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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2022
Hinterkopf Gmbh, Eislingen/Fils, DE;
Joachim Weber, Bad Ditzenbach, DE;
Ulrich Oberacker, Eislingen, DE;
Joachim Schulz, Deggingen, DE;
Tobias Mayer, Esslingen, DE;
Philipp Steiner, Deggingen, DE;
Hinterkopf GmbH, Eislingen/Fils, DE;
Abstract
A printing process for a metal container includes the steps: Heating the metal container, in particular formed as a metal bottle ready for filling, to a pre-treatment temperature lying in an interval between 100 degrees Celsius and 250 degrees Celsius, cooling the metal container to a temperature below 100 degrees Celsius, locally activating a printing zone, formed on an outer surface of the metal container to increase a surface energy of the printing zone and/or locally heating the printing zone to a printing temperature which is in an interval between 30 degrees Celsius and 70 degrees Celsius, printing the printing zone with a printing method.