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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7625608 | Method for forming glossy and matt zones during printing of a can body Method for forming glossy and matt surface zones during printing of a can body in a production line comprising: a priming varnishing machine for applying a priming layer to the can body, a printing machine for appl... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7175881 | Apparatus and method for bowling lane maintenance A bowling lane maintenance apparatus includes a transfer roller and a dressing oil tank configured to contain dressing oil. A wick is configured to pass dressing oil from the tank to the transfer roller. A buffer brush is configured to receive dressing oil from the ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 5851592 | Apparatus and method for applying coating materials to individual sheet members Sheets to be coated with water-based coating material, for example a primer and a low adhesion backsize, are supplied from a feeder (1), in end-to-end overlapping relationship, to a dual coater (3) in which the sheets are coated individually on both sides... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5849358 | Apparatus and method for applying coating materials to individual sheet members Sheets to be coated with water-based coating material, for example a primer and a low adhesion backsize, are supplied from a feeder (1), in end-to-end overlapping relationship, to a dual coater (3) in which the sheets are coated individually on both sides... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5759278 | Liquid applying apparatus and an image forming substance removing apparatus An image forming substance removing apparatus for preventing an unstabilizing liquid from being excessively applied to a sheet material unnecessarily, preventing a bad state of transporting the sheet material, and not requiring a long time for drying the ... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5565260 | Method and apparatus for coating strip material and ornamentally coated material produced thereby A method for coating strip material by applying polymer resin having a high solids content to at least one face of strip material with a coating roll having a pattern of grooves in the surface of the roll and curing the polymer resin on said strip.... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5549928 | Process of making absorbent structures and absorbent structures produced thereby A process for making an absorbent structure having a capillary substrate and regions of osmotic absorbent on the capillary substrate. The osmotic absorbent is cured from a liquid precursor applied to the capillary substrate. The capillary substrate has re... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5472744 | Method for coating a metallic substrate with an oily substance A method for coating a metallic substrate with an oily substance. Use is made of a support member having a ceramic coating comprising an oxide ceramic material, onto which is applied the oily substance to form a film of the oily substance uniformly coveri... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5458926 | Gummer roll apparatus A gumming roll preferably for use with apparatus for applying gum to blanks and pertains, has rollers in skidding contact for returning excess adhesive to an adhesive pan without substantial foaming of the adhesive.... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5407702 | Method for coating a metal strip A method for extrusion coating both sides of a metal strip. A metal strip, such as aluminum alloy strip, is moved through a pre-conditioner, two extrusion dies, a post heater and a cooling system. Both sides of the strip are coated with thin coatings of p... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5376404 | Method of coating ridged plates, particularly printed circuit boards Method for applying liquid varnish coating over raised conductor pattern of a printed circuit board. The circuit board is passed through nip rolls at least one of which has a coating of liquid varnish thereon. The thickness of the coating on the nip roll ... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5310573 | Method of controlling thickness of coated film on web-like member by roll coater A paint in a paint pan is picked up through a gap hPA formed between a pickup roll and an applicator roll, part of the paint is attached to the applicator roll and delivered to a sheet as a supply flow rate qA. The film thickness coa... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5180612 | Apparatus and method for progressively coating a cylinder A coating apparatus is provided with a front roller and a rear roller which rotate in the same rotational sense and opposite to direction of rotation of a parallel cylinder to be coated with fluid material which hardens to a resilient coating thereon. A r... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5160763 | Glue applicator apparatus and method This invention involves a system for minimizing the formation of glue drops on picks used to separate a sheet from the surface of a glue applicator drum from which a coating of adhesive is applied to the sheet. Spreader means are provided to wipe from the... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5122396 | Method and device for limitation of the width of coating of paper The invention concerns a device and method for limiting of the width of coating in coating of paper or board. The coating agent is spread onto a moving base to be coated by means of a coating device provided with a grooved coating bar. The coating agent i... | 06/16/1992 |
| 4976986 | Ink recording medium regenerating method Disclosed is a method for regenerating an ink recording medium formed by successively laminating an anisotropic electrically conductive layer, a heating resistor layer for generating heat in response to application of an electric signal, an electrically c... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4961964 | Method for coating a web with wet ink thereon A convertible coating apparatus provides one or two side coating of a web having wet ink thereon to permit both printing and coating to be carried out prior to any drying operation. The apparatus includes a coating applicator roller in contact with a rela... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4937121 | Process for preparing polymeric materials for application to printed circuits A process for preparing curable, aqueous strippable, polymeric materials for application, in succession, as masks, to a specific area of each of a plurality of printed circuit boards that is to be protected from the stripping and plating processes associa... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4898752 | Method for making coated and printed packaging material on a printing press Unbleached paper and paperboard for use as outer packaging material is coated and printed on a printing press. The unbleached rawstock must be relatively smooth and nonporous prior to coating and printing with a Sheffield roughness less than about 300 uni... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4808445 | Coating apparatus and method A coating apparatus is disclosed for applying a coating material to the surface of a paper web. The coating apparatus includes a backing roll and an applicator roll which cooperates with the backing roll for defining therebetween a gap for the passage the... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4786532 | Flexographic press applied paper color coating This process is directed to the coloration of envelope and stationery grades of white paper stocks with a water based ink coating. Characteristics of the flexographic process include both press and ink specifications. Critical mechanical or material chara... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4662965 | Adhering heat sensitive labels to containers with hot melt adhesives In order to apply "hot melt" adhesives to thin plastic film labels for glass containers without distorting the labels, a "hot melt" adhesive which is thixotropic is melted at 350° F. and is continuously worked to maintain its viscosity at a fairly low le... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4571351 | Method for coating back-cloth with a powdery synthetic product With known methods for coating back-cloth with a synthetic powdery product, the back-cloth is subjected to heat treatments; either the length of cloth is used as a heat conveyor, or it is traversed by heat radiation. The present method allows to avoid thi... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4407867 | Apparatus and a method for the completely automatic lacquering of strip-form materials The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the completely automatic lacquering of strip-form materials, whereby at least one unwinding device is provided with a fast running positioning device, an application roller and an opposing pressure ro... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4378390 | Process of coating a metal strip with high-viscosity coating material An apparatus for applying a coating of high-viscosity coating material onto a metal strip at high speed, wherein the apparatus has a roll having recesses or grooves thereon; a supplying source for forcedly filling the coating material in the recesses or groove... | 03/29/1983 |
| 4347269 | Method of and apparatus for applying a coating to a web of sheet material In an offset gravure web coating method and apparatus, coating composition is applied from a gravure roll to a transfer roll, thence to an applicator roll, and finally to the web. The web moves in the same direction as the applicator roll surface. The rat... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4282275 | Coating method apparatus for capsular coatings A metered film of a fluid coating composition (10) having solids suspended therein, such as a fluid composition containing rupturable microcapsules, is formed on a doctored gravure supply roll (12) and applied to a soft rubber applicator roll (20). The su... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4271216 | Method for coating a cylindrical can body A cylindrical can being transported along a vertical circular passageway is passed through a first application zone where a part of the given amount of white paint is applied to all the outer surface of the can body and then advanced to a second applicati... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4251566 | Gum thickness regulator A device for regulating the thickness of gum applied to a paper product comprising means applying gum to said paper product, means for detecting the thickness of the gum being applied to said paper product and producing a control signal which varies with ... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4246301 | Web coater A traveling web coater for applying a smooth uniform layer of liquid coating of controlled weight onto the surface of a traveling web including a gate coater having a plurality of gate rolls for metering and applying coating to a traveling web supported o... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4245583 | Mechanism to transfer a viscous coating medium A viscous coating such as ink or material for surfacing a medium is transferred under pressure from a pressure chamber within a wetting container through a regulating opening and impinges on the surface of a transfer roller in such manner that the flow fr... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4216252 | Solventless release coating A novel process is disclosed for the manufacture of a release "paper" which is based on the application of a fluid silicone composition to a paper substrate. The silicone fluid is directly applied without any solvent and without emulsification. The applic... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4198446 | Apparatus for the manufacture of a dual coated manifold sheet with pressure-rupturable materials A method and apparatus for the preparation of a manifold sheet having a relatively smooth, curl-free coating of a reactive composition on one side of a manifold sheet and a relatively smooth curl-free coating of rupturable encapsulated material on the opp... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4139656 | Printing and coating method This invention relates to a method and apparatus, for applying a first and second coating to the exterior surface of a can. The apparatus comprises a mandrel rotatably mounted on a pivotable arm, so that pivoting of the arm carries a can on the mandrel to... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4135960 | Total image transfer process Process for transferring overlayed multiple ink patterns from the surface of a release blanket to a receiving surface on a container or other formed article being printed. A substantially transparent film is first formed on the release blanket, with each ... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4112189 | Process for multi-color valley printing and embossing of flooring material and the like and flooring material made by said process A process for multi-color valley printing and embossing of thermoplastic sheets and the like is provided wherein the number of colors that may be printed on such sheets simultaneously with the embossing operation exceeds the number of different color inks... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4060651 | Method for applying stiffener to computer paper Stiffeners in the form of spaced, narrow bands or lines of flowable, quick-setting material are applied to one side of a moving paper web to be used as computer paper. The stiffeners are applied either immediately before or during the time the paper web i... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4051277 | Rigid-when-wet paperboard containers and their manufacture Rigid-when-wet, but foldable, corrugated paperboard and process of making same by applying phenolic resin to contiguous surfaces of the outer liner, the medium, and the inner liner without substantially altering the hygroscopicity of the exposed faces of ... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4029833 | Web coating apparatus Apparatus and method for applying extremely thin coatings of liquid materials entering the apparatus at a viscosity in the range of up to 10,000 centipoises absolute viscosity through a combination of factors involving the use of at least four rolls of de... | 06/14/1977 |
