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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2020
Lsinc Corporation, Huntsville, AL (US);
James Richard Bullington, Athens, AL (US);
Christopher Shea Curry, Fayetteville, TN (US);
Michael Devon Hunter, Huntsville, AL (US);
LSINC Corporation, Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
The invention is a method of using a turret styled decorator machine to decorate container media. The machine utilized has a rotatable turret and a number of circumferentially spaced container holding assemblies for holding a variety of pieces of 'media,' such as a drink container, the exterior surface of which is to have ink applied to form an image. A plurality of workstations are positioned around the perimeter of the turret through which each media holder passes as the turret rotates. Due to the unique configuration of the decorating machine, each piece of media, once loaded, spins at a rate different from any other piece of media so that the entire decorating process is speed optimized for each print job. Further, container media may spin continuously during the decorating process so that the turret never needs to pause for media to stop rotating or to begin rotating.