Patent ID: 7908997

Claim:
A hybrid dispensing system for dispensing and depositing two fluid depositions onto two longitudinally spaced regions of a substrate moving along a longitudinally extending flow path with respect to said hybrid dispensing system, comprising: a longitudinally extending flow path along which a substrate, upon which fluid depositions are to be deposited, is adapted to be moved; a metering applicator disposed at a first location defined along said longitudinally extending substrate flow path; a fluid inlet mounted upon said metering applicator for supplying a fluid, to be deposited onto the substrate, to said metering applicator; a plurality of pumps disposed upon said metering applicator for independently outputting a plurality of fluid flows; a single motor drive for driving all of said plurality of pumps; at least one first applicator module, mounted upon said metering applicator disposed at said first location defined along said longitudinally extending substrate flow path, fluidically connected to a first one of said plurality of pumps disposed upon said metering applicator so as to receive a first one of said plurality of fluid flows from said first one of said plurality of pumps, and having a first dispensing nozzle disposed thereon for dispensing a first fluid deposition onto a first region of the substrate at said first location; at least one second applicator module, disposed at a second location defined along said longitudinally extending substrate flow path which is longitudinally remote from said first location along said longitudinally extending substrate flow path at which said metering applicator, and said at least one first applicator module mounted upon said metering applicator, is disposed, fluidically connected to a second one of said plurality of pumps disposed upon said metering applicator so as to receive a second one of said plurality of fluid flows from said second one of said plurality of pumps, and having a second dispensing nozzle disposed thereon for dispensing a second fluid deposition onto a second region of the substrate which is located at said second location remote from the first region of the substrate onto which said first fluid deposition from said at least one first applicator module and said first dispensing nozzle was deposited; and at least one conduit fluidically connecting said at least one second applicator module and said second dispensing nozzle, located at said second location remote from said metering applicator, said at least one first applicator module, and said first dispensing nozzle mounted upon said metering applicator, so as to provide said at least one second applicator module and said second dispensing nozzle with said second one of said plurality of fluid flows from said second one of said plurality of pumps of said metering applicator, whereby said hybrid system can deposit said first and second fluid depositions onto two longitudinally spaced regions of the substrate which are remote from each other.