device for surface coating or lacquering

cated within the cleaning cham­ber; and at least one blast clean­ing means located within thecleaning chamber adapted to di­rect abrasive cleaning material atthe wire.

.1lUIVII ARI'ICUU.S. Patent 5,863,305. Jan. 26, 1999K.A. Beardsley et ai., assignors to3M Co., St. Paul, Minn.A method for making an abrasivearticle comprising providing anonwoven web having a first sideand a second side, the web com­prising a plurality of fibers; froth­ing a liquid make coat precursor;applying the frothed make coatprecursor to at least the first sideof the web to achieve a substan­tially uniform ma,ke coat precur­sor; spraying a plurality of abra­sive particles onto the first side ofthe web; and curing the make coatprecursor to thereby form a hard­ened make coat, which adheresthe abrasive particles to the web.

PATlWMD ,........,.U.S. Patent 5,863,306. Jan. 26, 1999P. Wei et al., assignors to NortonCo., Worcester, Mass.A process for the production of acoated abrasive comprising a pat­tern of abrasivelbinder compos­ites adhered to a backing materialcomprising depositing a slurryformulation of an abrasive and acurable resin binder on a sub­strate in a continuous or pat­terned manner; treating the de­posited fonnulation to render atleast the surface portion of theformulation plastic but nonflow­ing; thereafter embossing a pat­tern upon the binder/abrasive for­mulation; and subsequentlycuring the binder component ofthe formulation to retain the pat­tern.

LOW-~"'~"'D""....... TOOUU.S. Patent 5,863,308. Jan. 26, 1999

October 1999

D. Qi and R.S. Lundberg, assignorsto Norton Co., Worcester, Mass.An abrasive tool comprising MeAabrasive grain and a vitreousbond, wherein the vitreous bondafter firing comprises a maximumof about 45% mole Si02 , a maxi­mum of 15% Al20 3 , 24 to 35%B20 3, and 15 to 30% of alkali ox­ides.

S'I'IIAIGIIT........ COA'IINGCOMPOSITIOIIU.S. Patent 5,863,321. Jan. 26, 1999V.L. Crumley and D. W. Johnson,assignors to BASF Corp., Southfield,Mich.A straight-shade color coatingcomposition comprising at leastone colored metallic flake pig­ment, wherein the coating compo­sition produces a coating having nonoticeable gonioapparent effects.

DIVICI ......ACI COATI.G 011LAc.".U.S. Patent 5,863,328. Jan. 26, 1999

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E. Sichmann and R. Gerigk,assignors to Singulus TechnologiesGmbH, Alzenau, GermanyAn apparatus for coating a sub­strate comprising a feed deviceconnected for delivering the coat­ing substance to the substrate;and a substrate support for sup­porting and rotating the substratewhile coating substance is deliv­ered to the substrate by the feeddevice.

COA'IING APPARAtuSU.S. Patent 5,863,332. Jan. 26, 1999E. Foster et al., assignors to IBMCorp., Armonk, N. Y.A fluid jet impregnating and coat­ing device with thickness controlcapability.

PIIOTORaIST S'I'III...NGCOMPOSITIONU.S. Patent 5,863,346. Jan. 26, 1999F. W. Michelotti, assignor to AshlandInc., Dublin, Ohio

A process for removing a coatingfrom a substrate comprising ap-

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