US 7,587,976 B2
Printing apparatus having fixing mechanism including air pipe assembly
Chia-Hsing Chang, Taipei Hsien (Taiwan); Jia-Wu Xiong, Shenzhen (China); Hui Meng, Shenzhen (China); Qin Liu, Shenzhen (China); Hong-Peng Ma, Shenzhen (China); and Li-Bing Deng, Shenzhen (China)
Assigned to Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd., ShenZhen, Guangdong Province (China); and FIH (Hong Kong) Limited, Kowloon (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, The)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/964,815.
Claims priority of application No. 2007 1 0201656 (CN), filed on Sep. 11, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2009/0064878 A1, Mar. 12, 2009
Int. Cl. B41F 15/20 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 101—126  [101/114; 101/474] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus, comprising:
a worktable including a base, a bracket and a post;
a silk-screen, one end of the silk-screen being rotatably connected to the bracket and another end of the silk-screen being held by the post; and
a fixing mechanism including a base positioned on the worktable, a pump, and an air pipe assembly, the air pipe assembly including a first pipe, a second pipe, and a third pipe, the first pipe connected to the pump and communicating with the second pipe, the second pipe connected to the base of the fixing mechanism, and the third pipe connected to the post and communicating with the first pipe and the second pipe.