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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2001
Neil MacMillan Macraild, Weymouth, GB;
Simon Garry Clasper, Weymouth, GB;
Dek International GmbH, Zurich, CH;
Abstract
A wiper blade for a screen printing head in which pasty product to be screen printed is biased toward a printing screen under pressure, the wiper blade comprising an elongate blade element having a thickness of between 0.1 and 0.5 mm, one edge of the blade element being configured to be fixed to a screen printing head and the other edge of the blade element being a forwardly-directed free edge which in use contacts a printing screen, and a strip fixed to the upper, non-screen contacting surface of the blade element along the free edge there of, wherein the strip and the free edge of the blade element together define a leading face which has a height of from 1 to 2.5 mm and encloses an acute angle with the printing screen.