Abstract: A cleaning and epoxy application table for laminate strips includes a pair of movable rails for guiding strip material over the table, first beneath a solvent sprayer that cleans the strip, a drier for removing the solvent, and then to an epoxy adhesive application station which places a continuous film of adhesive on the cleaned surface of the strip.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a temperature of a microelectronic substrate. In one embodiment, the apparatus can include a substrate support configured to engage and support the microelectronic substrate. The apparatus can further include a temperature controller having one or more thermal links coupled directly with the substrate when the substrate is supported by the substrate support. The thermal links can maintain thermal contact with the substrate when the substrate is either stationary or mobile relative to the temperature controller. The temperature controller can heat or cool different portions of the substrate at different rates with one or more of several heat transfer devices, including liquid jets, gas jets, resistive electrical elements and/or thermoelectric elements.

Abstract: A head for applying adhesive in predefined regions of products in general, comprising at least one means for carding the surface to be treated which acts directly before at least one nozzle for applying a layer of adhesive material to the carded surface.

Abstract: A self-contained, trailer-mounted, portable wash and paint facility particularly useful to retrieve a grease disposal container having a removable lid, wash dirt and grease from the container, repaint the container, and return it to service. The facility contains an extendable boom and winch to handle the container and bring it into the facility. A vat agitated with compressed air is provided containing a heated caustic solution wherein lids are soaked as part of the cleaning process. A trolley mounted winch is provided which assists in removing the container lid and moving it to and from the soaking vat. A circulating high pressure wash system is provided for high pressure spraying of heated soapy cleaning solution. The cleaning system has a high-pressure washer and tank with a delivery hose and nozzle for the operator to employ when washing the grease container. The floor of the facility contains a grate where used cleaning solution is collected in a catch tank.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying mortar to the underside of a building block to be laid so that the mortar to be applied is automatically conveyed upwardly from a mortar supply container into a mortaring region where it is applied to the underside of the building block. The mortar can be sprayed onto the building block or applied thereto by a rotating coating roller, thereby automating the application of mortar and also reducing the consumption thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus for purging the backside of a substrate in a process chamber includes a purge gas injector. The injector includes a substantially annular-shaped opening providing a slit that is structured and arranged to direct a flow of purge gas about radially outward therefrom in a direction approximately parallel to a plane defined by the substrate, wherein the substrate is supported in the process chamber above the purge gas injector. When the substrate is rotated at a sufficient speed, the purge gas flowing from the injector is impelled to flow spirally outward along the backside of the substrate.

Abstract: A process for coating printed circuit boards is described, comprising the following process steps:the printed circuit boards on the coating side are kept at room temperature and, as appropriate, are heated to approximately 120.degree. C.; thenin a first step, a preferably photopolymerisable, meltable, low-molecular-weight coating composition that preferably has an average molecular weight of from 500 to 1500 and that is highly viscous to solid at room temperature is coated in a thickness of approximately from 10 .mu.m to 200 .mu.m on to the surface(s) of the printed circuit board to be coated;in a second step, a second, high-molecular-weight, photopolymerisable coating composition preferably having an average molecular weight of from 2000 to 10000 is applied in a thickness of from 2 .mu.m to 20 .mu.

Abstract: A method of forming a coating film, in which the coating film is formed by supplying a coating liquid onto a surface of a substrate, while the substrate housed in a processing vessel is rotated together with the processing vessel, includes the steps of coating the surface of the substrate with a solvent, supplying the coating liquid to the substrate, rotating the substrate and the processing vessel at a first rotation speed to diffuse the coating liquid on the surface of the substrate, closing the processing vessel with a lid to seal the substrate in the processing vessel, and rotating the processing vessel with the lid and the substrate at a second rotation speed to uniform a film thickness of the coating film.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for coating and curing fiberglass sleeving with an ultraviolet light curable acrylic includes the steps of singeing the fiberglass sleeve at a singeing station and thereafter, cooling the sleeve. The fiberglass sleeve is then coated with an ultraviolet light curable acrylic resin. Thereafter, the coated fiberglass sleeve is cured by passing it through a curing station wherein the sleeve is subjected to ultraviolet light radiation about its entire circumference. The process is speed adjustable and further, the intensity of the light emitted from the ultraviolet light source may be varied so that the system is tuned to cure fiberglass sleeves of any diameter up to approximately 1.00 inch.

Abstract: A composition for negative type chemically amplified resist including, as main components, a random copolymer of vinyl phenol and vinyl cyclohexanol, a melamine resin having an enhanced hexamethoxymethylmelamine content, an acid generator for generating an acid upon irradiation by ionizing radiation, and a solvent. The resist pattern formation process and apparatus are also disclosed.

Abstract: In a method of coating outer surfaces of plural cylinders by a coater having a circular hole on which a coating surface is provided, gas is blown onto the outer surface of the cylinder by a cylindrical blowing device so that the cylinder is positioned coaxially with the circular hole. The gas amount is changed when the cylindrical blowing device blows gas onto a joint portion at which a bottom edge of an upper cylinder contacts with a top edge of a lower cylinder.

Abstract: A guardrail cleaner includes a frame equipped with upper rollers for mating with an upper guardrail edge and a lower roller for pressing against the guardrail rear surface, a drive wheel for moving the cleaner along the guardrail by traction on the surface thereof, rotating device for rotating the drive wheel, a wire buffing wheel for cleaning the guardrail surface, and a device for rotating the wire buffing wheel. The cleaner is optionally equipped with a dirt catcher and/or paint spraying nozzles.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying coating liquid to a web of paper traveling over a web supporting surface at speeds of 3,000 or more feet per minute to produce a coated web free of streaking and other imperfections includes the structural elements for distributing coating liquid onto the supported web through a limited application zone within a short dwell time of the liquid on the web, the web moving through the application zone at a speed that is sufficiently high to create turbulence in the coating liquid being applied to the web, doctoring the coating liquid on the web by biasing a primary doctor against the coated web at the rear edge of the application zone so as to form a layer of coating liquid on the web as the web leaves the application zone, the turbulence in the coating liquid causing machine direction streaks in the layer of the coating liquid as the web leaves the application zone; and, at a location downstream and isolated from the application zone, performing a successive doctoring of excess coating liq

Abstract: Objects which have been abraded are coated with a coating material which is normally solid at room temperatures. The material is liquified at elevated temperatures and sprayed onto the cooler objects in a heated cabinet, whereupon the material at least partially solidifies on the object. Thereafter, heat is applied to the coating material to cause it to flow out over the coat surface. A cooled conveyor system prevents disruption of the coating material. Overspray is maintained in liquified form within the cabinet where it is reclaimed and flows to a heated sump for direct recirculation to the spray apparatus. There are no deleterious solvent emissions. Apparatus and methods are provided.

Abstract: A process of pre-finishing wood composite panels and/or structures having flat and contoured surfaces to result in a structure exhibiting the appearance of natural hard wood includes the steps of (1) providing a textured substrate; (2) applying a ground coat to the substrate; (3) applying a buffing glaze to the substrate; (4) selectively removing a portion of the buffing glaze from the substrate; and (5) applying a sealer to retain the remaining buffing glaze in textured ticks of the substrate.

Abstract: There is provided a double-sided substrate cleaning apparatus including a carrier station for loading/unloading a carrier in which objects to be processed are stored, a convey mechanism for conveying an object taken out from the carrier station, at least one cleaning mechanism, arranged along a convey path on which the convey mechanism conveys the object, for cleaning the object, and an object reversing mechanism, arranged along the convey path, for reversing the object.

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus for removing foreign matters from workpieces in the form of strips or sheets cut from a larger blank, before the workpiece is subjected to a press forming operation, which apparatus includes a feeding device for feeding the successive workpieces, de-oiling rolls disposed in an upstream portion of a feed path of the workpieces as seen in a feeding direction and rotated in pressing rolling contact with the surfaces of each workpiece as each workpiece is fed, so as to remove by absorption oily substances from the surfaces of the workpiece, and tacky rolls disposed downstream of the de-oiling rolls as seen in the feeding direction and rotated in pressing rolling contact with the surfaces of the workpiece, so as to remove by tackiness thereof the foreign matters from the surfaces of the workpiece.

Abstract: A primer applicator which is movable along a surface of a workpiece such as an automobile window glass panel has a rotatable primer coating roller having an outer circumferential layer of soft resin. A robot arm which supports the primer applicator is actuated to move the primer applicator along the surface of the workpiece in rolling contact therewith to apply a primer to the surface of the workpiece. The primer is supplied to the outer circumferential layer of the primer coating roller when the primer coating roller rolls on the surface of the workpiece.

Abstract: A primer applicator which is movable along a surface of a workpiece such as an automobile window glass panel has a rotatable primer coating roller having an outer circumferential layer of soft resin. A robot arm which supports the primer applicator is actuated to move the primer applicator along the surface of the workpiece in rolling contact therewith to apply a primer to the surface of the workpiece. The primer is supplied to the outer circumferential layer of the primer coating roller when the primer coating roller rolls on the surface of the workpiece.

Abstract: The invention provides an improved system for masking the free edge of a window gasket in preparation for repainting or refinishing a vehicle. The system includes a method of painting a vehicle which comprises introducing a flexible plastic strip (10) beneath a window sealing gasket (12) in the vicinity of a part of the vehicle to be painted, the plastic strip (10) having a tapered profile in cross section so that as the strip (10) is pressed beneath the gasket (12), the latter is lifted and held in the raised position, masking the edge of the raised gasket (12) and applying paint to the vehicle so that paint reaches the area normally covered by the edge of the gasket. Generally, the strip (10) is a plasticised polymer in the form of a triangular cross section having one side (14) longer than the other two (15, 18).

Abstract: The invention concerns a roll-coating machine for the application of coating colors onto a paper web, including:a coating roll that rotates in a coating color pool;a trough retaining the color pool and having a coating color inlet, a guide wall with a first overflow edge, and an overflow channel for a first overflow stream;a mating roll that rotates in a direction opposite to that of the coating roll and with it forms an inlet gusset and an outlet gusset; anda guide shield that has a second overflow edge on its downstream end for a second overflow stream, a bypass channel for division of the second overflow stream and having a valve, and a restrictor defined by the guide shield in cooperation with the paper web.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for applying a protective coating to a film strip. The apparatus includes a coating unit for applying a coating of a curable liquid material to at least one surface of the film strip, a curing device for curing the coating of liquid material on the film strip into a protective coating, and a transport system for moving the film strip along a path extending from the coating unit to the curing device. The coating unit includes a substantially rigid, porous matrix having therein a plurality of interconnected pores, and is positioned such that the porous matrix contacts the surface of the film strip to be coated. The porous matrix stores the liquid material within the pores thereof and, upon contact with a surface of the film strip, transfers a coating of the liquid material thereto.

Abstract: The apparatus, system and method utilize sequential sprays of wet, low-temperature steam, and dry, high-temperature steam to clean the exterior of laminated objects as well as to effect volatilization of liquid contaminates trapped between lamina thereof. Water is injected into the conduit through which the low-temperature steam is delivered, so as to produce a desirable concentration of droplets therein. A conveyor moves the laminated objects along a horizontal path through zones in which they are sprayed by the low temperature and high temperature steam, and then through a zone in which they are electrostatically coated with powder.

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 method for buffing an annulation comprising a step of rotating the annulation while holding the annulation, a step of partially grinding a surface of the annulation with a grinder unit, and a step of applying blue paint to the ground surface of the annulation. A buff apparatus used therefor comprises an annulation holding section, a grinder unit having a rough grinder and a finishing grinder, and a paint unit. The rough grinder and the finishing grinder on the grinder unit are driven by one cooperating shaft, and the grinder unit is capable of pivoting by 180 degrees. The paint unit is a transfer-roller-type and applies blue paint only to the ground surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for washing and cleaning metallic wheels comprising an apparatus that washes a metallic wheel, and an apparatus that subsequently cleans the washed metallic wheel. A house is provided wherein the cleaned and washed metallic wheel may be painted. A pair of rotating transport cylinders is provided in order to transport the metallic wheel from the apparatus for washing the metallic wheel to the apparatus for cleaning the metallic wheel, and subsequently from the apparatus for cleaning the metallic wheel to the house where the metallic wheel may be painted. A method for washing and cleaning a metallic wheel which includes elevating the metallic wheel from a supporting surface to a level generally horizontal to a pair of cylinders rotatably supported by a conveying frame, and rolling the metallic wheel across the pair of cylinders and into a washing chamber.

Abstract: The apparatus serves for treatment of the undersides of skis and comprises a housing (1) which can be entered by the skier with strapped-on skis, comprising a treatment arrangement for cleaning, drying, wax application and heating. Supports or backup organs are provided which support the skis (22) during the treatment of their underside, as well as a driving arrangement for generation of a relative motion between the underside of the skis and the treatment arrangement. Support organs are formed by freely rotatable rollers arranged to be parallel to each other. Their axes (11) are held on their ends in an essentially horizontal guide (9) and are connected with the chain-like conveyor members (8). The treatment arrangement or the frame (13) supporting same is also connected with the chain-like conveyor members (8).

Abstract: A screen printing machine for imprinting hybrid circuit boards with thick-film pastes of the type including a horizontally movable printing table (12) and a vertically raisable frame (16), wherein a compressed air cleaner (2) is attached to the frontal or end surface (18) of the frame (16). This compressed air cleaner (22) is actuated by means of switches (28, 30), preferably proximity switches, as a function of the side to side movement of the printing table (12) and thus permits an automatized cleaning process for the hybrid circuit board (14).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically grit blasting and metal spraying a wall of a cylindrical vessel utilizing a pair of rails with arms slidably disposed thereon, which rotate 180.degree. in unison about the axis of the vessel and then reverse and are moved incrementally along the rails upon completion of each 180.degree. of rotation until the wall of the vessel is grit blasted by a grit blasting nozzle on each arm and then sprayed with multiple thin layers of molten metal by a molten metal sprayer on each arm. The grit blasting nozzle and molten metal sprayer may be interchangeably mounted on the arms or may be both installed and operated separately.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for forming a plastic coating on a metal strip. A metal strip is cleaned, surface treated, coated with an electrostatically charged plastic powder in an enclosed chamber using a plurality of spray guns positioned on both sides of the strip, inductively heated to above the melting point of the powder, and maintained in an infrared heater until the fused powder is flowed into a coating having a smooth surface and a uniform thickness. Thermoplastic and thermosetting coatings, having thicknesses of at least 10 microns formed using total induction and infrared heating times of less than 60 seconds, can be fabricated without cracking.

Abstract: There is provided a method of spray deposition in which a stream of liquid metal or metal alloy is atomized inside a spray chamber into a spray of atomized droplets. A metal or metal alloy collector is rotated about an axis transverse to the mean axis of the spray and in the path of the spray so that a deposit is formed about the collector with a bond between the deposit and the collector sufficient to isolate the interface from oxygen penetration. The collector is then retained as an integral part of the final product and further processed to substantially eliminate porosity in the region of the bonded interface. The collector and the deposit may be the same or different materials, and the bond between the deposit and the collector is preferably enhanced by plasma heating in the region disposition. The invention also provides a plant for carrying out the preferred method arc plasma heating.

Abstract: A device for cleaning the gas nozzle of a welding torch in which weld splatters have accumulated has a rotatable cutter which is axially movable into and out of a gas nozzle and the cutter is provided with a nozzle and passages for spraying an anti-adhesive agent into the gas nozzle either while the cutter is scraping or as the cutter is being withdrawn from the gas nozzle.

Abstract: A self propelled carriage (28) has a housing (30) comprised of a center body section (51) and a pair of side sections (52) hinged (54) to the body section (51). Side sections (52) may be swung to an open "clamshell" like position for lowering of the carriage (28) onto the pipe (10) for travel along the pipe (10). Nozzles (72) for the discharge of abrasive particles, such as sand, are mounted for oscillating movement in a predetermined stroke to cover a predetermined outer surface area of the pipe (10) for cleaning the pipe and for providing a rough finish for the application of a coating.

Abstract: Several embodiments of apparatus for producing disposable absorbent personal articles are disclosed. According to one embodiment, apparatus is disclosed for depositing superabsorbent polymer powder on a portion of a fluff mat in a given concentration greater than zero and a second, different concentration of superabsorbent polymer powder on another portion of a fluff layer, so that there is a heavier concentration of super absorbent polymer in a target area than in areas adjacent the target area. Such apparatus has a dosing cylinder with a discontinuous outer cylindrical surface which has a pattern of first dosing depressions adjacent to a pattern of second dosing depressions. The dosing cylinder is rotated through a polymer powder hopper and powder received in the first and second depressions is sequentially discharged from the hopper and deposited on a fluff substrate in alternating areas of high powder concentration and low powder concentration.

Abstract: The apparatus and system utilize sprays of steam to clean the exterior or laminated objects, preliminary to electrostatic powder coating, as well as to effect volatilization of liquid contaminates trapped between lamina thereof. Off-gassing that would otherwise occur when the objects are heated to effect fusion of the powder deposit is thereby avoided. The apparatus includes a conveyor for transporting a workpiece along a horizontal travel path through a chamber, above and below which path a spray compartment and collecting compartment are defined, respectively.

Abstract: A ski waxing machine (10) includes a housing (12), a pair of parallel oblong recesses, each one to receive one ski are provided in a deck wall of the housing (12). Two rows of supporting elements (18) are provided to completely close the recesses from below and to support the skis. Each row includes a multiplicity of supporting elements which individually can be displaced laterally into a rest position to open an area of the recess respectively. A longitudinally reciprocating slide includes a waxing device for applying wax to the running surfaces of the skis and tracks to individually retract the supporting elements from their supporting positions upon approach of the slide and to return the supporting elements when the slide has passed.

Abstract: Skis are waxed by a heated sole plate 18 with a porous insert 42 which is flexibly applied to the gliding surface and can be shifted in a longitudinal direction. The insert absorbs wax 50 from a tub 48 heated to a pasty consistency. Porous sheet material 46 may be applied between the sole and the gliding surface. The treatment can include the removal of remnants of old wax from the gliding surface, which is absorbed by the sheet material and softened by heating the gliding surface with the sole. The wax penetrates into the micro cavities of the ski bottom coating and any scratches in it, and the sheet material ensures that a smooth, flat and flexible layer is formed on the gliding surface.

Abstract: In a device for producing metal-free strips on vacuum-coated film webs, particularly for capacitors, including a casing 32 with a cover 30 for sealing the casing pressure-tight and a winding unit 29, including guiding and tensioning rollers 5 to 17 which are rotatably disposed between the plates 3, 4, at least one coating roller and a take-off and a take-up roller 35', 37' as well as a coating source 19 supported in the casing 32 and a preferably tubular vessel 34 for receiving a separating agent 33 to be evaporated, for example oil, which is disposed transversely to the running direction of the web and has at least one nozzle 36 for the separating agent 33 to emerge from the vessel 34 onto the film web 50 passing by the outlet nozzle 36 in direct vicinity, the vessel 34 is at least partially filled with a supply of separating agent 33 and is provided with at least one vapor outlet pipe 39 the outlet nozzle of which 36 ends into the coating chamber 45 below the surface level 46 of the supply of separating age

Abstract: An automated pipeline rehabilitation apparatus (10) is disclosed. The apparatus employs a centering assembly (24) with pivoting arms (26, 28) which can pivot between an operating position and a installation/removal position to allow the unit to be removed from a pipeline. Arcuate rings (38, 40) are mounted on the arms. Spray nozzles (44) are mounted on the arcuate rings for reciprocating arcuate motion along the rings to treat the pipeline. The nozzles (44) can be used to clean the pipeline and prepare the outer surface of the pipeline with high pressure water jets in training abrasives. The nozzles (44) can also be used to apply a coating, preferably a polyurethane coating to the pipeline.

Abstract: A transport apparatus for boards or workpieces in board form, for example printed circuit boards which are to be coated with plastic, for example UV curable plastic, has advancing means for the transport of the boards and grippers or clamps for seizing the board edges during the transport and advancement of the boards. In order to avoid a risk of damaging the sensitive board surfaces, in particular when transferring the boards from one conveyor to the other, the gripper or grippers or clamps is/are attached to a holding element or rack, releasably coupled to the transporting or advancing means of the apparatus. This holding element remains connected, via its grippers to the board during the complete transport of the latter and can be transferred and reloaded together with the board held by it at transitions from one advancing means to another or from one processing station to the other.

Abstract: A railroad tie service vehicle includes a chassis system, a drive system and an application system. The chassis system includes front and back ends, opposite sides and a deck. The drive system includes an engine mounted on the chassis deck, front and back pairs of wheels and a pair of drive track assemblies mounted on the chassis front and back ends. The application system includes an actuating subassembly for selectively engaging railroad ties and a sprayer subassembly for spraying preservative on railroad ties in response to engagement by the actuating subassembly. A method of servicing railroad ties includes the steps of removing a rail from one side of a railroad track, exposing connection areas where the rail attaches to the railroad ties, driving a vehicle with preservative along the railroad track and applying preservative to the connection areas in response to engagement of the railroad tracks by an actuating subassembly.

Abstract: An apparatus for degreasing plastic automobile parts has a degreasing tank with a liquid degreasing agent reservoir in the bottom thereof and a degreasing vapor space thereabove, a heater in the reservoir for heating degreasing agent for vaporizing it, and a parts conveyor extending through the tank and having a downwardly inclined portion extending downwardly into the degreasing vapor space from one end to a nadir within the degreasing vapor space and an upwardly inclined portion extending out of the degreasing vapor space. Several cooling coils extend around the inside of the tank with an uppermost cooling coil at a level corresponding to the top of the degreasing vapor space and the remaining coils being spaced downwardly into said degreasing vapor space at intervals.

Abstract: An apparatus for waxing skis, where the skiing person glides through the apparatus with his skis on, comprises transport rolls, a warm air unit for drying and pre-heating the skis, and a waxing unit with a wax roll, 4/5 to 9/10 thereof being immersed into a wax container. The wax in the container is heated by a heating plate extending under the bottom of the wax container and having underneath an insulating layer. The apparatus further comprises a scraping unit with spring mounted scraping knives. For improving the finish of the gliding surface of the skis there is mounted a driven brushing unit, arranged after the scraping knives viewed in the moving direction, and comprising a pair of brushes mounted in pivoted levers and being forced against at least one tension spring, which is fixed to said pivoted lever and at the other end to an adjustable support. The apparatus is coin operated.

Abstract: In an automatic wax coating apparatus for use with skis, a securing device for securing ski, a wax supplying device, a brushing device and a movement device are provided in the interior of a box for accommodating the ski strips. The brushing device comprises a hot air nozzle for blowing hot air onto the ski, a roller brush for brushing the sliding surfaces of the ski, and a wax nozzle for spraying the sliding surfaces of the ski with a wax supplied from the wax supplying device, and the brushing device can be moved along the longitudinal axes of the ski by means of the movement device.And as occasion demands, the brushing device makes a plurality of reciprocating movmeents along the longitudinal axes of the ski to apply a wax coat of even more accurately controlled uniformity, thickness, surface texture and so forth.

Abstract: A method of inspecting the inner and/or outer circumferential surface of a tubular member includes the steps of moving an inspection apparatus along the tubular member and during movement along the member sequentially cleaning the inner and/or outer circumferential surface and optically scanning the entire 360.degree. of the inner and/or outer circumferential surface of the elongate member. The foregoing steps are performed in a single forward pass of the inspection apparatus along the tubular member and in a return pass the tubular member is applied with a corrosion preventing material which in the return pass is dried. An apparatus for performing the method is disclosed and the apparatus is capable of determining dimensional faults and inspecting for, inter alia, cavitation, reeding and scale inclusion.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for incorporating a powder into a continuous fibrous web containing multiple corrugations. In the method, a fibrous web provided with multiple parallel corrugations is continuously passed over a curved surface having an arc with a radius to web thickness ratio of 0.5-3 and the corrugations are opened at their upper side, while any bonded fibers connecting adjacent corrugations together are broken apart. A powder having 50-1000 micron particle size is deposited by gravity into the opened spaces between adjacent corrugations of the web. The deposited powder is then compacted into the fibrous corrugated web by rubbing with a pad moved in an oscillating motion generally perpendicular to the corrugations. The powder filled web is bent in the opposite direction around a roller to break the fibers between the corrugations on the opposite side of the web. The second roller can be made vertically movable so as to convert the web continuous forward motion to an intermittent forward motion.

Abstract: A vehicle polishing method includes a first polishing step of moving a portal or gate-type travel frame travellable forwardly and backwardly in one of opposite travelling direction over a stationary vehicle to polish the body surface of the vehicle by rotary brush means mounted on the travel frame during such movement while applying a foamy primary treating agent containing an anionic surfactant onto the body surface by a primary treating agent applicator mounted on the travel frame, and a second polishing and rinsing step of moving the travel frame in the other travelling direction and polishing the body surface by the rotary brush means while applying an aqueous wax containing a cationic surfactant onto the body surface by an aqueous wax applicator, and ejecting fresh water onto the body surface by a rinsing unit mounted on the travel frame to wash away the excessive wax from the body surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning and spray painting pole structures. The apparatus includes a carriage constructed to be upwardly and downwardly movable along the axis of the pole to be cleaned or painted. Mounted on the carriage is a carousel rotatably secured so as to revolve around the pole as the carriage moves upwardly and downwardly. The carousel may be provided with brushes for cleaning the pole or with a paint sprayer for applying paint. In one embodiment two pairs of rollers are located symmetrically with respect to the sprayer and the poles so that the rollers evenly apply the paint to the pole and simultaneously minimize overspray losses.

Abstract: An electrostatic coating system for applying very thin coating to a substrate in air at atmospheric pressure comprises a plurality of spaced capillary needles positioned in at least two rows and fed with coating liquid via a manifold. The needles are disposed concentric within holes in an extractor plate, a potential is developed between the capillary needles and the extractor plate affording a reduction of the liquid to a mist of highly charged droplets drawn to the substrate by a second electrical field. Insulative layers on the extractor plate provide increased droplet control.

Abstract: The apparatus, system and method utilize sequential sprays of wet, low-temperature steam, and dry, high-temperature steam to clean the exterior of laminated objects as well as to effect volatilization of liquid contaminates trapped between lamina thereof. Water is injected into the conduit through which the low-temperature steam is delivered, so as to produce a desirable concentration of droplets therein. A conveyor moves the laminated objects along a horizontal path through zones in which they are sprayed by the low temperature and high temperature steam, and then through a zone in which they are electrostatically coated with powder.