Device for coating an element and coating process
AssigneeCF Technologies
InventorGino Sirejacob
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Abstract
A device for coating an element is described. The device is capable of bearing and using a swab impregnated with a coating composition and includes a mobile carriage for bearing the swab. The carriage is movable along a guiding path. The device further includes an element for pushing the swab towards the element to be coated so that a quantity of the composition released from the swab coats an element. The device also includes an element for distributing the composition, so that the coating is substantially uniform.
Claims48
Device for bearing and moving a swab intended to contact at least a part of an element so as to distribute a coating composition thereon and so as to achieve a substantially uniform coating thereof, said device comprising:
- a support provided with a guiding path and with a means for bearing the element to be coated;
- a mobile carriage comprising means for bearing the swab, said carriage being movable along the guiding path;
- a means for ensuring a movement of the mobile carriage along the guiding path with respect to the element to be coated, whereby ensuring a relative movement of the swab with respect to the element to be coated,
- a conducting means adapted for conducting a coating composition on the support to be coated, said means having an open end adjacent to the swab, and
- a pushing means which is adapted for pushing the swab towards the element so that the swab acts as means for distributing the coating composition flowing out of the open end of the conducting means,
- whereby the open end of the means for conducting a coating composition is mounted on a carrier movable along a guiding path with respect to the element to be coated, said open end being adapted so that the composition flowing out from the open end contacts first the element to be coated before being distributed by the swab, and
- whereby the means for conducting the coating composition comprises a volumetric pump adapted for conducting to the open end the requested amount of coating composition so that after distribution of the coating composition on the element by the swab, a substantially uniform coating coats at least said part of the element.
Device for bearing and moving a swab, the swab intended to contact at least a part of an element so as to distribute a coating composition thereon and so as to achieve a substantially uniform coating thereof, said device comprising:
- a support provided with a guiding path and with a means for bearing the element to be coated;
- a mobile carriage comprising means for bearing a swab, said carriage being movable along the guiding path;
- a means for ensuring a movement of the mobile carriage along the guiding path with respect to the element to be coated, whereby ensuring a relative movement of the swab with respect to the element to be coated,
- a conducting means for conducting coating composition comprising at least a flexible pipe with an inner diameter of less than 2 mm extending from a first open end to a second open end, whereby the second open end of the flexible pipe is mounted on a carrier movable along a guiding path with respect to the element to be coated, the second end being adapted so that the composition flowing out from the open end contacts first the element to be coated before being distributed by the swab, and
- a pushing means which is adapted for pushing the swab towards the element to be coated so that the swab acts as means for distributing the coating composition flowing out of the open end of the conducting means,
- whereby the means for conducting the coating composition comprises:
- a container for the coating composition, whereby said container is provided with a mixing means and with a guiding path for positioning at least the first open end of the flexible pipe,
- a peristaltic pump acting on a portion of the flexible pipe, said pump being adapted for conducting from the first open end of the flexible pipe to the second open end of the pipe the requested amount of coating composition so that after distribution of the coating composition on the element by the swab, a substantially uniform coating coats at least said part of the element.
Device for bearing and moving a swab intended to contact at least a part of an element so as to distribute a coating composition thereon and so as to achieve a substantially uniform coating thereof coating at least a part of the element, in which a coating composition contacts the element to be coated, said device comprising:
- a support provided with a guiding path and with a means for bearing the element to be coated;
- a mobile carriage comprising means for bearing the swab, said carriage being movable along the guiding path;
- a means for ensuring a movement of the mobile carriage along the guiding path with respect to the element to be coated, whereby ensuring a relative movement of the swab with respect to the element to be coated,
- a protection element movable with respect to the support between a position enabling the coating of the element to be coated and a position protecting at least a first portion of the element after its coating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.