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Randy L Hendrickson

Tom Yu

Apparatus and method for coating lower surfaces of paper sheets with lacquer and drying the sheets include fans for simultaneously drying the sheets and for forcing the sheets upwardly against the lower surface of spaced-apart moving conveyer belts. The streams of air produced by the fans are directed upwardly against the paper sheets and against and through the conveyer belts, and the paper sheets are moved from a first location to a second location within the apparatus. Features provide for washing and cleaning the apparatus and for circulating the lacquer to keep the lacquer in a uniform mixed state.

Apparatus and method for coating and drying paper sheets

A space-saving apparatus and method for coating paper sheets with lacquer and drying the sheets with streams of air are provided. The sheets are coated with lacquer and are moved by parallel and spaced apart conveyer belts in a first direction as the sheets are dried and supported by streams of air that are directed against the paper sheets and against and through the undersides of the conveyer belts. The movement of the paper sheets is then reversed to a second direction and the dried sheets are collected above the conveyer belts as they move in the second direction.

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Seaford, DE, United States of America

Randy L Hendrickson