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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2018
Toray Industries, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Ryuta Abe, Mishima, JP;
Toru Nishikawa, Otsu, JP;
Abstract
An air flow controller includes: a box-shaped body cover that is disposed above and/or below a film running surface to be adjacent to an upstream side of an entrance of a tenter oven in a film running direction and/or a downstream side of an exit of the tenter oven in the film running direction, the box-shaped body cover extending in the film running direction and having a surface facing the film running surface and being open. The box-shaped body cover includes at least one partition structural body in the box-shaped body cover, the partition structural body extending in a width direction of the film and separating inside of the box-shaped body cover into a plurality of chambers, and each of at least two of the chambers is provided with an air discharge mechanism configured to discharge air in a corresponding chamber.