cated within the cleaning chamber; and at least one blast cleaning means located within thecleaning chamber adapted to direct abrasive cleaning material atthe wire.
.1lUIVII ARI'ICUU.S. Patent 5,863,305. Jan. 26, 1999K.A. Beardsley et ai., assignors to3M Co., St. Paul, Minn.A method for making an abrasivearticle comprising providing anonwoven web having a first sideand a second side, the web comprising a plurality of fibers; frothing a liquid make coat precursor;applying the frothed make coatprecursor to at least the first sideof the web to achieve a substantially uniform ma,ke coat precursor; spraying a plurality of abrasive particles onto the first side ofthe web; and curing the make coatprecursor to thereby form a hardened make coat, which adheresthe abrasive particles to the web.
PATlWMD ,........,.U.S. Patent 5,863,306. Jan. 26, 1999P. Wei et al., assignors to NortonCo., Worcester, Mass.A process for the production of acoated abrasive comprising a pattern of abrasivelbinder composites adhered to a backing materialcomprising depositing a slurryformulation of an abrasive and acurable resin binder on a substrate in a continuous or patterned manner; treating the deposited fonnulation to render atleast the surface portion of theformulation plastic but nonflowing; thereafter embossing a pattern upon the binder/abrasive formulation; and subsequentlycuring the binder component ofthe formulation to retain the pattern.
LOW-~"'~"'D""....... TOOUU.S. Patent 5,863,308. Jan. 26, 1999
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D. Qi and R.S. Lundberg, assignorsto Norton Co., Worcester, Mass.An abrasive tool comprising MeAabrasive grain and a vitreousbond, wherein the vitreous bondafter firing comprises a maximumof about 45% mole Si02 , a maximum of 15% Al20 3 , 24 to 35%B20 3, and 15 to 30% of alkali oxides.
S'I'IIAIGIIT........ COA'IINGCOMPOSITIOIIU.S. Patent 5,863,321. Jan. 26, 1999V.L. Crumley and D. W. Johnson,assignors to BASF Corp., Southfield,Mich.A straight-shade color coatingcomposition comprising at leastone colored metallic flake pigment, wherein the coating composition produces a coating having nonoticeable gonioapparent effects.
DIVICI ......ACI COATI.G 011LAc.".U.S. Patent 5,863,328. Jan. 26, 1999
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E. Sichmann and R. Gerigk,assignors to Singulus TechnologiesGmbH, Alzenau, GermanyAn apparatus for coating a substrate comprising a feed deviceconnected for delivering the coating substance to the substrate;and a substrate support for supporting and rotating the substratewhile coating substance is delivered to the substrate by the feeddevice.
COA'IING APPARAtuSU.S. Patent 5,863,332. Jan. 26, 1999E. Foster et al., assignors to IBMCorp., Armonk, N. Y.A fluid jet impregnating and coating device with thickness controlcapability.
PIIOTORaIST S'I'III...NGCOMPOSITIONU.S. Patent 5,863,346. Jan. 26, 1999F. W. Michelotti, assignor to AshlandInc., Dublin, Ohio
A process for removing a coatingfrom a substrate comprising ap-
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