The Mead Corporation

Richard Sidney Crabtree

Larry O Hill

Gary Paul Fugitt

The invention is a coating blade for coating a paper web and a method of using the same. The coating blade includes a notch in its thickness on the tension side of the blade toward the coating end, above the fulcrum such that it has the advantages of both thick and thin coating blades.

Coating blade and method of using the same

A process for forming an abrasion resistant sheet which comprises forming a web of cellulosic fibers on a papermaking machine and applying a slurry including an abrasion-resistant grit to the upper surface of the web on the papermaking machine using a slot orifice coating head applicator, said grit being uniformly distributed on said surface of said fibrous cellulosic overlay sheet at a coat weight of about 2 to 40 pounds per 3000 square feet.

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Waverly, OH, United States of America

Richard Sidney Crabtree