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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2004
Johannes Antonius Craamer, Ijlst, NL;
Johannes Antonius Craamer, Ijlst, NL;
Ten Cate Advanced Textiles B.V., Nijverdal, NL;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for digitally forming a coating on a fibrous textile having mesh openings between adjacent fibers. According to the method, textile is fed continuously along a treatment path having a row of static coating nozzles arranged generally transversely across the path. The coating nozzles have outlet diameters of greater than about 70 microns and are supplied with a supply of a coating substance. By individually controlling the nozzles, a substantially continuous stream of droplets of the coating substance is produced and selectively directed onto the textile to form a coating of pixels. Each pixel covers at least four mesh openings and has a diameter of more than 100 microns.