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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1991
Emmerich Novak, Obertshausen, DE;
Reiner Seiler, Hanau, DE;
Leybold Aktiengesellschaft, Hanau, DE;
Abstract
In an apparatus for the automatic casting, coating, varnishing, inspecting and sorting of workpieces--especially of optical or magneto-optical data storages--with at least one transport apparatus advancing the substrates from a production station to the processing stations, and with a stacking station for the separate stacking of workpieces that are finished and have been found perfect and workpieces containing defects, a substrate transporting apparatus is provided which has a transport carriage (3) which can be moved back and forth along a straight line and has three transport arms (4,4',4'';5,5',5'') bearing substrate holders (6, 6',6'';7,7',7'') on each side of the carriage. Furthermore, on the one side of the transport carriage (3) there is provided a vacuum coating apparatus (8) and a stacking apparatus (10, 11) disposed on the other side of the transport carriage, and furthermore an apparatus for quality testing (9) and a carousel transport apparatus (13) disposed opposite the injection molding machine (12) in the direction of movement of the transport carriage and having various varnishing, drying, printing, print inspecting and substrate centering apparatus (14 to 19) disposed on its circumference.