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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2022
Ball Corporation;
John D. Efner, Westminster, CO (US);
Michael Allen Bombulie, Westminster, CO (US);
Charles Cooper, Westminster, CO (US);
BALL COPORATION, Westminster, CO (US);
Abstract
A decorator () for printing onto cylindrical structures () has a plurality of inkers (). Each inker () has a pair of opposing frame plates (). A printing plate () is affixed to a printing plate cylinder () carried by a rotational printing plate cylinder shaft (). The printing plate shaft () is disposed between the opposing frame plates (). A main shaft () supports the inker () on the decorator () such that the pair of opposing frame plates () are slidable along a length of the main shaft (). A lateral adjustment servomotor () acts on a corresponding inker () to impart a movement by the inker () along the length of the main shaft ().