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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7285185 | Wet paper web transfer belt A wet paper web transfer belt comprises a base body, a wet paper web side layer, and a machine side layer. The wet paper web side layer is formed of a high molecular weight elastic section, and fibers and filler particles are exposed at its surface. The fibers and f... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7128811 | Belt for a papermaking machine A belt for a papermaking machine has minute projections and recesses randomly formed in a shoe-contacting surface of the belt by a powdery material contained in a high molecular weight elastic section formed on a base body. The surface roughness RZ of the shoe-conta... | 10/31/2006 |
| 6893682 | Method and device for single-or double-sided application A method for the application of liquid through viscid medium onto the surface of a pre-dried material web including the steps of applying a viscid medium to at least one side of the material web, routing the material web through a press nip and supporting the materi... | 05/17/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5814376 | Gravure coating systems and magnetic particles in electrochemical sensors A method for detecting the presence of a specific analyte in a sample using an immunoassay format in which magnetic particles provide the solid phase and the signal is a dopant detectable by the change in conductivity of an electroconductive polymer coati... | 09/29/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5731040 | Method for manufacturing gasket material A method for manufacturing gasket material where a metal plate is coated with a compound that includes a compressible inorganic fiber, other than asbestos, a compressible organic fiber, and rubber and an inorganic filler. In forming the gasket material, t... | 03/24/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5609920 | Method of and apparatus for coating at least one liquid medium onto a moving material web, in particular of paper or cardboard A method of coating at least one liquid medium onto a moving material web, in particular of paper or cardboard, in which method the material web is led either in a first mode of operation along a first treatment path or, in a second mode of operation, alo... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5567479 | Method and device for coating the face of a roll in a film size press A method and device for coating of the face of a roll in a film size press with a coating agent by a coating device including a coating doctor that extends across the machine width and is loaded against the face of a roll in the film size press. The coati... | 10/22/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5208076 | Full coverage printing A method for printing a web along the entire transverse width of the web, while avoiding ink build up on an impression cylinder, comprises passing the web between a printing cylinder and an anilox roll, and applying ink from the anilox roll to the web suc... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5162131 | Method and equipment for measurement and regulation of quantity of coating A method is provided for measuring and regulating the quantity of coating in surface sizing or pigmenting of paper or board, wherein the coating agent is spread by means of a coating device in the form of a film onto the face of a roll in a size press. Th... | 11/10/1992 |
| 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 |
| 4690839 | Method for manufacturing thick asphalt sheet A method for manufacturing a thick asphalt sheet comprises preparing a thick sheet material made of non-woven fabric of synthetic material, passing said sheet material through at least one pair of pressing rolls from the upper side to the lower side and f... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4492719 | Process for the production of slippery biaxially stretched polyester films A process for producing a slippery biaxially stretched polyester film, which comprises coating one or both surfaces, preferably one surface, of a running polyester film, before the completion of its crystalline orientation, with an aqueous solution or dis... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4325784 | Combined size press and breaker stack and method A combined size press and breaker stack comprising a breaker roll and a coating press roll and an intermediate roll selectively alternately shiftable into breaker nipping relation to the breaker roll or coating nip relation with the press roll, and guidin... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4259380 | Method for rigidifying textile pieces by coating with plastic A textile piece 10 to be coated with rigidizing plastic supplied by a compressing cylinder 12 is fed through a nip zone between the cylinder and a driven roller 16 by conveyors 15, 17. The compressing cylinder is mounted between pivotable levers 18, 19 co... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4066808 | Adhesive applying apparatus and method Labeling apparatus wherein a rotor rotatable about a vertical axis is provided with peripherally spaced suction pads for taking labels presented thereto in vertical positions, moving them by adhesive-applying rolls for application of adhesive thereto and ... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4051274 | Method for coating the photoresist onto a belt-like material comprising a perforated carrier and metallic foil A method for coating the photoresist by coating rollers onto a belt-like material comprising a perforated film carrier and a metallic foil laminated thereon. This belt-like material, which has so-called device holes or apertures punched off with a predete... | 09/27/1977 |
| 3941905 | Method of continuously impregnating a textile fiber arrangement with liquids A method of continuously introducing an impregnating liquid into a textile fiber arrangement, wherein the fiber arrangement is passed through a converging space formed by circumferential surfaces of a pair of discs and by lateral limiting walls for transf... | 03/02/1976 |