Abstract: A method for applying brazing material to a metal structure includes applying a sticky material maintaining adhesiveness up to temperatures of at least 180.degree. C. and preferably above 200.degree. C., to at least a subregion of the structure. Then brazing powder is applied which continues to adhere to the sticky material. After the application of the brazing powder but before an actual brazing process, the structure is heat treated without the brazing powder falling out during the heat treatment or during ensuing handling steps. The heat treatment may be a heat-degreasing of the structural parts that do not have or do not yet have brazing material applied to them.

Abstract: Composite coatings are provided having a variable thickness and a gradient coloration in the cross-web direction using a premetered extrusion coating process wherein a pigmented coating composition and a non-pigmented coating composition are simultaneously extruded onto a carrier film. The composite coatings are useful in preparing laminated structures such as automobile windshields with a colored gradient band.

Abstract: Proposed is an improved heat-sealable connector having aligned lines of an electroconductive paste formed by screen printing on the surface of a flexible substrate. Different from conventional heat-sealable connectors, the electroconductive lines are not formed directly on the surface of the substrate but the substrate surface is first provided with a layer of a solvent-absorptive material and the electroconductive lines are formed on the solvent-absorptive layer by screen printing so that the screen-printed lines of the paste never cause running to broaden the line width by virtue of immediate absorption of the solvent in the paste into the solvent-absorptive layer to contribute not only to the productivity but also to the quality of the product connectors.

Abstract: A multi color wire marker comprises a base, a slideway, a carriage housing to which are mounted rollers for respectively feeding and gathering hot foil colored tape, a main ram housing and an anvil against which a wire to be marked is supported. A plurality of rollers carrying different colored tapes are mounted on the carriage housing whereby anyone of the colored tapes can be chosen to mark the wire by indexably moving the carriage housing until the appropriate tape is lying between the ram and the anvil. The ram which is heated to an adjustable temperature is then pressed against the tape which presses the wire against the anvil, the heat and pressure making colored products mounted on the tape melt off and color mark the wire.

Abstract: A hot melt adhesive polymer is applied to a diaper backsheet by an aligned series of meltblowing units which are selectively operable to apply the coating in the desired geometry on the diaper backsheet.

Abstract: This present invention provides an element for controlling release of a quaternary disinfectant in aqueous solutions comprising a substrate coated with the residue of an aqueous composition of a water soluble polymer and a quaternary ammonium disinfectant characterized in that the water soluble polymer has weight average molecular weight of 85,000 to 186,000 and a degree of hydrolysis of 87 to 89 percent.

Abstract: A packaging material for reclosable bags and methods for making same. The material includes a standard packaging material substrates including an initial seal layer, typically for forming a heat seal. A layer of a secondary seal material, typically a tacky material such as a pressure sensitive adhesive is applied in localized areas corresponding to the seal area for the bag. The initial seal layer may have a reduced thickness in this localized area to reduce thickness variation in the finished material. An outer seal layer is provided over the secondary seal area. This outer seal layer may be localized to cover only the secondary seal layer. The outer seal layer may additionally or alternatively have a reduced thickness in the localized area of the secondary seal layer to again reduce thickness variation. Various process are available for providing the layers. In one embodiment, the secondary and outer seal layers are applied by use of a ribbon coater.

Abstract: A method for producing a linear pattern having a width less than 100 microns and a resistivity of the order of 10.sup.-6 .OMEGA..multidot.cm on a substrate includes maintaining a low melting point metal in a fused state, applying the fused metal to a tip of a drawing head disposed close to or in contact with a substrate by capillary action, applying the fused metal to the substrate in a line with a width less than 100 microns while moving the tip of the drawing head relative to the substrate, and cooling and solidifying the fused metal as a linear pattern on the substrate.

Abstract: An exhaust sensor having a substrate including first and second portions, the first portion comprising a dielectric material, the second portion comprising an electrolyte material and a transition zone interposed between the first and second portions. The transition zone includes an increasing concentration of the dielectric material in the direction of the first portion of the substrate and an increasing concentration of the electrolyte material in a direction towards the second portion of the substrate. The invention also includes a method of making such an exhaust sensor substrate including the steps of co-depositing first and second amenable compositions, the first composition comprising a dielectric material and the second composition comprising an electrolyte material. The co-deposited compositions are fired together to form the substrate having first, second and transition portions as described above.

Abstract: An analysis element for the determination of an analyte in a liquid sample, especially for medicinal uses. A carrier layer (2) contains, in a reagent domain (4), a reagent applied in a defined pattern by an ink-jet process. The pattern comprises several sets (A, B, C) of compartments (11-20), the compartments (e.g. 11, 13, 15, 17, 19) of the same set (e.g. A) having the same chemical composition, the compartments (11, 13, 15, 17, 19 or 12, 16, 20) of different sets (A or B) containing different reagents and the compartments of different sets being arranged in alteration so that the compartments containing different reagents are close together but nevertheless spatially separated.

Abstract: This invention relates to the treatment of substrates with fluidized material in repetitive patterns during application cycles. The treatment patterns made with this invention can be altered by changing machine operating parameters. The patterns of fluidized material are applied to substrates using intermittent charges of compressed air. The intermittent charges of compressed air pass through a venturi slot which creates a region of low pressure in the charges adjacent to a region where the fluidized material accumulates between application cycles. This region of low pressure helps to entrain the fluidized material in the charge of compressed air. After the fluidized material is entrained in the charge of compressed air, the charge deposits the fluidized material on the substrate.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the sizing of a shaped extended element having a longitudinal axis and including lateral surfaces extending substantially parallel to axis. The apparatus includes a wheel rotatable about an axis and with the wheel including at least one planar ring-shaped surface extending perpendicular to the axis of the wheel and centered on the surface. The ring-shaped surface is adapted to cooperate with the lateral surface of the shaped elongated element during a displacement of the wheel relative to the element along an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the element. A coating means is adapted to deposit, at least on the outer circumference of the wheel a sufficient amount of glue for allowing a sizing of the lateral surface of the shaped element.

Abstract: A flowable substance is applied to at least one predetermined area of a major surface of a plate-shaped fuel cell component by directing at least one stream of the flowable substance toward a predetermined zone that is situated in a plane along which the major surface of the component extends, facing the stream. The size of the predetermined zone is smaller than that of the predetermined area, and relative movement along the plane is effected between the component and the predetermined zone in such a manner that at least the entire predetermined area of the major surface gradually advances through the predetermined zone in a predetermined advancement direction and path. The stream is controlled in such a manner that it is in existence only while the zone is completely within the predetermined area, and until the zone has coincided with all of the predetermined area.

Abstract: A method for film coated passivation of individual grooves or channels in an array of closely spaced grooves or channels of a workpiece, for example, ink channels in a printhead employed in an ink jet printer device; includes the steps of placing the workpiece on a rotation plate having a rotational center, securing the workpiece to the rotation plate with the grooves directed radially outward from the rotational center of the rotation plate, placing resin upon the workpiece in the vicinity of the grooves, and spinning the rotation plate to cause the resin to migrate along the surfaces of the grooves and thereby coating them.

Abstract: This invention relates to the treatment of substrates with fluidized material in repetitive patterns during application cycles. The treatment patterns made with this invention can be altered by changing machine operating parameters. The patterns of fluidized material are applied to substrates using an applicator drum. Machined in the outer surface of the applicator drum are a plurality of slots filled with deformable material. The deformable material extends to a position in each slot just short of the outside diameter of the applicator drum, leaving a cavity in each slot. These cavities are filled with slurry in a slurry applicator unit. A compression drum mounted within the hollow interior of the applicator drum uses compression tips to displace the deformable material in each slot in succession beyond the periphery of applicator drum at a position adjacent to the substrate, causing the slurry in the cavity to be applied to the substrate.

Abstract: Two different colored fabric paints are placed in separate sections of a single container so that a two color stripe may be dispensed and applied to the fabric. One bottle has no partition between the paints. In three other elliptically-shaped bottles, a partition extends generally across the shorter dimensions of the container cross section. The partition is directly on the minor axis in one bottle, is angled with respect to the minor axis in a second, and has a Z-shape in a third.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for painting traffic marking lines over old paint markings on road pavement is disclosed. The apparatus, normally installed on a marking vehicle having a paint gun and a paint supply, includes a detector which illuminates the pavement and utilizes a spectroscope to analyze the return inspection for the presence of one or more known preselected constituents of the old paint marking to control actuation of the valve on the paint gun and also track the old pavement marking. The apparatus also provides a paint gun delay function to account for the lead distance between detector and paint gun and enables the application of new paint markings directly over the old markings at a relatively high rate of vehicle speed.

Abstract: A method of providing localized corrosion protection to products manufactured of sheet metal wherein coils of sheet metal are passed through a coil coating line wherein one or more stripes of corrosion resistant material are applied to selected areas along both the upper and lower surfaces of the metal prior to the metal being cut, punched, or bent to form a product having predetermined portions of its surface area coated. In one embodiment, a selected corrosion resistant coating is applied to galvanized sheet metal prior to the metal being punched and formed into sheet metal fasteners having coated heads but uncoated shanks.

Abstract: A method of removing paint and other coatings from large and small substr structures includes applying to the surface of the structure a compound capable of coupling with microwave radiation in the wavelength range 10.sup.-3 to 0.3 meters for causing pyrolysis of the paint.

Abstract: A method of producing an ion sensitive working electrode for a heavy metal ion sensor, the ion sensitive working electrode including a mixture of Ag.sub.2 S and MeS in which Me represents a heavy metal to be determined in a solution to be measured, the method including applying a conductive layer onto a substrate using at least one thick-film technique selected from the group consisting essentially of screen printing and film casting; applying a layer comprised of a plurality of juxtaposed sections on top of the conductive layer, each section of the plurality of juxtaposed sections being comprised of a mixture of Ag.sub.

Abstract: An interior-finishing material for use in automobiles including a substrate made of a needled glass-fiber sheet containing a thermoplastic resin binder, with the said needled glass-fiber sheet being mainly composed of glass fiber, a heat-fusible adhesive layer with air permeability disposed on the substrate, and a surface layer with air permeability disposed on the adhesive layer, and the substrate further contains expanded microbeads.

Abstract: A method for buffing an annulation comprising a step of rotating the annulation while holding the annulation, a step of partially grinding a surface of the annulation with a grinder unit, and a step of applying blue paint to the ground surface of the annulation. A buff apparatus used therefor comprises an annulation holding section, a grinder unit having a rough grinder and a finishing grinder, and a paint unit. The rough grinder and the finishing grinder on the grinder unit are driven by one cooperating shaft, and the grinder unit is capable of pivoting by 180 degrees. The paint unit is a transfer-roller-type and applies blue paint only to the ground surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of an electroconductive polymeric material, comprising the steps of forming fine grooves in a substrate, embedding a polymerization reaction catalyst in the fine grooves, and bringing a monomer capable of forming an electroconductive polymeric material into contact with the catalyst embedded in the fine grooves to selectively form fine wiring of the electroconductive polymeric material in the grooves. According to this process, a polymeric material oriented in the longitudinal direction of the fine grooves can be prepared, and therefore, a polymeric material having an excellent electroconductivity can be provided.

Abstract: A resin-sandwiched metal laminate, a process and apparatus for producing the same and a process for producing a resin film for the resin-sandwiched metal laminate are disclosed. The laminate comprises a pair of face and back metal sheets and a resin layer and is capable of passing electricity between the face and back metal sheets, the resin layer being composed of electroconductive filler-containing resin regions at the side edges of the resin layer in the width direction of the metal sheets and an electroconductive filler-free resin center region provided between the electroconductive filler-containing resin regions at the side edges.

Abstract: A method of forming a gummed band on a web of paper (1) is provided. A marginal band (7) forming a seam is projected by one (10) of two devices (10, 11) under the action of compressed-air pressure, the air being pre-heated (20) and passing into a feed line (19), whereas an inside gummed band (6) is formed by the other device (11) fed with cold compressed air through a duct (21). An adhesive is contained in a reservoir (8), kept under pressure by means of a tube (12), and reaches the projection device through another duct (9).

Abstract: Method and apparatus for applying a programmable pattern to a succession of moving objects, comprising a microprocessor for storing a user defined value representing the length of the pattern, a clock for generating a series of pulses and a photo-eye for detecting the presence of the succession of moving objects. Upon detecting the presence of a first one of the moving objects, a set-up mode gate is enabled for transmitting the clock pulses to a first divider circuit. The first divider circuit divides the number of transmitted clock pulses by the user defined value and in response generates and stores a first count value. Upon detecting the presence of subsequent moving objects, a run mode gate transmits successive predetermined numbers of clock pulses to a second divider circuit. The second divider circuit divides the successive predetermined numbers of clock pulses by a first count value and in response generates successive further count values.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of applying a coating to a substrate is provided. A liquid resin is introduced into a first region at a predetermined pressure. The liquid resin is maintained within a first pressure range in the first region. Next, the flow of the resin from the first region to a second region is controlled so as to bring the resin from the first pressure range to a second pressure range, the pressures in the second pressure range being lower than the pressures in the first pressure range. The liquid resin is then applied at a pressure within the second pressure range to the substrate at a third region adjacent the second region.

Abstract: A resin-sandwiched metal laminate, a process and apparatus for producing the same and a process for producing a resin film for the resin-sandwiched metal laminate are disclosed. The laminate comprises a pair of face and back metal sheets and a resin layer and is capable of passing electricity between the face and back metal sheets, the resin layer being composed of electroconductive filler-containing resin regions at the side edges of the resin layer in the width direction of the metal sheets and an electroconductive filler-free resin center region provided between the electroconductive filler-containing resin regions at the side edges.

Abstract: There is disclosed a head for use in an apparatus for coating a sheet member which comprises a first body portion, securable at a predetermined spacing from the surface to be coated, a coating blade securable to the first body portion and projecting towards said surface to be coated and a second body portion which is resiliently mounted with respect to the first body portion and which, in use, defines with the sheet material with which it is in contact and with the blade, a coating pool which is fed by a coating reservoir and from which the coating composition is applied to the sheet material. Also disclosed is an apparatus including the head and a method of coating a sheet material with the head.

Abstract: A strip or roll of thermal transfer type recording sheet has a base film on one side of which a hot-melt ink layer is formed for recording on paper or other surface by thermal transfer. An end mark or marks to be detected optically for warning the user of the fact that the recording roll is being used up is/are formed adjacent one end of the strip by gravure printing with use of a light-reflective ink. The end mark or marks produced by gravure printing are of such constant thickness, and with the bounding edges so sharply defined, that they permit positive detection by an optical sensor.For the production of the end marks by gravure printing, a web of base film with the hot-melt ink layer formed on one side thereof, with a width several times greater than that of each strip of recording sheet to be manufactured, is fed through a printing unit of a gravure printing section.

Abstract: 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 upstream surface of the drum at least a major portion of the adhesive that lies in the path of each pick.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a pleated expandable and collapsible multi-cell product for window coverings and the like. A web of material is accordion folded widthwise to form a series of web panels united in alternate succession along first and second creased folds disposed at respective first and second sides of the web. Successive panels are advanced in an unfolded condition lengthwise of the web through an adhesive applying zone to an inlet end of a refold stack and adhesive is applied to each web panel, in a band parallel to and spaced from the associated creased fold with a preceding panel. The web panels having adhesive applied thereto are refolded in succession along the associated creased fold with a preceding panel onto the inlet end of the refold stack.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for the continuous marking of electric strands with which annular markings, which are limited in axial direction, are applied to the surface of the strands by means of color jets. The color jets emerge under pressure from at least one nozzle which is driven by an electrical oscillation system, the frequency of which is controlled proportionally to a rate of withdrawal of the strands. For an easy changing of the axial distance between the markings, square pulses are fed to the oscillation system from a converter which converts electrical d.c. voltage into a square waveform signal at a specific frequency. The square waveform drives the oscillation system at the specific frequency. As a desired value, the converter is fed a d.c. voltage which is proportional to the rate of withdrawal of the strand.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying coating material in the form of stripes onto a film traveling in a predetermined direction is provided with a coating material nozzle which effuses coating material while supporting the film. The contact support surface of the nozzle in contact with the film is a flat surface, along which the film travels. The coating material nozzle has thereon applicator grooves for uniformly forming the cross-sectional shape of coating material applied in the form of stripes onto the film. Effusion ports or discharge ports for coating material are provided in the bottom surface of the applicator grooves. Coating material is fed to the coating material nozzle through a gear pump, which is adapted to control the coating material supply so that the coating material within the applicator grooves has a pressure lower than atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the dynamic contact angle of a coating on a discrete web segment includes a rotatable coating wheel around which the web segment is mounted and a syringe which produces a coating bead having no edge bead. The interface between the coating and the web is viewed in a plane parallel to the axis and the surface of the coating wheel and the contact angle is measured.

Abstract: A method for depositing liquid material onto a workpiece in the form of a deposit having a desired conformation wherein the material is discharged under pressure from the nozzle of a dispensing gun which can be manipulated by a robot to lay the deposit according to a programmed pattern on the workpiece. One or more gas jets are directed toward the material after the material is discharged from the nozzle to impart a desired conformation to the material deposited on the workpiece. The flow rate of the gas jets is controlled in accordance with the liquid flow rate to maintain substantial uniformity of the conformation of the deposit. The flow rate of the gas jets may also be controlled with reference to a tool speed signal which varies according to the relative speed between the nozzle and the workpiece as well as an auxiliary signal the latter of which can be used to selectively alter the conformation of the deposit.

Abstract: A coating material and apparatus in which the edge portions of the web being coated are supported off the edge portions of the coating head. In one embodiment, recesses are formed in the edge portions of the coating head, while in another embodiment a fluid is jetted towards the edge portions of the web. With the invention, scratching and the like of the edge portions of the web are eliminated, and the web is coating to a uniform thickness in the width direction thereof.

Abstract: A pinstripe painting guide is fabricated by attaching a magnetic flexible guide rail to a hollow flexible support member by mating a channel to a T-shaped male mating member. This assembly is then attached to a surface to be painted and adjusted to provide an appropriate contour. The ends of the hollow support member are then plugged and the hollow support member is then flooded with a hardenable liquid such as fiberglass resin. When the liquid cures, the resulting tool is rigid and can be used for repeated application of similar pinstripes to the same type of surface. This process, for example, can be used to produce such a guide assembly for a particular model of automobile.

Abstract: A coating process for an apparatus for applying plastic coatings onto a planar substrate which includes an elongate coating head defining therein an elongate distribution channel having a length corresponding to a width of a substrate to be coated, the coating head also defining a coating gap for discharging a coating material from the distribution channel. First and second supply channels are respectively connected between respective pumps and different portions of the distribution channel for respectively supplying first and second coating materials to the distribution channel. A mixing zone is formed in the distribution channel by a partition or a hollow conical body, each of which forms a mixing gradient extending along the length of the mixing zone. Ideally, the pumps for the first and second coating materials provide these materials with the same pressure within the mixing zone.

Abstract: A patterned gluing apparatus and method. The apparatus comprises a rotatable shaft supporting a plurality of glue nozzles arrangeable in different configurations about its periphery. The shaft has a hollow portion and holes communicating with the glue nozzles so that glue may be fed to the nozzles. The shaft is supported above an article conveyor so that the glue nozzles contact articles under the shaft as they are rotated past. The glue nozzles have depressable ball bearings closing off their tips so that they dispense glue on contact with an article. A controller monitors the position of the articles on the conveyor and controls rotation of the shaft so that lines and dots of glue are dispensed to programmed locations on the articles.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of making a sheet material adapted to make bonded electrical connections to an array of closely-spaced conductive terminal pads. The method comprises the steps of providing a thin, flexible, insulating substrate, and squirting a plurality of fine molten strands onto the substrate to form metal strands. The metal strands individually have a cross-section with an area of about 100 to 100,000 .mu.m.sup.2 and the cross-section having a flat section and an arcuate portion. An adhesive or conductive adhesive may be coated over the metal strands, or the adhesive may be provided on the substrate and the conductors imbedded into the adhesive by pressure or heat-sinking the conductors into the adhesive layer.

Abstract: A coating head assembly for applying a coating material to a web, comprises an applicator block; a paint reservoir defined in the applicator block for the storage of the coating material; and a generally elongated nozzle integral with the applicator block and extending in a direction substantially transverse to the direction of transportation of the web. A free edge of the nozzle opposite to the applicator block has a generally curved nozzle face. This nozzle face has a plurality of applicator grooves defined therein in communication with the paint reservoir. During the passage of the web in sliding contact with the nozzle face, the coating material is supplied outwardly from the applicator grooves for the transfer thereof onto the web, resulting in the formation of a striped pattern of the coated layer on the web.

Abstract: A printing method wherein an image-impressing device impresses on an axially elongate substrate surface by flat-bed table-top printing an apparently continuous major stripe of constant width and straight edges in excess of the length of the image-impressing device by repeatedly moving the image-impressing device to successive slightly overlapping and generally longitudinally aligned lengths of the substrate surface to form a longitudinally continuous plurality of minor stripes of generally constant width and generally straight edges not in excess of the length of the image-impressing device. Each of the minor stripes is formed with at least one inwardly tapered end overlapping the end of an adjacent minor stripe to enhance the illusion of a continuous major stripe of constant width and straight edges by enhancing the apparent longitudinal alignment of the overlapping ends.

Abstract: A method of forming a conductor pattern on a dielectric substrate and a firing furnace thereof are disclosed, the method comprising; a step of passing an electric current through coils wound on the outside of insulation wall of a firing furnace in order to produce an induction magnetic field; and a step of arranging the metal conductor components of the metal paste conductor printed on the dielectric substrate into a uniform state by means of the magnetic field, and the firing furnace comprising; coils wound on the outside of insulation wall of the firing furnace having a through passage; and a heat protection wall additionally installed. According to the present invention, the resistance value of the metal components of the conductor is reduced, with the result that the poser loss of a gas discharge display device due to a high resistance value can be prevented, and that the process can be reliably carried out.

Abstract: A method of forming a sift-proof seal for closure of a box having a plurality of folded flaps, the seal being formed by an adhesive strip pattern. The flaps are moved linearly toward a plurality of nozzles which extrude adhesive in a pattern of closely spaced adhesive strips. A flap having such an adhesive pattern is brought into contact with a second flap to compress the pattern of adhesive therebetween. The spacing between adjacent strips of adhesive is such that the folding of the flap causes merging of the adhesive to form a continuous strip of adhesive, thereby forming a box closure. The adhesive pattern is limited to a first outside edge of the first flap, with each remaining outside edges receiving a sift-proof continuous line of adhesive.

Abstract: A new manhole cover support and its processes of manufacture and use are shown. Such cover supports are used to raise the effective grade of the existing manhole cover as before road resurfacing. The cover supports are mounted upon an existing manhole cover receiving structure which has an upwardly-extending shoulder surface and a sill therebelow for accommodating such cover. The new cover support comprises basically an expandable body and a flexible, compressible synthetic or natural resin-containing retention component. The body has a seat with a lateral keeper for the manhole cover, a base with an outer wall that is reactable against said shoulder surface, and an expander for the base and seat which provides at least one gap in the base and seat. The retention component is disposed between the outer wall of the base and the shoulder surface; it interacts with expansion of the base to enhance substantially the normal frictional grip between the body and the receiving structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high-integrity closure, sift-proof carton [10], a method and an adhesive dispensing apparatus for producing same. Foamed hot melt adhesive is dispensed in parallel strips from dispensing guns onto the flaps [20], [22], [30], [32] of the carton [10], which are thereafter folded down to close the carton [10]. The strips can be spaced so that a continuous tight adhesive seal is formed, especially by providing a strip pattern interdigitating when the flaps contact each other. Since all strips are provided in parallel, while the carton is moved with respect to the dispensing apparatus, application of adhesive is fast and reliable.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for imparting a decorative strip onto the sidewall of a cured tire. The tire is sealed between a pair of chucks and inflated. The sidewall portion of the tire to be decorated is maintained in a flat horizontal posture by the chucks and the inflation pressure. The tire is then rotated while a gun, having a nib is contact with the tire sidewall, dispenses a paint directly onto the tire. A heating element for curing or partially curing the paint is maintained in juxtaposition to the sidewall for heating the paint strip as it passes thereunder.

Abstract: In the coating method of a viscous material according to the present invention, a nozzle body having outlets corresponding to many coating rows is employed. The nozzle body is moved, while the gap between the nozzle body and the surface to be coated is maintained constant, so that the viscous material composed of different kinds of materials is discharged out of each outlet, thereby to effect simultaneous coating of the viscous material composed of different kinds of materials in many rows. Therefore, the present invention has such advantages that the surface to be coated is less stained, and at the same time, the surface to be coated becomes more smooth.

Abstract: A cover tape for sealing chips in chip-holding parts of a carrier tape having said parts provided intermittently and longitudinally of said carrier tape, which cover is constituted by a base tape, an adhesive layer formed on one surface of said base tape and a non-adhesive coat formed on said adhesive along the longitudinal direction of said base tape so that said non-adhesive coat has a width greater than that of the chips and less than that of said adhesive layer. When the cover tape is used in combination with the carrier tape, the chip-holding parts are sealed by the cover tape having the non-adhesive coat and in consequence the chips held in the chip-holding parts do not come in contact with the adhesive layer although they might come in contact with the non-adhesive coat. Accordingly, the chips are not stained by the adhesive in the adhesive layer.