Abstract
From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journalists report that a patent application by the inventors Christensen, Stephen Dane (Highlands Ranch, CO, US); Maurer, Joseph John Allen (Aurora, CO, US); Scholey, Ian Kenneth (Barnsley, GB), filed on October 17, 2023, was made available online on February 8, 2024. The patent’s assignee is Stolle Machinery Company LLC (Centennial, Colorado, United States). News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “High speed continuous motion machines for decorating cans, commonly referred to as “can decorator machines” or simply “can decorators,” are generally well known. Typically, via multiple ink stations, the can decorator decorates cans by applying various colors of ink to the cans to create images to the cans. The ink stations each include a reservoir, referred to as an ink fountain, to store ink that will be applied to cans.