Abstract:
A process of coating a heat-conductive strip article, e.g. aluminum or aluminum alloy strip (14) used in the automotive industry, with a solid wax-like coating material, preferably a wax-type lubricant. The process involves heating a solid wax-like coating material that melts in a temperature range of about 30 to 100 DEG C to form a melt having a viscosity in a range of about 50 centipoise or less and flowing the melt onto a moving surface of the strip article through an elongated slot (15) in a movable coating head having an extended surface adjacent to the slot to form a coating layer on the article. The coating head is pushed towards the surface of the strip article as the melt is flowed as a coating onto the surface from the slot (15) to reduce a coating thickness by pressing the extended surface of the coating head onto the coating as the coating is formed. The process allows a coating of a wax-like material to be formed to a desired thickness and yet allows the wax-like material to solidify shortly after application to the strip article (14) so that the strip can be coiled without providing a cooling run of undue length or special cooling devices.
Abstract:
Described is a nozzle (DD) for the metered application of drops of adhesive to a substrate, the inside wall of the nozzle having a non-stick (adhesive-repellant) coating (B) at least in the region of the nozzle mouth. The non-stick coating (B) is preferably a series of layers with a base layer consisting of a chemically deposited nickel-phosphorus alloy and a surface layer consisting of polytetrafluoroethylene. Nozzles (DD) of the type proposed are suitable for use in the adhesive-application station of an SMD assembly line. The non-stick coating (B) facilitates cleaning of the nozzles (DD) and permits the cleaning interval to be increased.
Abstract:
A coating applicator for coating a web or flexible substrate contains a walled application chamber where the coating liquid first comes into contact with the substrate (53). The coating liquid enters a channel of the application chamber (51) at the upstream side and wets the substrate as it flows in the same direction as the substrate. A doctor element (55) is positioned at the downstream side of the channel where the excess coating in the channel follows the contour of the boundary formed by the doctor element and leaves the channel. One of the applicator walls is designed to be a floating or moving wall or belt. The floating applicator wall and geometry of the streamlined boundaries of the coating device eliminates the formation of recirculating eddies or vortices. The elimination of vortices eliminates flow instability due to centrifugal forces and removes harmful pressure fluctuations which could result in coat-weight nonuniformities.
Abstract:
Apparatus and procedure for coating both opposed major surfaces (19, 20) of an elongated strip article (10) with paint, lacquer, lubricant or the like, using two facing coating heads (30, 30') respectively having lands (32, 32'), between which the strip is advanced. Liquid coating material, delivered to the strip surfaces through elongated slits (36, 36') formed in the coating heads immediately upstream of the lands, is dragged out on the moving surfaces as layers metered between the lands and the strip. A load is continuously exerted (by devices such as air cylinders (64, 64')) on at least one of the lands during the coating operation for urging the lands against the applied coating layers.
Abstract:
A hopper type application device for applying one or more coating liquids on a running flexible support member, wherein said device comprises a slit characterized by applying a composite plating film, in which fluorine-containing resin is dispersed and coagulated, to a lip portion disposed at the forward end and/or an inclined surface portion continuing to the lip portion, and a method of application, wherein the length of a bottom portion of a bead is made to be substantially equal to the length of lip at the inlet side when the plating is applied only to the inclined surface portion continuing to the lip portion, are used to thereby achieve the following object. There are provided the device for application, wherein troubles such as tailing, liquid dripping and waviness can be eliminated even when coating is performed by a slide hopper and an extrusion type coating die, with a liquid low in surface tension and viscosity used as a coating liquid, and the method of application capable of offering uniform coating properties.
Abstract:
Said device has one or two storage chambers (1) for receiving the substance, a closable nozzle (10), which is linked through a conduit (43) to the storage chamber (1), and a conveying element (2), which conveys the substance from the storage chamber (1) to the nozzle (10). Said nozzle (20) and storage chamber (1) are arranged on a common mounting element (46) and the nozzle (10) can pivot around its longitudinal axis (78) relative to the storage chamber (1).
Abstract:
A coating head (22) having an open-sided slot to which coating material is supplied under pressure is used, and a support such as a roll (14) around which the strip (10) is advanced past the head (22) for receiving from the slot a layer of paint metered between the head (22) and the strip (10), wherein a load is continuously exerted on the head (22) during operation for urging the head (22) against the applied paint layer on the strip (10) so as to maintain a uniform metering gap between the head and the coated strip surface. The load may be exerted by devices such as air cylinders (56) acting on the head (22) and capable of adjustment to vary the magnitude of the load for different coating operations.
Abstract:
Auftragevorrichtung zum Auftragen einer zähen Flüssig keit, zum Beispiel eines Klebers, einer Dichtungsmasse oder einer Kunststoffmasse, bei der die zähe Flüssigkeit über den Durchtrittsquerschnitt einer Düsenanordnung auspreßbar ist, welcher Durchtrittsquerschnitt von einem Verstellkolben (61) und einem mit diesem zusammenwirkenden Gegen stück (66), welches eine den Verstellkolben aufnehmende Bohrung hat, gebildet wird, wobei im Verstellkolben oder im Gegenstück mindestens eine sich in ihrer Längsrichtung im Querschnitt verändernde Düsennut (65) vorhanden ist, die mit dem Gegenstück einen Durchtrittsquerschnitt für die zähe Flüssigkeit bildet, desen Größe durch Verstellung des Verstellkolbens veränderlich ist. Gemäß der Erfindung ist der Verstellkolben drehbar in der Bohrung des Gegenstücks angeordnet, und die Düsennut verläuft senkrecht zur Längs achse des Verstellkolbens. Die Düsennut kommuniziert mit einer im Gegenstück (66) angeordneten Eintrittsleitung (64) und einer Austrittsleitung (63), wobei die Anschlußstellen dieser Leitungen (64, 63) an die Düsennut in Umfangsrich tung des Verstellkolbens gegeneinander versetzt sind. Durch die Konstruktion nach der Erfindung werden Ablagerungen im Durchflußweg der Auftragevorrichtung vermieden und eine für Regelungszwecke erforderliche leichte und exakte Verstellbarkeit erreicht.
Abstract:
Treating flexible sheet material, including paper, using vacuum guides adjacent to short-dwell applicators improved application of fluid treating composition, particularly at high speeds.