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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1996
Merrill Gene Robinson, Taylorsville, NC (US);
Arthur Bruce DeWald, Jr, Hickory, NC (US);
Ronald Lee Remus, Oviedo, FL (US);
Kenneth Henry Frederick, Rockledge, FL (US);
Philip Anthony Napolitano, Merritt Island, FL (US);
Daniel Garnett Wegerif, Merritt Island, FL (US);
Angelo Venzon, Milipitas, CA (US);
Diamond Black Technologies, Inc., Conover, NC (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for vacuum coating articles that includes a means for moving the articles in semi-continuous fashion successively through a series of vacuum chambers. A carousel is transported successively through each of the vacuum chambers that rotates the articles in an epicycloidal fashion. A means is also provided for precisely and reproducibly loading and unloading the carousel with the article.