Abstract: A robot arm mounted apparatus for high speed streaming of high viscosity, two-part adhesive onto a workpiece. The apparatus employs a shortened, temperatured-conditioned mixing tube and a compact, end effector package of dispense metering equipment associated directly with the mixing tube on the end of the robot arm, rather than mounted remotely as in prior art systems. In a preferred form a pressurized cylinder, displacement rods and chambers, dispense metering valves and shortened, temperature-conditioned mixing tube are connected to one another directly in serial fashion on the end of the robot arm. The mixing tube is preferably modified with a removable, damage-resistant nozzle designed especially for streaming.

Abstract: A mastic applicator system for delivering a mastic material to a surface in a precisely controlled manner. The system includes a mastic pump, a regulator receiving the mastic from the pump, a nozzle, and a jacketed hose assembly interconnecting the regulator output and the nozzle input. The hose assembly includes an end block having a flat sealing surface, and the end block and the body of the nozzle are fixedly secured together with the sealing surface on the end block in flush sealing contiguous relation to a flat sealing surface on the nozzle body so that a mastic passage and water passages in the end block may respectively sealingly communicate with a mastic passage and water passages in the nozzle body at the sealing surfaces. The mastic passage from the hose assembly to the nozzle outlet is thus totally internal and totally insulated so as to preclude the formation of cold plugs of mastic material during system shut down.