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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7354479 | Coating device, and coating method using said device A coating device is provided which has a bar which coats a coating liquid on a strip-shaped body conveyed in a given direction, and a dam-shaped member disposed at an upstream side of the bar so as to face the bar. Also provided is a coating method which, in the coa... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7235134 | Coating device, and coating method using said device A coating device is provided which has a bar which coats a coating liquid on a strip-shaped body conveyed in a given direction, and a dam-shaped member disposed at an upstream side of the bar so as to face the bar. Also provided is a coating method which, in the coa... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7201946 | Print methodology for applying polymer materials to roofing materials to form nail tabs or reinforcing strips A method of making a composite roofing material and the resulting material by depositing nail tabs made of a thermoplastic, thermosetting, adhesive or elastomer material, in a liquid state, onto the base substrate of the composite roofing material or onto the satura... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7048969 | Coating device and coating method A coating device and a coating method are provided. The coating device comprises a coating station for coating a coating liquid on a band-shaped substrate running continuously, and a coat-adjusting station disposed downstream of the coating station for adjusting the... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6613386 | Apparatus and method for direct or indirect application of a liquid or pasty medium onto a traveling material web An apparatus for direct or indirect application of a liquid or pasty medium onto a traveling material web includes at least one rotatable backing roll wrapped in part by the material web and supporting a side of the material web near the backing roll. The... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6113838 | Control of metallic appearance in automotive cast paint films A thermoplastic and thermoformable pigment-containing metallic automotive paint is solvent cast and dried to form a finished metallic automotive paint coat for a decorative film used in a thermoforming process to form an exterior paint layer on a molded p... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5885656 | Coating selective zones of thin webs to change the pervious character thereof, using a shutter The process and apparatus of the present invention teaches how to treat a well-integrated woven or non-woven web of hydrophobic fibers to make selective areas hydrophyllic. It also can be used to make a web of hydrophyllic fibers selectively hydrophobic. ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5879738 | Method for fluid transport for the surface treatment of planar substrates An apparatus and method for treating the walls of apertures passing through a planar substrate with a fluid treatment solution. The method comprises placement of a pressurized fluid wedge beneath, above, or both beneath and above a planar substrate as it ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5869143 | Method and device for coating webs of material, particularly paper or cardboard webs A process for coating a web of material includes the steps of displacing the web along a path in a travel direction, applying a coating material at an application located along the path to forming a curved segment of the web, and wiping off the excess of ... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5843529 | Pre-metering rod A pre-metering rod is located between a coating applicator and an air knife, and replaces the smoothing roll in some existing air knife applications. The pre-metering rod consists of a small diameter rod of about one and one-half inches in diameter that r... | 12/01/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5733608 | Method and apparatus for applying thin fluid coating stripes A system for coating a substrate with ultra-thin layers in stripes includes moving the substrate through a coating station and forming a composite layer including coating fluids and a carrier fluid. The composite layer flows at a rate that is sufficiently... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5702760 | Process for coating running webs A coating system for material webs, specifically of paper or cardboard, includes two mutually parallel rolls directly coordinated with each other, the rolls having a mutually variable spacing such that the rolls can be positioned to create a press gap for... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5633045 | Apparatus and process for coating webs using a cylindrical applicator A coating system is disclosed comprising apparatus for coating webs comprising a rigid, elongated trough, a cylindrical applicator mounted for rotation about its axis within the trough, the trough having an arcuate upstream liquid retaining surface and an... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5607728 | Roller coating system for impregnation of multi-filament web with resin, and method of making a fiber/resin composite material An apparatus for coating a web by contact with a transfer roll partially immersed in a reservoir of coating material and rotated into resin-transferring contact with the web on a first main web surface thereof. The web in passage away from the transfer ro... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5597619 | Filtering material and method of producing the same A filtering material employable as a basic material for a sanitary mask, a deodorizing filter or the like includes as essential components calcium phosphate particles, a water soluble glucan and a sheet-shaped raw material, and the calcium phosphate parti... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5506005 | Method and assembly for preventing air entry between a moving material web and a roll Investigations have shown that curtailing the entry of air between the coater backing roll (3) and the web (5) being coated can offer a significant reduction in the number of uncoated blotches. By virtue of preventing the occurrence of such coat defects, ... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5436031 | Method for impregnating a heated, flat, fibrous substrate with synthetic resin A method for impregnating a flat, fibrous substrate penetrated by a low viscosity, fluid synthetic resin, the substrate web 1 being preheated by known device 2 and thereupon being made to pass over a friction roller 3 which is heated where called for and ... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5393566 | Recyclable plastic coated containers Recyclable containers such as corrugated or folding boxes are made from a coated paper or kraft grade sheet including a plastic coating thereon. Aqueous acrylic resin containing compositions can be applied in excess on the paper or kraft grade sheet and t... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5328735 | Process for producing fixing roller A process for producing a fixing roller comprising coating a fluorine resin dispersion onto a core by using a transfer coating apparatus comprising a transfer roller equipped with a fluorine resin dispersion temperature controller, a coating pan containin... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5296254 | Method of producing a filtering material To produce a filtering material for adsorptively capturing very fine particles such as fungus, pollen, virus, bacteria or the like at a high efficiency, an aqueous treatment solution is first prepared by dissolving porous apatite particles of 0.5 to 40% b... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5290594 | Method for production of thermoadhesive fabric coverings, thermoadhesive fabric covering A method of producing a thermoadhesive fabric covering includes applying in spots a dual coating of thermoadhesive polymers to a textile support which is then dried and cooled.... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5112428 | Wet lamination process and apparatus Apparatus for wet laminating a photopolymerizable film onto circuit board panels or other substrates. The apparatus is easily and quickly convertible from dry laminating to wet laminating with the rollers therefor mounted in bearing blocks which are inser... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5106656 | Method of hot-melt sizing of warps for weaving A hot-melt sizing agent with melting point 50°-100° C. is attached to warps inside a heated chamber at a temperature of 150° or below and at viscosity of 100 centipoise or below and the warps are thereafter bent inside the chamber by means of three or ... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5089296 | Foam saturation and release coating of a fibrous substrate A release coating is applied to a paper web or other woven or non-woven substrate in the form of a foam. A foamed saturant can also be applied to the paper web or other substrate followed by the application of a foamed or unfoamed release coating composit... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5071401 | Folding carton blank and method of forming same A modified glue flap of a folding carton blank for preventing glue from being squeezed out during the step of adhering the glue flap to the opposite end panel. The face of the glue flap engaged by the glue back-up wheel includes a protrusion near the trai... | 12/10/1991 |
| 4963397 | Paper coating system and method A paper coating system is characterized by an upstream dip roll applicator that applies an excess layer of liquid coating material onto a surface of a paper web, and an improved downstream doctor assembly for metering and leveling the coating on the web. ... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4954368 | Coating compositions A solid, aqueous paint is contained in a lidded container comprising a tray adapted to receive a roller applicator. The paint comprises as essential ingredients a latex polymer dispersion, a thickener and a structuring agent selected from natural or synth... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4929470 | Method of making decorative cast-coated paper A method of making decorative cast-coated paper including particulate matter (such as flock, fiber or metal flake) in the coating, in which the particulate matter is added to the coating prior to the application of the coating to the paper, and cast on a ... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4921729 | Two-layer coating method A multi-layer coating method in which a first layer is first applied to a moving web and is allowed to partially dry before a second layer is applied as a freely falling coating composition film.... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4892760 | Apparatus for simultaneously coating a plurality of surface type fastener tapes or like strips An apparatus for applying a coating composition to one side of each of several surface type fastener tapes in order to establish the positive anchorage of interengageable hooks or loops on the other side of the tape. Included is a coating roller partly di... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4738879 | Coating system A coating system is disclosed comprising apparatus for coating webs comprising a rigid, elongated trough, a cylindrical applicator mounted for rotation about its axis within the trough, the trough having an arcuate upstream liquid retaining surface and an... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4677002 | Apparatus and method for uniformly coating an irregular web An apparatus and method for applying a smooth uniform coating to a web (W) having variations in thickness and density and surface irregularities is disclosed. The invention includes a vertical floating pressure table (B) which supports the traveling web (... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4661399 | Polymeric-coated fabric layer, product utilizing the layer and method of making the same A polymeric-coated fabric layer, product utilizing the layer and a method of making such layer are provided, the layer being adapted to be secured to a surface of a polymeric belt body of a polymeric belt construction and comprising a fabric layer having ... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4645481 | Method and apparatus for preventing contamination by splashing glue in a carton forming machine The invention relates to a method for blowing away particles of glue in a strip-gluing unit for folding box forming machines for gluing box blanks. Compressed air is blown from the side of a gluing disc of the gluing unit at an acute angle obliquely towar... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4624813 | Elastomer-coated bias reinforcement fabric and method and apparatus for producing same An elastomer coated bias fabric for reinforcing power transmission belts and the like is disclosed wherein one face of the fabric is provided with an uncured, tacky, carboxylated elastomeric composition. In one embodiment, the fabric is prepared by pre-im... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4520048 | Method and apparatus for coating paper and the like Paper, paperboard or like permeable board is coated with a coating material and aqueous carrier liquid metered over the face thereof and a partial vacuum applied to the opposite surface as the coating is dried by heating. The vacuum improves the surface s... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4409265 | Method and apparatus for the one-sided coating of continuous metal strip In connection with a coating method and apparatus for one-sided coating of a continuous metal strip, a method and apparatus are provided for the mechanical removal of the oxide layer which forms on the uncoated side of said metal strip after said metal st... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4388863 | Scraper blades used with print rollers Print rollers are used on a flatbed screen printer to force the ink through the screen. There is provided scraper blades on either side of the roller assembly so that on the return stroke of the roller assembly some of the printing ink is brought back to ... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4313982 | Adjusting method and apparatus for a cylindrical article peripheral surface coating machine Adjusting method and apparatus for a cylindrical article peripheral surface coating machine characterize in that a coating clearance between a coating roller and a cylindrical article fitted over each mandrel on a travelling mandrel conveyor, the coating ... | 02/02/1982 |
