Trans Tech America, Inc.

Tantec Gmbh

Richard Wright

Mark Blitshteyn

Reinhard Gaenzle

An apparatus for treating the surfaces of formed plastic articles including a plurality of bare metal discharge electrodes connected to a high frequency AC power supply, a counterelectrode disposed in spaced relation to the discharge electrodes for defining a treatment zone therebetween, and an insulation layer mounted in spaced relation to the counterelectrode such that a discreet air space exists between the insulation and counterelectrode for moderating the electrical discharge between the discharge electrodes and counterelectrode and enabling greater control and uniformity in the electrical discharge between the electrodes and counterelectrodes. In the illustrated the embodiment, a first set of discharge electrodes define a first treatment zone for treating one-half of the circumferential surface of articles directed through the first treatment zone and a second set of discharge electrodes define a second treatment zone for an treating opposite peripheral half of the circumferential surface of articles passing through the second treatment zone.

Method of controlling high-frequency arc discharge and apparatus for

A method and apparatus for determining the contact angle of a droplet of test liquid on a substrate surface. The apparatus includes a test article support plate, a pipette for depositing a droplet of test liquid onto a substrate surface of the test article, and a lamp for projecting an image of the deposited droplet onto a projection screen with a base line of the image positioned on a horizontal axis line of the screen. The screen further has a protractor scale calibrated to read twice the normal angular value, and a rotatable reference line which upon positioning through a contact point of the droplet with the substrate surface and an apex point of the droplet farthest removed from the substrate surface directly indicates the value of the contact angle of the on the protractor scale.

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Richard Wright