Abstract: A die of a coating apparatus for applying a coating solution includes down- and upstream blocks in a feeding direction of a web, which respectively have a first lip and a second lip. A lip land of the first lip is shorter than a lip land of the second lip in the feeding direction so as to satisfy a predetermined condition. In assembling the coating apparatus, bottoms of down- and upstream blocks are fixed to a fixer with bolts. Between the fixer and the downstream block, a plate member is provided such that the first lip land protrudes from the second lip land.

Abstract: In coating with two slits of a coating slit and a recovering slit, by optimizing the slit clearance of the coating slit and the recovering slit, a coating layer with a very small and even thickness can be obtained. In a coating apparatus in which after a coating liquid is applied to a web to excess through the coating slit, a desired amount of coating liquid is applied to the web by scraping off an excess of coating liquid with a recovering slit, there is provided a slit clearance adjusting device for adjusting the slit clearance of the recovering slit.

Abstract: A coating device for carrying out a die coating method, which is capable of rapidly and assuredly eliminating an undesirable streak occurring in a coating layer during the coating operation. The coating device includes a coating head spaced from a back-up roll, and a shifting mechanism for shifting the coating head close to and remote from the back-up roll. The shifting mechanism includes a reciprocation carriage mounted onto a stationary frame to be linearly reciprocatedly movable thereon, a drive section for reciprocating the reciprocation carriage on the stationary frame, and a stop section for selectively hindering the linear motion of the reciprocation carriage caused by the drive section at a desired position. The shifting mechanism operates to instantaneously reciprocate the coating head at a small distance so that a distance between the outer surface of the back-up roll now carrying out the coating operation and the coating face of the coating head temporarily increases.

Abstract: A coater comprises upstream and down stream side bars between which a pocket and a slit are formed.

Abstract: An fountain applicator for applying coating liquid onto a web of paper carried past the applicator, has a coating liquid flow path that includes a curved surface along which a sheet of the coating liquid is flowed to subject the sheet to centrifugal force to cause air entrained in the coating liquid to move away from one side of the sheet that is toward the curved surface, so that the one side is relatively free of entrained air. After being flowed along the curved surface, the sheet of coating liquid is directed toward the web in a free standing jet curtain of coating liquid, to contact the web surface primarily with the one relatively air-free side of the coating liquid sheet to decrease the occurrence of skip coating on the web surface, especially when the web is traveling past the applicator at high speeds. The coating is applied in excess onto the web surface and is metered and leveled to a desired coat weight by a downstream doctor.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for achieving a level exposed surface of a viscous material pool for applying viscous material to at least one semiconductor component by contacting at least a portion of the semiconductor component with viscous material within a reservoir. A level viscous material exposed surface is achieved by using at least one mechanism in association with the reservoir. The mechanism is configured to level the exposed surface of viscous material and maintain the exposed surface at a substantially constant level. The reservoir may be shaped such that the exposed surface of viscous material is supplied to a precise location.

Abstract: A bar coating apparatus includes a coating bar for contacting an object to be coated, which object is conveyed in a constant direction, so as to apply a coating solution to and remove excess coating solution from the object to be coated, a weir member for forming a bead of the coating solution between the object to be coated and the coating bar, the weir member being disposed upstream of the coating bar in a direction in which the object to be coated is conveyed, a pressing member for pressing the object to be coated from a side thereof opposite from the coating bar, the pressing member being disposed near the coating bar; and a moving device for moving the pressing member in a thickness direction of the object to be coated.

Abstract: A coating machine for directly or indirectly applying a coating to a material web is designed to apply liquid or viscid coating medium onto a moving surface. The coating machine includes a discharge nozzle for discharging a coating medium onto the moving surface. The discharge nozzle has a first nozzle lip residing on the feed-side, and a second nozzle lip residing on the trailing side with respect to the moving surface. At least one of the first and second nozzle lips is composed of a blade element.

Abstract: A tip assembly includes a tip having a nose portion. The tip defines a central bore. The nose portion includes a lip portion and defines a counterbore. The counterbore has a counterbore side wall and a seat surface. The counterbore is contiguous with the central bore. An insert member includes an inner surface, an outer surface and a side wall. The inner surface is opposite the outer surface. The side wall interconnects the inner surface and the outer surface. The insert defines a central aperture that extends from the inner surface to the outer surface. The insert is disposed within the counterbore such that the central aperture is substantially concentric with the central bore of the tip. The lip portion of the tip engages the outer surface of the insert.

Abstract: An automated system for preparing a plurality of cytological specimens from a plurality of fluid samples in vials includes an apparatus for collecting a monolayer of cells from each sample and transferring the cells to a microscope slide for fixing, staining, and inspection. The system includes a first loading station for receiving the sample vials, a second loading station for receiving consumables such as filter membranes, a slide dispenser, and an unloading area for removing completed specimen slides. To maintain one-to-one correlation between the samples and specimens produced therefrom, the system includes a subsystem for identifying each sample and permanently marking each slide with corresponding indicia prior to transferring the specimen thereto.

Abstract: A catch pan apparatus for starting and stopping coating is disclosed for coating a downwardly moving receiving surface by curtain coating. The catch pan device includes an intercepting pan that intercepts the curtain when coating is stopped and a substantially horizontal intercepting surface that intercepts the curtain only when the catch pan moves to start or stop coating. The intercepting pan and horizontal intercepting surface intersect to create a volume that retains in the catch pan excess liquids that would otherwise spill onto the coating receiving surface as the catch pan is retracted to a non-intercepting position. The catch pan is controllably retracted at high speed through the curtain using linear servomotors such that the releasing edge of the horizontal intercepting surface passes close to the coating receiving surface at the point of curtain release. Flushed edge guides maintaining curtain width are positioned outside the lateral edges of the catch pan.

Abstract: The coating apparatus and method enable the coating liquid having been scraped-off to be reused without doing any one of the fluid adjusting treatment and the filtering treatment, while maintaining the features of the scraping-off type of extrusion coater, which is suitable for obtaining a uniform and extremely thin coating film. The coating head is provided with two slits: a coating slit and a recovering slit, and the excessive coating liquid having been discharged through the coating slit and applied to the web is scraped-off and recovered through the recovering slit.

Abstract: A method for producing coated strands of metal includes guiding a metal strand through the bottom of a vessel filled with a molten mass of the same or different composition as the metal strip, wherein the residence time of the metal strand is selected as a function of at least one of the molten bath level, the casting speed, the metal strand thickness, and the preheating temperature of the metal strand such that the deposited molten mass on the metal strand has a desired thickness of several times the initial thickness of the metal strand. After exiting from the molten bath, the metal strand with a layer crystallized thereon is subjected to a smoothing path carried out when the surface temperature of the strand crystallized thereon is smaller than the solidus temperature of the molten bath, so that at least the surface of the layer crystallized thereon is solidified. The crystallized layer is applied with a thickness which exceeds the desired final thickness of the coated strand.

Abstract: The applicator device (AV) for hot-melt adhesive (HK) comprises a housing (1) with an adhesive feeder element (2) and an adjustable nozzle slot (3) to let out the adhesive by pressure. The nozzle slot (3) can be adjusted by means of two nozzle sliders (4) that can be displaced linearly and continuously towards each other from a zero position to a maximum open position with the purpose of adjusting the width (B) of the adhesive applicator. Both sliders (4) are displaced synchronously or independently towards each other, whereby both sliders (4) can be displaced towards each other by the same distance and/or by a different distance from the center (0) of the application width (B) of the nozzle slot (3).

Abstract: An automated system for preparing a plurality of cytological specimens from a plurality of fluid samples in vials includes an apparatus for collecting a monolayer of cells from each sample and transferring the cells to a microscope slide for fixing, staining, and inspection. The system includes a first loading station for receiving the sample vials, a second loading station for receiving consumables such as filter membranes, a slide dispenser, and an unloading area for removing completed specimen slides. To maintain one-to-one correlation between the samples and specimens produced therefrom, the system includes a subsystem for identifying each sample and permanently marking each slide with corresponding indicia prior to transferring the specimen thereto.

Abstract: The invention concerns a roller arrangement for a product to be coated in a molten metal bath, having a roller (1) which rotates in the metal bath and is retained at the ends rotatably on support arms (2) by way of rolling bearings (4), the rolling bearings (4) each being arranged in a bearing housing (5) sealed with respect to the metal bath (M), which is characterized in that in order to seal the bearing housing (5) with respect to the roller (1), sealing surfaces (15, 16) extending transversely to the roller axis (X) are configured [on a radially projecting shoulder (14) of the roller (1)] and on the bearing housing (5), and are retained under pressure against one another or against an interposed seal element (20).

Abstract: An apparatus for the application of a flowable medium (2, 2′) from a stock chamber (7, 8) to a surface (6) being moved along the apparatus, and to the use of an apparatus of this type. The stock chamber (7, 8) partly covers the surface (6), with formation of a sealing gap (14) and an exit gap (18). In order to prevent the formation of air bubbles in the medium (2, 2′), it is proposed to divide the stock chamber (7, 8) into a pre-chamber (7) and a main chamber (8). A dividing element (10) which, together with the surface (6), limits a dividing gap (15), is arranged between the chambers. Various shapes of the dividing element are proposed. The apparatus is particularly suitable for the application of a polymer dispersion to the surface (6). A process for operating an apparatus of this type is also described.

Abstract: A wallpaper dispensing apparatus includes a tray with a ridge projecting from the bottom and extending transversely between the side walls to divide the tray into a forward pool section and a rearward trough section. A removable cover is attached to the forward pool section and includes a pair of depressions with guide surfaces on the bottom, spaced above the bottom of the tray to form a passageway between the cover and tray bottom. the cover has a rearward portion following a portion of the ridge, and a straight rearward edge extending transversely across the tray. An opening in the cover, extending from the forward edge permits the user to draw a strip of wallpaper from a roll located in the trough, through the passageway between the cover and tray, and out the forward end of the tray. Water in the pool portion wets the wallpaper as it is drawn from the dispensing apparatus.

Abstract: A coating device for applying a coating to a surface of a travelling continuous substrate by discharging it from a nozzle extending in a widthwise direction of the substrate. In the coating device, a plurality of discharge openings are arranged in a row at predetermined distances spaced apart from one another in a longitudinal direction of the nozzle. A flat surface is formed on at least a portion, of a tip end of said nozzle opposed to the substrate, which lies at a downstream side in a travelling direction of the substrate. The flat surface is adapted to permit the uniformization of the thickness of the coating discharged from the plurality of discharge openings onto the substrate. Thus, the coating can be applied widthwise uniformly onto the substrate with the aid of the flat surface. In addition, it is possible to reliably prevent the deformation of the discharge openings.

Abstract: A pasting machine is provided for paste of an active material for a lead battery which is capable of continuously applying stably and favorably, not only a paste of active material for a negative electrode, but also a paste of active material for a positive electrode, to a continuous substrate. There is arranged within a hopper 1 a pair of front and rear paddles 2,2 located above, a delivery roller 3 located below, a vaned roller 5′ located at a rear side of the intermediate portion, and an auxiliary roller 4 located diagonally to the upper front of the delivery roller 3 spaced from and opposed to the delivery roller 3. A delivery opening 6a of an orifice plate 61 fixed to the lower end of the hopper 1 is made open to direct paste in the same direction as the travel direction of a continuous, substrate A.

Abstract: A coating apparatus comprising a forward bar, a liquid feed passage and a metering device for a coating liquid. The forward bar rotates about its axis in the same direction as the traveling direction of a continuously traveling band-shaped web while touching the web. When coating the web with the coating liquid, the liquid feed passage feeds the coating liquid to an area between the upstream side of the forward bar and the web with respect to the traveling direction of the web. The metering device is arranged on the downstream side of the forward bar for metering the coating liquid to a predetermined coating thickness as applied to the web by the forward bar.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for impregnating fibrous material such as, for example, fiber bundles, fiber strands, woven textiles or fiber mats, in which an impregnating agent is introduced into the spaces in the fibrous material, and the individual fibers are surrounded and/or soaked through, wherein the supply of impregnating agent takes place via apertures in a supply body over which the fibrous material is moved, wherein the device is provided with a supply body with apertures for supplying an impregnating agent, furthermore is provided with a transport means for moving the fibrous material through the device or respectively past the supply body, and means for supplying impregnating means to the supply body.

Abstract: The present invention is directed towards an apparatus for treating continuous materials. In one embodiment of the invention, a mounting bar is supported between mounting brackets. Tubing is mounted for rotation to the mounting bar. A first rod extends radially from the tubing and is adapted to rotate with the tubing. A second rod is supported by the first rod. A contact supported by an end of the second rod is adapted to orbit around the mounting bar upon rotating the first rod. In another embodiment of the invention, an application pan is provided. A guide is provided at a front end of the pan and a stripper die is provided at a rear end of the pan. A hold-down bar located between the front and rear ends of the pan is adapted to be rotated about an axis that extends laterally relative to the application pan. A strand rod is located between the hold-down bar and the stripper die.

Abstract: Thickness unevenness of a coating liquid layer in a width direction of a web is adjusted by moving a guide roller at the proximity of a coating rod so as to deliberately provide tension variation in the width direction of the web in purpose of forming the coating liquid layer with a desired thickness on the web by the coating rod.

Abstract: A non-impact process and apparatus for coating printing cylinders with layers of a coating liquid, especially for coating flexographic printing sleeves with infrared sensitive layers.

Abstract: This invention provides a unitary nozzle for use in a taping apparatus. The unitary nozzle features a cradle section adjacent a tube receiving section and a flange for sealingly receiving a mastic tube. A mastic is extruded and contained along a path extending along one side of the tape and between a front and rear end of the nozzle.

Abstract: A hygienic toilet pack includes a roll of toilet tissue and a roll of flexible sheet material disposed end to end and of a size to fit in a conventional toilet tissue roll holder. The sheets forming the rolls are doubled over to provide inner and outer sheet segments in registry with one another. The sheets of the flexible sheet material are moistened with a hygienic agent.

Abstract: In an optical fiber coating method comprising the steps of; applying an injecting first coating resin to the outer periphery of the optical fiber while inserting the optical fiber through a first die hole provided in a first coating die; and applying an injected second coating resin onto the first coating resin while inserting the optical fiber through a second die hole provided in a second coating die.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the application of a liquid medium onto at least one side of a moving material web, specifically a cardboard web; comprising at least one roll (1; 1a) that supports the web (3) and at least one feed device (5; 5a) for the coating medium, whereby during operation of the device a liquid sump (6; 6a) forms between the roll (1; 1a) and the web (3). According to the invention, the nozzle lips (13, 14; 13a, 14a) of a nozzle body (12, 12a) of the feed device (5, 5a) are configured so that the desired dimension of the open surface of the sump (6, 6a) and the depth of immersion of the nozzle lips (13, 14; 13a, 14a), and thereby the level (P) of the sump (6, 6a) are adjustable. The nozzle lips are surrounded to 80% of their total length—starting from the nozzle opening (15, 15a)—by the sump (6, 6a).

Abstract: An apparatus for application of a liquid or pasty coating medium onto a substrate moving past it, for instance a material web of paper, cardboard or boxboard or an applicator roll, includes a back-up chamber which is bounded on its substrate entrance end by a back-up chamber entrance bounding element and on its substrate exit end by a back-up chamber exit bounding element. The apparatus also includes a feed device for feeding the coating medium. In the applicator according to the invention for achieving a uniform coating application, the feed device, viewed in the direction of travel of the substrate, is arranged before the back-up chamber entrance bounding element.

Abstract: A coating layer, which has the property of releasing a coated liquid, is formed on the outer peripheral surface of a cylindrical rod. The rod is engaged with a first roll, and rotates in a predetermined direction. A coating liquid is supplied to a nip surface portion between the first roll and the rod in the predetermined direction, and a film of coating liquid is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the first roll. After the thickness of the coating-liquid film is adjusted at the nip surface portion, the thickness-adjusted film is transferred from the first roll onto a surface of the base paper directly, or indirectly through the second roll.

Abstract: A coating head discharges the coating solution in a discharging direction through a slit to a support and is designed such that a slit has a length M (mm) along the discharging direction and a gap G (mm), and a manifold has a coating width L (mm) orthogonal to the discharging direction, a cross sectional area S (mm2) and a circumferential length R (mm) of a cross section, wherein the coating head and the supplying means are arranged such that the coating solution is supplied symmetrically in terms of the center of the coating width of the manifold through the feeding port into the manifold, and dimensions of the coating head are determined to satisfy formula (1): 10−4<(L2R2G3)/(24MS3)<10−2  (1)

Abstract: A towel dispensing machine for dispensing wet towels, including a cutting mechanism to cut the towels to the desired length and a liquid dispensing device for wetting the towels to produce individual cut, wet towels. Preferably, the towels are also rolled by a rolling mechanism before being dispensed. Additionally, the liquid can be heated to dispense hot wet towels. A method for producing wet towels is also disclosed.

Abstract: A coating method has running step of running a nozzle and/or a base material, change step of changing discharge-port slit widths of said nozzle, and coating step of discharging a coating solution from said slit and coating said base material with said coating solution; wherein said running step, change step, and coating step are executed by combining them.

Abstract: An extrusion die for extruding a chemical functional additive for making a disposable paper product comprises a supply port and a distribution channel in fluid communication with the supply port. The distribution channel terminates with at least one discharge mouth having a passage cross-section therethrough. The discharge mouth comprises an entry orifice having an entry open area Ae, an exit orifice having an exit open area Ax, and a discharge distance defined between the entry orifice and the exit orifice. The exit open area Ax is greater than the entry open area Ae. This ensures that contaminants would pass through the discharge mouth, whereby plugging thereof is substantially avoided. Preferably, the passage cross-section of the discharge mouth continuously and gradually increases from the entry orifice to the exit orifice.

Abstract: A continuous ceramic composite plating apparatus for long doctor base materials, comprising one or more material reels; pinch rolls for cramping and forwardly supplying the blade base materials continuously while blade surfaces of the blade base materials are maintained horizontally with respect to a surface of a solution, for uniformly plating the blade base materials wherein a higher concentration of ceramic fine powder is deposited on a top surface of the blade base materials than a concentration of the fine ceramic powder on their lower surface; and take-up reels for taking up the blades continuously, said apparatus further comprising a series of treatment tanks between the material reels and the take-up reels including a degreasing tank; a rinsing tank; an acid immersion tank; a second rinsing tank; an electroless ceramic composite nickel plating tank; a plating solution collecting tank; a third rinsing tank; and a drying tank.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for the application of a liquid or pasty medium onto a traveling fiber material web. The medium is directly applied on at least one side of the traveling material web. The medium is pressed into the traveling material web after the medium is directly applied on the traveling material web.

Abstract: A coating method of coating an outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical base with a coater having a supply port, a coating solution chamber, and a slit communicating with the coating solution chamber, the slit being provided around an inner circumferential surface of the coater, comprisse steps of: feeding a coating solution from the supply port to the coating solution chamber so that the coating solution is discharged to the slit; adjusting an absolute pressure P in the coating solution chamber so as to satisfy the following formula: 3×104≦P≦3×106 (mmH2O) and relatively moving the cylindrical base through a hole formed by the inner circumferential surface of the coater so that an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical base is uniformely coated with the coating solution flowing out from the slit.

Abstract: The method for hot dip galvanizing comprises the steps of: dividing a plating vessel holding a molten metal into a plating tank and a dross removing tank; conducting hot dip galvanizing to a steel strip by immersing thereof in the molten metal bath; then transferring the molten metal bath from the plating tank to the dross removing tank; removing a dross from the molten metal bath in the dross removing tank; and recycling the molten metal bath from the dross removing tank to the plating tank through an opening located on the plating tank. The apparatus for galvanizing comprises a plating tank, a dross removing tank, a means to transfer the molten metal bath from the plating tank to the dross removing tank, and an opening located on the plating tank to recycle the molten metal bath from the dross removing tank to the plating tank.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a stationary sliding bar for guiding a paper or cardboard web extends across the entire web width B. Viewed in cross section, the sliding bar has a convex, rounded surface. Due to a relatively high speed of travel of the web, an aerodynamic flotation web forms between the sliding bar and the web.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for fabricating a laminate product having a pair of sheet materials spaced by a plurality of flexible parallel vanes which are secured to the sheet material so that planar movement of the sheet materials in opposite directions cause the vanes to shift between open and closed positions. The vane material is formed from a web of material by dyeing the material, drying the dyed material, applying spaced longitudinally extending lines of adhesive on opposite faces of the material, and cutting the material into a plurality of side-by-side strips with each strip having a bead of adhesive on each face and along opposite side edges. The cut material with adhesive applied thereto is taken up on a transfer roll and moved to a vane/strip handling station where the strips of material are processed and delivered to a laminating station in parallel overlapping relationship with each other.

Abstract: A device designed for coating a material web with a coating medium includes a coater, a metering/smoothing device positioned downstream of the coater in the direction of feed of the material web, at a certain distance from the coater, and a support roll around which the material web is guided. Moreover, the material web is guided around the support roll only in the area of the metering/smoothing device, and it traverses essentially in a straight line between the coater and the support roll. In accordance to a first aspect of this invention, a support arrangement supports the material web in the straight web section between the coater and the support roll. In accordance to a second aspect of this invention, devices are provided which stabilize the material web in the area where the web traverses in a straight line.

Abstract: A coating apparatus for a traveling web comprising two coating heads and a traveling path changing roller is disclosed. A bar coater is arranged close to a pass roller. The bar coater is fixed at such a position as to contact the web when the pass roller is moved down. An extrusion coater is arranged below a backup roller in such a manner as to move up and down. If the pass roller moves up and bends up the traveling path of the web, the web separates from the bar coater. Then, if the extrusion coater moves up, the web is coated with the coating solution by the extrusion coater. If the pass roller and the extrusion coater move down, the web is coated with the coating solution by the bar coater.

Abstract: An easily operated dispenser for a flexible web typically a cellulosic web is provided that can be operated at a user option to provide a dry web or provide a liquid treated web. The liquid treatment can comprise an antimicrobial liquid treatment suitable for personal contact. The liquid treatment can comprise a cleaner, a soothing lotion, a protective coating, a pharmaceutical treatment, or any other liquid that can provide a beneficial property to a skin surface. The dispenser operates by having a first position from which it provides a dry web. The dispenser can also have a second position which contacts the web with a liquid treatment producing a web containing the liquid treatment composition. The user can interact with the dispenser and place the dispenser in the second position or the first position depending on the user's need for either a wet or dry web. This is a self-contained unit which can be designed to be either a disposable or nondisposable unit.

Abstract: A coating method of coating an outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical base with a coater having a supply port, a coating solution chamber, and a slit communicating with the coating solution chamber, the slit being provided around an inner circumferential surface of the coater, comprisse steps of: feeding a coating solution from the supply port to the coating solution chamber so that the coating solution is discharged to the slit; adjusting an absolute pressure P in the coating solution chamber so as to satisfy the following formula: 3×104≦P≦3×106 (mmH2O) and relatively moving the cylindrical base through a hole formed by the inner circumferential surface of the coater so that an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical base is uniformely coated with the coating solution flowing out from the slit.

Abstract: A method of making shingles includes coating a shingle mat with roofing asphalt to make an asphalt-coated sheet, and covering the asphalt-coated sheet with granules to form a granule-covered sheet along a longitudinal axis, the granule-covered sheet having a shadow patch thereon, the shadow patch having a first width along the longitudinal axis. The granule-covered sheet is divided into an overlay sheet and an underlay sheet, the shadow patch being on the underlay sheet. A pattern of tabs and cutouts is cut in the overlay sheet, one of the tabs of the pattern being a select tab having a second width along the longitudinal axis, the second width of the select tab being less than the first width of the shadow patches. The relative longitudinal positions of the shadow patch and the select tab are synchronized.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing optical fiber ribbons which has a optical fiber gathering device, one or more coating applicators and a turn roller arranged in a straight line, with one or more alignment guide in plate form being provided on a travelling line of optical fibers or optical fiber ribbons upstream of the coating applicator. The alignment guide is chamfered to arch form on the side that contacts the optical fibers or the optical fiber ribbons. The alignment guide suppresses the optical fibers or the optical fiber ribbons from vibrating in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the arrangement of the optical fibers or the optical fiber ribbons.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an electrode plate of a nonaqueous secondary battery comprises means for moving a sheet conductive base material in a first direction, a die nozzle for injecting an electrode material composition onto the sheet conductive base material, a pump disposed in supplying pipes, a valve disposed at the pipes between the pump and the die nozzle, a suction system disposed at the pipes between the valve and the die nozzle, and means for drying the electrode material composition. To form uncoated areas, either the die nozzle or sheet conductive base material may be configured to move in a direction substantially perpendicular to one another, or the die nozzle may be configured to move along the first direction. Additionally a coated amount of the electrode material composition per unit area along the first direction may be continuously increased or decreased.

Abstract: An apparatus for hot-dip coating a steel strip, comprising: (a) an annealing furnace for continuously annealing the steel strip, the annealing furnace having an entrance side and an exit side; (b) a coating pot having a molten metal coating bath for coating the annealed steel strip; (c) a snout through which the annealed steel strip is introduced into the molten metal coating bath, one end of the snout being connected to the annealing furnace and the other end being immersed into the molten metal coating bath; (d) a seal device for sealing between the annealing furnace and the snout, the seal device being disposed at the exit side of the annealing furnace; and (e) a discharge device for discharging a gas containing a metal vapor from the snout to outside of the snout, the metal vapor being evaporated from the molten metal coating bath in the snout.

Abstract: A wallpaper dispensing apparatus includes a tray with a ridge projecting from the bottom and extending transversely between the side walls to divide the tray into a forward pool section and a rearward trough section. A removable cover is attached to the forward pool section and includes a pair of depressions with guide surfaces on the bottom, spaced above the bottom of the tray to form a passageway between the cover and tray bottom. the cover has a rearward portion following a portion of the ridge, and a straight rearward edge extending transversely across the tray. An opening in the cover, extending from the forward edge permits the user to draw a strip of wallpaper from a roll located in the trough, through the passageway between the cover and tray, and out the forward end of the tray. Water in the pool portion wets the wallpaper as it is drawn from the dispensing apparatus.