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US 11,426,740 B2Granted
Adhesive splitter systems and methods of using the same
AssigneeDaltile Corporation
InventorFelipe Giannazzo
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are adhesive splitter systems and methods for using the same. The adhesive splitter systems comprise a multi-nozzle adapter configured to dispense multiple streams of adhesive onto a substrate. The splitter system can also include an attached adhesive dispenser for providing adhesive to the multi-nozzle adapter.
Claims17
An adhesive splitter system comprising:
- a multi-nozzle adapter comprising:
- a fluid inlet,
- a plurality of fluid outlets, and
- a fluid dispersion assembly in fluid communication with the fluid inlet and the plurality of fluid outlets,
- a fluid conveyor for feeding an adhesive into the fluid inlet, the adhesive being a bicomponent resin comprising a resin and a hardener, and
- an adhesive dispenser connected to the fluid conveyor on an end opposite the multi-nozzle adapter and wherein the adhesive dispenser is configured to separately feed the resin and the hardener to the fluid conveyor,
- the fluid dispersion assembly comprising:
- a set of channels, each channel including a channel inlet and a plurality of channel outlets, wherein each channel is configured to receive a portion of the adhesive from the fluid inlet through the channel inlet and discharge some of that portion of the adhesive through one or more of the channel outlets, and
- a set of nozzle clusters, wherein each cluster is in fluid communication with one of the channel outlets and is configured to receive some of the portion of the adhesive discharged from one or more of the channel outlets, and discharge some portion of that received adhesive through one of the fluid outlets,
- wherein the fluid inlet is in fluid communication with at least one of the fluid outlets.
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A method for evenly applying adhesive to a substrate, the method comprising:
- loading a resin and a hardener into separate chambers of an adhesive dispenser;
- facilitating a flow of the resin and a separate flow of the hardener from the adhesive dispenser into a fluid conveyor;
- mixing the resin and the hardener inside the fluid conveyor to create an adhesive;
- providing a multi-nozzle adapter connected to the fluid conveyor, the multi-nozzle adapter including a fluid inlet, a plurality of fluid outlets, and a fluid dispersion assembly in fluid communication with the fluid inlet and the plurality of fluid outlets, wherein the fluid dispersion assembly includes a set of channels, each channel including a single channel inlet and a plurality of channel outlets, and a set of nozzle clusters, wherein each cluster is in fluid communication with one of the channel outlets;
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- feeding the adhesive from the fluid conveyor into the multi-nozzle adapter through the fluid inlet, such that at a first stage of dispersion at least one channel receives a portion of the fed adhesive through its channel inlet and discharges some of that portion of adhesive through a channel outlet, and at a second stage of dispersion at least one nozzle cluster receives some portion of the adhesive from the channel outlet it is in fluid communication with and discharges some of that portion of adhesive through at least one of the fluid outlets.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.