Abstract: An assembly (10) for applying a fluid behavior substance on a shaped closure strip (13, 13?, 13?) of an envelope (12, 12?, 12?) for letters comprising a supplying device (14) of the fluid behavior substance, a container element (17) of the fluid behavior substance supplied, a first and a second cylindrical element (18, 19) rotating around their parallel axis and radially arranged facing each other to form a passage for the envelope (12, 12?, 12?), wherein the supplying device (14) comprises a vessel element (15) of the fluid behavior substance and a connection element (16) for the passage of the fluid behavior substance from the vessel element (15) into the container element (17), the second cylindrical element (19) comprises a side surface (21, 21?, 21?) partially shaped in a manner complementary with the shaped closure strip (13, 13?, 13?), partially accommodated in the lower part of the container element (17) in contact with fluid behavior substance supplied.

Abstract: A thermal grease smearing apparatus includes a platform for placing a heat sink, a supporting post projecting from the platform, and a bracket mounted to the supporting post. The bracket includes a bottom plate with a smearing hole. A thermal grease pipe is mounted to the bracket and includes a pipe body having an upper opening for introducing thermal grease and a lower opening for applying the thermal grease onto a bottom surface of the heat sink. When the bracket is positioned in a working position, the bottom surface aligns with a the smearing hole and abuts a lower surface of the bottom plate, a smearing portion contacts with the thermal grease applied onto the bottom surface and is actuated to rotate about a central axis of the thermal grease pipe thereby smearing the thermal grease uniformly spread on the bottom surface of the heat sink.

Abstract: A device and a method which is capable of uniformly coating, without waste, any flow passages formed in a raw material with a slurry even if a slurry having high viscosity is fed thereto by an amount required for the use of coating without excess and shortage. When the slurry (S) fed to one end of the base material (M) in which a large number of flow passages (2 . . . ) are formed parallel with each other is forced into the flow passages (2 . . . ) by an air pressure to coat the inner walls (2w) of the flow passages, the slurry (S) is fed from a slurry feeding device (6) by a required amount to a slurry storage part (5) formed at the upper surface part of the base material (M) disposed so that both ends of the flow passages (2 . . . ) can be opened in the upper and bottom surfaces thereof. Then, before the slurry (S) is forced into the flow passages (2 . . .

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for depositing a viscous material on a substrate surface. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method of depositing a viscous material on a substrate surface, the method comprising: applying a pre-wet material to a surface of a substrate; depositing a viscous material atop the pre-wet material; rotating the substrate about an axis to spread the viscous material along the surface of the substrate toward a substrate edge; and depositing additional pre-wet material in a path along the surface and adjacent the spreading viscous material.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus of the present invention is used for the high-rate deposition of materials, such as carbon, silicon, metals, metal oxides, and the like, onto a metal substrate defined by a metal tape. The particles of the material are mixed with fluid and are injected against the metal tape at high pressure and high velocity. The particles of the material form a current collection surface of the metal tape. The metal tape is used as cathode or anode combined with a separator to form a fuel cell of a secondary battery, metal-ceramic membranes, film composite metal-ceramic materials for electronic devices.

Abstract: An electrode mixture paste (5) is applied on both sides of a strip of core material (1) made of porous metal sheet that is running along its lengthwise direction. The paste-coated core material (1) is pressed with press rollers (15a, 15b) alternately from opposite sides once or more, after which the paste-coated core material (1) is passed through the gap between a pair of scraper tools (16a, 16b) to adjust the coating thickness of the paste (5), while the position of the core material (1) is restricted with comb-shaped projections (17a or 17a, 17b), so that, even though the projections (17a, 17b) are distanced from each other sufficiently to allow weld points of the core material (1) to pass through, the coating thickness is precisely regulated.

Abstract: Roller coating system for web based substrates, comprising a reservoir roller (2) being partly submerged in a fluid containing reservoir (1), a floating lower roller (4), an intermediate roller (5), an upper rubber roller (6) and an impression roller (7), said intermediate roller (5) and said upper rubber roller (6) being supported in a carriage running in a track (10) whereby the axis of said intermediate roller (5), said upper rubber roller (6) and said impression roller (7) being arranged in the same plane.

Abstract: A first coating rod placed on an upper-surface side of a resin film is pressed onto the resin film in a state where the first coating rod is circumscribed and supported by support members each comprising a pair of rollers and spaced with intervals therebetween in a length direction of the first coating rod so that the first coating rod is rotated in a forward direction at a speed substantially equal to that of the resin film, and a lower surface of the resin film is supported by a guide roll or a second coating rod placed on a downstream side of the first coating rod and an upstream side of a tenter so that the coating liquid continuously measured and supplied to an upper surface of the resin film is smoothened by the first coating rod.

Abstract: A liner tube for repairing existing pipes is provided. The liner tube is sufficient flexible to lie substantially flat under its own weight thereby defining an upper portion and a lower portion. The liner tube includes an inner layer, an outer layer disposed around the inner layer, a first intermediate layer disposed between the inner layer and the outer layer, the first intermediate layer being wrapped around the inner layer to overlap itself and define a first overlap portion in the upper portion, and a second intermediate layer disposed between the first intermediate layer and the outer layer, the second intermediate layer being wrapped around the first intermediate layer to overlap itself and define a second overlap portion in the lower portion. The first and second intermediate layers include a porous material and the inner layer includes material substantially impermeable to liquids. Systems used to manufacture the liner tube are also provided.

Abstract: An electrode mixture paste (5) is applied on both sides of a strip of core material (1) made of porous metal sheet that is running along its lengthwise direction. The paste-coated core material (1) is pressed with press rollers (15a, 15b) alternately from opposite sides once or more, after which the paste-coated core material (1) is passed through the gap between a pair of scraper tools (16a, 16b) to adjust the coating thickness of the paste (5), while the position of the core material (1) is restricted with comb-shaped projections (17a or 17a, 17b), so that, even though the projections (17a, 17b) are distanced from each other sufficiently to allow weld points of the core material (1) to pass through, the coating thickness is precisely regulated.

Abstract: A method for rubbing alignment films and an apparatus for processing the same are introduced. The method includes a step of providing a glass substrate coated by an alignment film and further having a visible region and an invisible region, a step of moving the glass substrate along a predetermined direction, and a step of rubbing the alignment film by an inversed roller with cloth on a surface thereof along an in-stream direction the same as the predetermined direction while the glass substrate is moving. By reverse rolling upon the alignment film, chips rubbed off the alignment film can be made not to hard contact with the alignment film on the visible region which has been rubbed by the cloth.

Abstract: A method for re-shaping portions of a coating applied to the surface of a component using a tool including a collet having a plurality of flexible arms with a wheel rotatably supported on each of the flexable arms, a nut and a sleeve. The tool is initially installed by disposing the collet caxially about the component. Then, the sleeve is disposed co-axially about the collet. Next, the nut is threaded onto a threaded first end of the collet. As the nut is threaded onto the collet, it engages and moves the sleeve axially toward the arms of the collet thereby causing the arms to be compressed radially inwardly such that outer circumferential surfaces of the wheels engage and re-shape the coating on the outer surface of the component. The tool, as a whole, can then be moved axially back and forth along the surface of the component to re-shape the entire length of the coating thereon.

Abstract: In a device for depositing coating material with the manufacture of coated and/or impregnated sheet formations the thickness of the coated sheet formation is monitored with two metering rollers (11, 13) rotating against the sheet formation. The distance measurement between the contact surfaces (12, 14) of the metering rollers (11, 13) is carried out by way of measuring surfaces (16, 18) concentric to the metering rollers (11, 3) which have a smaller diameter (d1) than the contact surfaces (12, 14).

Abstract: The film forming apparatus comprises: a turntable 1 which rotates an optical disc substrate 3; and a film forming liquid supplying device 2 which supplies an ultraviolet curing resin 4 onto the optical disc substrate 3. While the optical disc substrate 3 is rotated by the turntable 1, the ultraviolet curing resin 4 is supplied onto the optical disc substrate 3 by the film forming liquid supplying device 2.

Abstract: Disclosed is a resist coating-developing method and apparatus including (a) a setting step for setting a target value and an allowable range thereof, (b) a resist-coating step, (c) a pre-baking step, (d) a first cooling step, (e) a light-exposure step, (f) a line width measuring step for measuring a line width of a latent image, (g) a post-baking step, (h) a second cooling step, (i) a developing step, (j) a judging step determining whether or not the value of the line width of the latent image measured in the step (f) falls within the allowable range of the target value set in the step (a), (k) a calculating step for calculating a difference between the measured value of the latent image line width and the target value, and (l) a correcting step for correcting the process condition in at least one previous step.

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: An apparatus is provided for spreading a material on an object. The apparatus includes a continuously moving conveyor for moving the object in a downstream direction, and a dispenser for applying the material to the object. The apparatus also includes a carriage located above the conveyor, and a spreader coupled to the carriage for engaging the material applied to the object by the dispenser to spread the material on the object. The apparatus further includes a mechanism for moving the carriage in the downstream direction over the continuously moving object as the spreader engages the material, and another mechanism for providing movement of the spreader relative to the carriage from an first position in which the spreader engages the material to a second position in which the spreader disengages the material.

Abstract: An underwater painting machine is provided comprising a brush for applying paint on the surface to be treated, driven with a reciprocal translational movement and cooperating with a rotary smoothing brush with axis parallel to the translational direction, wherein said application brush is formed of a plurality of tufts of bristles each fed with paint substantially at a point situated in the center of the non active end of the bristles, the paint being distributed radially and evenly in each tuft about a central channel and being guided by capillarity along the bristles as far as their active end, without the tufts being immersed in a paint filled chamber and passing through a grid.

Abstract: A method for fabricating concrete structural elements is shown. According to the method, a structural element, such as a sheet of insulating material reinforced with concrete, is vertically oriented and coated with fresh concrete sprayed by a shotcrete gun. This coating is then smoothed and shaped as required by the given application. The method does not require the use of moulds to cast the structural element, whose surface is therefore visible at all times during the course of manufacture. This allows for the repair of imperfections before the concrete has hardened.

Abstract: In a computer-controlled adhesive-applying apparatus an adhesive applicator device (20) is guided along a desired path in respect of three axes according to a programmed instruction instruction in the form of digitized co-ordinate axis values, said device comprising a nozzle (384) having a ball (392) by which the flow of adhesive is controlled and which also, by engagement with the work, determines the heightwise position of the device, together with a brush assembly (398) comprising a set of bristles (404) secured to the nozzle housing (384) and surrounding it, with ends of the bristles projecting beyond the end face (384a) of the housing and ball. The nozzle housing (384) and brush assembly (398) are mounted for rotation whereby adhesive supplied via the nozzle is spread on the workpiece surface. In addition, the nozzle housing (384) and brush assembly (398) can "float" to accommodate irregularities in the heightwise contour of the workpiece surface.

Abstract: The rotating head comprises a predetermined number of blades being supported by a blade carrier arm (3), the latter being integral with the shaft (1). The blades are arranged on a vertical axis in suitably inclined positions, a fact which permits to carry out the automatic coating of the surface of the material by means of every type of material based on marble, stone and the like by means of every type of putty.

Abstract: A device for smoothing the surfaces of filling material introduced into edge joints of insulating glass panes in corner zones thereof exhibits at least one smoothing roll movable relatively to the insulating glass pane, this roll being freely rotatable about an axis oriented transversely to the plane of the insulating glass pane. The smoothing roll (17, 18, 19, 20) is arranged at the free end of a supporting arm (24, 44) which latter, in turn, is freely swingably supported at a pivotably arranged lever arm (27). Preferably, four smoothing rolls (17, 18, 19, 20) are provided in total, each smoothing roll being associated with one corner (34, 47, 49) of an insulating glass pane (2) to be processed.

Abstract: A machine for surfacing floors by laying down a floor covering compositions, as for example asphalt, comprises an anchoring base that may be braced between two floors or bolted to the floor under it. On the base there is a pivoting boom made up of articulated links with upright pivot axes. At its outer end, there is a floor working head fixed on the boom. The base is made up of two separate leveling units placed at 90 deg to each other as well as a height adjustment unit. By providing a separate anchoring base, it is possible for the floor surfacing machine to be used both indoors and outdoors. It also allows simple and accurate leveling of the end of the boom and facilitates the working of a very wide range of different flooring compositions over large areas.

Abstract: In the coating of a major surface of a strip article, wherein the strip surface is advanced longitudinally past a dam and, immediately beyond the dam, past an extended wall spaced from the strip surface by a gap equal to a desired wet coating thickness, a first liquid coating material is applied to the strip surface ahead of the dam and a second liquid coating material is delivered under pressure to the gap beyond the dam through one or more apertures in the wall to produce a stripe or stripes of the second coating material. The apertures can be provided in a rotatable disk, constituting a portion of the wall; rotary movement of the disk angularly displaces the apertures so as to vary the location and spacing of the produced stripes, for example in a manner simulating the appearance of natural wood grain.

Abstract: A lithographic plate processing system includes apparatus for applying developer to the exposed surface of a lithographic plate, apparatus for spreading the developer uniformly over the exposed surface, a developer apparatus, apparatus for washing excess developer from the plate, and apparatus for applying gum arabic to the exposed surface of the plate, and may include apparatus for drying the plate. The developer spreader apparatus comprises a plurality of rectangularly shaped developer members mounted on a subframe for rotation about axes extending perpendicular to the exposed surface of the lithographic plate and positioned to rotate in overlapping circles. The subframe also supports a common drive apparatus for simultaneously rotating all of the developer members.