Claims
- 1. An apparatus for coating a web to be coated with a coating solution as a free falling curtain comprising:a hopper with a slide plane on which said coating solution flows and with a hopper lip from where said coating solution begins to fall down as said free falling curtain; a pair of edge guides guiding both edge parts of said curtain to the falling direction; and at least a pair of outlets for discharging an auxiliary solution directly into contact with an edge of said free falling curtain at the site of discharge which are disposed in said edge guides along each edge part of said curtain and at a fixed distance downward from the hopper lip; wherein each of said auxiliary solutions is introduced between said free falling curtain and said edge guides from the width directions so as to maintain said curtain in the width direction, and wherein at least a pipe penetrating said edge guides supplies the auxiliary solution to said curtain through said outlets.
- 2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fixed distance is 0.1-1.5 mm.
- 3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said outlets has a circular diametrical section of 0.4-1.5 mm in diameter.
- 4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a discharging rate from each of said outlets is 3-8 cc/min.
- 5. An apparatus for coating a web to be coated with a coating solution as a free falling curtain comprising:a hopper with a slide plane on which said coating solution flows and with a hopper lip from where said coating solution begins to fall down as said free failing curtain; a pair of edge guides guiding both edge parts of said curtain to the falling direction; at least a pair of outlets for discharging an auxiliary solution directly into contact in a horizontal direction with an edge of said free falling curtain at the site of discharge to maintain the width of the free falling curtain, wherein the pair of outlets are disposed in said edge guides along each edge part of said curtain and at a fixed distance downward from the hopper lip, and wherein at least a pipe penetrating said edge guides supplies the auxiliary solution to said curtain through said outlets.
- 6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein said fixed distance is 0.1-1.5 mm.
- 7. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein a centerline of said outlet is sloped to the flowing direction.
- 8. An apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein an angle between the centerline of said outlets and a horizontal line is within 30 degrees.
- 9. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein each of said outlets has a circular diametrical section of 0.4-1.5 mm in diameter.
- 10. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein a discharging rate from each of said outlets is 3-8 cc/min.
Priority Claims (2)
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10-7909 |
Jan 1998 |
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10-8798 |
Jan 1998 |
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Parent Case Info
This is a divisional of the application Ser. No. 09/234,117 filed Jan. 19, 1999, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
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