Rotary Patents (Class 118/262)
  • Patent number: 7322221
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for applying lubricants on the peripheral surfaces of rollers in roll stands for rolling strips, more particularly multiple roll stands with support rollers and working rollers (SW; AW), wherein the lubricants are applied in an area of the peripheral surfaces of the working cylinder (AW) which impinges upon the rolling strip (WB) located between the upper or bottom strip surface and the strippers (AS) placed against the peripheral surfaces. The improvement to said device is characterized in that the lubricant is applied by means of the application rollers (ATW) that can be pressed against the peripheral surfaces of the working roller (AW), whose periphery is impinged upon by the periphery of a coaxially mounted transmission roller (UW) on the peripheral surface of which lubricant is applied by means of spraying, splashing or dipping devices (SD; TW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: SMS Demag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Löhr, Matthias Kipping
  • Patent number: 7211151
    Abstract: A coating liquid application apparatus is provided which can apply a coating liquid, such as a coating agent for improving a weatherability of a printed surface, to the printed surface of a print medium automatically and at high speed. For this purpose, this invention uses application mechanisms to apply the coating liquid to the print medium that was ink-printed with an image. Each application mechanism has a pair of rollers supplied with the coating liquid. Multiple stages of such application mechanisms are provided. The print medium is passed between the paired rollers successively from one application mechanism to another to apply the coating liquid to the print medium in a plurality of stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Takekoshi, Tetsuo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 7204883
    Abstract: A strip of wrapping material is advanced by a feed unit that includes a gumming device composed of a gumming roller and a transfer roller contra-rotating about horizontal and parallel axes and in tangential contact one with another along an area coinciding with a straight line generator common to both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: G.D S.p.A.
    Inventors: Salvatore Rizzoli, Fiorenzo Draghetti
  • Patent number: 7108749
    Abstract: The invention pertains to technological apparatus' for production of polarizers, obtained from lyotropic liquid crystals (LLC) based on organic compounds, in particular, dyes. The technological production line for polarizer formation comprises at least one system of formation of polarizer films from LLC of at least one organic compound, at least one system of local removal of the polarizer film material obtained from LLC of at least one organic compound, at least one substrate holder and at least one means of relative movement. Also introduced, an apparatus for formation of polarizer films from LLC of at least one organic compound and a system of localized removal of polarizer films obtained from LLC of at least one organic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventor: Yuri A. Bobrov
  • Patent number: 7070652
    Abstract: A paste unit for a bottom guide device for gluing bottom warps or star seal bottom bags, which are formed of tube sections, is introduced. The paste unit includes an interchangeable glue reservoir and glue source nozzle, a metering roller, a glue application roller, as well as a making roller. Drive mechanisms are assigned to the rollers. The glue is transferred to the printing roller by the glue application roller. The paste unit may be operated with the glue reservoir to provide a closed system that allows the glue to be applied evenly, and the metering to be adjusted at a very fine setting. Alternatively, with the glue source nozzle installed, the paste unit functions as an open system, which is beneficial for use with certain types of glue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventors: Ruediger Duwendag, Guido Kerres, Andrees Erdmann
  • Patent number: 7056385
    Abstract: A paper dispenser for the optional distribution of saturated or dry paper from a paper roll or a folded paper sheet. A container filled with fluid is arranged in a housing from which the fluid is conveyed against the paper sheet to be moistened and is activated by a feed drive. In order achieve a more operationally secure transport of the paper sheet the intention is for the paper dispenser to have a hand-operated conveyor apparatus for the conveyor drive of the paper sheet. The fluid is conveyed from one of the extraction cylinders submerged in the fluid bath to one of the transfer cylinders loading onto one of the extraction cylinders, which is arranged on at least one side of the paper sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Inventor: Ferdinand Likosar
  • Patent number: 7018475
    Abstract: Two axially parallel rolls are pressed against each other in a device for producing and/or treating a moving material web. Sensor elements are arranged in the force transmission path running from the force-producing elements via the rolls, outside roll bodies of the two rolls. As a result of displacing the sensor elements out of the roll bodies of the rolls, the production of the rolls is less complicated and less expensive. No sensors have to be embedded in the roll bodies, which opens up the possibility of using standard rolls. In addition, the occasional grinding of the rolls can in this way be performed without any regard to the sensor elements. Nevertheless, the pressure prevailing between the rolls can continue to be measured directly, since the sensor elements are arranged in the transmission path of the pressing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Ueberschär, Christoph Henninger, Eckard Wozny, Horst Kaipf
  • Patent number: 7018471
    Abstract: A paste unit and method of glue metering therein for a bottom guide device for star seal bottom bags, which are formed from tube sections, for gluing of bottom warps or star seal bottom bags. The paste unit includes a glue reservoir, a metering roller connected with the glue reservoir, a glue application roller which may be connected to the glue reservoir and a making roller connected to the glue application roller which transfers glue from the application roller to the bottom warps or the star seal bottoms. Drive mechanisms assigned to the above listed rollers enable the circumference speed of the glue application roller and of the making roller to be adjusted independently of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventors: Ruediger Duwendag, Guido Kerres
  • Patent number: 6986812
    Abstract: A feed apparatus for use in depositing a slurry upon a moving web having a direction of travel includes a main metering roll, a companion roll disposed in closely spaced relation to the metering roll to form a nip therebetween. The nip is constructed and arranged to retain a supply of the slurry, and the rolls are driven so that slurry retained in the nip progresses over an upper outer peripheral surface of the metering roll to be deposited upon the web. Also preferably included is a thickness control roll disposed in operational relationship to the metering roll for controlling thickness of a layer of slurry drawn from the nip over the outer metering roll surface. Preferably, the metering roll, the companion roll and the thickness control roll are driven in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: United States Gypsum Company
    Inventors: Ashish Dubey, Michael J. Porter
  • Patent number: 6955721
    Abstract: A coating apparatus for applying a coating liquid to a printing substrate. The coating apparatus has a rotatable first roll and a rotatable second roll, each having a surface energy. The second roll is positioned adjacent to the first roll and defines with the first roll a first nip through which the printing substrate passes A metering device is provided for applying a substantially uniform layer of coating liquid onto the second roll. The second roll in turn transfers the coating liquid to the printing substrate. The surface energy of the second roll is greater than the surface energy of the coating liquid. In one embodiment, the metering device includes a rotatable third roll and a doctor blade contacting the third roll, each having a surface energy. The surface energy of at least a portion of either or both the third roll and doctor blade is less than the surface energy of the coating liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Willard Baker, Michael Wesley Baskette, Randall Steven Gall, Hishikesh Pramod Gogate, James Philip Harden, Philip Jerome Heink, Andrew Charles Hogan, Royden Thomas Kern, Jean Marie Massie, Sean David Smith, Mark Alan Wahl
  • Patent number: 6923863
    Abstract: A bowling lane maintenance apparatus includes a transfer roller and a dressing oil tank configured to contain dressing oil. A wick is configured to pass dressing oil from the tank to the transfer roller. A buffer brush is configured to receive dressing oil from the transfer roller and spread the dressing oil on a bowling lane. The wick may comprise a foam material having a first region having a first capillarity and a second region having a second capillarity differing from the first capillarity. The wick may also be maintained in contact with the transfer roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: AMF Bowling Products Inc.
    Inventors: Adam P. Baker, Gary J. Ford, Mark D. Kilpatrick, Matthew E Popielarz, G. Joe Burroughs
  • Patent number: 6911085
    Abstract: Doctor blade dosing systems for devices used for coating material webs, particularly paper or paperboard webs, exist that have a doctor blade rod, which serves as a dosing element while being held inside a slot of a doctor blade bed that, in turn, is mounted in a support that can be fastened inside the frame of the system. According to the disclosure, the doctor blade rod has a diameter of less than 25 mm. The doctor blade bed is inserted in removable manner into a slot of the support situated on the face thereof. The ratio of the cross-sectional area (measured in mm2) of the doctor blade to the diameter (measured in mm) of the doctor blade rod is less than 60 mm, preferably less than 30 mm. The support is made of a plastic material and is shaped like a clamp having at least one rearward extending clamp limb and one joint location, whereby the holding slot that accommodates the doctor blade bed forms the clamp mouth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Horst Sprenger GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhard Knop
  • Patent number: 6908513
    Abstract: In a device (1, 51) for applying an adhesive to the spine (2a) or to areas (2b) of the lateral faces adjacent thereto of an inner book (2) having a projecting portion and conveyed past in a transport system (3), comprising at least one rotating application roller (53a,b) or application disc (5) which picks up the adhesive from a reservoir (4, 52) and transfers same to the inner book (2) by rolling-off, the device having a doctor blade (7, 54a,b) adjustable with regard to its distance from the application roller (5, 53a,b) for regulating the application thickness of the adhesive and having an actuating device (8, 9, 57, 59) for the controlled movement of the doctor blade (7, 54a,b) between an application and a zero-application position, it is provided that the actuating device includes at least one single-acting contraction hose (24a,b, 56a,b) controllable via compressed air (P) and acting as a pull actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Kolbus GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jens Henke
  • Patent number: 6827784
    Abstract: A system for adding a desired additive to a corrugating adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding Corporation
    Inventor: Steven J. Kern
  • Publication number: 20040185171
    Abstract: Two axially parallel rolls are pressed against each other in a device for producing and/or treating a moving material web. Sensor elements are arranged in the force transmission path running from the force-producing elements via the rolls, outside roll bodies of the two rolls. As a result of displacing the sensor elements out of the roll bodies of the rolls, the production of the rolls is less complicated and less expensive. No sensors have to be embedded in the roll bodies, which opens up the possibility of using standard rolls. In addition, the occasional grinding of the rolls can in this way be performed without any regard to the sensor elements. Nevertheless, the pressure prevailing between the rolls can continue to be measured directly, since the sensor elements are arranged in the transmission path of the pressing force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Manfred Ueberschar, Christoph Henninger, Eckard Wozny, Horst Kaipf
  • Patent number: 6790280
    Abstract: A cradle for a spreading device, such as a rotatable rod, to which a spreading organ to be pressed against a movable surface has been attached. The cradle is fastened to a holder, and a gasket is provided between the cradle and the holder (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Metso Paper Inc.
    Inventor: Markku Lummila
  • Patent number: 6772709
    Abstract: In a varnish coating apparatus, a first varnish film forming cylinder has a first supply surface to which varnish is supplied. A second varnish film forming cylinder has a second supply surface to which varnish is supplied. A first blanket cylinder has a first transfer surface and first opposing surface. A second blanket cylinder has a second transfer surface and second opposing surface. When a sheet passes through a contact point between the first and second blanket cylinders, the first transfer surface of the first blanket cylinder opposes the second opposing surface of the second blanket cylinder to perform varnish coating on a first surface of the sheet, and the second transfer surface of the second blanket cylinder opposes the first opposing surface of the first blanket cylinder so as to perform varnish coating on a second surface of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Komori Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 6752871
    Abstract: A coating system for coating print carriers includes at least one pump, at least one selection valve, a first metering device and a second metering device. The first metering device and the second metering device are constructed differently from one another with respect to metering principles thereof. The pump and the selection valve are assembled into a modular supply unit constructed so as to be compatible both with the first and with the second metering device. A coating machine, such as a printing or varnishing machine which includes the coating system, is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bitterich, Bernd Heller
  • Patent number: 6730166
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the application of fluid materials to a surface of a sheet-form material, comprising an application roller, with a roller body and a jacket surface, which, by means of at least partial contact with the sheet-form material, transfers the fluid materials leading to the sheet-form material. The invention further comprises an application doctor blade, with a pre-dosing channel for the supply of fluid materials leading thereto and which at least partly coats the application roller with fluid material. A flow of a medium is provided in at least one region adjacent to the jacket surface, which is directed from the longitudinal mid-axis of the application roller to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Bundesdruckerei GmbH
    Inventors: Waldemar Kiener, Johann Rein
  • Patent number: 6718908
    Abstract: A coating machine for applying a flowable coating substance to a sheet material to improve its surface. The coating machine has a series construction which lends itself to easy modification and versatile use. The coating machine includes, in a sheet conveyance direction, a first coating unit for applying a flowable substance to a front side of the sheet material, a sheet turning unit for reversing the position of the sheet, a first coating unit for applying a flowable substance to a reverse side of the sheet material, and sheet delivery unit. The coating units may have similar or identical constructions with interchangeable dosing systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Harald Bayer, Georg Herzan, Klemens Kemmerer
  • Patent number: 6699328
    Abstract: Temperature control of the coating medium is performed to influence the processability of coating media in an applicator system. In order to operate without losing efficiency, devices acting directly from the inside or the outside for heat supply or dissipation are connected to the elements guiding the coating medium. The temperature of the coating medium is influenced by measuring the temperature within the coating medium and, if necessary, at the elements guiding the coating medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Jurgen Scholzig, Ulrich Jung
  • Patent number: 6685778
    Abstract: A lane maintenance machine having wicks that absorb dressing from a reservoir and transfer it to the applicator of the machine has a gravity-fed dressing supply system that maintains the dressing at a substantially constant level within the wick reservoir. A small pilot chamber upstream from the reservoir and in open communication therewith at the same elevation as the reservoir has its fluid level directly controlled by a float sensor to in turn indirectly control the level within the wick reservoir. The float sensor within the pilot chamber provides a signal to a controller when the level within the pilot chamber drops below a predetermined point so that a control valve between the pilot chamber and the main supply tank opens to allow a makeup volume of dressing to flow by gravity from the main tank into the pilot chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: The Kegel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Davis, Anthony K. Crews, Steven L. Sowards, John M. Davis
  • Patent number: 6620240
    Abstract: A sheet coating apparatus for coating a coating liquid on a sheet traveling along a predetermined transfer path, including a storage tank in which the coating liquid is contained, a coating roller which is in contact with the sheet and which is rotatably installed on the transfer line, for coating the coating liquid supplied from the storage tank on the surface of the sheet, and a coated amount regulating mechanism which is securely pressed against the surface of the coating roller which regulates the amount of the coating liquid coated on the sheet by squeegeeing the coating liquid sticking on the surface of the coating roller. The sheet coating apparatus can prevent excess coating liquid from being coated on a sheet by regulating the amount of the coating liquid coated on the sheet, thereby attaining uniform coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sam-seuk Choi, Gyeong-ho Park
  • Patent number: 6607601
    Abstract: A coating system for supplying a coating medium to sheet material in a printing press. The coating system includes a tempering system operable for influencing the temperature of both a coating medium processed through the applicator system and rinsing mediums supplied to the applicator system for cleaning the system. The tempering system includes and intermediate container connected to the metering system of the applicator system, a first storage container connected to the intermediate container for containing a stored quantity of coating medium, and a second storage or discharge container connected to the intermediate container for a rinsing medium. The intermediate container includes a heat exchanger such that upon selected connection of either the first or second storage containers to the intermediate container, the cleaning medium or the rinsing medium can be individually tempered for optimum processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Jurgen Scholzig, Hans-Georg Eitel
  • Patent number: 6589340
    Abstract: A coating machine serves to directly or indirectly apply a liquid or viscous coating medium onto a moving surface. A coater imbedded in a coater bed, defines in part the metering slot. A limiting surface at the moving surface inlet of the coater bed forms, together with the moving surface, an accumulator chamber, with the opening facing in the opposite direction with respect to the feed direction. The accumulator chamber gradually reduces its volume, and the coating medium, delivered to the accumulator chamber by the moving surface, accumulates in the area ahead of the metering slot. It further includes pneumatic pressure device to alter the relative position of the limiting surface with respect to the moving surface and thus alter the geometry of the accumulator chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Bernert, Benjamin Méndez-Gallon
  • Patent number: 6579364
    Abstract: Sheet products, such as card stock, envelopes and other paper products (10) are advanced on a vacuum surface conveyor belt (30) beneath a glue applicator drum (35). The glue transfer strips (37 and 38) of the glue applicator drum apply stripes of glue (42 and 43) at the ends of the sheet product, leaving a belt engaging space (41) without glue between the glue stripes. The sheet product is grasped by overlying conveyor belts (46 and 47) at the belt engaging space (41), thereby exposing the wet glue stripes on opposite sides of the belts. Hot air is applied on opposite sides of the conveyor belts (46 and 47), drying the glue. The glue transfer strips (37 and 38) of the glue applicator drum can be adjusted in size, shape and position so as to apply glue to one end, the other end, or both ends of the sheet product, and if glue is applied to only one end, one of the dryers (50 or 51) can be deactivated, saving energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: VerMehren Engineering Corp.
    Inventor: H. Richard VerMehren
  • Patent number: 6579368
    Abstract: An application apparatus is for applying a liquid or pasty medium to a moving base. The moving base is a surface of a material web in a case of direct application and a surface of a transfer element for transferring the medium to the material web in a case of indirect application, the material web being one of paper and cardboard. The application apparatus has an inlet side and an outlet side with respect to a direction of movement of the moving base. The application apparatus includes a carrying beam; an essentially rigid supporting unit provided on the carrying beam; a sealing doctor device positioned at the inlet side of the application apparatus, the sealing doctor device being fixedly attached to the supporting unit; and a metering doctor device positioned at the outlet side of the application apparatus, the metering doctor device being fixedly attached to the supporting unit. The sealing doctor device and the metering doctor device define an application chamber therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Kohl, Stefan Reich, Benjamin Méndez-Gallon, Martin Kustermann, Manfred Ueberschär, Christioph Henninger, Rüdiger Kurtz, Martin Tietz
  • Patent number: 6547879
    Abstract: An electrode forming apparatus for electric parts has a tape and a driving mechanism. The tape has holding holes for holding board-shaped electric parts therein at regular intervals and feeding holes for feeding the tape at regular intervals. The driving mechanism can feed the tape by engaging with the feeding holes of the tape. A pasting unit applies electric conductive paste to the electric parts held by the holding holes of the tape fed by the driving mechanism, in order to form a electrode. Each of the holding holes has a pair of abutting edges for abutting on both opposite surfaces of the board-shaped electric parts and at least one cutout portion formed from the butting edges. Due to the above constitution, the board-shaped electric parts can be held and conveyed by the abutting edges of the holding hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Tokyo Weld Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Chiba, Akira Saito, Fukashi Ogasawara, Isao Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6540829
    Abstract: A coil coating system for embedding discrete masses of material in a resinous coating on sheet metal as it is pulled from a dispensing coil through a series of rollers, said system comprising a paint pan, a roller rotating in the pan and picking up said resinous coating composition and transferring it to an applicator roller; thenceforth to the moving sheet metal, an oven, and a sprayer that can heat thermoplastic resin particles to a molten or plastic state and spray the particles to the moving sheet metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Jack C. Allman, Ronald J. Lewarachik, Victor J. Scaricamazza
  • Patent number: 6527864
    Abstract: A device for the automatic regulation of the quantity of adhesive deposited in flexible film rolling machines (20). These machines (20) include a coating column (21) and a bonding column (22), joined to each other by an upper frame (23); the premixed adhesive is loaded in a container (32), which is provided in a space formed between two adjacent cylinders (13, 14) and carried by the motion of two intermediate cylinders (13, 12) to a cylinder (15) designed to drag along the film (31). In this device, the adhesive is fed in a continuous manner from an automatic mixer (40), so as to vary the quantity dispensed per unit time depending on the basic pre-established weight and on the instantaneous speed of the rolling machine, the speed of the intermediate cylinders (12, 13) is varied automatically to increase or decrease the volume of adhesive laid down on the film (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Novachem Industriale S.r.l.
    Inventor: Gianpiero Quetti
  • Publication number: 20020189539
    Abstract: A coating element has a liquid deflector member for diverting doctored coating liquid away from the surface of a coating applicator roll. The liquid deflector member is arranged beneath a blade member that removes excess coating liquid from the surface of the coating applicator roll. Excess coating liquid follows a path away from the coating applicator roll surface and down the active face of the liquid deflector member, thereby avoiding contamination of the applicator roll surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 1999
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: RAMASUBRAMANIAM HANUMANTHU, RUKMINI B. LOBO, BARRY A. FITZGERALD
  • Patent number: 6444030
    Abstract: An apparatus applies a liquid or viscid coating medium onto a moving material web, especially one made of paper or cardboard. A coating mechanism first applies the coating medium onto an applicator element or an applicator roll, which subsequently transfers the coating medium at a coating location onto the material web in the form of a coating layer. Furthermore, if so desired, a doctoring device can be positioned at a doctor station, adjacent to the coating location, on the downstream side relative to the movement of the material web for the purpose of smoothing and/or metering the coating. The coating apparatus incorporates an apparatus for the generation and/or supplying of a fluid, preferably steam. This apparatus is positioned adjacent to the coating location or to the doctor station on the downstream side relative to the movement L of the material web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Kohl, Martin Kustermann, Oswald Satzger, Rüdiger Kurtz, Harald Hess, Karl-Heinz Hannen, Hans Peter Hoffmann, Franz Kustos
  • Patent number: 6413318
    Abstract: A sheet coating apparatus including a storage tank in which a coating liquid having charged coating particles dispersed therein is contained, a development roller rotatably installed to be immersed in the coating liquid, a voltage source for applying a voltage to the development roller, a coating roller rotatably installed in a state in which it is partially immersed in the coating liquid while maintaining a predetermined development gap relative to the development roller, and a compression roller for pressing a sheet passing between the compression roller and the coating roller toward the coating roller while securely rotating with respect to the coating roller. The coating particles adhere to the surface of the coating roller at the development gap due to an electric force to then be coated on the sheet passing between the coating roller and the compression roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-baek Yoo, Kyung-yol Yon
  • Publication number: 20020066405
    Abstract: A press roll such as the center roll of a press or the back-up roll of an extended-nip press roll, used in a pulp, paper, board or finishing machine, has a coating with an intermediate sealed layer. The corrosion resistance and impermeability of the roll coating, particularly of such a coating that is made by thermal spraying, can be improved by way of sealing. The coating comprises a porous outermost surface layer made out of a ceramic or ceramic-metal material applied by thermal spraying and at least one sealed layer situated between the outermost surface layer and the roll mantle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Kari Niemi, Bjarne Hellman, Juha Wahlroos, Pentti Lehtonen
  • Patent number: 6387180
    Abstract: A coating apparatus has compact coating assembly modules which require less storage space and are easier to handle and which through the common use of parts and accessory tools provide a reduced manufacturing cost of the apparatus as a whole. A coating assembly which rotates during coating and a coating assembly which does not rotate during coating can be interchangeably installed to a support frame. Two bearing cases are mounted on the support frame, and the coating assemblies each have two shaft parts which can be removably set in the bearing cases. The shaft parts of the rotating coating assembly can be rotatably set in the bearing cases, and a shaft part of the non-rotating coating assembly can, when set in its corresponding bearing case, be anchored to a fixed part so that it cannot rotate. Another coating assembly which does not rotate during coating has left and right mounting parts which can be removably fixed to bearing cradle parts of the bearing cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Inoue Kinzoku Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Takahashi, Haruhiro Iida, Hirofumi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6383290
    Abstract: The oil application mechanism of a lane conditioning machine has a moving dispensing head that deposits intermittent streams of oil onto the rotating surface of a transfer roller under the control of a programmed control system as the machine moves down the lane. The transfer roller, in turn, transfers the oil to a rotating bristle-type applicator roller that engages the lane and lays down an oil film having a cross-sectional configuration that corresponds to a preselected pattern established by the control system. A smoothing assembly engages the oil immediately after it is deposited on the transfer roller and before it reaches the applicator roller so as to extend the deposit of oil completely around the circumference of the transfer roller in an even layer. The smoothing assembly includes a series of independent, spring-loaded pad units along the length of the transfer roller, each of which includes a section of fabric with a raised nab engaging the surface of the transfer roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: The Kegel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Davis, John M. Davis
  • Patent number: 6361601
    Abstract: Adhesive is applied to a web by way of a printing plate and reverse enclosed doctor blade so as to apply the adhesive in selected locations thereby minimizing the amount of adhesive applied in order to decrease the stiffness of the resultant multi-ply web. The amount of adhesive build up on the embossing rolls due to the adhesive bleeding through the web material is minimized and the embossing rolls are permitted to clean themselves in that the adhesive application is carried out so that adhesive is not applied to the web material adjacent portions of the embossing roll on successive rotations of the roll. By doing so, portions of the backup roll which support the web where adhesive was previously applied are permitted to selfclean by allowing the adhesive which has bled through the web and collected on the backup roll to dry and flake off prior to adhesive again being applied to the web adjacent such region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Fort James Corporation
    Inventor: Galyn Schulz
  • Patent number: 6358318
    Abstract: A gumming device includes a first and a second roller, with horizontal, parallel axes, in contact with each other at a zone of tangency along a common generating line, defining a space between respective cylindrical surfaces just above the zone of tangency. A device for feeding an adhesive substance into the space includes an adhesive distributing element having an end portion located between the rollers at the space over the zone of tangency and having at least one downflow wall for conveying an essentially laminar, continuous flow of adhesive substance to said space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: G.D S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gian Luigi Gherardi, Fiorenzo Draghetti
  • Patent number: 6346148
    Abstract: An apparatus for coating a paper or paperboard web with at least two coat layers. The present invention achieves two-layer coating and is capable of providing a smooth coat with high opacifying power. A first coat layer is initially applied to the web. The surface of this first coat layer is smoothed by a smoothing element. After smoothing, this first coat layer is partially or entirely dried, and a second coat layer is applied onto the first coat layer using a transfer coater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Valmet Corporation
    Inventor: Rauno Verner Rantanen
  • Patent number: 6344087
    Abstract: Method of coating a board and a board coating system for performing the method. The inventive method is intended for coating a board with liquid coating material, particularly for coating a basis plate intended for circuit boards with liquid photoresist. Here, the plate which is to be coated is transported by a transport apparatus past a coating roller while in contact with the latter. The coating roller is rotated in a vertical orientation and, during coating, the board is held by the transport apparatus on its upper edge in a vertically hanging position and is led past the vertically oriented coating roller by the transport apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2002
    Assignees: ITC Intercircuit Handels GmbH, Mass GmbH
    Inventor: Hubertus Hein
  • Patent number: 6319319
    Abstract: A coating spreading machine for spreading resin onto a printed layer film of a plastic tile is provided. The printed layer film is rolled up around a roller and then fed to the spreading machine. The spreading machine has a coating spreading device and a drying device; the spreading device includes a transmission wheel capable of turning, a steel wheel arranged under the transmission wheel, a nozzle and a pressing wheel arranged above the transmission wheel. The printed layer film is passed through between the transmission wheel and the pressing wheel, and then fed to the drying device. The nozzle ejects resin onto the transmission wheel; the resin is then spreaded even on the transmission wheel by means of the steel wheel. The resin spreaded on the transmission wheel is then coupled to the printed layer film by means of the pressing wheel. The printed layer film is thus applied with resin and can be coupled to a basic part of a plastic tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Inventor: Chin-Lung Yu
  • Patent number: 6277196
    Abstract: Apparatus for applying a coating of an insulation lacquer to a moving surface of a strip comprises a rotatable roller whose surface defines a multiplicity of cells and a reservoir containing a bath of heated organic/inorganic insulating lacquer in which a part of the roller surface is immersed when rotating. Insulating lacquer enters the cells of the roller surface and excess lacquer is wiped from the roller surface. A rotatable applicator roll having a substantially plain surface free of grooves or other indentations is rotated with its surface in contact with the surface of the lacquer carrying roller whereby lacquer present in the cells of the roller is transferred to the surface of the applicator roll. The surface to be coated is moved continuously past and in contact with the roll surface to apply a uniform coating of lacquer to that surface. The strip is preferably a strip of non-oriented electrical steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: European Electrical Steels
    Inventors: Gwilym Leslie Woodman, David Snell, Philip Beckley
  • Patent number: 6277197
    Abstract: An apparatus for direct or indirect application of at least one liquid or pasty medium onto a traveling material web, notably of paper or cardboard, includes at least one applicator for the medium. Coordinated with the applicator is a backing roll for receiving the medium in the indirect application or for carrying the material web in the direct application. The applicator includes a coating doctor and, arranged a distance from the coating doctor in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the backing roll, a second doctor element. The second doctor element bounds, with the coating doctor, a coating chamber for the medium. The coating doctor and the second doctor element are retained on a common, substantially rigid doctor bed and bound together with the backing roll surface and the doctor bed surface the coating chamber. At least one feed line for feeding the medium to the coating chamber is provided in the common doctor bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Ingo Gottwald
  • Patent number: 6273952
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a film applicator for applying a coating to at least a portion of a surface of fibers, comprising: an enclosure having a reservoir to store a coating composition; a roller having a generally cylindrical surface positioned within the enclosure such that a first portion of the roller surface is immersed in the coating composition and a second portion of the roller surface extends through an opening in the enclosure to contact fibers; a drive to rotate the roller within the enclosure such that the surface of the roller can be coated with a film formed from the coating composition; and a bar positioned at least in close proximity to the roller surface, the bar having a contoured surface that provides a desired film thickness on the roller surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert B. Rau
  • Patent number: 6258168
    Abstract: A paster for the application of a film of water-containing adhesive to a running substrate of cigarette paper or the like automatically replaces the evaporated percentage of water when the substrate-processing machine is idle but the paster continues to circulate adhesive in order to prevent a rise in the viscosity of the then circulating and water releasing adhesive. The quantity of water in the circulating adhesive and other parameters (such as the temperature) of the adhesive are monitored by several sensors, and signals which are transmitted by such sensors are processed to regulate the admission of water in order to maintain the percentage of water, and hence the consistency, of the circulating adhesive within a range not appreciably departing from that when the paster is in actual use to apply one or more films of adhesive to the running substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Hauni Maschinenbau AG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Pawelko, Franz Rottmann
  • Patent number: 6221162
    Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a liquid resist into a through hole part of an electroconductive substrate comprises an application roll, rotating in a single rotational direction, for coating the electroconductive substrate carried by a carrier with a liquid resist. An opposing member opposed to the application roll enables the electroconductive substrate carried by the carrier to be held. A control unit controls the carrier so that the carrier moves the electroconductive substrate between the application roll and the opposed member in a first carrying direction, and subsequently in a second direction inverse to the first carrying direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryouta Bandou, Shigeki Hozeki
  • Patent number: 6210480
    Abstract: A device for wet coating, in particular printed circuit boards, with lacquer using at least one applicator roller (20, 21) and sparing at least one edge area of the printed circuit boards. The device uses a doctor blade arrangement situated between a lacquer reservoir and the printed circuit board that can move in an axial direction, one edge of which touches the applicator roller (20, 21). The doctor blade arrangement is designed can also remove excess lacquer, for example, photo-resistant lacquer from a multilayer board, from both longitudinal edges of the printed circuit board without any residue. This is also possible for multilayer boards of varying widths in particular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bürkle GmbH
    Inventor: Josef Mai
  • Patent number: 6183558
    Abstract: A method for forming a molecular film includes the steps of: coating a surface of a substrate having active hydrogen atoms on its surface with a coating solution containing a silane-based compound having at least one reactive group selected from the group consisting of a chloro group, an alkoxy group and an isocyanate group; and effecting an elimination reaction between the active hydrogen atoms on the surface of the substrate and reactive groups of the silane-based compound, thereby covalently bonding the silane-based compounds to the surface of the substrate. The substrate is supplied to a chamber in which an atmosphere is maintained at a low water vapor density. The surface of the substrate is coated with a coating solution containing the silane-based compound and a solvent by using a transfer element. A dehydrochlorination reaction is effected between the active hydrogen atoms and the chloro groups of the silane-based compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Otake, Norihisa Mino, Tohru Nakagawa, Mamoru Soga, Kazufumi Ogawa, Takaiki Nomura, Yasuo Takebe
  • Patent number: 6174586
    Abstract: The present invention relates to security paper (1) formed from base paper provided with a surface treatment layer on at least one side of the paper, characterized in that the layer thickness locally deviates markedly from the layer (10) thickness of the remaining dominant paper surface, and in that the local deviation forms distinctive mark (2) in the paper. The present invention also relates to a method and to a device for producing surface treated security paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Holmen AB
    Inventor: Lars-Åke Peterson
  • Patent number: 6149726
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Ueberschar