Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Carlisle Fluid Technologies, Inc.

Roy Earl Young, Ii

Jerry L McPherson, Jr

Varce Eron Howe

Michael C Rodgers

Kevin L Alexander

Harold T Allen

Ghaffar Kazkaz

Lee A Sheridan

A system includes an agitation system having a container configured to store a coating material, an agitator configured to agitate the coating material, and a sensor configured to sense conditions within the container and transmit the conditions. The system also includes an agitation control system having a controller configured to turn on the agitator, and change an intensity of agitation in response to an input received from the agitation system.

Sprayer system

A system includes a spray tool including a trigger and a sensor. The system includes a fluid regulation system including a container configured to store a coating material and a pump configured to control a flow of the coating material. The system includes a pump control system including a controller configured to change an operating parameter of the pump distributing the coating material in response to an input from the sensor. The pump control system is coupled to the fluid regulation system.

Fluid regulation system

A seal includes a first seal retainer, a seal holder and a second seal retainer. A somewhat cup-shaped recess of the first seal retainer opens in a first direction of motion of a movable member against which the seal is to seal. The seal holder includes a first somewhat cuplike portion adjacent to the first seal retainer and a second somewhat cuplike portion more remote from the first seal retainer. The first somewhat cuplike portion opens in a second direction of motion opposite the first. The second somewhat cuplike portion opens in the first direction. The second seal retainer includes a first portion closer to the seal holder and a second portion more remote from the seal holder. The second somewhat cuplike portion of the seal holder receives the first portion of the second seal retainer.

Self-adjusting cartridge seal

A coating system includes a source of electrically non-insulative coating material, a dispenser for dispensing the coating material toward an article to be coated thereby, and an electrostatic high potential supply for supplying charge to the coating material. The high potential supply is coupled across the dispenser and the article. The coating system further includes a reservoir, a valve having a housing providing first, second, third and fourth ports, and a component movable within the housing and having a first passageway selectively to connect the first port to the second port to permit the flow of coating material between the first port and the second port. Sensors sense: the flow rate of the eletrically non-conductive fluid and provide an indication when the flow rate of the eletrically non-conductive fliud falls outside a desired range&mdash;the pressure of the eletrically non-conductive fliud and provide an indication when the pressure of the eletrically non-conductive fliud falls outside a desired range; the pressure of the coating material and provide an indication when the pressure of the coating material falls outside a desired rande&mdash;and the current supplied from the potential supply to the valve and provide an indication when the current supplied from the potential supply to the valve falls outside a desired range.

Voltage block monitoring system

A valve has a housing and a component movable within the housing. The housing has first, second and third ports formed in it. The movable component has a first passageway formed in it. Movement of the movable component within the housing selectively connects the first port through the first passageway to the second port, or the second port through the first passageway to the third port. At least one of the first and second ports includes a first member for contacting the movable valve component and a second member for retaining the first member. The second member may be constructed from a semiconductive material. At least a region of the movable component around a first end of the first passageway may be semiconductive.

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Indianapolis, IN, United States of America

Roy Earl Young, Ii