Patent ID: 7669548

Claim:
An apparatus for coating a surface of a cylindrical medical device comprising: a device rotator comprising at least one pair of rollers comprising a first roller and a second roller separated by a gap, the device rotator configured to rotate and support a cylindrical medical device within the gap, wherein the first and second rollers are disposed adjacent to each other in a lengthwise fashion; a spray nozzle configured to produce a spray of a coating material in a pattern, wherein the spray nozzle is arranged to direct its spray at the gap; and an indexing member configured to control the device rotator to rotate the at least one pair of rollers together in the same direction in a sequence, the sequence comprising a first amount of rotation in a first direction and then a second amount of rotation in a second direction, the first direction being opposite of the second direction, the second amount of rotation being greater than the first amount of rotation.