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US 9,981,424 B2Granted
Process for removing excess pasty material joining a plurality of substrates
AssigneeDow Global Technologies LLC
InventorsJames R. Ogle, Jeremy J. Patt
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Abstract
A method comprising: a) contacting an article comprising one or more blades (10), the one or more blades (10) having a leading edge (12) curved upward and separated into prongs (14) by one or more notches (16) in the one or more blades (10), with two or more substrates (20,22) joined by a pasty material overflowing at one or more seams (18), where the one or more notches (16) of the article straddle the one or more seams (18); and b) moving the article or the substrates (20,22) such that the pasty material overflowing at the one or more seams (18) is removed.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- a) contacting an article comprising one or more blades, the one or more blades having a leading edge curved upward and separated into prongs by one or more notches in the blade, with two or more substrates joined by a pasty material overflowing at one or more seams, where the one or more notches of the article straddle the one or more seams and where the leading edge curved upward is free of contact with the two or more substrates;
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- b) moving the article or the two or more substrates such that the pasty material overflowing at the one or more seams is removed;
- wherein the two or more substrates are joined to form an array, and wherein the array forms a diesel particulate filter;
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- wherein the leading edge curved upward allows the one or more blades to move along the two or more substrates without catching on or damaging a corner of at least one of the substrates.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.