Abstract: In a coating method, a precoating layer is applied to one surface of a web W laid between a plurality of web guide rollers GR while a leading end surface of an extrusion-type head portion EX is pressed against the one surface of the web. Accordingly, entrained air increasing as the transferring speed of the web becomes higher could be prevented from entering a coating point on a doctor edge surface near an outlet of a slot by the meniscus of coating liquid formed in a slight gap between the front edge surface of the extrusion-type head portion and the one surface of the web approaching there. As a result, the precoating layer having an excessive amount can be applied stably without turbulence at the coating point caused by the entrained air. Further, coating can be done stably in the rod portion by setting the thickness of the precoating layer for a final coating layer and a virtual coating layer.

Abstract: The apparatus for controlling the curling of paper or paperboard comprises members for bringing liquid on a paper or paperboard web (W) and members for spreading the amount of liquid evenly, in such a manner that the members for bringing liquid on the paper or paperboard web (W) are in the travel direction of the web placed before the members for spreading the amount of liquid evenly. The invention also relates to a method for controlling the curling of paper or paperboard.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for securing an edge of a paintless type film gore. A fluid sealant material is beaded along the edge of the gore using a bead striping apparatus. The striping apparatus comprises a serrated wheel rotatably coupled to a housing which contains the fluid sealant. The sealant is transferred to the wheel and subsequently is transferred the gore edge as the wheel is rolled.

Abstract: A method for the application of liquid through viscid medium onto the surface of a pre-dried material web including the steps of applying a viscid medium to at least one side of the material web, routing the material web through a press nip and supporting the material web substantially without free draw.

Abstract: In a coating method using a coating rod, the coating rod is rotated in the reverse direction with respect to the running direction of the web, and the absolute value of V1/V2 is set between 0.0001 and 0.06, where V1 (cm/sec) is a rotating speed of the rod and V2 (cm/sec) is a running speed of the web.

Abstract: The invention generally provides a method of coating a material, the method including the following steps: (a) forming a generally elongate coating structure (15), the coating structure having an internal cavity (17) extending at least substantially along its length, and wherein the internal cavity of the coating structure is capable of receiving a core material (21); (b) inserting a core material (21) into the internal cavity (17) of the coating structure (15); (c) compressing the coating structure at a first location (44) along its length so as generally to form a seal at that location; and (d) compressing the coating structure at a second location along its length (45).

Abstract: Throughput is increased, the footprint is reduced, heating may be carried out in a short time, and variations in the temperature of the substrate surface may be reduced. A heating chamber 47 for heating the substrate is formed as an upper level of a load/lock chamber 13, and a cooling chamber 48 for cooling the substrate is formed as a lower level of the load/lock chamber 13. An upper heater 51 and a lower heater 56 are formed above and below the heating chamber 47. A shower plate 52 is located between the upper heater 51 and the lower heater 56. A gas heating space 50 is located between the upper heater 51 and the shower plate 52. An N2 gas introducer 42 is connected to the gas heating space 50, such that N2 gas is introduced into the gas heating space 50. The N2 gas introduced from the N2 gas introducer 42 is heated in the gas heating space 50 and is then supplied to the substrate W in the form of a shower via the shower plate 52.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process and apparatus for coating sutures.

Abstract: A device for doctoring and/or metering a liquid or viscous medium on a moving operating surface includes a doctoring assembly having a doctoring surface extending transversely across the entire operating surface and pressing thereagainst. A doctoring support beam movably supports the doctoring assembly in a direction transverse to the operating surface. A pressure unit produces a force which is exerted on the doctoring assembly in order to produce a contact pressure between the doctoring surface and the operating surface. Undesired temperature-based movements of the doctoring support beam relative to the operating surface can be compensated for by a compensation device located in the pressure flow path between the doctoring support beam and the doctoring assembly. This ensures that the contact pressure between the doctoring surface and the operating surface is substantially unaffected by such movements or deformations of the doctoring support beam.

Abstract: A system for removing resin from the stator core of a stator of a motor involves means for removing resin (1) from an inner circumferential surface surrounding the bore of the stator core; (2) from the outer circumferential surface of the stator core; and (3) from between the windings along the end surfaces of the stator core. The circumferential surfaces have resin removed from them by moving the surfaces relative to a series of wipers. The wipers push the resin off the surfaces as they sweep the surfaces. Resin is removed from the end surfaces by blowing the resin radially inward, where it either drips off the core or is deposited on the inner circumferential surface, from which it is removed by wipers.

Abstract: An apparatus for coating a paper web in which a coating mix is applied onto a paper web using an applicator unit which forms a linear mechanical force on the web against a first backing surface situated on the back side of the web. The coating mix applied onto the web is doctored using a doctor unit acting against a second backing surface. The speed of at least one of the backing surfaces is independently controlled relative to the speed of the first backing surface and the web speed in order to attain control of the tensile stress of the web.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coating method and device for coating a size-press roll, paper or board or a corresponding moving base. The coating device comprises a revolving coating bar which rests against the moving base and extends across the machine width. The coating bar is supported in a cradle substantially over its entire length and is a large-diameter grooved bar fitted against the moving base. The coating bar spreads and smoothes a coating agent onto the moving base. The coating agent is introduced into the coating device in advance of the coating bar in the running direction of the moving base.

Abstract: A depth control device for an underwater cable includes a rotary actuator having a rotating output shaft connected to a swash plate. Rotation of the swash plate by the actuator causes a rocker arm to pivot about an axis transverse to the axis of the output shaft. The rocker arm is drivingly connected to a drive shaft for rotating wings about their pitch axes. The pitch axes of the wings can be perpendicular to and intersecting the axis of the actuator output shaft, enabling the depth control device to be extremely compact.

Abstract: A seismic ocean bottom positioning device include a series of seismic stations spaced apart at a predetermined interval along a cable. Each station includes a hydrophone, a motion sensing device such as a geophone and an acoustic positioning circuit. A preamplifier is coupled to a seismic channel. The hydrophone is also coupled to the seismic channel. An acoustic channel is also coupled to the preamplifier and coupled to the hydrophone.

Abstract: In a method and an apparatus for the manufacture of a workpiece with a rotation-symmetrically hardened surface area, the workpiece surface area to be hardened is initially applied with a carrier film of pulverized alloying elements. A roll is radially infed to the carrier film, accompanied by the rotation of the workpiece. Under the influence of heat, the pulverized alloying elements of the carrier film are rolled into the surface area of the workpiece so that the alloying elements are intercalated into the workpiece surface and increase its hardness. For performing this method, the workpiece is clamped on a spindle driven in a rotary manner. A receiving hopper and an application device are radially spaced from the spindle and are interconnected by a supply device.

Abstract: An applicator system roll for direct or indirect application of a coating medium onto a traveling fiber material web includes a core substantially comprised of a fiber composite material and a cover substantially surrounding the core.

Abstract: In a device for the coating of a running web of paper or cardboard, provisions are that in a press gap formed between two rolls a coating substance applied in a very small quantity on the surface of the one roll is first pressed on the web leaving a very thin coat on the web which, however, covers all spots including the "mounds" of microroughness. Next, the second coat can be applied and dosed on the still moist first coat with the usual means. In the process, the first coat is preferably dosed on the shell of the first roll, by means of the peripheral grooves of a rotary doctor. The same may be performed also as regards the second coating on the web.

Abstract: A device and the related process for the continuous, warm smearing of a thin, hotmelt adhesive layer onto a plastic film (8) to be coupled with a paper support, comprising a blade (1) dosing device for the hotmelt adhesive, with means for adjusting the width of the adhesive strip to be applied as well as the thickness of the same; also comprising a further device for applying the adhesive onto said plastic film, mainly consisting of coupled dispensing roller means (2) and pushing roller means (3); sensor means (5) for bearing and adjusting the detachment position from the dispensing roller means (2) of the smeared film (8), and a device for further spreading and leveling of the film (8) consisting of the coupling of the spreading roller means (4) with pushing roller means (3), wherein the spreading roller means (4) may be possibly artificially cooled down.

Abstract: In a coating method and apparatus for applying coating liquid onto a web, the coating apparatus includes a rotating member rotatable and contacting with the web; and a support member supporting rotatably the rotating member and including a liquid reservoir formed between the rotating member and the support member, a fluid supply pipe, a cavity filled with the coating liquid and connecting to the fluid supply pipe, and a slit communicating the cavity with the liquid reservoir. The rotating member is supported by a fluid pressure of the liquid reservoir and the coating liquid supplied from the liquid reservoir forms a bead of the coating liquid by the rotating member between the web and the rotating member. The rotating member is floated uniformly in the widthwise direction by the fluid pressure so as to keep a predetermined clearance away from the support member to provide a stable coating. The bead is made uniform in the widthwise direction under any conditions.

Abstract: A roll coater for forming a film of uniform thickness on a substrate W includes a bottom plate 6 for transporting the substrate W in a predetermined direction F, a coating rubber roll 4 for transferring a coating liquid Q adhering to the outer circumferential face onto the substrate W, and an ink supplying device for supplying ink to the outer circumferential face of the roll 4. The ink supplying device includes a roll 1 for transferring the coating liquid Q adhering to the outer circumferential face thereof to the outer circumferential surface of a roll 4, metal doctor 2 for supplying a coated film of a coating liquid Q of uniform thickness, and a coating liquid reservoir 3 for storing coating liquid Q. A scraper 7 for scraping the remaining coating liquid Q on the outer circumferential face of the metal roll 1 is provided downstream of the roll 4 and upstream of the coating liquid reservoir 3.

Abstract: Apparatus for coating an outer periphery of a columnar structural body comprising (a)a holder for supporting a columnar structural body; (b) a coater for coating the outer periphery of the columnar structural body with a coating material, (c) a feeder for feeding the coating material to the coater; (d) a driving unit for rotating at least one of the columnar structural body and the coater relative to each other around an axis of the holder; and (e) a doctor blade spaced from the outer periphery of the columnar structural body by a given distance for uniformly spreading a coating material applied around the outer periphery of the columnar structural body.

Abstract: A porous product, typically a metal foam sheet, is produced as a tailored, engineered product. The porous product can have enhanced strength, as well as more desirable electrical and mechanical properties. The product which first exists typically as a flexible, generally polymeric foam sheet in strip form, which strip is produced in the longitudinal direction, is stretched in a direction other than its direction of production. The porous product can have pores which would be anisotropic in form in usual production, which are stretched to at least substantially isotropic form. The product can even be tailored to have pores which are anisotropic in the direction of the stretch. Thus, an engineered product can be produced which, for example, as an open-cell metal foam prepared from a polymeric foam can have conductivity, both thermal and electrical, as well as strength and ductility, tailored for greater uniformity and performance.

Abstract: Wheel apparatus (1) for applying adhesive to books includes a wheel (30) rotating about a horizontal axis. A portion of the wheel below the axis rotates between two walls (90) rising from the bottom of the adhesive reservoir (34). A metering surface (84) extends from a step (80) near the bottom of the wheel in a curve slightly diverging from the wheel to a terminal edge (88) extending between walls (90). Walls (90) and step (80) and surface (84) serve to meter the amount of adhesive carried by wheel (30) for application. Walls (90) are spaced from side walls (70, 72) to form recirculate channels for adhesive. The wheel (30) and a counter-rotary spinner wheel (32) are carried by a frame (46) pivoted on reservoir (34) so the wheel (30, 32) can be moved away from reservoir (34) for cleaning purposes.

Abstract: There is disclosed a coating method involving a dispensing apparatus defining a particulate material exit opening including: (a) rotating a first applicator and an adjacent second applicator against a substrate, wherein the first applicator and the second applicator define a gap region therebetween; and (b) introducing particulate material into the gap region from the particulate material exit opening positioned at the gap region and moving a portion of the particulate material across the gap region to the substrate, wherein the rotation of the first applicator and the second applicator rubs the particulate material against the substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus for coating a web by contact with a transfer roll partially immersed in a reservoir of coating material and rotated into resin-transferring contact with the web on a first main web surface thereof. The web in passage away from the transfer roll is contacted on a second main surface of the web, the second main surface being opposite the first main surface of the web, by a medial main cylindrical portion of a stepped squeegee roll comprising a medial main cylindrical portion of a first relatively smaller diameter, and marginal shoulder portions each of a second relatively larger diameter in relation to the diameter of the medial main cylindrical portion. The stepped squeegee roll is tensionally biased toward, but in spaced relationship to the transfer roll, being maintained in tensionally biased relationship by spring or other tensionally biasing means, to limit the coating material thickness on the web.

Abstract: A method and an operator interchangeable apparatus with fast warm up time for coating flowable and pasty materials onto a workpiece, especially for the application of glue and other adhesive substances to the back of signatures in bookbinding and the like, uses a first internally heated rotating roller for applying the material which is partly immersed in a bath thereof and a second internally heated roller to smooth and doctor the adhesive on clamped stacks of pages that have passed over the first roller. Production rates suitable of in-line use with reproduction equipment are achieved with no buildup on the edges. The relative velocity of the surface of the adhesive on the first roller is maintained at the same velocity as the clamped stack of pages. A mechanical adjustment device and method that provides for ease of interchangeability. A control device for proportioning the electrical power to the heating elements for the two rollers.

Abstract: A rigid metal housing is positioned downstream of a coating applicator. The housing supports a plurality of positionable contact elements formed of a low friction, high wear-resistant material, which extend inwardly from the housing to engage a slow speed rotating rod. At least one of the contact elements is adjustable to support the rod for stable rotation, and to retain an effective seal between the contact elements and the rod to thereby prevent leakage of clearing/lubricating fluid into the applied coating. The contact elements may be advanced inwardly as the elements and the rod wear, thereby extending the effective life of the rod holder apparatus. Screws may bear against a rear contact element through segmented backing plates allowing refinement of the coat weight along the width of the substrate. Furthermore, an air tube may be positioned between the housing and a rear fixture to adjust overall coating thickness.

Abstract: A coating bar for a bar coater, wherein the coating bar is supported substantially over its entire length revolving in a cradle fixed to the frame of the coater. The coating bar is profiled and surface-treated by boronizing so that a layer of iron boride is applied to the profiled surface of the coating bar.

Abstract: A method and device for coating of the face of a roll in a film size press with a coating agent by a coating device including a coating doctor that extends across the machine width and is loaded against the face of a roll in the film size press. The coating doctor spreads and smooths the coating agent, which has been introduced into the coating device and applied as a film onto the roll face before the coating doctor in the direction of rotation of the roll. To prevent the formation of streaks in the coating-agent film, in particular of streaks resulting from cavitation, adhesion of coating agent from the coating-agent film to the trailing side of the coating doctor is prevented by keeping the trailing side of the coating doctor moist or wet. Adhering of coating agent to the trailing edge of the coating blade is prevented by feeding a moistening medium as a constant flow to the area of the trailing edge.

Abstract: The present invention is the formation of solid polymer layers under vacuum. More specifically, the present invention is the use of "standard" polymer layer-making equipment that is generally used in an atmospheric environment in a vacuum, and degassing the monomer material prior to injection into the vacuum. Additional layers of polymer or metal or oxide may be vacuum deposited onto solid polymer layers. Formation of polymer layers under a vacuum improves material and surface characteristics, and subsequent quality of bonding to additional layers. Further advantages include use of less to no photoinitiator for curing, faster curing, fewer impurities in the polymer electrolyte, as well as improvement in material properties including no trapped gas resulting in greater density, and reduced monomer wetting angle that facilitates spreading of the monomer and provides a smoother finished surface.

Abstract: Device for processing a viscous fluid for finishing printing products in a finishing unit of a rotary printing press, the finishing unit having a plurality of rollers suppliable with the fluid at least at one feeding location thereof, and a plurality of cylinders suppliable with the fluid by the plurality of rollers, includes a device for collecting the fluid from the one feeding location thereof, the plurality of rollers including a metering roller engageable with one of the cylinders for feeding the fluid thereto, another roller of the plurality of rollers being in cooperative engagement with the metering roller and with the collecting device for feeding the fluid to the metering roller.

Abstract: A coating device includes a plurality of parallel coating blade lamellae made from highly wear-resistant material. The lamellae are disposed against one another in a housing and held thereby, forming a lamella packet wherein each lamella of the packet is disposed at the same inclination with respect to a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the packet. The inclination of the lamellae is adjustably controlled by at least one adjusting device acting on the packet. Thus, a change in lamellae inclination also changes a step-wise configuration of a surface contour formed by neighboring lamellae of the packet.

Abstract: This invention relates to fiber reinforced composite materials, and to methods and apparatus for forming such materials. The apparatus includes an impregnation chamber having an elongate impregnation passageway with an entrance end and an exit end, means for supplying a polymer material to said impregnation chamber, and means for advancing continuous filament fibers into and through said impregnation chamber, entering through said entrance end and exiting through said exit end, so that the polymer material is immersed in said polymer material. Shear inducing means is mounted in said impregnation chamber and cooperates with said fibers for imparting shear to the polymer material as it contacts the advancing fibers to enhance the wetting and impregnation of the fibers by the polymer material.

Abstract: A glue application system (10) for applying glue to books (12) moving from a binder (16) along a predetermined path (14) includes a first roller (30) which rotates in the predetermined path to apply glue to the books. A heater (114) maintains the temperature of the first roller at a predetermined temperature. A second roller (32) rotates in the predetermined path, downstream of the first roller, to apply glue to the books. A second heater (130) maintains the temperature of the second roller at a temperature less than the temperature of the first roller. A glue reservoir (50) disposed below the first and second rollers contains a supply of liquid melted glue (56). A pump (70) pumps liquid melted glue up to the first and second rollers. An electric motor drive assembly (89) is selectively engageable to drive the pump when a binder drive assembly (79) is not driving the pump.

Abstract: A doctor blade holding apparatus, preferably for coating devices, includes a clamping mechanism which holds, via a mounting plate, a doctor blade support which carries a doctor rod. The apparatus includes a pressing tube which presses against the doctor blade support and thus presses the doctor rod against a counter roll. A holding strip provided at a back side of the doctor blade support clamps the mounting plate to the doctor blade support. The holding strip is disposed laterally with respect to a mid-plane of the doctor blade support to provide a contact region between a back side of the doctor blade support and the pressing tube which is in substantially the same plane as the mounting plate.

Abstract: Doctor blade and doctor blade device for the application of flowable substances on flat surfaces with a doctor blade profiled rod and a doctor blade element, a magnetic device is assigned to the doctor blade, the arrangement, shape, strength of the magnetic field produced by this device determines the local position of the doctor blade, and additionally through this magnetically determined position and fixation and through device parts, the angular position of the doctor blade is also adjusted, whereby the doctor blade has limited freedom of movement.

Abstract: The invention relates to a spacer tube of metal, in particular of aluminum, for frame or strut bars of an insulating glazing as spacer or respectively drying agent container between two continuous glass panes, a color stripe being imprinted on the inner wall of the spacer tube visible in the insulating glazing and preferably subsequently gas exchange openings are provided in the inner wall. Further the invention relates to a method for the production of a spacer tube, several color strips being imprinted in side-by-side arrangement on the surface of a metal strip, preferably simultaneously, using a rotary printing mechanism, the paint is dried, and the metal strip is divided longitudinally between the color stripes, and the resulting metal slats are shaped to form spacer tubes and are cut to length.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for selectively sintering a layer of powder to produce a part comprising a plurality of sintered layers. The apparatus includes a computer controlling a laser to direct the laser energy onto the powder to produce a sintered mass. The computer either determines or is programmed with the boundaries of the desired cross-sectional regions of the part. For each cross-section, the aim of the laser beam is scanned over a layer of powder and the beam is switched on to sinter only the powder within the boundaries of the cross-section. Powder is applied and successive layers sintered until a completed part is formed. Preferably, the powder dispensing mechanism includes a drum which is moved horizontally across the target area and counter-rotated to smooth and distribute the powder in an even layer across the target area. A downdraft system provides controlled temperature air flow through the target area to moderate powder temperature during sintering.

Abstract: A flooring material applicator having a frame and wheels rendering it moveable about a floor, a mixer chamber and agitator to mix flooring material, a first component receptacle movably mounted adjacent the mixer chamber and moveable between a first loading position, and a second dumping position, a second component receptacle movably mounted adjacent the mixer chamber, and moveable between a first loading position and a second dumping position, a distribution opening in the mixer chamber, and a door movably operable to open and close the same, a distribution chamber adjacent the door, to receive flooring material therefrom, a motor for operating the agitator, the first component receptacle, the second component receptacle, and the door, and controls for guiding the applicator about a floor, so as to spread the flooring material on a floor.

Abstract: An apparatus for and method of coating an article by the use of electro-static attraction of ionized particles which are subsequently cured. The apparatus includes a first foraminous conveyor for carrying the article through a powder coating zone and a second conveyor for carrying the article through a curing zone. The surface of the article which rests on the foraminous conveyor is cleaned of particles as the article is transferred from the first foraminous conveyor to the second conveyor. The first foraminous conveyor is also cleaned of particles after the article has been transferred. After the articles have been cured to form a coating on the article, the article is put through the coating system again except that the article is supported on the conveyor so that the surface which was not coated in the first pass through the system is out of contact with the conveyor.

Abstract: An apparatus for waxing vehicles for use in conjunction with commercial "car wash" operations. Vehicles are transported by a chain driven conveyor mechanism through a wax application station, passed to a second conveyor mechanism for movement through a drying station, and on to a third conveyor mechanism for passage through a polishing station. A computer system controls the waxing process and operates various pneumatic positioning devices, positioning wax application heads, drying blowers, and polishing heads adjacent the vehicle, a using knowledge of the size, shape, and dimensional parameters of the vehicle. These parameters are stored within the computer system according to manufacturer, model, and year, specified when the vehicle enters the apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus by which layer thickenings formed transversely to the direction of movement of a coated web are removed after the continuously moving web has been coated with liquids or dispersions, for example a web of photographic film or paper or magnetic recording carrier, are described. A deflecting roller (4) over which the web travels with its coated side facing the roller is situated downstream of the coating and drying devices. When a layer thickening approaches, a cleaning roller (2) covered with a fleece is swung into contact with the web, whereupon the web travels only over the cleaning roller.

Abstract: A squeegee device applies material to a web substrate, which is guided across or held in contact with an abutment. The support body of the sequeegee contains a magnetic device extending along its longitudinal direction that holds a squeegee element made of magnetizable material. The squeegee edge is held against the substrate by the force of a magnetic device in the support body of the squeegee and a magnetic device under the abutment. In an alternative embodiment, no magnetic device is located under the abutment. However the abutment is made of ferrous metal to attract the magnetic device, causing pressure between the substrate and squeegee.

Abstract: In an apparatus for the coating of spacer frames for insulating glass, exhibiting corners bent in one piece, with adhesive and, respectively, sealing compound, the relative position between the connecting line of the orifices of the nozzles, on the one hand, and the axis, about which the turning device is pivotable, on the other hand, can be varied. This variability is achieved either by arranging the pivotal support of the turning device to be movable laterally and vertically (upwards and downwards) in the frame of the apparatus, or by disposing the component carrying the nozzles in the frame of the apparatus to be vertically movable (upwards and downwards) and the pivotal support of the turning device to be movable laterally. In this way, the objective is attained that the nozzles remain aligned, even during turning of the spacer frames, in opposition to the lateral faces of the spacer frames.

Abstract: In an automatic wax coating apparatus for use with skis, a securing device for securing ski, a wax supplying device, a brushing device and a movement device are provided in the interior of a box for accommodating the ski strips. The brushing device comprises a hot air nozzle for blowing hot air onto the ski, a roller brush for brushing the sliding surfaces of the ski, and a wax nozzle for spraying the sliding surfaces of the ski with a wax supplied from the wax supplying device, and the brushing device can be moved along the longitudinal axes of the ski by means of the movement device.And as occasion demands, the brushing device makes a plurality of reciprocating movmeents along the longitudinal axes of the ski to apply a wax coat of even more accurately controlled uniformity, thickness, surface texture and so forth.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for continuously and sequentially applying Durabond.TM. treatment chemicals or any similar chemical system used in the manufacture of multilayer printed circuit boards. The device of the invention generally comprises a mechanized conveyor line having spray manifolds positioned above and below the line at various points so as to effect the desired sequential spraying of the treatment chemicals and rinse solution. Chemical containment sumps or tanks are specifically sized so as to provide coordinate solution volumes, thereby minimizing the need for intermittent shut down of the line to replenish individual solutions. The provision of such coordinated solution volumes also prevents chemical waste. A multistage water rinse is employed at one point in the inventive process to insure that all excess immersion tin solution is thoroughly rinsed from the surfaces of the circuit board layers. Such multistage rinse includes at least one high pressure water rinse in excess of 100 psi.

Abstract: An apparatus for coating the flat surface of a substrate with a coating material is disclosed in which only a minimum amount of coating material is required for uniformly coating the entire surface of the substrate in an efficient manner under a variety of coating conditions, even if the substrate surface takes a non-circular configuration. According to one embodiment, the flat surface of the substrate is first coated with a coating material, and the substrate thus coated is then spunned at predetermined number of revolutions per minute. According to another embodiment, the apparatus includes a support table on which the substrate is fixedly mounted. A plurality of shaping members are slidably mounted on the support table for forming with the flat non-circular-shaped surface of the substrate a flat continuously extending circular-shaped surface.

Abstract: A method of coating embossed panels having embossed panel portions which are offset in generally parallel planes. A liquid accent coating is applied to the panels as they are moved along a predetermined path. A roll is reverse rotated to wipe liquid coating from the high points of the embossed panel surfaces, creating a high level of contrast with the relief portions where a greater amount of coating remains. The rolls do not wipe the steps between panel portions so that the steps are more heavily coated, to create a dark shadow line. Doctor blades strip coating from the roll, except in those portions that do not contact the panel steps. Vacuum removes excess coating from the stepped areas of the panels and also from those portions of the rolls not contacted by the doctor blades. Apparatus for carrying out the method is also disclosed.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying ski wax to the bottom of a ski comprising a pair of ski support tracks adapted to carry a ski thereon and align if for proper entry into a waxing area where heated wax is applied to the bottom of the ski while the ski is transported through the waxing area and buffing the same. In this manner, a ski is waxed and ready for skiiing.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing a printing plate which comprises an aluminum base and a photoconductive layer on which a toner image is formed, comprises a rotary brush which is arranged so as to be kept in contact with a processing solution and out of contact with a printing plate. The processing solution supplied on the plate surface is regulated to form an even thick flow.