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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 1979
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1977
Edward Johnston, Chertsey, GB;
Carrier Drysys Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
Coating apparatus for coating an article by successive strokes of a coating applicator transverse to the direction of relative movement of the article includes an opto-electrical transducer such as a television camera arranged to view in one vertical window the applicator during its stroke and in a second spaced vertical window an area of the article to be coated, means being provided to store information obtained during a scan of the second vertical window indicating regions of the article to be coated and control means arranged to control operation of the applicator in dependence on the detected portion of the applicator in the first window and the information stored from a previous scan of the corresponding region of the article through the second window.