Western Electric Company, Inc.

Robert C Bevers

George Edwin Mock

Helmut E Durr

An apparatus for applying a relatively thin uniform thickness layer of a fluent coating material to each of a plurality of conductors includes a housing having aligned entrance and exit openings. An applicator tube is mounted within the housing transverse of the paths of the conductors and includes a plurality of spaced applicator openings through which the conductors are advanced. The tube is arranged so that each applicator opening includes aligned notches in front and rear walls of the tube and a slot in the top of the tube, the slot connecting an aligned pair of notches. The fluent coating material is supplied to the tube and is maintained at a level substantially at the top of the tube so that as the conductors are advanced through the applicator openings they are immersed in the coating material. After the coated conductors leave the applicator tube, but while still within the housing, they are advanced through individually mounted dies which remove excess coating material to control the thickness of the layer. The apparatus is arranged and constructed of materials which together minimize any accumulation of excess coating material between the time it leaves the applicator tube and or dies and its collection within the housing for return to a recirculation system.

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Doraville, GA, United States of America

Robert C Bevers