Patent ID: 6858082

Claim:
Device for bearing and moving a swab intended to contact at least a part of an element so as to distribute a coating composition thereon and so as to achieve a substantially uniform coating thereof, said device comprising: a support provided with a guiding path and with a means for bearing the element to be coated; a mobile carriage comprising means for bearing the swab, said carriage being movable along the guiding path; a means for ensuring a movement of the mobile carriage along the guiding path with respect to the element to be coated, whereby ensuring a relative movement of the swab with respect to the element to be coated, a conducting means adapted for conducting a coating composition on the support to be coated, said means having an open end adjacent to the swab, and a pushing means which is adapted for pushing the swab towards the element so that the swab acts as means for distributing the coating composition flowing out of the open end of the conducting means, whereby the open end of the means for conducting a coating composition is mounted on a carrier movable along a guiding path with respect to the element to be coated, said open end being adapted so that the composition flowing out from the open end contacts first the element to be coated before being distributed by the swab, and whereby the means for conducting the coating composition comprises a volumetric pump adapted for conducting to the open end the requested amount of coating composition so that after distribution of the coating composition on the element by the swab, a substantially uniform coating coats at least said part of the element.