A coating apparatus is provided that includes: a mixer configured to generate mixed ceramic powder in which a material which contains an organic compound imparting lubricity to raw ceramic powder whose average particle size is smaller than or equal to 10 m and acts as an additive is mixed into the raw ceramic powder; a jetting device configured to jet the mixed ceramic powder toward a surface of a base material; and a heating device configured to heat the mixed ceramic powder jetted from the jetting device, and to evaporate the organic compound of the additive contained in the mixed ceramic powder.

An apparatus including a computer processor; a first tool device; a first device configured to hold the first tool device; and a second device configured to move the first tool device in x, y, and z directions, when the first tool device is being held by the first device, in response to commands from the computer processor; and a conveyor device having a belt. The first tool device may include a wheel. The first device may be configured with respect to the conveyor device, so that the wheel of the first tool device is configured to be lowered in the z direction into a material located on the belt of the conveyor device, and the first tool device is configured to be moved in the x and y direction, with the wheel simultaneously rotating and rolling through the material on the belt, in response to commands from the computer processor.

A method for manufacturing an engineered stone, the method including: providing a mixture comprising at least a stone or stone like material and a binder; compacting the mixture; curing the binder; and printing on at least a top surface of the engineered stone.

A method for coating at least one printing medium, in particular a ceramic printing medium, including the steps of (a) providing at least one coating head with a fluid supply channel, a plurality of nozzles, each having a nozzle channel and an inflow opening, which form the connection of the respective nozzle channels to the fluid supply channel, wherein the respective nozzles are arranged in a stationary manner on a side wall of the fluid supply channel; (b) filling the fluid supply channel with liquid fluid; (c) transporting the at least one printing medium along a transport direction; (d) applying a respective overpressure relative to the atmospheric pressure to the liquid fluid, at least in the area of each inflow opening of the nozzles, at least during the time intervals in which the at least one printing medium is to be coated in such a way that the liquid fluid is applied in the form of continuous columnar fluid jets to the at least one printing medium, wherein according to (e), during the time intervals in which no liquid fluid is to be dispensed from the nozzles, a respective negative pressure relative to the atmospheric pressure is applied to the liquid fluid at least in the area of each inflow opening of the nozzles, as a result of which an outflow of liquid fluid from the nozzle channels, even without the participation of the respective closing bodies assigned to the nozzles, is prevented in step e) and made possible in step (d).

The present disclosure relates to a ceramic tile decorated with dry particles to give a three-dimensional pattern and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method comprises the steps of A: glazing a surface of a green body with a ground coat; B: decorating a surface of the ground coat of the green body to form a pattern; C: drying the green body; D: embellishing the green body with dry particles; E: spraying a protective glaze on the surface of the green body; and F: firing the green body after the green body is sprayed with the protective glaze of step E to produce the ceramic tile decorated with dry particles. The manufacturing method can make the ceramic tile produced have a clear pattern, distinct layers, low glaze glossiness, a good non-slip effect, an obvious sense of dry particles, a strong three-dimensional effect, rich colors, and stable properties.

A digital printer machine for ceramic products, including at least one conveyor, suitable for transporting the products to be printed along a feed direction, and at least one printing module, positioned along said conveyor and comprising an operating unit with respective print heads provided with nozzles for dispensing at least one printing fluid to be deposited on the surface of the products. The printing module includes a basement provided with a recess (R), underlying the operating unit, wherein the conveyor is inserted to make the products pass under the heads; the basement further comprises two completely flat and free lateral opposite flanks, so that the printing module can be matched to other modules along the conveyor until a complete mutual matching is obtained.

A ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component, such as a turbine blade for a combustion turbine engine that has a fiber-reinforced, solidified ceramic substrate. The substrate has an inner layer of fibers, for enhancing structural strength of the component. An outer layer of fibers defines voids therein. A thermal barrier coat (TBC) is applied over and coupled to the outer layer fibers, filling the voids. The voids provide increased surface area and mechanically interlock the TBC, improving adhesion between the fiber-reinforced ceramic substrate and the TBC.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a canal component which comprises a connection portion 104, 106 designed to come into contact with a component 100, in particular an adjacent canal component, which is to be connected to the canal component 100, the method comprising the following steps: providing a concrete base body, coating the base body with a plasticized plastics material 110 in the region of the connection portion 104, 106 and in the region of an internal wall (108) of the base body facing the canal inner space 106, and curing the plastics material (110).

Turbine and compressor casing abradable components for turbine engines include abradable surfaces with a zonal system of forward (zone A) and rear or aft sections (zone B) surface features. The zone A surface profile comprises an array pattern of non-directional depression dimples, or upwardly projecting dimples, or both, in the abradable surface. The dimpled forward zone A surface features reduce surface solidity in a controlled manner, to help increase abradability during blade tip rubbing incidents, yet they provide sufficient material to resist incoming hot working fluid erosion of the abradable surface. In addition, the dimples provide generic forward section aerodynamic profiling to the abradable surface, compatible with different blade airfoil-camber profiles. The aft zone B surface features comprise an array pattern of ridges and grooves.

A method and a plant (i.e., system or assembly) for manufacturing ceramic products comprising the steps of feeding a mixture of ceramic powders so as to obtain a powder material strip; compacting the powder material strip so as to obtain a compacted powder layer; acquiring a surface image of the compacted powder layer that reproduces the respective surface chromatic effects; processing said surface image so as to obtain a graphic decoration to be applied on the surface of the compacted powder layer that is coordinated with the respective chromatic effects in the thickness; and printing the graphic decoration on the surface of the compacted powder layer.