Abstract: The present invention provides a coil brush having one or more brush heads with any brush head parallel to any other. The brush heads may have a head base, a bristle slide or guide, and bundles or groups of straight and/or angled bristles, which may be interspersed in different arrangements in a head base of the head brush head, allowing for a variety of brushing planes. The coil brush may further comprise a rear mount handle or a detachable handle that allow the user to adjust the position of the brush to better access and clean coils in hard to reach places. The bristle slide allows the user to control the stiffness of the bundles of bristles by controlling the spreading of the bristles. This invention allows the brushing of coils in heating ventilation and air conditioning equipment at a variety of angles from a variety of coil access points.

Abstract: A spray application apparatus and method, well suited for use in a plywood production resin spray line, provides automatic control of the spread rate of resin applied to the veneer layers built-up to form plywood panels. In lieu of the conventional trial and error method of manually adjusting the height of a spray nozzle to adjust the spread rate, a controller, actuator, and various sensors are utilized in conjunction with a novel control algorithm to achieve continuous automatic spread rate control. The control effectively compensates for variations in process parameters (e.g., resin flow rate, conveyor line speed and veneer temperature) during a production run, whereby product quality is increased with reduced resin consumption. The controller is easily and effectively calibrated without the need to obtain accurate initial values of the variable process parameters.