applying to the surface of the article a primer composition containing a solvent and a coupling agent capable of forming a chemical bond between the surface of the vitreous article and an organic, radiation curable composition, (b) applying an organic radiation curable ink composition over the primer composition in a desired design, (c) curing the organic ink composition on the article by exposing it to the radiation by which it is curable, thereby causing the coupling agent to form a chemical bond between the surface of the vitreous article and the cured organic ink composition; and a method for pre-treating vitreous articles.

Method and compositions for decorating vitreous articles with radiation

A method for decorating a vitreous article, in particular, a glass substrate, comprising applying to the glass in a predetermined design a radiation curable ink composition which is (i) operable when cured to bond to glass, and (ii) strippable from the glass upon exposure to alkali, and curing the ink on the glass by exposing it to the radiation by which it is curable, thereby bonding the ink to the glass; and related compositions; as well as a method for stripping the decorative indicia from glass upon exposure to alkali, and the related compositions.

Method and compositions for decorating glass

An apparatus and method enables screen printing various articles such as glassware with a radiation curable composition using, for example, UV radiation and the like in pre-existing screen printing decorating equipment having a plurality of screen printing workstations. Particularly suitable compositions are those which are environmentally safe by virtue of being free of toxic heavy metals and volatile organic compounds. The applied inked image is at least partially cured at each screen printing workstation to form a skin on the surface of the transferred image of sufficient strength to support the next layer to be applied. The UV radiation may emanate opposing and underlying each of the screen printing workstations were brought thereto from a remotely positioned laser via a fiber optic bundle or light pipe.

Apparatus and method for screen printing radiation curable compositions

Cosmetics container

A method for decorating a substrate with hot stamping foil comprising the steps of:

Decorating method and products

A pigmented ink composition comprising a radiation curable component and a pyrrolopyrrol or isoindolinone pigment; a method for decorating a substrate with the pigmented ink compositions; and a method for decorating a substrate with hot stamping foil and the pigmented ink compositions.

Radiation curable pigmented compositions and decorated substrates

An applicator with a surface having a first wetting angle and a first surface area, which surface area has grafted thereto a layer of ion-producing gas plasma having a second wetting angle and a second surface are, wherein the second wetting angle is less than the first wetting angle and the second surface area is greater than the first surface area.

Surface treated applicators and related methods

A method for applying a decoration to a glass substrate comprising applying an ink composition comprising a bis phenol-A epoxy resin to the glass in a predetermined design that leaves some areas of the glass ink free, said ink being operable when cured to bond to the glass substrate, and curing the ink on the substrate by exposing it to the radiation by which it is curable thereby bonding the ink to the glass substrate.

Glass decorating method using bis-phenol-a epoxy resins and related

A method for applying a decorative coating to glass and the resulting glass products.

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Highlands, NJ, United States of America

Melvin E Kamen