Patents Examined by Alain Bashore
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Patent number: 5101760Abstract: The coating device features a first applicator which, to begin with, forces coating substance applied on the shell of a web roll (1), in a press gap formed between said roll and a press roll (2), into the web (W), thereby impregnating it. This makes it possible to apply with maximum uniformity and without web breaks and wrinkles, immediately successively, a second coating layer during the still wet condition of the first layer where, naturally, again a web guide roll (3) is provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1990Date of Patent: April 7, 1992Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventor: Hans-Peter Sollinger
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Patent number: 5100705Abstract: In a coating, line a first substrate such as a vehicle body, made of a steel plate, is coated separately from a second substrate made of a different material including a plastic, such as vehicle parts, i.e., bumpers and so on, and the parts are assembled with the vehicle body. The vehicle body and parts are coated separately to form each a highly reflective surface coating. The coating is implemented by a spraying step for spraying the paint on them to form a coat; and a drying step for drying the coat. The paint is sprayed in the spraying step in a film thickness which is thicker than a thickness at which the paint sags on a surface extending at least upwardly and downwardly.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1989Date of Patent: March 31, 1992Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Takakazu Yamane, Tadamitsu Nakahama, Yoshio Tanimoto, Toshifumi Ogasawara
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Patent number: 5098743Abstract: Thermally curable liquid sealants for impregnating the pores of cast metal articles and powdered metal articles including a combination of five polymerizable components within stated percentage ranges essential to providing sealants that, when cured, have low weight loss when tested for heat resistance, low weight gain when tested for chemical resistance upon submersion in water, brake fluid and antifreeze, and superior sealability characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1989Date of Patent: March 24, 1992Assignee: Imprex, Inc.Inventor: Thomas W. Juday
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Patent number: 5096746Abstract: A nozzle, nozzle assembly and method for internally coating containers uses a dual orifice nozzle and method to direct divergent spray patterns at separate interior surface portions of the container where the coating liquid is most needed and to minimize misting, overspray and waste. The nozzle comprises a generally cylindrical body having a forward portion, a middle portion, a rear portion, a first conduit extending longitudinally therethrough terminating in a first opening disposed in the forward portion, and a second conduit extending longitudinally therethrough terminating in a second opening formed in the forward portion of the body. The first and second openings are oriented at an acute angle with respect to a central longitudinal axis of the nozzle to direct the separate sprays of coating liquid from the body generally in separate patterns diverging from the central longitudinal axis of the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1990Date of Patent: March 17, 1992Assignee: Ball CorporationInventor: Thomas C. Strizki
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Patent number: 5094892Abstract: The invention is a method of perfusing a material, such as wood, with a chemical composition that is insoluble in a given first fluid under supercritical conditions. A cosolvent is mixed with the first solvent to provide adequate solubility at supercritical conditions for the chemical composition. The method is useful for uniformly impregnating otherwise difficulty permeable materials. Impregnation of lumber or structural timbers with a preservative would be a typical use of the method.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 1991Date of Patent: March 10, 1992Assignee: Weyerhaeuser CompanyInventor: Ferhan Kayihan
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Patent number: 5094891Abstract: A manufacturing method and facility (200) is provided for applying a coating, such as hot melt wax, to vehicle structural components, such as frames (202). A pair of vertically upstanding concentric cylinders (204, 206) define an annulus (208) therebetween, a portion of which provides a thin perimeter dip tank (212) containing coating liquid (214). The frames (202) are dipped vertically into the coating liquid and transported horizontally through the thin perimeter tank.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1991Date of Patent: March 10, 1992Assignee: A. O. Smith CorporationInventor: Michael K. Wren
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Patent number: 5089305Abstract: Disclosed is a coating apparatus for applying a resist or developing solution to a semiconductor wafer. This coating apparatus comprises a plurality of nozzles supplied with various resist from a resist source and each adapted to drip the different solution onto the wafer, a vessel in which the nozzles is kept on stand-by, while maintaining the liquids in a predetermined state in the vicinity of discharge port portions of the nozzles, when the nozzles need not be operated, and a nozzle operating mechanism for selecting one of the nozzles kept on stand-by in the vessel, and transporting the selected nozzle to the location of the wafer, whereby the resist is applied to the wafer by means of only the nozzle transported by the nozzle operating mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1990Date of Patent: February 18, 1992Assignees: Tokyo Electron Limited, Tel Kyushu LimitedInventors: Mitsuru Ushijima, Osamu Hirakawa, Masami Akimoto, Yoshio Kimura, Noriyuki Anai
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Patent number: 5085892Abstract: Laundry dryer sheets having a good loading of surfactant are prepared by (1) coating an absorbent flexible substrate with a molten tert-amine oxide wherein the molecules correspond to the formula RR'R"NO.nH.sub.2 O in which R is a primary alkyl group containing 9-24 carbons; R' is methyl, ethyl, or 2-hydroxyethyl; R" is independently selected from methyl, ethyl, 2-hydroxyethyl, and primary alkyl groups containing 8-24 carbons; and n is 0, 1, or 2, at least some of the molecules being dihydrate molecules, and (2) solidifying the amine oxide.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1990Date of Patent: February 4, 1992Assignee: Ethyl CorporationInventors: Raynold J. Corona, James E. Borland, Kim R. Smith
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Patent number: 5083527Abstract: A coating apparatus and a coating rod for use in a coating apparatus with which a very thin film coating can be formed with neither stripes nor repelling of the coating liquid and with an apparatus of reduced overall size. The coating rod is formed from a cylindrical base member, made of a material such as stainless steel, iron or brass, having a smooth surface with no wire wound thereon. In accordance with the invention, the surface of the rod is subjected to a nitrifying process.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1991Date of Patent: January 28, 1992Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuhito Naruse
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Patent number: 5077093Abstract: The invention relates to an upwardly closed assembly and a simpler upwardly open assembly for uniformly loading one-piece carrier members, more particularly for catalysts, with a desired quantity of dispersions or solutions, the assembly being in the form of a cup receiving the bottom part of the carrier member and a distributor head for placing in sealing-tight manner on the carrier and having a perforated tray, formed with drip spouts at each outlet mouth, for distributing the applied liquid and, in the case of the upwardly-closed embodiment, including a cover and a number of pipes on the distributor head for supplying liquid, aerating and deaerating and a discharge pipe in the cup. The invention also relates to a method of operating the assembly and having features providing inter alia for movement of the distributor head relative to the carrier members in order to improve the distributor of liquid over the top surface of the carrier.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1990Date of Patent: December 31, 1991Assignee: Degussa AktiengesellschaftInventors: Winfried Baumgartner, Bernhard Schaeuble
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Patent number: 5075132Abstract: A coating line contains a water paint coating step for forming a coat by coating a substrate with a water paint; a pre-heating step for pre-heating the coat; and a baking step for drying the coat by baking. In the coating line, the substrate coated with an oil base solid paint is further coated with the oil base solid paint in the water paint coating step. The substrate is then transferred to the next step by bypassing the pre-heating step or by passing through the pre-heating step which is not heated by turning a pre-heating device disposed therein OFF. The coating line may be provided with an oil base clear paint coating step to thereby form an oil base clear paint coat yielding a two-layer coat. By coating the oil base solid paint in the clear paint coating step only, a one-layer coat can be given.In the clear paint coating step, an oil paint can be coated in the coating line which is provided with a second pre-heating step subsequent to the clear paint coating step yet prior to the baking step.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1989Date of Patent: December 24, 1991Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventor: Toshifumi Ogasawara
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Patent number: 5075128Abstract: Silicone application apparatus and method for applying a controlled amount of silicone emulsion to the surface of a moving web such as a continuous web in a printing press. The applicator comprises a silicone supply tank, a silicone emulsion applicator tray, a pump for pumping silicone emulsion from the supply tank to the applicator tray, and applicator rollers in contact with the silicone emulsion in the tray and the moving web to apply the silicone emulsion to the moving web. The application tray includes an operating level drain to maintain an operating level of silicone emulsion in the tray, a overflow drain at a higher level which prevents overflow of the application tray in the event that the operating level drain is clogged.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1989Date of Patent: December 24, 1991Assignee: Web Printing Controls Co., Inc.Inventors: Herman C. Gnuechtel, Brian D. Urfer, Trevor S. Baird, Mark Lake
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Patent number: 5075138Abstract: A granulating and coating method using the drying air streams to effectuate granulating, coating and drying and apparatus therefore wherein:a nozzle for supplying an article to be coated and another nozzle for supplying a coating material are provided at such positions that the article to be coated and the coating material collide with each other before the article to be coated and the coating material are dispersed by the drying air streams.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1990Date of Patent: December 24, 1991Assignee: Freund Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nagahiko Tanaka, Narimichi Takei, Kazuomi Unosawa
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Patent number: 5073409Abstract: Fine metal alloy powders coated with a protective film are disclosed which re produced by the gas atomization process. The protective films are formed during the gas atomization process by gas atomizing a molten mixture of a metal alloy containing an alloy addition agent in an atomizing gas which will selectively react with the alloy addition agent to form a thin protective film on the surface of the metal powder.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1990Date of Patent: December 17, 1991Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Iver E. Anderson, Jack D. Ayers
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Patent number: 5071683Abstract: Method and device for forming a gellified polyrethane layer on a surface, notably of a mould, by spraying a liquid reaction mixture comprising polyol and isocyanates and which has a viscosity between 20 and 2000 centipoises. The mixture is sprayed in the form of a film of liquid and/or raindrops of which the main part has a mean diameter (Medium Volume Diameter; "M.V.D.") which, according to the standards ASTM E 779-81, is larger than 100 microns and preferably larger than 500 microns.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1988Date of Patent: December 10, 1991Assignee: Gechem and RecticelInventors: Jacques Verwilst, Hugo De Winter, Andre Braeckman, Bernard De Baes
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Patent number: 5071680Abstract: The disclosure herein describes an improved method for making decorative inlaid types of sheet materials which consists of forming, on a sheet of flexible substrate, a layer of plastisol or organosol containing resinous porous particles. The improvement consists in blending the resinous porous particles with the plastisol or organosol by slow agitation, under vacuum.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1990Date of Patent: December 10, 1991Assignee: Domco Industries Ltd.Inventors: Claude L. Charest, Jean-Francois Courtoy
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Patent number: 5071671Abstract: A focused ion beam is irradiated on a predetermined area of a substrate on which a film is to be formed, and a vapor stream of film-forming depositable material is directed onto a localized area of the substrate which is being irradiated with the focused ion beam to convert the film-forming material to a film deposit on the predetermined area of the substrate. The process can be used to repair white-spot defects in masks and to otherwise deposit films having sharply defined edges and widths in the submicron range.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1989Date of Patent: December 10, 1991Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventors: Yoshitomo Nakagawa, Takashi Kaito, Hisao Houjyo, Masahiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 5067436Abstract: A coating apparatus for spray painting vehicle bodies includes a reciprocating device which carries spray guns located along a conveyor and being operated to move in back and forth directions during spraying. The coating apparatus further includes a relative speed adjusting unit which keeps the spray gun speed at a desirable level in both directions of the reciprocating spray movement, whereby an even coating is obtained. A coating method includes the step of controlling or keeping the relative speed between the article and the spray gun, substantially constant in both directions of movement of the spray gun.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1989Date of Patent: November 26, 1991Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Eiji Matsushima, Hidenori Takasaki
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Patent number: 5068133Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material produced by a process wherein an excess amount of a color developing layer coating solution or a protective layer coating solution is removed by a roll blade coater is excellent in recording machine applicability and dynamic sensitivity without bringing about streaks, pressure fogging and heat fogging on the uppermost treated surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1988Date of Patent: November 26, 1991Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills, LimitedInventors: Hisashi Matsumoto, Masaaki Takami, deceased
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Patent number: 5066519Abstract: The surface appearance of a wire or tube coated with a liquid metal may be improved by the use of a gas jet wiping nozzle of defined shape to wipe excess molten metal from the wire or tube. The nozzle has an upper annular part and a lower annular part, each of the annular parts has an upper and a lower annular surface meeting in an annular edge. Adjacent surfaces of the upper and lower annular parts define between them an annular gas passage terminating in an annular gas orifice adapted to surround a wire or tube being wiped. The included angle between the upper surface of the upper annular part and the direction of travel of gas leaving the gas orifice being smaller than (80-x).degree. and the included angle between the lower surface of the lower annular part and the direction of travel of gas leaving the gas passage being smaller than (70+x).degree.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1989Date of Patent: November 19, 1991Assignee: Australian Wire Industries Pty. LimitedInventor: Malcolm A. Robertson