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