Apparatus for in-line lacquering of compact disks

US5069155A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Convac, Ltd. · DE

Inventors

• Horst Kunze-Concewitz · Wiernsheim, DE
• Roland P. Zaiss · Ludwigsburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 23, 1989
• Grant date: Dec 3, 1991
• Expiry date: May 23, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B29L2017/005
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for in-line lacquering of compact disks, having a processing apparatus for the metered application of a lacquer bead to one surface of the compact disk and for uniformly distributing the lacquer bead over the surface of the compact disc by means of centrifugal force, and having a manipulator for delivering and removing the compact disks to and from the processing apparatus. To enable such an apparatus to operate faster, with unchanged quality of the lacquering, it is provided that the processing apparatus has a lacquer metering station and spaced apart from it a lacquer bead centrifuging station; that a loading station is disposed spaced apart from the lacquer metering station and an unloading station is disposed spaced apart by the same distance from the lacquer bead centrifuging station; and that the manipulator has three parallel grippers which are driven in common, movable in harmonic fashion, between two adjacent stations.