Screen stencilling machine

Claim 1

IN A SCREEN STENCILLING MACHINE: A FRAME; A STOCKSUPPORTING CYLINDR MOUNTED ON THE FRAME FOR ROTARY MOVEMENT; A SCREEN STENCIL MOUNTED ON THE FRAME ADJACENT THE CYLINDER FOR RECIPROCATING MOVEMENTS LONGITUDINALLY OF THE MACHINE THROUGH PRINT AND NON-PRINT STROKES OF THE MACHINE; A SQUEEGEE MOUNTED ON THE FRAME FOR VERTICAL RECIPROCATION BETWEEN AN INOPERATIVE HIGHLIFT POSITION, AN INTERMEDIATE ELEVATED POSITION OFF THE SCREEN, AND A LOWERED POSITION ONTO THE SCREEN FOR FORCING COATING MATERIAL THROUGH THE STENCIL AND ONTO STOCK SUPPORTED BY SAID CYLINDER; A FLOW COATER MOUNTED ON THE FRAME FOR VERTICAL RECIPROCATION BETWEEN A LOWERED POSITION FOR COLLECTING COATING MATERIAL FROM THE SCREEN STENCIL, AN INTERMEDIATE ELEVATED POSITION FOR DISTRIBUTING COATING MATERIAL OVER THE SURFACE OF THE SCREEN STENCIL, AND AN INOPERATIVE HIGH-LIFT POSITION; FIRST MEANS FOR OPPOSITELY VERTICALLY RECIPROCATING SAID SQUEEGEE AND FLOW COATER IN COORDINATION WITH THE HORIZONTAL RECIPROCATION OF THE STENCIL DURING NORMAL OPERATION OF THE MACHINE SO THAT DURING THE PRINT STROKE OF THE MACHINE THE SQUEEGEE IS IN LOWERED POSITION WHILE THE FLOW COATER IS IN INTERMEDIATE ELEVATED POSITION AND SO THAT DURING THE NONPRINT STROKE OF THE MACHINE THE SQUEEGEE IS IN INTERMEDIATE ELEVATED POSITION WHILE THE FLOW COATER IS IN LOWERED POSITION, SAID FIRST MEANS COMPRISING LEVERS MOUNTED FOR RECIPROCATING ROTARY MOVEMENTS AT OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE MACHINE AND ADAPTED TO BEAR AT THEIR OUTER ENDS AGAINST THE LOWER ENDS OF THE SQUEEGEE BARS FOR VERTICALLY RECIPROCATING MOVEMENTS AT OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE MACHINE, EACH OF SAID LINKS HAVING ONE END THEREOF PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO ONE OF SAID LEVERS BETWEEN SAID LEVER''S PIVOTAL CONNECTION TO THE FRAME AND SAID LEVER''S END ADAPTED TO BEAR AGAINST THE ADJACENT SQUEEGEE BAR, AND EACH LINK HAVING ITS END OPPOSITE ITS PIVOTAL CONNECTION TO SAID LEVER PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO THE LOWER END OF THE ADJACENT FLOW COATER ROD, AND MEANS FOR RECIPROCATING SAID LEVERS IN COORDINATION WITH THE HORIZONTAL RECIPROCATION OF THE STENCIL; AND SECOND MEANS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY ELEVATING BOTH THE SQUEEGEE AND THE FLOW COATER TO THEIR INOPERATIVE HIGH-LIFT POSITIONS.