A system and method of scanning an environment and acquiring an image is provided. The system includes a mobile device having a camera and a first position indicator. A scanner having a light emitter and a light receiver is provided. The scanner determining coordinates of surfaces in an environment in response to emitting light with the light emitter and receiving light with the light receiver, the scanner having a second position indicator. One or more processors are provided that determine the position of the mobile computing device and transmits the data between the scanner in response to the first position indicator engaging the second position indicator.

Systems and methods for coating of a thin film with a viscous material, such as a liquid, a paste, or an adhesive, at a desired thickness. In such a system, two films move adjacent to one another, optionally in opposite directions, atop two rollers separated by a known gap that defines a coating thickness, with the material being transferred from one film to the other. The rollers may be maintained in their relative positions by springs and/or linear actuators and positioned using linear encoders. In alternate arrangements, the material to be coated could be low viscosity material such as a polymeric solution. Air knives may be provided near the gap to create an air flow that aids in preventing the free flow of low viscosity materials outside the bounds of the film during coating.

The invention relates to a device for processing shear-sensitive coating compounds (100), with a transfer roller (1) and a doctor blade (2), in particular a comma doctor blade, which are spaced apart from one another to form a coating nip (3), the device further having an outlet nozzle (4) for dosing a coating compound (100), the outlet nozzle (4) facing a lower nip opening (6) of the coating nip (3) with its nozzle opening (5), wherein the device comprises a forced conveying system (7) via which a coating compound (100) is dosed into the coating nip (3), the transfer roller (1) and the doctor blade (2) being arranged next to each other, so that the coating nip (3) is permeable in the vertical direction (z), wherein the coating nip (3) is between 30 and 400 μm and the outlet nozzle (4) is an outlet of a rinsing chamber (8) arranged below the coating nip (3). A corresponding method is also described.

A doctor blade, intended for a doctor blade chamber (6) for a flexography printing unit (1) equipped with a screened cylinder (4), presents in the form of a rectangular blade, with a functional longitudinal side (34) of which a longitudinal edge is capable of making contact with the screened cylinder (4), a longitudinal fastening side (33) and two lateral sides (36, 37).

The doctor blade comprises at least one opening located towards the functional longitudinal side (34) and towards the first of the two lateral sides (36, 37).

A method for applying a multi-layer coating includes passing a substrate through a nip defined by two rolls to apply a first thickness of a first liquid coating material, applying a second liquid coating material on the first liquid coating material having the first thickness as applied by passing through the nip, and controlling a thickness of the applied second liquid coating material.

An application apparatus includes a first roller configured to apply a treatment liquid to a recording medium conveyed; and a second roller disposed in contact with the first roller and forming, with the first roller, a conveyance nip in which the recording medium is nipped. The application apparatus further includes a third roller disposed in contact with the first roller at a position different from the conveyance nip, and a fourth roller disposed in contact with the second roller at a position different from the conveyance nip. The third roller has a rigidity higher than a rigidity of the first roller, and the fourth roller has rigidity higher than a rigidity of the second roller.

Systems and methods of applying self-seal strips of multiple different adhesives are disclosed. In one embodiment, two spaced apart spoked applicator wheel assemblies are positioned beneath a web of moving shingle stock such that each of the applicator wheels applies dots of different adhesives in an alternating pattern. In other embodiments, a layer of a second adhesive is deposited onto previously applied dots of a first adhesive to form layered adhesive dots with dual properties of both adhesives.

The present invention relates to an applicator apparatus for dyeing and finishing in which diagonal application grooves are formed in a longitudinal direction in an outer circumferential surface of a roller used to apply a chemical and reverse diagonal application grooves are formed to intersect the formed diagonal application grooves to allow the chemical to be evenly discharged to an outer circumferential surface of a pickup roller so that fabric dyeing efficiency is increased. The applicator apparatus for dyeing and finishing includes a storage tank (100) in which a chemical is accommodated, a guide roller (200) configured to guide a fabric (f) to be conveyed, a first pickup roller (300) which is installed at an upper portion of one side of the storage tank (100) and has an outer circumferential surface coming in contact with a surface of the fabric (f) being conveyed along the guide roller (200) and a lower portion dipped in the chemical accommodated in the storage tank (100) so that the chemical is attached to the outer circumferential surface and conveyed due to forward rotation of the first pickup roller (300), and an application roller (400) which is installed at an upper side of the first pickup roller (300), rotates in a reverse direction, and has diagonal application grooves (410) formed along an outer circumferential surface and reverse diagonal application grooves (420) formed to intersect the formed diagonal application grooves (410) so that the chemical conveyed along the first pickup roller (300) enters and passes through the formed diagonal application grooves (410) and reverse diagonal application grooves (420) and is guided to be evenly discharged to the outer circumferential surface of the first pickup roller (300) and applied to the fabric (f).

According to one embodiment, a process for applying an adhesive material onto a barrier sheet substrate is provided. The process includes providing an adhesive material having viscosity of at least about 10,000 centipoise at 250° F. The adhesive material is applied to a multitude of cavities on a surface of a first tool with a coater unit in close proximity to the surface. The adhesive material is transferred from the surface of the first tool to the substrate supported on a surface of a second tool and pressed against the surface of the first tool.

Embodiments relate to a coating system. A substrate includes a first coating region and a second coating region adjacent to the first coating region. The coating system includes a first gravure mechanism and a second gravure mechanism, where the first gravure mechanism is configured to apply a first functional layer onto the first coating region, and the second gravure mechanism can receive the substrate having the first functional layer and apply a second functional layer made of a material different from that of the first functional layer onto the second coating region. In the coating system, with provision of first gravure mechanism and the second gravure mechanism, when the substrate is continuously transported in a same direction, the two functional layers made of different materials can be sequentially applied onto corresponding regions of the substrate.