Patent ID: 8516974

Claim:
An automated wet masking system for applying a wet maskant to a portion of a workpiece, the system comprising: one or more pressurized mixing vessels, the one or more pressurized mixing vessels containing ingredients of wet maskant and/or the maskant in a slurry mixture in suspension, each of the one or more mixing vessels including an agitator for continuously blending the ingredients of the wet maskant and/or maintaining the wet maskant in the slurry mixture in suspension, a dispensing system hydraulically connected to and downstream of the one or more pressurized mixing vessels, the dispensing system hydraulically connected to one or more injection valves and operable for supplying and dispensing metered volumes of the wet maskant to the injection valves, the one or more injection valves mounted on one or more powered slides operable to linearly move the one or more injection valves respectively, a rotary table for supporting the workpiece at a first angular position of the rotary table, and one or more heaters operably positioned for drying or flash drying the wet maskant on the portion of the workpiece at a second angular position of the rotary table.