Method and apparatus for applying color identifiers to a lead
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorSiegfried Unterberger
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for forming color identifiers for a lead includes a mechanism for surrounding an outer surface of a lead, which may be an optical lead or an electrical lead, with a primer coating, a mechanism for injecting either drops of paint or a line of paint into the still unhardened coating followed by a mechanism for drying the primer coating with the integrated paint.
Claims24
A method for applying color identifiers to a lead selected from a group consisting of electrical leads and optical leads, said method comprising the steps of applying a primer coming on the lead to surround the outer surface thereof, while the primer coating is still unhardened, injecting individual paint droplets of a color in a line into the unhardened primer coating from at least one nozzle arrangement, said paint droplets being integrated into the primer coating by penetrating and then drying the primer coating with the integrated paint droplets to complete the formation of the coating with color identifier.
An apparatus for applying color identifiers on a lead selected from electrical and optical leads, said apparatus including means for applying a primer coating onto said lead, said means including a coating channel with the lead being conducted therethrough, means for injecting individual paint droplets into the unhardened primer coating including a nozzle having a nozzle head to direct the paint droplets into the unhardened primer coating.
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