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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 04, 1990
Hiroki Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Seiji Ishizuka, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A coating apparatus in which a series of substrates are conveyed along a predetermined path for receiving coating solution in which coating is carried out stably and coatings of uniform thickness are formed. A solution supplying unit is arranged above the path of the substrates. A flexible, elastic solid curtain member made of a water-impermeable material is attached to an outlet of said solution supplying unit, a front edge of which elastically contacts the substrates as they pass beneath the solution supplying unit so that coating solution flowing out of said solution supplying unit is applied to the substrates from the curtain member. A vertically movable solution receiver is positioned below the front edge of the curtain member with the solution receiver contacting the front edge of the curtain member when no substrate is located between the curtain member and the solution receiver so as to allow the coating solution to smoothly flow down the solution receiver.