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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
William D Devine, Chili, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
427420 ; 118410 ; 118411 ; 118D / ; 118D / ;
Abstract
In the hopper coating of liquid compositions on moving webs, as in the coating of photographic layers on film supports, the trapping of solid particles or bubbles in the hopper slots causes line defects or streaks in the coated layers. These defects are avoided or reduced by determining the conditions under which the composition can be flowed through one or through a plurality of adjacent slots of the coating hopper at slot Reynolds numbers less than about 10 and flowing the composition through such slot or slots under said conditions.