The disclosed system for controlling the chemical balance of a body of liquid, such as a swimming pool, compares the output of a chemical balance sensor immersed in the liquid with a standard indicative of the desired chemical balance, then dispenses a chemical into the pool to adjust its balance towards the desired balance. A timer limits the duty cycle of the dispenser to a relatively short dispensing interval followed by a longer non-dispensing interval permitting the dispensed chemical to disperse throughout the pool, the sensing and dispensing cycle then being repeated if appropriate. Preferably, there are a plurality of sensors, comparators and dispensers, each dispenser having a timer to limit its duty cycle. Also, preferably an over-range alarm is employed to alert an attendant when the chemical balance of the pool departs from a given range. Further, preferably the system is adjustable permitting both the desired balance level and the water limits defining the given range to be simultaneously adjusted. The system may be employed with either a dry or liquid chemical dispenser.

Swimming pool chemical control system

A compact arrangement of electromagnetically operated valves utilized for controlling the flow of deflecting air in a dye jet printing apparatus, and wherein the valves are mounted on a plurality of supporting cards and are positioned in a geometric lattice thereon so that the magnetic field created in each valve during its operation intersects the magnetic axis of its adjacent valves at a generally right angle thereby minimizing interference between valves during their operation.

Dyeing and printing of materials

A computer controlled method for high speed viscous fluid dispensing includes the steps of providing a dot generator and moving the dot generator along at least X and Y axes. The dot generator is controlled to repeatedly eject jets of viscous fluid that break away from the dot generator as a result of their forward momentum and fly to the surface of an adjacent substrate to create dots. The method may further comprise the step of monitoring the size and location of the dots through a vision system. The method may further comprise the steps of assigning dot sizes to specific components based on user specifications or a component library. The method may further comprise the step of optimizing the dot placement paths by aligning the in-line points of dot formation.

Computer controlled method for dispensing viscous fluid

Method and apparatus for automatically spraying a liquid on the surface of a moving object, particularly developer, rinse and gumming liquids on an exposed, photosensitive printing plate, in which the liquid is continuously supplied to a distribution line at a predetermined pressure, and simultaneously with the supply of liquid, the object is transported past a spray means connected to the distribution line, an impinging spray of the liquid is alternately applied to the object for a first predetermined period and the application is interrupted for a second predetermined period and the cycle is repeated a plurality of times during the passage of the object past the spray means, as by a solenoid valve mounted in the distribution line and a timer connected to the solenoid valve to open and close the same.

Pulsed spray of fluids

Hot melt adhesive is applied to a moving substrate in a pattern including at least two lines which extend transversely to one another, by conveying the substrate past a nozzle orifice through which a first line of molten adhesive is applied, as by extrusion, to the substrate parallel to the direction of substrate movement and, while continuing to move the substrate in the same direction, projecting another portion of the molten hot melt adhesive onto the substrate as a burst in the form of a flat sheet issuing from a fan spray orifice, this orifice being oriented so that the sheet is projected transversely to the direction of substrate movement, and terminating the burst so rapidly that the adhesive so projected is deposited on the moving substrate in the form of a line having a length in the crosswise direction that is several times its width.

Method for applying a hot melt adhesive pattern to a moving substrate

A control system for turning on and off an apparatus which discharges a coating liquid onto objects at a coating station. A sensor positioned adjacent the path of the objects upstream of the coating station initiates an interval timer as an object passes. After a predetermined time delay, the timer turns on a discharge gun positioned at the coating station, to begin to deposit the liquid upon the object. The timer maintains the discharge gun in an actuated condition for a predetermined time duration, and then turns the gun off. The control provides rapid and reliable turn on and turn off of the coating apparatus without false triggering, and provides precise time intervals which are continuously settable over an exceptionally wide range. The control utilizes a rapid reset hold and lock out circuit, SCR switches, unijunction relaxation oscillators having constant current charging circuits, an over voltage output circuit with short circuit protection, and means for programming the operation of plural discharge devices over different time periods.

E Sandorf Robert

Papers

Coating apparatus control with delay-duration timer having constant current charging circuit and bistable trigger circuit

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Control circuit for generating output signal of specified duration at specified delay after receiving input signal