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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7240393 | Automatic clean device An automatic clean device includes a base body, a transmission element, a cleaning element and an elastic member. Wherein the transmission element and the cleaning element are disposed on the base body, the elastic member has an end connected to the cleaning element... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238233 | Cleaning device for a glue-spreading element A cleaning device and method is provided for a glue-spreading element, which spreads glue in a working position onto a material web, in particular a paper web, and which can be moved to a cleaning position inside the cleaning device. At least one scraper element is ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7111916 | System and method of fluid level regulating for a media coating system An apparatus for the management of the fluid level in a media coating system. In one embodiment, the apparatus has a supply item for the storage of a media coating fluid and an applicator having a trough for receiving the media coating fluid from the supply item. Th... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7107902 | Sheet-guiding device for a printing machine The invention relates to a sheet-guiding device in a printing machine. The object of the invention is to provide such a sheet-guiding device which in a printing/varnishing unit that is not involved in the printing/varnishing process, permits the smear-free passage o... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7100657 | Sheet slitter-winder A sheet slitter winder that uses a sheet slitter to slit a wide sheet into a plurality of sheets of predetermined width, and winders to wind the slit sheets onto winding cores. Touch rollers contact the winding rolls. Temporary sheet-holding means have a sheet-retai... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7047881 | Nozzles for a cleaning installation of a printing machine The nozzle has a channel (24) in which a cleaning solution is injected under pressure, and an outlet (26) through which the solution is sprayed against a cylinder. The outlet (26) is formed by a first part (23) and a second part (25 | 05/23/2006 |
| 6955721 | System and method of coating print media in an inkjet printer A coating apparatus for applying a coating liquid to a printing substrate. The coating apparatus has a rotatable first roll and a rotatable second roll, each having a surface energy. The second roll is positioned adjacent to the first roll and defines with the first... | 10/18/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6905266 | Wire wound applicator for developing fluid on a lithographic printing plate The invention relates to the application of a uniform film of a fluid to the surface of a flat workpiece as it is being conveyed through a workstation. The invention is specifically directed to the development of lithographic printing plates and comprises the applic... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6824614 | Gumming machine A gumming device (1) for applying gum (2) to an article (4), whereby the article (4) is fed along a path tangent to a lateral surface (22) of a gumming disk (13) having an inner chamber (16) communicating with a numbe... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6802903 | Apparatus for applying adhesive to tubing An apparatus and method are provided for applying adhesive to an outer circumference of a section of tubing. The apparatus includes opposed grippers with concave adhesive transfer areas that can be moved into surrounding relationship with the tubing. Adhesive dispen... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6764805 | Coating apparatus having a cascade wall and metering blade, and a cleaning and recirculation arrangement for the coating apparatus An apparatus and method for applying at least one solution of a predetermined viscosity to photosensitive material. The apparatus includes at least an application roller that applies the coating solution onto the photosensitive material. The application roller parti... | 07/20/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6675816 | Plasma CVD apparatus and dry cleaning method of the same In a parallel flat plate type plasma CVD apparatus, plasma damage of constituent parts in a reaction chamber due to irregularity of dry cleaning in the reaction chamber is reduced and the cost is lowered. In the parallel flat plate type plasma CVD apparat... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6616760 | Film forming unit The present invention is a film forming unit for discharging a coating solution from a coating solution discharge nozzle toward a substrate to form a layer on a surface of the substrate, which has a supply flow path for supplying a cleaning fluid to a dis... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6607601 | Device for tempering coatings A coating system for supplying a coating medium to sheet material in a printing press. The coating system includes a tempering system operable for influencing the temperature of both a coating medium processed through the applicator system and rinsing med... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6576059 | Chambered doctor blade system for water-based and UV-based coatings A chambered doctor blade apparatus provides an automatic system for cleanup and replacement of coating substance, as well as operating a hydraulic head loading system that includes hydrostatic compensation, and integrates the head loading mechanism into t... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6521043 | Device for cleaning a gumming applicator A gumming applicator (1) rotatable about a central axis (A) is cleaned by a device (4) comprising a nozzle (13) connected to a source (11) of pressurized fluid (50) and calibrated so as to deliver an atomized jet (14) which is directed at the gumming appl... | 02/18/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6471774 | Automated priming station The automated system includes a fluid dispenser having an applicator tip which is used to apply a fluid to an object. A compliance mechanism is utilized to assist in maintaining the applicator tip of the fluid dispenser in contact with the object during t... | 10/29/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6464784 | Coating apparatus having a coating, recirculation and cleaning arrangement An apparatus and method for applying at least one coating solution of a predetermined viscosity to a photosensitive material. The apparatus includes at least an application roller which is adapted to apply the coating solution onto the photosensitive mate... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6426119 | Coating method employing die enclosure system The coater apparatus enclosure encloses the entire die of a coating apparatus includes an enclosure structure, a saturation station which saturates a supply gas with solvent, a device which supplies solvent-saturated gas to the enclosure to continuously p... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6423138 | Coating apparatus having a cascade wall and metering blade, and a cleaning and recirculation arrangement for the coating apparatus An apparatus and method for applying at least one solution of a predetermined viscosity to photosensitive material. The apparatus includes at least an application roller that applies the coating solution onto the photosensitive material. The application r... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6309463 | Device for direct or indirect application of liquid or viscous coating medium onto a moving material web A device for direct or indirect application of a liquid or viscous coating medium onto a moving material web, specifically a paper or cardboard web, includes an applicator unit which, in the direct application method, applies the coating medium in the for... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6296898 | Method and system for manufacturing magnetic recording medium To prevent the quality of a magnetic recording medium from deteriorating due to a pressed mark caused by scattered paint tailings or residue of paint tailings when applying magnetic paint to a substrate in manufacturing a magnetic medium. In the step of a... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6214111 | Die edge cleaning system A method and apparatus for coating a moving web with a coating fluid. The coating die has at least one feed slot for supplying the coating fluid to the moving web and a front face demarked from the at least one feed slot by a die edge. A guide mechanism g... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6210480 | Device for wet coating, in particular printed circuit boards, with lacquer A device for wet coating, in particular printed circuit boards, with lacquer using at least one applicator roller (20, 21) and sparing at least one edge area of the printed circuit boards. The device uses a doctor blade arrangement situated between a lacq... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6110281 | Preconditioning means for non-woven rolls A coating apparatus for controlling processing medium on and in non-woven rollers and on material adapted to pass through rollers is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a pair of non-woven rollers having generally parallel axes and having a porous, general... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6059881 | Coater blades and their manufacturing methods A coater blade and backing roll combination contains a coater blade having an elastic steel blade with a wear-resistant coating formed thereon. The wear-resistant coating has a hardness greater than that of the elastic steel blade and is provided on an ed... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5863331 | IPC (Chip) termination machine A machine for terminating a computer chip with one or more stripes of a solderable paste, comprising a feed plate wheel defined by an outer marginal edge and having an upper exposed plate surface inclined to the horizontal against which an inventory of 3-... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5826296 | Roll cleaning assembly In a roll cleaning assembly devised to remove liquid material continuously from the cylindrical surface of a rotating roll, for example from a compression roll (3) in a coating machine, a blade holder (5) which releasably retains a doctor blade (7) is mou... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5806136 | Device in the operation of a doctor in a paper/board machine A method and device in the operation of a doctor blade in a paper machine/board machine in which different quantities of lubricating medium are supplied into different areas in the longitudinal direction, i.e., along the width, of the doctor blade, indepe... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5795386 | Apparatus for applying a coating layer to a substrate web A device for applying a coating layer to a substrate web comprises an application roll for applying the coating layer to the substrate web, a counterpressure roll interacting with the application roll in order to support a substrate web passing through be... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5792266 | Hot immersion coating of steel sheet surfaces A device for coating steel sheet surfaces by hot immersion in continuous coating lines, is provided, including several driving rollers disposed against the surface of the sheet to be coated, complemented by tensioning rollers and an inert gas stream, in t... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5772762 | Apparatus for application of coating color on a profiled edge or on a straight edge area of a workpiece Apparatus for application of coating color on a profiled edge or straight edge area of a workpiece, includes a motor-driven applicator roll for coating the workpiece, with the applicator roll having a diameter in the range of 200 to 300 mm for effecting a... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5759279 | Pilot coater A pilot coater for applying a coating on a moving web sample is formed by a backup roll, a transfer roll and a coating flow metering system metering coating flow onto the transfer roll. A pneumatic actuating system holds the transfer roll in a ready posit... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5720850 | Process and device for the application of an adhesive The invention pertains to a process for the operation of a mouthpiece for the intermittent supply of an adhesive through at least one discharge opening to a surface moving with respect to this mouthpiece, where at least in the pauses between discharges, t... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5705447 | Oil absorbing cleaning member A cleaning device for cleaning a recording material bearing member has a surface contacting with the recording material bearing member. The surface as a non-woven cloth including fibers having an average thickness of below 10 μm and 70% or more of said f... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5702525 | Paint roller device An improved paint roller device includes a semi-enclosed trough for holding paint, a paint roller disposed in the trough, a uniform roller above the paint roller and in contact therewith, a roller next to the uniform roller and in contact therewith, and a... | 12/30/1997 |
