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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2016
Toray Industries, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Toru Nishikawa, Otsu, JP;
Ryuta Abe, Otsu, JP;
Toray Industries, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An airflow control apparatus for a tenter oven including an entrance into which a film is conveyed and an exit from which the film is taken out, the airflow control apparatus having a box-shaped body installed adjacent to at least one or both of an upstream side in a film running direction of the entrance and a downstream side in the film running direction of the exit, includes: at least one pair of air blowing nozzles configured to blow air toward the film; at least one pair of upstream-side exhaust mechanisms configured to discharge air in the box-shaped body, and located on the upstream side of the air blowing nozzles in the film running direction; and at least one pair of downstream-side exhaust mechanisms configured to discharge the air in the box-shaped body, and located on the downstream side of the air blowing nozzles in the film running direction.