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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8082875 | Doctor device The present invention provides a doctor device for metering and/or equalizing a liquid-to-pasty medium applied to a running surface, wherein in the case of direct application the surface is a running paper web, paperboard web or other fibrous web and in the case of ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7387820 | Equipment and method for changing a blade in a coating device Equipment for changing a blade (43) in a coating device (51) changes several blades (43) arranged in a band (43). The equipment includes reels (11, 40) connected to the ends of the blade holder (45), for holding the reeled u... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7351289 | Application device A device for applying a liquid to pasty medium to a moving surface, the moving surface in the case of direct application being the surface of a paper, board or other fibrous web. In the case of indirect application the moving surface being the surface of a transfer ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7332033 | Doctor bed A doctor bed is provided for holding a circularly cylindrical metering rod, including a housing of a homogenous material, which is designed with a cross section at right angles to the cylinder longitudinal axis of the metering rod and has a circularly cylindrical re... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7217341 | Treatment equipment, including a beam, for a paper machine The invention relates to treatment equipment, including a beam, for a paper machine. The beam (12) is equipped with a shaft (15), which has a bearing assembly (16) adapted to allow the beam (12) to pivot in relation to the bearing assembl... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7151233 | Contact system A contact system needs comparatively little overall space. that the contact system includes a spring element acting on the contact holder, fabricated from an electrically nonconducting material. ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7112348 | Coating method and apparatus The coating apparatus and method enable the coating liquid having been scraped-off to be reused without doing any one of the fluid adjusting treatment and the filtering treatment, while maintaining the features of the scraping-off type of extrusion coater, which is ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7104216 | Coating liquid application apparatus for ink-printed medium and image printing apparatus having same A coating liquid application apparatus is capable of automatically and properly applying to a printed surface of a print medium a coating liquid, such as coating materials that improve weatherability of the printed surface. For that purpose, the apparatus includes a... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7101438 | Coater for dispersed slurry A coater for dispersed slurry capable of coating coated dispersed slurry on a nonwoven cloth-like base material while bringing the slurry into contact with the material, comprising a net conveyor for transferring the nonwoven cloth-like base material, a supply means... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7022380 | Method and apparatus for the high speed application of coating to a traveling paper web Method and apparatus for coating a traveling paper web includes a coater head. The coater head includes an inlet for receiving fresh coating material which is introduced into a mixing chamber. A looped flow path is established within the coater head which includes a... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7000435 | Roll coating of glass fibers A roll coater for placing binder on the fibers prior to being wound around a rotating drawing drum. The drawing drum draws fibers out of orifices in the bottom of a slowly reciprocating furnace. The fibers form a mat on the drawing drum that is later removed and exp... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6977011 | Roller provided for use in coating machines A roller is provided for use in coating machines. The roller directly or indirectly applies a liquid or pasty medium to one or both sides of a running web of material, especially one made of paper or paperboard. The roller includes a core whose outer casing is provi... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6946031 | Rod for a coating device, and process for producing the same A rod for a coating device, used when a continuously-running body is coated with a coating solution, includes: a columnar base material; and an abrasion-resistant coating formed on a circumferential surface of the base material. When a friction coefficient between t... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6942904 | Dry end surface treatment using ultrasonic transducers The method is for applying a coating on a paper substance. A paper moves over a set of rollers. A coating is applied with a coating applicator that has ultrasonic transducers to vibrate the coating to reduce the viscosity of the coating. A downstream blade has an ul... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6942734 | Treatment equipment A treatment equipment, which is intended to be installed in connection with a moving surface. The treatment equipment includes a frame and a blade holder formed from composite material as a single piece and connected to the frame. In addition, a blade is fitted to t... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6911085 | Doctor blade dosing system Doctor blade dosing systems for devices used for coating material webs, particularly paper or paperboard webs, exist that have a doctor blade rod, which serves as a dosing element while being held inside a slot of a doctor blade bed that, in turn, is mounted in a su... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6908641 | Gapped bedplate for uniform carpet back coating The present invention relates to an improved doctor blade and bedplate apparatus wherein there is a recess in the bedplate from some position upstream of the doctor blade to some position downstream of the doctor blade. This recess or gap in the area of the bedplate... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6869639 | Film coater and smoothing method and apparatus An improved film coater which utilizes one or more coater or applicators to transfer coating to the outer surfaces of at least one more rolls, which in turn transfers the coating from the roll surface to one or more sides of the web for coating paper is disclosed. T... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6833157 | Coating method and apparatus The coating apparatus and method enable the coating liquid having been scraped-off to be reused without doing any one of the fluid adjusting treatment and the filtering treatment, while maintaining the features of the scraping-off type of extrusion coater, which is ... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6818062 | Coating method and apparatus It is possible to give ultrathin and uniform coating on a flexible web in scraping-off type coating. The distribution of pressure in a web width direction is adjusted by a pressure distribution adjusting device when an excess of coating liquid excessively applied is... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6790280 | Cradle A cradle for a spreading device, such as a rotatable rod, to which a spreading organ to be pressed against a movable surface has been attached. The cradle is fastened to a holder, and a gasket is provided between the cradle and the holder (9). ... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6786972 | Method and arrangement in a drive device of a rod coating station A method and arrangement using the drive device of a rod coating station to carry axial forces, in which the drive device includes at least a telescopic articulated shaft, at the first end of which is a changeable grooved rod and at the opposite end of which is the ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6758904 | Backing lath for a doctor device A backing lath (6, 14) used for coating a web of paper or paperboard in doctor blade and rod coaters and film-transfer coaters, the backing lath featuring a fiber-reinforced composite material body. When necessary, the backing lath can be surfaced with a wear... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6726810 | Apparatus for smoothening a paper web before coating A paper web is smoothened by passing the web through a pre-calender device on a paper machine before the application of a coating. The pre-calender device comprises at least one pair of steel rolls, one of which is heated, and a liquid application device which appli... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6719845 | Gapped bedplate for uniform carpet back coating The present invention relates to an improved doctor blade and bedplate apparatus wherein there is a recess in the bedplate from some position upstream of the doctor blade to some position downstream of the doctor blade. This recess or gap in the area of the bedplate... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6712905 | Doctor blade device A doctor blade device for machines for the coating of fibrous webs, in particular of paper or cardboard, and for keeping rotating rollers clean has a leaf-shaped doctor blade element (1) which is held by a holding means (2) and which, for a change, can... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6630229 | Electrophotographic recording medium and method A recording medium particularly suitable for electrophotographic copying is characterized by coated paper that for a given basis weight has proportionally less coating and proportionally more fiber than conventional coated paper made for electrophotograph... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6582769 | Method for conditioning a metering blade A method for conditioning a metering blade of a paper coating machine. The method includes the steps of providing a paper coating machine having at least one metering blade and passing a movable substrate through the paper coating machine such that the me... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6533863 | Gapped bedplate for uniform carpet back coating The present invention relates to an improved doctor blade and bedplate apparatus wherein there is a recess in the bedplate from some position upstream of the doctor blade to some position downstream of the doctor blade. This recess or gap in the area of t... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6524444 | Removable doctor blade holder In a paper machine having a roll rotating about an axis extending in a cross machine direction, and having a doctor blade applied to the roll surface by a blade holder parallel to the axis and carried on a doctor back, an apparatus is provided for accommo... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6495196 | Process and apparatus for profile control of direct coaters A process and apparatus, including a separate coating head, for coating a strip article with a coating material. The process involves coating a strip article with a film of coating material by passing the strip article through a coating apparatus having a... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6491754 | Carbon fiber doctor blade An apparatus for one of direct and indirect application of a coating medium onto a traveling fiber material web includes at least one doctor element for application and/or metering of the coating medium. At least one doctor element is formed of a carbon f... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6471773 | Doctor blade assembly "Ghosting" and leakage problems in a doctor blade assembly are minimized or eliminated in a construction that includes a reservoir (10) partially surrounding a transfer roller (12) wherein a surface of the roller (12) is within the reservoir (10) for at l... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6471776 | Apparatus for applying abrasive substances to continuous paper webs An apparatus applies a coating composition consisting of a resin and fine abrasive particles like corundum particles, to a paper web by feeding the composition to the paper web as it loops around a guide roller to a metering roller juxtaposed with the gui... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6464783 | Apparatus for manufacturing prepreg A method for manufacturing a prepreg in which a reinforcing substrate is impregnated with a thermosetting matrix resin. In the method, the reinforcing substrate is moved in a traveling direction. The thermosetting matrix resin is supplied to an outer circ... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6444269 | Apparatus and method for coating sheet or strip articles A coating head, and coating apparatus and methods using the coating head, for applying a solvent free coating material to a strip article advancing longitudinally in a coating line. The head includes a die having a transverse slit through which the coatin... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6432201 | Device for applying a coating substance to a continuous paper web The invention relates to a device for applying a coating substance to a continuous paper web in a process for producing abrasion-resistant laminates for manufacturing decorative paper. The coating substance consists of a viscous mixture of melamine resin ... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6413314 | Doctor rod for a coating device Known doctor rods (1) used as dosing elements in coating devices have a cylindrical steel base body on whose cover surface a chromium or ceramic layer of hard material is applied. According to the invention, the cracks and craters in the layer of hard mat... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6406751 | Apparatus and a process for preventing stalagmite formation in the paper coating operation In the paper coating operation a wet or dry edge from coating composition is formed on the, seen in the direction of movement of the paper web, downstream side of the doctor, the so-called stalagmite formation. This stalagmite formation leads to various p... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6374768 | Apparatus and process for bottom coating by extrusion An extrusion apparatus is described comprising an underside extrusion nozzle for extruding a substance onto an object from underneath the object, the nozzle comprising: a body and a manifold therein; a plurality of extrusion passages in the body extending... | 04/23/2002 |
