US Patent Class 118
COATING APPARATUS



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663  DF  CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO A RANDOMLY OCCURRING SENSED CONDITION
664  DF  .~ Sampling of associated base
665  DF  .~ Condition of coated material
666  DF  .~ Temperature responsive
667  DF  .~.~ Of coating material or applicator
668  DF  .~ Responsive to attribute, absence or presence of work
669  DF  .~.~ Selective application at a specific position
670  DF  .~.~ Defect in the workpiece sensed
671  DF  .~.~ Proximity of work to electrically charged applicator sensed
672  DF  .~.~ Running length work
673  DF  .~.~.~ Edge of running length of web material sensed
674  DF  .~.~.~ Having means to sense speed of running length of work
675  DF  .~.~ Removal of article sensed
676  DF  .~.~ Presence of work at or passage of work through coating station sensed
677  DF  .~.~.~ With means to remove or to prevent depositing of excess coating material
678  DF  .~.~.~.~ By means to interpose barrier
679  DF  .~.~.~ Having means to control coating application
680  DF  .~.~.~.~ By means to initiate movement of applicator or applicator adjunct
681  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By means to move applicator or applicator adjunct from inoperative position to operative position
682  DF  .~.~.~.~ By means controlling the operation of a timing means
683  DF  .~.~.~.~ Of a pump
684  DF  .~.~.~.~ Of a valve
685  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Fluid motor actuated
686  DF  .~.~.~ By means to control conveyor operation
687  DF  .~.~.~.~ By means to intermittently advance conveyor
688  DF  .~ Responsive to condition of coating material
689  DF  .~.~ Concentration of coating material in carrier medium
690  DF  .~.~.~ During application
691  DF  .~.~.~ Photoelectric sensor
692  DF  .~.~ Pressure responsive
693  DF  .~.~ Means to raise coating material to a predetermined level inside an enclosed container
694  DF  .~.~ Level of supply
695  DF  INTERFACING CONTROL OF PLURAL OPERATIONS
696  DF  PROGRAM, CYCLIC, OR TIME CONTROL
697  DF  .~ Having prerecorded program medium
698  DF  .~ Having selection means for alternate operational sequences
699  DF  .~ Having timer
700  DF  .~.~ Timing motor with cam or disk
701  DF  .~.~.~ Notched rotating disk
702  DF  .~.~ Sequential timing of plural operations
703  DF  .~.~ Time delay means
704  DF  .~ Sequential energization of plural operations
705  DF  .~ Having means to reverse operation at end of travel path
706  DF  .~ Cyclic operation of singular element
707  DF  INTERCONTROL OR SAFETY INTERLOCK
708  DF  CONDITION RESPONSIVE CONTROL
709  DF  .~ Responsive to diameter of wound material spool
710  DF  .~ Valve actuator
711  DF  .~.~ Integral actuator extends through or is formed on valve seat
712  DF  WITH INDICATING, TESTING, INSPECTING, OR MEASURING MEANS
713  DF  .~ With means for visual observation
714  DF  .~ With means to return indicator to zero point
13  DF  EDIBLE BASE OR COATING TYPE
14  DF  .~ Stringing or decorating of coating
15  DF  .~ With cutting of work
16  DF  .~ Plural coating devices
17  DF  .~ With apparatus cleaning or conditioning
18  DF  .~ Solid means acting on coating after application
19  DF  .~ Tumbling particulate work (i.e., rumble)
20  DF  .~ With work drying, cooling, heating or noncoating gas contact
21  DF  .~.~ To remove or spread applied coating by gas blast
22  DF  .~ With vibration of work
23  DF  .~ Combined
24  DF  .~ Projected of forced flow of coating material
25  DF  .~.~ Intermittent
26  DF  .~ Immersion
27  DF  .~.~ Superposed hopper or liquid column
28  DF  .~.~ Moving coating container or tank
29  DF  .~.~ Liquid coating supply and/or discharge to or from coating container
30  DF  .~.~ Means for moving work into, through or out of coating
31  DF  .~ Drain troughs or implements
31.5  DF  BODY MEMBER PRINTING TYPE (E.G., FINGER PRINTING)
32  DF  WITH FOLDING, UNLFOLDING OR FESTOONING
33  DF  WITH STRETCHING OR TENSIONING
34  DF  .~ Transverse
35  DF  WITH CUTTING, PUNCHING OR TEARING OF WORK
36  DF  .~ Strand form work
37  DF  .~ Web or sheet work
38  DF  .~.~ Slitting
39  DF  .~.~.~ And cut off
40  DF  .~.~ Cut off
41  DF  .~.~.~ Pivoted cutter
42  DF  .~.~.~ Reciprocating cutter
43  DF  .~.~.~ By tearing
44  DF  WITH MEANS TO DEFORM WORK
45  DF  COATED SURFACE PROTECTING MEANS, E.G., SLIP SHEETS
46  DF  WITH PRINTING
47  DF  CARBONIZING, FLAME CONTACT OR BURNING OFF OF COATING INGREDIENT
715  DF  GAS OR VAPOR DEPOSITION
716  DF  .~ Means to coat or impregnate particulate matter
717  DF  .~ Object embedded in particulate mass
718  DF  .~ Running length work
719  DF  .~ Multizone chamber
720  DF  .~ Having means to expose a portion of a substrate to coating medium
721  DF  .~.~ Substrate contacting mask
722  DF  .~ With treating means (e.g., jarring)
723 R  DF  .~.~ By creating electric field (e.g., gas activation, plasma, etc.)
723 VE  DF  .~.~.~ Vacuum evaporation means within deposition chamber (e.g., activated reactive evaporation, etc.)
723 CB  DF  .~.~.~.~ Ion cluster beam
723 EB  DF  .~.~.~.~ Electron beam evaporator
723 MP  DF  .~.~.~ Multiple gas energizing means associated with one deposition site (i.e., excluding substrate heater as an energizing means)
723 FE  DF  .~.~.~ Focused electron beam gas energizing means
723 FI  DF  .~.~.~ Focusing means for ion beam coating material or focused ion beam gas energizing means (i.e., excluding ion plating or ion implanting)
723 MW  DF  .~.~.~ Microwave gas energizing means (e.g., 2.45 gigahertz, microwave plasma, etc.)
723 ME  DF  .~.~.~.~ Producing energized gas remotely located from substrate
723 MR  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With magnet (e.g., electron cyclotron resonance, etc.)
723 MA  DF  .~.~.~.~ with magnet (e.g., electron cyclotron resonance, etc.)
723 AN  DF  .~.~.~.~ Having antenna
723 HC  DF  .~.~.~ Hot cathode means for thermionic emission of electrons (e.g., tungsten filament, etc.)
723 DC  DF  .~.~.~.~ With nozzle-shaped anode (i.e., DC spray gun)
723 E  DF  .~.~.~ Having glow discharge electrodes (e.g., DC, AC, RF, etc.)
723 ER  DF  .~.~.~.~ Producing energized gas remotely located from substrate
723 I  DF  .~.~.~ Radio frequency antenna or radio frequency inductive coil discharge means
723 IR  DF  .~.~.~.~ Producing energized gas remotely located from substrate
724  DF  .~.~ By means to heat or cool
725  DF  .~.~.~ Substrate heater
726  DF  .~ Crucible or evaporator structure
727  DF  .~.~ Movable crucible
728  DF  .~ Work support
729  DF  .~.~ Moving work support
730  DF  .~.~.~ Rotary
731  DF  .~.~.~.~ Inverting
732  DF  .~.~.~ Porous
733  DF  .~ Chamber seal
50  DF  WITH VACUUM OR FLUID PRESSURE CHAMBER
50.1  DF  .~ With means to apply electrical and/or radiant energy to work and/or coating material
620  DF  WITH MEANS TO APPLY ELECTRICAL AND/OR RADIANT ENERGY TO WORK AND/OR COATING MATERIAL
621  DF  .~ Electrostatic and/or electromagnetic attraction or projection of coating material to work
622  DF  .~.~ Hollow or reentrant work surface interiorly coated
623  DF  .~.~ Including electromagnetic field
624  DF  .~.~ Control of deposition of coating material or selective area, e.g., pattern or edge effect
625  DF  .~.~.~ Plural electrodes selectively energized
626  DF  .~.~ Projection from edge, e.g., electrostatic atomization
627  DF  .~.~ With assisting projection or spray of coating material through free space
628  DF  .~.~.~ With electrode for collecting fugitive or off-target coating material
629  DF  .~.~.~ Fluid current projector, e.g., spray type
630  DF  .~.~.~.~ With means to transport work
631  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With movable coating projector
632  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Transport lines with loop return
633  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Plural transport lines
634  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Through vapor-confining chamber
635  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Shielded or insulated hangers or supports
636  DF  .~.~.~ Gravity flow of coating material
638  DF  .~.~ Work passes between spaced electrodes
639  DF  .~ With electromagnetic and/or electrostatic removal of excessive deposit, e.g., detearing
640  DF  .~ With means to orient coating particles
641  DF  .~ Radiant heating
642  DF  .~.~ Radiant drying of coated work
643  DF  .~.~.~ With additional diverse drying means
52  DF  WITH MEANS TO CENTRIFUGE WORK
53  DF  .~ Plural axes of rotation of work
54  DF  .~ Reciprocating centrifuge
55  DF  .~ Coating inside of hollow work
56  DF  WITH MANIPULATION OF WORK AFTER COATING TO DISTRIBUTE OR REMOVE COATING
57  DF  .~ Vibrating or jarring
58  DF  WITH HEAT EXCHANGE, DRYING, OR NON-COATING GAS OR VAPOR TREATMENT OF WORK
59  DF  .~ With solid heat exchange means contacting work
60  DF  .~.~ Heated roll type
61  DF  .~ With treatment of waste gases, e.g., solvent recovery
62  DF  .~ To manipulate work by gas blast
63  DF  .~ To remove or spread applied coating by gas blast
64  DF  .~ With housing surrounding or engaging coating means
65  DF  .~.~ Running length work
66  DF  .~ Plural treatments
67  DF  .~.~ Running length work
68  DF  .~ Running length work
69  DF  .~ Cooling
70  DF  WITH CLEANING OR RECONDITIONING WORK SUPPORT OR CONVEYER
71  DF  WITH SUPPORT FOR EXTRANEOUS ARTICLE OF MATERIAL
72  DF  WITH MEANS TO PREPARE WORK SURFACE FOR COATING
73  DF  .~ Liquid treatment
74  DF  .~.~ Fluxing
600  DF  WITH TREATMENT OF COATING MATERIAL
602  DF  .~ Of recirculated coating material
603  DF  .~.~ By separation
606  DF  .~ By fiber preparation
608  DF  .~ By milling or comminution
610  DF  .~ By separation
612  DF  .~ By agitation
75  DF  COMBINED
76  DF  RUBBING TRANSFER OF SOLID COATING MATERIAL ONTO WORK
77  DF  .~ Running length work
78  DF  .~.~ Strands or cords
79  DF  HALF TONE PRINTING FILM HOLDERS
100  DF  SOLID MEMBER OR MATERIAL ACTING ON COATING AFTER APPLICATION
101  DF  .~ Heated or cooled member
102  DF  .~ Nonuniform treatment (over treated area of work)
103  DF  .~ Diverse members
104  DF  .~ With means to clean or recondition members
105  DF  .~ Inside of hollow work
106  DF  .~ Web or belt member
107  DF  .~ Rotating work
108  DF  .~ Work-supported and guided carriage
109  DF  .~ Absorbent or porous mass or pad member
110  DF  .~ Rotary member
111  DF  .~.~ Axis of rotation perpendicular to plane of coated surface
112  DF  .~.~ Axis of rotation coincident or parallel to line of motion of work
113  DF  .~.~ With reciprocation along axis of rotation
114  DF  .~.~ Opposed rotary members
115  DF  .~.~.~ Axes of both in same horizontal plane
116  DF  .~.~.~ Flexible work
117  DF  .~.~.~.~ Running length work
118  DF  .~.~ Running length work
119  DF  .~.~.~ Member opposed to work back-up
120  DF  .~ Reciprocating member
121  DF  .~ Opposed members
122  DF  .~.~ Running length work
123  DF  .~ Running length work
124  DF  .~.~ Zigzag or jogged work path
125  DF  .~.~ Die passage
126  DF  .~.~ Member opposed to work back-up
200  DF  SOLID APPLICATOR CONTACTING WORK
201  DF  .~ With means to support applicator on body or clothing
202  DF  .~ Heater or cooler for applicator or for film-transfer feed member
203  DF  .~ With cleaner or conditioner for applicator
204  DF  .~ With nonuniform removal of coating material from applicator
205  DF  .~ Expansible or contractible to effect work contract
206  DF  .~ Combined with other type coating applier
207  DF  .~ Work-supported and guided carriage
208  DF  .~.~ Strand, rod or bar traversing
209  DF  .~ With work-handling or work-supporting
210  DF  .~.~ With means to alter relative rates of work and applicator motions
211  DF  .~.~ Pattern or definite circumscribed area of application
212  DF  .~.~.~ Relief or intaglio applicator
213  DF  .~.~.~ Mask or stencil
214  DF  .~.~ Coating inside of hollow work
215  DF  .~.~.~ Inside only
216  DF  .~.~ Plural applicators or plural-applying surfaces on single applicator
217  DF  .~.~.~ Diverse applicator types
218  DF  .~.~.~ Rotating work
219  DF  .~.~.~.~ Parallel, spaced or overlapping applications
220  DF  .~.~.~ Plural applicators and separate work for each
221  DF  .~.~.~ Parallel, spaced or overlapping applications
222  DF  .~.~.~.~ Adjustable spacing or overlap
223  DF  .~.~.~ Work moving past sequentially arranged applicators
224  DF  .~.~.~.~ Rotary applicator opposite rotary applicator or rotary back-up
225  DF  .~.~.~ Simultaneously operating on work
226  DF  .~.~.~.~ Opposed applicators
227  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Rotary
228  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Open side applicator support
229  DF  .~.~ Yarn wound drum indexed for stripping
230  DF  .~.~ Rotating turret, wheel, or drum work conveyer
231  DF  .~.~.~ Sheet form work
232  DF  .~.~ Rotating work during coating application
233  DF  .~.~.~ Work rotated by applicator
234  DF  .~.~ Strand form work
235  DF  .~.~ With winding or unwinding of work for supply or removal
236  DF  .~.~ Sheet stacking, unstacking or handling
237  DF  .~.~.~ Coating applicator supported by stack
238  DF  .~.~ Reciprocating work holder
239  DF  .~.~ Endless belt-type work conveyers
240  DF  .~.~ Compound motion of applicator during application
241  DF  .~.~ Reciprocating or oscillating applicator
242  DF  .~.~.~ Along surface of work
243  DF  .~.~.~ To and from coating material supply
244  DF  .~.~ Rotary applicator
245  DF  .~.~.~ With means to strip work from applicator
246  DF  .~.~.~ With means to guide work to follow perimeter of applicator
247  DF  .~.~.~ Intermittently acting work back-up
248  DF  .~.~.~ Opposed back-up and rotary applicator
249  DF  .~.~.~.~ Rotary back-up
250  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Open side applicator and back-up support
251  DF  .~.~.~.~ Open side applicator and back-up support
252  DF  .~.~.~ With guide or gauge for edge or face of work
253  DF  .~.~ Movable back-up presses work against fixed applicator
254  DF  .~ Coating inside of hollow work
255  DF  .~ Plural applicators and/or plural sources of coating material
256  DF  .~ Movably mounted applicator
257  DF  .~.~ Web or belt applicator
258  DF  .~.~ Rotary applicator
259  DF  .~.~.~ Force or fountain feed
260  DF  .~.~.~ Wick feed
261  DF  .~.~.~ With doctor or film distributing feeder engaging applicator
262  DF  .~.~.~.~ Rotary
263  DF  .~.~ Applicator movable to coating material supply
264  DF  .~ Pads or absorbent or porous applicators
265  DF  .~.~ Deformable to contact supply
266  DF  .~.~ Forced feed or movable transporter from coating material supply to applicator
267  DF  .~.~ Gravity feed from separate coating material supply to applicator
268  DF  .~.~ Wick feed to applicator
269  DF  .~.~ Reversible pad and/or plural removable pad sheets
270  DF  .~.~ Sponge cup type
271  DF  .~.~ Heat-liquefied coating material
300  DF  PROJECTION OR SPRAY TYPE
301  DF  .~ With mask or stencil
302  DF  .~ With projector heating, cleaning or conditioning
303  DF  .~ Coating moving mass of solid particulate work
304  DF  .~ Projector combined with nonprojecting coater
305  DF  .~ Work-supported and guided carriage
306  DF  .~.~ Inside of hollow work
307  DF  .~.~ Strand, rod or bar form work
308  DF  .~ Applying solid particulate material
309  DF  .~.~ Dust chamber type
310  DF  .~.~ Plural supplies of particulate material
311  DF  .~.~.~ With common projector
312  DF  .~.~ Recirculation or nonradiant heating of supply of particulate material
313  DF  .~ Plural projectors
314  DF  .~.~ Work moving past sequentially arranged projectors
315  DF  .~.~ Simultaneously acting on work
316  DF  .~.~.~ Opposed
317  DF  .~ Inside of hollow work
318  DF  .~.~ Rotating work
319  DF  .~ Rotating turret work support
320  DF  .~ Rotating work
321  DF  .~.~ Moving projector
322  DF  .~.~ Endless conveyer for work
323  DF  .~ Moving projector
324  DF  .~ Endless conveyer for work
325  DF  .~ Flexible web or strand work
326  DF  .~ With hood or offtake for waste material
400  DF  IMMERSION OR WORK-CONFINED POOL TYPE
401  DF  .~ Capillary passages or barometric column feed
402  DF  .~ Floating film or layer of coating material
403  DF  .~.~ Plural superposed layers of coating material in pool
404  DF  .~ Work extending through pool-confining wall area
405  DF  .~.~ Running length work
406  DF  .~ Mask or stencil
407  DF  .~ Work-confined pool
408  DF  .~.~ Inside separate hollow work
409  DF  .~.~ Rotating work about an axis through itself during coating
410  DF  .~.~ With pump or nongravity discharge against work
411  DF  .~.~.~ Plural pools
412  DF  .~.~ Plural pools
413  DF  .~.~ Movable or adjustable doctoring edge
414  DF  .~.~.~ Rolling doctor
415  DF  .~.~ Superposed pool
416  DF  .~ Rotating work about an axis through itself during coating
417  DF  .~ Tumbling particulate work
418  DF  .~.~ Rotary drums or receptacles
419  DF  .~ Running length work, longitudinally traveling
420  DF  .~.~ Strand form work
421  DF  .~ With means to move tank or pool
422  DF  .~ With pool surface skimming or conditioning
423  DF  .~ With means for moving work through, into or out of pool
424  DF  .~.~ Pinch rolls
425  DF  .~.~ Reciprocating or oscillating conveyer
426  DF  .~.~ Rotating conveyer for work
427  DF  .~ With opposed relatively movable members acting on immersed work
428  DF  .~ With work supports or guides
429  DF  .~ With tank structure, liquid supply, control, and/or nonradiant heating means
500  DF  WORK HOLDERS, OR HANDLING DEVICES
501  DF  .~ Combined with drip pans or surplus collection
502  DF  .~ Impaling type
503  DF  .~ Gripper or clamped work type
504  DF  WORK SURFACE SHIELDS, MASKS OR PROTECTORS
505  DF  .~ Work-attached
506  DF  MISCELLANEOUS
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CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTION
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900  DF  SEMICONDUCTOR VAPOR DOPING
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DIGESTS
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DIG 1  DD  Anti-offset
DIG 2  DD  Bead coater
DIG 3  DD  Container-related coater
DIG 4  DD  Curtain coater
DIG 5  DD  Fluidized bed
DIG 6  DD  Fruit coater
DIG 7  DD  Hoods
DIG 8  DD  Pan greaser
DIG 9  DD  Plank and molding coater
DIG 10  DD  Pipe and tube (inside)
DIG 11  DD  Pipe and tube (outside)
DIG 12  DD  Pipe and tube (immersion)
DIG 13  DD  Pipe and tube (misc.)
DIG 14  DD  Roller, conical
DIG 15  DD  Roller structure
DIG 16  DD  Slinger type
DIG 17  DD  Wallpaper coater
DIG 18  DD  Wire and cord (die)
DIG 19  DD  Wire and cord (immersion)
DIG 20  DD  Wire and cord (roller)
DIG 21  DD  Wire and cord (striper)
DIG 22  DD  Wire and cord (misc.)