Abstract: A hot-melt adhesive applicator with a heating block features a flow maze for the hot-melt adhesive, arranged between heating block and applicator nozzle, which is formed, for one, by parts of the heating block, and, for another, by a detachable maze attachment, and causes the hot-melt adhesive to flow through thin ribbon or disk-shaped spaces in intimate contact with heated surfaces, with all essential adhesive channels being easily accessible for cleaning upon removal of the maze attachment.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 10, 1984
Date of Patent:
July 22, 1986
Assignee:
Heinrich Buhnen KG
Inventors:
Wilhelm Bertram, Alfred Bottcher, Carl Siegmann
Abstract: A valve for hot melt adhesives is provided with a spring pressed piston urged open by adhesive pressure. A nozzle on the valve has an outlet channel of predetermined volume. Upon termination of fluid pressure the piston retracts through a volume less than the predetermined nozzle outlet channel volume to suck back a limited amount of adhesive to prevent dripping of adhesives.