Abstract: A minimal amount of waste in liquid resist material is achieved by dispensing through small openings at close proximity to the substrate. An airtight substrate chamber as well as airtight sealing of dispensing assembly and airtight sealing of the space that does not have to be opened for substrate loading and unloading, are used to facilitate a uniform and planarized coating after a high-speed spin off of excess resist.

Abstract: A continuous drier for board-shaped piece material, especially for coated in-layers or printed circuit boards, is described which comprises a drying chamber, in which the board-shaped piece material to be dried is exposed to a guided air stream while being transported in a transport plane along a transport path from an entrance to an exit of the drying chamber by transport means acting preferably at its longitudinal edges. The drying chamber is equipped with an inlet for incoming air and with an outlet for outgoing air. Arranged above and below the transport path of the board-shaped piece material are infrared radiators the radiation of which acts directly on the coated piece material and which, in addition, form a heat source for the guided air stream. The air stream in the drying chamber is guided counter to the transport direction of the board-shaped piece material and substantially parallel to the transport plane. A coating installation comprising such a continuous drier is also described. (FIG.

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

Abstract: The rotary drum has a cylindrical portion (tubular body portion) formed therein with vent holes. An annular duct is disposed at the outside of the cylindrical portion of the rotary drum in a manner to surround the cylindrical portion. This annular duct is provided with a gas supply duct and an exhaust duct. In the annular duct, partition walls define a vent path, in which the drying gas which has been supplied from the gas supply duct flows through an accumulated layer, and thereafter, flows to the exhaust duct. The direction of flow of the drying gas in the vent path is changed over by gas supply-exhaust changeover dampers.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming shallow p-n junctions in silicon substrates to produce photovoltaic cells, which apparatus provides three processing chambers. An ultrasonic spray is mounted in the first processing chamber to coat a front surface of the substrate with a liquid dopant-containing material. The second processing chamber dries the coated substrates leaving a dopant-containing residue on the front surface. The third processing chamber fires the substrates in an oxygen-containing environment to diffuse the dopant into the substrate and provide a p-n junction. The apparatus conducts humidified air to each chamber to control polymerization of the dopant source and to prevent non-humidified air from entering the chambers.

Abstract: Hard substrates such as ophthalmic lenses or molds are coated with a UV curable monomer which is polymerized to construct a scratch resistant coating on a surface of the lens. The present invention is directed to an apparatus for and method of applying the UV curable monomer to the surface of the ophthalmic lens or mold. Polymerization of the monomer occurs by radiation of UV light while the lens is encased in a curing chamber. The spin coater of the present invention has the following advantages: Excess monomer is collected in a dish away from UV exposure and is readily disposed of. The substrate is revolved at a high rate of speed during the application of the coating to achieve a uniform coating of monomer. Only the holder and substrate are moved to the curing chamber minimizing the items exposed to UV light. The UV light is electrodeless, it has a standby mode and operates cyclically during use so as to prolong its life and to allow a greater degree of control over extent of polymerization.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying a coating to a powdery or granular material has a rotary drum 20 including a tubular portion 21 formed with air holes 27 and hollow shaft portions 23 and 24 provided at opposite end portions in the axial direction. A coating chamber 26 is defined inside the rotary drum 20. Liquid is sprayed from a nozzle 32 onto an accumulated layer 33 of a powdery or granular material in the coating chamber 26. Drying gas supplied from an air supply duct 45 is introduced into the rotary drum 20 from one of the two hollow shaft portions 23 and 24. A plurality of axially extending air ducts 34 are provided on the outer periphery of the rotary drum 20. When an air duct is positioned downwardly it is communicated with an air exhaust duct 41 through a distributor 35. Air introduced from the air supply duct 45 is biased toward the accumulated layer 33 by louvers 48.

Abstract: An oven for curing coating material applied to metal sheets (15) has a heating section (17), a cooling section (18) and an incinerator (19) for burning fumes from the coating material. The oven also as a conveyor for carrying sheets through it. The oven is associated with a sheet feeder (11), a coating apparatus (12), and a sheet stacker (13). In one embodiment, a conveyor (16) comprises an air bed (30) and two series of drive members (35) mounted on two endless chains (36). Air is ejected through a matrix of slots in the air bed (30) and thereby creates a cushion for supporting the sheets (15). The air is ejected in a direction which urges the trailing edges of the sheets into engagement with the drive members (35) and the drive members (35) propel the sheets through the oven. In another embodiment, a conveyor (200) comprises two series of drive members (205, 206) mounted on spaced apart chain (208, 209) and arranged in pairs for engaging the trailing and leading edges of metal sheets.

Abstract: Apparatus for contacting a circuit board substrate with etching fluid or some other chemical includes a conveyor system comprised of upper and lower rotating disks for receiving and transporting the circuit board substrate while the substrate is contacted with fluid. The apparatus includes a labyrinth seal which is used to prevent fluid from escaping from the apparatus. A shunting system permits the type of fluid applied to the substrate to be readily altered. Housing units incorporated in the apparatus are readily secured together with a resilient clamp.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method of coating a granular material comprising steps of: dropping a granular material from an upper portion in a draft disposed in a coating apparatus; spraying the granular material during falling with a coating solution containing a film-forming material dissolved in a solvent in the draft; drying the granular material sprayed with the coating solution by a drying gas flowing upwardly from a lower portion to an upper portion in the draft; and carrying the dropped granular material to an upper portion in the coating apparatus, and a coating apparatus for coating a surface of a granular material with a coating solution while dropping the granular material, comprising a guide for guiding the granular material, coating solution spray nozzles disposed inside a draft and a means for supplying a drying gas upwardly from a lower portion to an upper portion to the granular material falling in the draft.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a linear pattern having a width less than 100 microns and a resistivity of the order of 10.sup.-6 .OMEGA..multidot.cm on a substrate includes a tank for maintaining a low melting point metal in a fused state and having a narrow passage for flow of the fused metal, a drawing head having a fine groove connected to the narrow passage of the tank, and a tip close to or in contact with a substrate, the fused metal flowing to the tip of the drawing head through the groove by capillary action for application to the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Apparatus for mounting and moving coating dispensers within the interior of a spray booth, and particularly the coating dispensers located above an object moving through the booth. A first embodiment comprises a dispenser housing having an aerodynamically shaped outer surface formed with a leading edge, a trailing edge and opposed generally curved sides. A second embodiment includes a dispenser housing an outer surface with a convexly curved leading edge, flat side walls and a flat bottom wall. A pair of support assemblies isolated from the booth interior mount the dispenser housings within the booth interior such that the leading edge of each dispenser housing faces the top of the spray booth and the trailing edge faces the objects moving through the booth. One or more coating dispensers are mounted at the trailing edge of the dispenser housings in a position to discharge coating material downwardly onto the object.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating cellulosic fiber containing fabrics to improve durable press and shrinkage resistance includes using steam as a vehicle to supply vaporized liquid cellulosic cross-linking agent and vaporized liquid catalyst to a reaction chamber in which the fabric articles are treated by cross-linking the cellulose. Normally liquid cross-linking agent and liquid catalysts are directly injected into a stream of treating steam to cause vaporization of the cross-linking agent and catalyst. Alternatively, a steam driven ejector type pump is utilized to entrain and vaporize liquid cross-linking agent and liquid catalyst in a flowing stream of steam supplied to the reaction chamber. Gaseous ammonia may also be supplied to the reaction chamber to condition the cellulosic material containing fabric before cross-linking.

Abstract: A full automatic coating system includes an endless metal tape driven to run in one direction along an endless traveling path, a product supplying station for automatically selecting products of a desired type and supplying them to the endless metal tape according to a production control procedure stored in a control unit, a coating station disposed in the traveling path downstream of the product supplying station and including a spray gun for selectively spraying one of coatings of different colors according to instructions received from the control unit, a drying and baking station and a coating removing station disposed in the traveling path downstream of the coating portion in the order named. All the components are linked to operate in timed relation to one another according to the instructions received from the control unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying spin-on-glass material to a wafer under controlled humidity conditions is described, The apparatus comprises a treatment chamber. Within the treatment chamber are a spin-on-glass coater spin table, a plurality of hotplates connected to one another and from the coater spin table by a moving belt, and wafer handlers to transfer wafers onto the coater spin table and onto the moving belt. A dehumidifier is disposed on top of the treatment chamber and a humidity control unit is disposed on top of the dehumidifier through which air is drawn and whereby relative humidity within the treatment chamber can be controlled.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying a coating to a continuous length of tubing. A coating chamber having entry and exit ports substantially encloses a portion of the tubing while permitting the tubing to pass continuously therethrough. Airflow into the coating chamber through the exit port strips excess coating material from the tubing surface. Air is withdrawn from the coating chamber by vacuum pumps through one or more separation chambers which separate entrained particles or droplets of coating material from the air. The coating chamber is preferably disposed at a distance from the separation chamber(s). The vacuum line connecting the coating chamber with the separation chamber(s) is preferably flexible or breakable. The separation chambers are preferably capable of being operated in series or in parallel. Adjustable masks are preferably provided at the entry and exit ports of the coating chamber. A seal is preferably provided at the entry port.

Abstract: Spin coating of resist on a semiconductor wafer is done in a controlled chamber, starting with introducing a resist solvent vapor into the chamber from a nozzle or an adjacent chamber, applying the resist by spraying a very thin layer of the resist material and then removing solvent from the chamber. The result is a saving in resist material and enhanced coating uniformity.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for continuously coating particulate material, such as seeds. The apparatus includes a frame, a cylindrical drum rotatable about an axis tilted with respect to a horizontal plane, and a series of spray nozzles extending into the drum so as to spray one or more coating solutions onto the particulate material which tumbles within the rotating drum. The drum includes a rifling with flighting which carries the material upwardly from approximately a 6 o'clock position to a 9 o'clock position, wherein the material falls from the flighting in a curtain spaced apart from the sidewall of the drum. Perforations in the sidewall of the drum allow a flow of air through the drum and curtain of material so as to dry the coating solution on the material substantially instantaneously as the material is coated with solution in the drum. The drum is maintained at a negative pressure during the coating process.

Abstract: This invention processes a multitude of axially centered samples, materials, and masses, in heat and vapors, all substrates and masses rotating on a multitude of center cores within bellshaped chambers, and around themselves, while each core and each substrate is accessible once during each separate rotation through the chambers for sampling, observation, termination, reinsertion, or substitution.

Abstract: A seamless belt is fabricated by application of a coating to an endless substrate. The substrate is elastically stretched over a hollow cylindrical elongated support mandrel. The mandrel is formed of a porous material. Fluid is applied under pressure through the mandrel to form a layer of fluid between the outer surface of the mandrel and the inner surface of the substrate. The flow of fluid is manipulated to axially displace and to rotate the substrate on the outer surface of the mandrel. The flow of fluid is manipulated to orient a selected portion of the surface of the substrate to an angle to a direction of application of a coating. The temperature of fluid is manipulated to assist in substrate temperature control at steps of the coating and drying process.

Abstract: A pan coating apparatus wherein a blow-out portion is provided at the forward end of an air supply pipe inserted into a rotatable container, and the total opening area of gas outlets provided in the blow-out portion is set at 0.1-1 time that of perforations provided in a perforated plate of the rotatable container.

Abstract: A coating of paint on a panel is dried by directing a narrow jet of air from a supply, preferably from an air mover, held at a predetermined distance from the panel towards one edge region of the panel, the jet being substantially narrower, when it reaches the panel edge region, than the length of the panel edge and the jet being inclined to the plane of the panel such that the air from the jet is entrained by the panel in a spreading laminar flow across the panel surface from that edge region to all the other edges thereof. This induces such laminar flow over substantially the whole surface and replaces vapor-laden air closely adjacent the surface with fresh air to accelerate drying. In a painting booth for cars several such air movers use part of the bulk air flow in the booth.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a resin coating on the surface of an article having a three-dimensional structure, comprising: (i) a compartment (a) in which the surface of the article is coated with a resin solution, (ii) a compartment (b) in which said resin solution coated on said article is cured; and (iii) means for successively transporting said article through said compartments; wherein said compartment (b) is substantially shut off from the outside air and has an entrance and an exit for said article transport means, said entrance and said exit being provided with respect guide members having substantially the same cross-sectional configuration.

Abstract: A coating device for coating a cathode-ray tube with a layer has a booth for accommodating a cathode-ray tube to be coated. The booth houses a coating robot with a spray nozzle for spraying a coating solution onto the cathode-ray tube in the booth to coat a layer on the cathode-ray tube. The inner wall surfaces of the booth are lined with a water-containing member which is supplied with water from a water supply pipe connected to the booth. An air-conditioning unit is mounted on the booth for controlling the temperature and humidity in the booth. The cathode-ray tube is introduced into the booth from a conveyor through an opening defined in a wall of the booth and fitted with a selectively closable door.

Abstract: A device for carrying out a method of sugar-coating and/or film coating is provided with a partially perforated drum (48) which rotates about an axis (50). The inner space (47) of the drum can be exposed to a fluid flow (gas, fluid). The inner space (47) is associated with an element for guiding a gas flow which guides the gas flow as a controlled shell-shaped flow through the plane of the drum opening (43) and, with at least one longitudinal component with respect to the axis, through the inner space (47) of the drum (48).

Abstract: An arrangement for affecting the motions of gasborne, especially air-borne, particles at a movable device, (5,6) comprises an enclosure (12, 22) which encloses said device (5,6) and is connected to a means (16, 28) for supplying or discharging a gas, such as air, to and, respectively, from said enclosure in such an amount that a positive pressure or a negative pressure is maintained therein. Moreover, the enclosure (12, 22) is made of a flexible, gas-permeable material which provides a substantially laminar gas flow downstream of the enclosure and which does not generate particles.

Abstract: A rolling can conveyor includes an endless belt path and a flexible belt defining a plurality of openings therein for fluid communication therethrough. The flexible belt is operatively associated with the endless belt path such that the flexible belt is vertically oriented for at least a portion of the belt path. The bottom of the can body is held in contact with the flexible belt during transport by negative pressure. A guide rail extends along the vertically disposed flexible belt so as to support the can body. A plenum is operatively associated with the endless path proximate the guide rail. A vacuum is coupled to the plenum for applying a negative pressure sufficient to rotatably retain the can body in contact with the flexible belt and the guide rail, which imparts rotational motion to the can body about its longitudinal axis during transport.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying a waterproof coating material to paper based articles is disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a main frame, a coating roller, a guide roller, and a disk to which the coating and guide rollers are mounted. Means are provided to rotatably mount the disc to the frame so that the coating roller may be inserted or withdrawn from a sink containing the coating material. A drive system for driving the rollers as well as a hot air drying system for drying coated articles are also provided.

Abstract: The cabin walls (30) and preferably also the cabin floor (34) and/or the cabin ceiling (36) each consist of a double-walled construction with an inner wall (40), an outer wall (44), and spacer elements (46) which keep the two walls spaced apart. Each wall consists of several layers (1 to 9), in sandwich construction, where the layer (1), which delimits the spray space (42) of the cabin, consists of polypropylene or of polyvinyl chloride plastic.

Abstract: Method and system are provided for the automated assembly of parts such as plastic parts into assemblies wherein assembly pallets loaded with their corresponding assemblies are stored and vertically indexed in an accumulator station to allow a previously applied material such as an adhesive to cure. Consequently, the system takes up little floor space. Entrance, dispensing and assembly stations, together with the accumulator station each has an enclosed chamber which is pressurized with an ambient at subatmospheric pressure in order to evacuate the enclosed chambers so that fumes from the adhesive utilized in securing the parts together are not allowed to escape at the stations during assembly of the parts.

Abstract: An apparatus for application of material to the external diameters of cylindrical items of manufacture. The apparatus includes a frame, a transport system having work stations supporting the items, an application system, and a curing system for curing the material applied to the cylindrical items. The application system includes first and second horizontally, axially spaced application rolls engagable with the items external diameter, and an adjustable reservoir system for supplying a desired thickness of material to be applied to the external diameter of the item.

Abstract: A process for producing a photoconductive member by introducing starting gases while heating a support to form a thin film having photoconductivity thereon in sequential steps comprises introducing a support into a chamber, heating the support to a desired temperature under reduced pressure, reacting the substrate with starting gases to form a thin film having photoconductivity thereon, cooling the substrate having a thin film and removing product support out of the chamber, these steps being carried out in sequential chamber throughout the steps, and an apparatus for producing the same.

Abstract: A coating machine with counter-flow and parallel-flow air conduction is used for coating tablets, granules, pellets, dragees and the like with one or more coating compositions. The cores to be coated are arranged in a rotatably driven, perforated drum which includes an air conducting channel surrounding the drum at its outer periphery, which air channel is provided with air from an air supply fixed to the housing, with air streams differently directed into the drum. In order to provide an operationally reliable, positively controlled and easy-to-clean air distributor, an annular distributor plate is mounted rotatably on an annular flange fixed to the housing, the distributor plate having slots therein which are connected to the air connections of the air supply, and the annular flange is in turn connected in an airtight manner to the air conducting channel of the drum by part-annular chambers separate from each other.

Abstract: An improved spin coating apparatus (10) having a spin tub (28) surrounding a chuck (14), the chuck (14) being adapted for hold a workpiece (16) for coating. The chuck (14) and the spin tub (28) are spun coaxially and independently such that the chuck (14) may be stopped while the spin tub (28) remains spinning. The spin tub (28) defines a frustum of a cone with a plurality of outlet slots (60) distributed at a large end (52) thereof such that centrifugal force will direct contaminants out of the spin tub (28) through the outlet slots (60). A plurality of fan vanes (62) create an air stream (88) through the spin tub (28) which pulls contaminants through the outlet slots (60) and into a plenum chamber (72) where they are expelled therefrom through a vent tube (64).

Abstract: A spray apparatus for the treatment of a harvested crop, the apparatus including a high voltage electrostatic spray head, a sprayhood surrounding the sprayhead and having an aperture opposite the sprayhead and insulating means to suspend the sprayhood with the aperture adjacent a region of a conveying path to establish and maintain the sprayhood covering said region of said conveying path, the sprayhood having on the outside an insulating cover and inside the cover an extensive insulated electrode extending around and above said aperture, the electrode being energizable in operation to a potential similar to that applied to the sprayhead, whereby the support means and electrode together permit the application of an electrostatically charged spray from the sprayhead in a controlled manner throughout said region of the conveying path under the sprayhood to a quantity of crop conveyed past on the conveying path in a regular manner.

Abstract: A Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) film forming apparatus has a packing unit for orientating and packing a sample which is a composition for forming a monomolecular film developed on a subphase stored in a first tank, a sampling unit for sampling the orientated and packed monomolecular film on a substrate, and an outer casing enclosing the packing unit and sampling unit. The packing unit has a second tank in which a circulating solution is stored and the first tank is disposed in the solution. A temperature of the circulating solution in the second tank is controlled by a first controller and a temperature of atmosphere enclosed by the casing is controlled by a second controller. The first and second controllers are synchronously operated. The substrate is disposed above the subphase in a vertical attitude.

Abstract: An apparatus for application of material to the internal surface of cylindrical items of manufacture. The apparatus includes a frame, a transport system having work stations supporting the items, an application system, and a curing system for curing the material applied to the cylindrical items. The application system includes a drive roll, movable into engagement with the item for rotating the item, a coating roll movable between a position engaging the internal surface of the item to apply the desired material, and a position engaged with a reservoir system having a rotating supply roll for supplying the coating roll with material.

Abstract: Disclosed is a conveying system in which a conveying carriage runs on and along a conveying passageway, for example, a coating passageway, which has a support unit for rotatably supporting the works of an automotive vehicle, i.e. a vehicle body, and a locking mechanism for suspending rotation of the works. The passageway is provided in its given position, e.g., on the downstream side of a drying station, with a rotation-suspending station so disposed in a position of the predetermined conveying passageway for suspending the rotation of the works in its given rotary position. The rotation-suspending station has driving means acting upon a rotary system for the works loaded on the conveying carriage for rotating the works; rotary-position detecting switch for detecting the predetermined rotary position of the works; and a lock operating mechanism for operating the locking mechanism when the predetermined rotary position of the works is detected by the rotary-position detecting switch.

Abstract: Coating equipment, which is installed in a clean room where air flows in a vertical laminar flow, comprises coating apparatus, for applying a resist, having a spin chuck connected to a motor and used to hold a semiconductor wafer and a cup with an inlet port to draw in a vertical laminar flow from the clean room and enclosing the wafer held on the spin chuck, and a control apparatus to control the temperature and humidity of the vertical laminar flow supplied to the coating apparatus. A vertical laminar flow control in temperature and humidity by the control apparatus is always supplied to the wafer in the cup during the coating process of a semiconductor wafer.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing an electrostatic image developer carrier from a material, comprising; a chamber for providing an enclosed space in which the material is processed, a stirrer for stirring the material in a horizontal direction in the chamber, and at least one of: a heater for heating up the chamber to a predetermined temperature, and a cooler for cooling down the chamber to a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A vibratory article coating and conveying apparatus for coating articles with a surface coating material and conveying the coated articles. The apparatus has a base, a coating material reservoir located above the base for containing the article coating material and for receiving the articles to be coated, and a vertical helical conveying flight structure having its bottom inlet end in open communication with the reservoir to receive coated articles from the reservoir and for conveying the coated articles upwardly out of the reservoir to an article discharge at the top of the flight structure. A vibratory force generating device is associated with the reservoir and the helical conveying flight structure to impart a cyclical generally torsional motion to the reservoir and helical conveyor flight.

Abstract: Method including painting a water-based paint onto an article to obtain a water-based paint coat, initially predrying the water-based paint coat by heating with far infrared rays, further predrying the water-based coat by heating with hot air, and thereafter painting either water-based paint or oil-based paint on top of the water-based paint coat. The article can be forcibly cooled with cold air after the further predrying step. The apparatus includes a front-stage paint booth for painting therein a water-based paint to obtain the water-based paint coat, a first predrying chamber in line with and after the front-stage paint booth and having devices for heating with far infrared rays, a second predrying chamber in line with and after the first predrying chamber and having devices for heating with hot air, and a rear-stage paint booth in line with and after the second predrying chamber for painting therein either the water-based paint or the oil-based paint.

Abstract: A printed circuit panel is selectively coated to protect circuits which may be exposed to deleterious chemicals during the electroplating of connector tabs. The apparatus has a mechanism for gripping and transporting the circuit panels through multiple stations including cleaning, drying, coating and curing in a vertical position at variable speeds. The coating station has multiple wipers movable in a vertical plane to apply a polymer to the circuit panel at a controlled volume on various levels. The wipers each have a leading edge in contact with the panel surface to be coated and an adjustable back edge spaced apart from the panel surface to be coated with the polymer flowing to the panel between the two edges.

Abstract: A painting structure for use as, by way of example, a paint spray booth or paint baking or drying oven, utilizes a trapezoidal cross-section, instead of the conventional rectangular/square or rectangular-gabled cross-section. The painting structure of the present invention provides inherent rigidity without the need for special framing, and provides more uniform air flow than a gabled roof structure, as air swirls in air pockets beneath the gables are eliminated. Due to the simplified construction, the trapezoidal cross-sectional booth of the present invention is less expensive to make and install and more easily erected.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and method for controlling the emission, and recovery, of volatile solvents. In particular, this invention relates to a type of finish material applying apparatus which has become known as a robotized spraying cabinet and to methods of operating such an apparatus. In accordance with this invention, materials sprayed through the spray head and which escape adherence to a sprayed articles impinge onto overspray directing members disposed adjacent the conveyor and between the conveyor and the reservoir, a quantity of solvent for the finishing materials is retained at a location adjacent the conveyor and supplying for use in cleaning the conveyor, and the overspray directing members and retained solvent to be supplied for cleaning are chilled and thereby the vapor pressure of the volatile solvent is reduced, whereby the volatile solvent is maintained in liquid form and control over the emission thereof is facilitated.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for applying a dry-film drawing lubricant to metal blanks. Paired applicator and doctor rolls are positioned above and below the path of the sheets advancing through a roll box. The doctor rolls have end flanges overlapping the ends of the associated applicator rolls. A body of the liquid lubricant is maintained in the reservoir defined by each pair of applicator and doctor rolls, and following application of a coating of the lubricant to their surfaces, the blanks are conveyed between opposed heaters which raise the temperature of the coating to drive moisture therefrom. The blanks are conveyed between cooling units which lower the temperature of the lubricant coated surfaces, and thereafter through a transition zone to bring the temperature to the ambient range to prevent condensation thereon as the blanks are discharged to the atmosphere.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the electrostatic lacquering of printed circuit boards formed with continuous holes as soldering places for connecting wires. The characterizing feature of the apparatus is that the printed circuit boards, continuously conveyed in a suspended position, are lacquered on one side, then turned over, lacquered on the other side, and the two layers of lacquer are then immediately dried simultaneously.

Abstract: In an apparatus for applying liquid, pasty or plastic substances, particularly thermoplastic substances, to a substrate with a device for melting the substances and a feed head for transferring the melted substances to the substrate via at least one nozzle orifice, the device for melting the substances comprises a melting container and a pressure container connected thereto. In order to facilitate melting, heat exchanger surfaces, particularly heat exchanger tubes are arranged in the melting container.

Abstract: A painting system for painting a finned-tube heat exchanger suspended from a conveyor line so as to be conveyed thereby, comprises: (i) means for spraying on said heat exchanger with a water-soluble paint; (ii) means for air-blowing on said heat exchanger; and (iii) means for electrostatic spraying on said heat exchanger with a solvent-soluble paint. Each of spray nozzle assemblies and air-blow nozzle assemblies of said means issues paint spray or air blow to fins of said heat exchanger in a direction parallel to said fins. This painting system further comprises a scraper means for recovering said water-soluble paint sprayed and reached a wall member during spraying and air blow.

Abstract: A system for the thermal and/or liquid treatment of edge supported substrates, such as printed electronic circuit boards and hybrid circuits. The system includes an elongated tunnel treating chamber. The system includes a conveyor system comprised of a pair of lubricant-free tape conveyors supported for movement through the treating chamber on a plurality of spaced apart parallel pins extending laterally inwardly from a pair of parallel elongated rail tracks. A lip on the rail track is closely spaced from and partially overlies the tape conveyor. The lubricant-free tape conveyor is comprised of a closed loop flexible steel tape provided with a plurality of longitudinally spaced apart vertical tabs throughout its length. The tabs are in longitudinal alignment, spaced inwardly from the edges of the tape and provide lateral support for substrates suspended between a pair of conveyor tapes.