Coating spherical objects

US4704298A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Research Foundation of the State University of New York · US

Inventors

• Herbert Herman · Powhatan, US
• Gary Fischman · Gambrills, US
• Glenn A. Bancke · Syosset, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 31, 1986
• Grant date: Nov 3, 1987
• Expiry date: Jul 31, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49705
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Method and apparatus for coating ball bearings and like spherically shaped objects with a coating composition entrained in a plasma jet, the ball bearings being held captured in an open-sided cage during the coating operation.