Abstract: A process for retarding the formation of incrustation on plant parts in contact with phosphating solutions in phosphating plants and where the working phosphating solution immediately after contacting the metal surface to be phosphated and while the solution is at its working temperature is caused to flow to contact an additionally presented solid surface that is disposed outside the region in which the workpiece metal surface and phosphating solution contact each other. The ratio of the second solid surface area which is contacted by the phosphating solution in the phosphating plant to the surface area of the plant parts in contact with the phosphating solution is at least 2.

Abstract: The present invention is a painting and filtration system wherein the system is capable of non-continuous operation, and wherein the system is capable of automatically removing impurities from the filtration system during operation. The system is particularly characterized by utilizing a solvent holding tank associated with a filtration unit, and sensors located in the solvent holding tank which generate signals to a controller which functions to activate and deactive the filtration system and functions to control the flow of liquid throughout the system so that the filtration unit can be cleaned when necessary during operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing bubbles in paint comprises a sealed container having an upper section and a lower section divided by a plate having one or more slit-like through holes and a pressure reducing device connected to the lower section. A paint coating system includes the bubble removing apparatus, a tank for storing a new paint, a first pipe line to feed paint from the tank to the upper section of the sealed container, a curtain flow coater or a roll coater communicated with the lower section of the sealed container so as to receive paint without bubbles, and a vessel to collect paint which does not contribute to form a coating layer.

Abstract: The invention provides a method an apparatus for joining at least two webs or running lengths of material together by means of at least one strip of adhesive applied to at least one of the webs in such a manner that the consumption of adhesive is reduced and greater reliability is achieved. This is made possible by using an adhesive having a viscosity which is close to the viscosity of water and causing the adhesive to be acted upon by a low pressure and to be filtered prior to application to the associated web.

Abstract: A developer apparatus for electrostatographic printing machine includes a developer assembly having a developer housing containing a developer sump, a developer exit port at the top portion of the sump to purge developer material and a removable developer waste sump for cooperative association with the developer exit port which includes a developer storage chamber, an opening through which developer may enter the chamber which is in developer receiving engagement with the developer exit port on the housing. The developer waste sump has at least one exhaust port above and in communication with the storage chamber to permit air which has any entrained toner removed therefrom to escape from the waste sump and including a pin on the bottom of the waste sump which is releasably secured to a fastening device on the housing.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for dispensing a fluid with dispersed particles therein are disclosed which include a reservoir containing the fluid and dispersed particles. The fluid is agitated to maintain dispersion of the particles. The output of the reservoir is provided through a filter to a three-way valve and pressurized as required. The common port of the three-way valve is connected to a print module controlled by a programmable controller. Bypass flow is provided to increase the flow rate through the system. The system may be operated in either the demand mode or the continuous mode.

Abstract: A solution for crystal growth reserved in an upper chamber is taken from an opening formed in a slider mounted between the upper chamber and a middle chamber, and flown to the middle chamber containing a substrate, solid bodies in the solution being removed by two grids attached to a hole provided on the side of the middle chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus is described for the continuous monitoring of a solution such as an electroless nickel plating bath, and the routine adjustment of the bath during use. The apparatus comprises a probe adapted to be placed directly into the plating tank, and controller for means for replenishing nickel ions and other plating additives as they are depleted from the bath. The probe uses a light source for passing a beam of monochromatic light through a portion of the bath and a detector for measuring the intensity of the light. Means are used to prevent air and hydrogen bubbles in the bath from affecting the reliability of the measurements. Additional means are used for cooling of the electronics and the portion of the bath through which the light is directed.

Abstract: A fluid wash spray paint system which includes a plurality of paint spray booths is provided. Each paint spray booth includes a fluid wash device to entrap paint overspray in a moving fluid to remove the overspray from the booth. The system also includes a sludge pit for collecting the fluid and entrapped paint overspray from the plurality of spray booths. An automatic feeder is provided to introduce a deflocculant powder into the fluid and entrapped paint overspray to cause the paint to settle as sludge to the bottom of the sludge pit. A centrifugal separator is provided to separate and remove the settled sludge from the fluid and to return the fluid to the sludge pit. The system further includes a pump to circulate the fluid from the sludge pit through the plurality of fluid wash spray devices to form a closed system.

Abstract: A method for in-line filtration of flowing liquids wherein composite filtering of mechanical entrapment type and of absorptive character is implemented in relative measures adapted to meet both flow rate and contaminant filtration requirements. The invention effects jointly operative steps of mechanical and absorptive oil-based contaminant removal with accommodation of desired flow rate of automotive coating liquid by a practice wherein these two filtration techniques are effected concurrently throughout a length of conduit assigned to filtering. The invention is practiced through the use of a fibrous body, comprised in first part of oil-absorptive fiber and in second part of fibrous matter substantially non-absorptive to oil contaminants, the second part fibrous matter being arranged to selectively entrap oil contaminants and prevent absorption thereof by such oil-absorptive fiber.

Abstract: A coating device in which a web of material is guided along a counter-roll at least in the region of a chamber which supplies coating composition to the web is disclosed. A feed channel is arranged in the chamber and is directed parallel to the counter-roll and extends along the chamber at least over the maximum width of the web of paper. Parallel to the feed channel there is a discharge channel for discharging gases contained in the coating composition located in the feed channel. The discharge channel is connected to the feed channel at several points along its length through openings present on the top of the feed channel.

Abstract: A machine for dispensing a viscous material in a predetermined pattern onto a surface. A nozzle in the form of a chemical dispensing tip (hollow needle) is positioned in three spatial coordinates by servomechanisms controlled by a pre-programmed digital process controller. The controller also controls the emission of the viscous material through the nozzle according to a predetermined pattern of deposition. The apparatus includes vacuum/pressure pumping for degassing the viscous material in a holding tank and subsequently pressurizing it for delivery through the nozzle. A poppet type valve and actuating solenoid deterine the viscous material flow and an output chamber in communication with the nozzle includes a diaphragm and spring arrangement to provide a draw-back action when the poppet is closed to prevent dripping from the nozzle.

Abstract: A sifter for removing dough balls from breading, the sifter comprising a basket having foranamous side and bottom walls, the bottom wall being of conical configuration tapering downwardly to a centrally disposed discharge opening surrounded by a pair of spaced apart concentric annular walls projecting upwardly from the bottom wall and closed by a cover, spaced apart openings extending upwardly from the bottom edges of the annular walls of a size to pass dough balls therethrough, the openings in one of the annular walls being offset circumferentially with respect to the openings in the other annular wall, the annular walls serving as barriers to the passage of breading toward the discharge opening but permitting dough balls to pass inwardly for discharge as the basket is oscillated.

Abstract: An in line filter assembly is provided for use in conjunction with a painting system having a pressurized source of liquid paint, a paint applicator and a fluid line which fluidly connects the pressurized paint source and applicator together. The filter assembly comprises an elongated housing defining an elongated housing chamber. One end of the housing chamber is connected in series with the pressurized paint source while the opposite end of the housing chamber is fluidly connected to the applicator so that paint flowing from the source and to the applicator passes through the housing chamber. A tubular and cylindrical filter element open at one end is removably inserted into the housing chamber so that paint flow through the housing chamber flows through the filter element which removes any solid contaminants contained in the paint.

Abstract: A system for applying a coating material to articles comprises a booth having a floor and walls, a coating material dispensing device for depositing coating materials onto the articles, a vent opening in one of the walls, an exhaust system coupled to the vent opening for pulling atmosphere from the booth, one or more filters positioned between the coating material dispensing device and the vent opening for collecting undeposited coating material entrained in the atmosphere being pulled from the booth, a collection opening in the floor for collecting undeposited coating material which falls to the floor, and a sweeping apparatus for sweeping undeposited coating material on the floor into the collection opening. The sweeping apparatus includes two arms rotatably mounted in proximity to the floor, a drive mechanism for rotating the arms in a circular path. The collection opening in the floor is located near the periphery of the circular path.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying surface treatment on an object-to-be-treated which is continuously moved in a treating liquid usually by a hanging conveyor. The apparatus is provided at the bottom portion of a treating vessel with one or more hoppers, which function to collect the deposited sludge for exhausting the same through the lower portion of the hoppers outside the treating vessel. Further, the apparatus is provided with a plurality of slant plates disposed above the bottom of the treating vessel, being inclined in the same direction, with a predetermined inter-distance among them, so as to facilitate sludge produced in the vessel to be gradually deposited down on the bottom thereof.

Abstract: A fluid dispensing system for uniformly dispensing relatively small quantities of one or more coating fluids. Each coating fluid is disposed in a vertically oriented cylindrical container and divided from a Newtonian drive fluid by a split floating plug. The drive fluid is advanced into the cylinder by a positive displacement pump at a constant rate. The split floating plug facilitates degassing of the fluid and allows it to be substantially completely dispensed at constant rate. A plurality of containers may be connected in a battery to facilitate a rapid change in the compositional parameters of a multiple layer coating system.

Abstract: An arrangement for processing ligno-cellulose containing particles for the manufacture of wood-product plates. These have layers of oriented chips, and a chipper comminutes raw material. The fine material and dust are separated by a sifting device, and the sifted chips are provided with binder material by a gluing device. The chipper produces more chips of as great a length as possible than are required for forming of at least one cover layer of a mat. Behind the chipper, there are provided a wet-chip bunker and a dryer. The sifter separates the chips, obtained after removal of the fine material and the dust, into two fractions. The chip composition of one of these fractions, during the processing time, constantly contains chips which are as long as possible and which are more than that required for forming the mat layer. The other fraction has shorter chips obtained during chipping, and both fractions are present each in at least one bunker.

Abstract: A method of removing foreign materials from developers characterized by intermittently supplying a magnetic developer to the peripheral surface of a nonmagnetic sleeve provided with a rotatable magnet roller in its interior, while recovering, at a position a specified distance away from the location of supply of the developer along the sleeve peripheral surface, the forward end portion of a layer of the developer moving along the sleeve peripheral surface in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the magnetic roller to thereby remove foreign materials from the magnetic developer.

Abstract: A breading apparatus including a table structure, an open top breading pan supported on the table structure, the pan having a central opening in the bottom with a removable closure so that flour or the like may be deposited in the pan and pieces of foods, such as chicken, may be placed in the flour and by manual manipulation the pieces of food are covered with flour, a removable catch pan supported by the table structure below the breading pan, and a sifter apparatus supported by the table structure between the breading pan and the catch pan, the sifter apparatus including an upright basket holder supported on the table structure and rotatable about a vertical axis, a motor supported by the table structure, a crank arm rotated by the motor, a connecting rod extending between the crank arm and the basket holder so that when the motor is energized the basket holder is reciprocated about its vertical axis, and an open top cylindrical sifter having foraminous cylindrical sidewalls and a removable foraminous botto

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the handling of hot melt materials and the like for coating a web with the hot melt. Hot melt is fed from a source through a filter to a heated tank, and from the heated tank it is pumped to an extrusion head. Pumping of the hot melt from the tank to the extrusion head is accomplished solely by providing pressurized gas at slightly more than one atmosphere pressure over the hot melt in the tank. The source pressure of the hot melt is isolated from the supply pressure at the extrusion head, and the web to be coated is passed in operative relationship with the extrusion head. The hot melt is metered in a thin film flowing over heated surfaces in order to insure thermal uniformity without agitation. The level of hot melt in the tank is maintained at a predetermined level, and the extrusion head is provided at substantially the same predetermined level so that the extrusion will not overflow or drain when the pressurized gas from the tank is vented.

Abstract: Apparatus for expelling gas bubbles from liquid adhesive which is conveyed through a conduit connecting an adhesive-containing vessel with a nozzle which applies adhesive to the running web of wrapping material in a tobacco or filter material processing machine. The conduit has a first section which contains a large-capacity pump and discharges adhesive into the enlarged portion of an annular channel defined by the cylinder and core of a gas evacuating device. The enlarged portion is followed by a second portion of smaller cross-sectional area which communicates with a radially inwardly extending gap of the core to admit some adhesive and the gases into a passage serving to return the gases and escaping adhesive to the vessel. A second section of the conduit contains a smaller-capacity pump and serves to feed degasified adhesive from the second portion of the channel to the nozzle.

Abstract: Drum-type continuous washer for small parts in manufacture, e.g., fasteners. The parts, requiring oil and other soil removal, are tumble-washed therein, in steps in order: at an immersion station for tumbling the soaking parts in hot washing liquid; at a liquid-impingement station for loosening and spraying off the wetted soils by the force and cleaning action of impinged, hot sprays of continuously recycled washing liquid; at a drip-dry station for tumbling off excess liquid from within and without the individual tumbling parts, leaving them wet and hot; at a blow-dry station for rendering the hot parts damp by means of compressing and blowing-on hot, recycling-steamy atmosphere drawn from the process and preferably containing rust-inhibitor coating material; and at an evaporative dry (final dry) station for discharging the cleaned, hot, rust-proofed parts essentially moisture-free by flash drying.

Abstract: An improved hot end glass container coating system comprises a conveyor for transporting hot glass containers, first and second pairs of spray coating units and exhaust units reversely opposed adjacent the sides of the conveyor, an air flow control unit and a coating liquid measuring and flow control unit.

Abstract: In a copying machine, especially of the liquid development type, a developing liquid recovery device includes heating means for heating wet-developed copy mediums to dry and fix them, wherein developing liquid vapor is produced from the copy mediums. Condenser means is provided for cooling the developing liquid vapor by means of a heat exchanger to thereby form the vapor into mist. Mist collector means for electrically charging the mist-like developing liquid vapor collects the vapor in an electric field. Circulating means is provided for circulating an air flow through the heating means, the condenser means and the mist collector means in succession.

Abstract: Web coating apparatus wherein a liquid coating material is pressure fed upwardly into the nip of rolls rotating in opposite directions through the nip by structure which prevents contact of the coating material with the atmosphere, enables desired temperature control, and enables vacuum degasing of coating material prior to being pressured into a region adjacent to nip. This coating apparatus is particularly suitable for applying molten resinous compositions to webs.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for solder-coating a member provided with at least one passage having two open ends. The apparatus includes an arrangement for applying molten solder is applied to the member at least in the region of one of the open ends, and an arrangement for subsequently passing a pressure fluid through the passage prior to solidification of the molten solder so as to prevent possible blockage of the passage by the solder.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an improved apparatus for the formation by accretion of copper stock of substantially homogeneous composition intended to be subsequently formed by drawing, rolling, etc. into wire rods, sheets, tubes, strip or the like. The invention, in general, is directed to the combination with an essentially known fuel fired melting furnace and a known accreting crucible apparatus, of a launder or conduit for receiving copper from the furnace, which copper may contain an unacceptably high percentage of oxygen, and depositing said copper in the crucible with the oxygen content reduced to a degree rendering the same satisfactory for accretion onto a purified copper seed rod.