US Patent Issued to Crown Packaging Technology on July 21 for "Image registration in a can decorator" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,203, issued on July 21, was assigned to Crown Packaging Technology Inc. (Alsip, Ill.).

"Image registration in a can decorator" was invented by Mark Ian Davies (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A can decorator having a blanket wheel and a plurality inking stations. Each of one or more of the inking stations comprises a rotatable shaft geared to the blanket wheel, a print cylinder mounted on the shaft for rotation with the shaft during printing operations, and an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the angular position of the print cylinder on the rotatable shaft during set-up and for fixing the angular position...