Automobile wheel finishing apparatus

ting arrangement defines a pair oflight emission locations spacedapart from each other on thehousing and operable to commu­nicate a pair of nonparallel lightbeams exteriorly of the housingand toward the surface.

IIOSI POR ILIC'I'IIOSTA11CALLYClUUlGm COAn_u.s. Patent 5,857,629. Jan. 12, 1999R.J. Hartle, assignor to NordsonCorp., Westlake, Ohio

A flexible hose for carrying coat­ing material to an electrostaticcoating applicator, the hose wallincluding an electrically insula­tive layer, an inner layer in con­tact with the paint being con­structed from high density

polyethylene or any polyolefin,and an outer conductive layer,said insulative layer being locatedbetween the outer conductivelayer and inner layer.

BLAST 1II0ZZUu.s. Patent 5,857,900. Jan. 12, 1999J.D. Shank Jr., assignor to Church& Dwight Co. Inc., Princeton, N.J.

A blast nozzle and water atomizercombination for directing a blaststream of abrasive particlesagainst a targeted surface for theremoval of surface contaminants.

AUTOMOBIU ...IL PlIIII_IIIIGAPPARAtuSu.s. Patent 5,857,901. Jan. 12, 1999D.A. LaPoint, Huntington Beach,Calif

An apparatus for finishing a

wheel including a front face formedwith a plurality of openings, saidapparatus comprising a tank forstoring an abrasive media; a spin­dle rotatably connected to a frame;means for mounting a wheel on afirst end of the spindle; and drivemeans for rotating the spindle.

ALUIIIIIIA .........u.s. Patent 5,858,037. Jan. 12, 1999P.S. Jayan et al., Cochin, IndiaA method of microwave sinteringalumina abrasive particles com­prising pouring into an elongatehollow tube having an axial pas­sage therethrough to enable flowof the particles through the tubefrom an inlet to an outlet of thetube; and directing microwave en­ergy radiation into the tube to

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