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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kazuhiro Oki, Minami-Ashigara, JP;
Yoshinobu Katagiri, Minami-Ashigara, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05C 5/00 ; B05D 1/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B05C 5/00 ; B05D 1/30 ;
Abstract
A curtain coating apparatus includes a hopper with a slide plane on which the coating solution flows and a hopper lip from where the coating solution begins to freely fall down as a free falling curtain. The apparatus also includes at least a pair of outlets disposed in a position along the edge part of the free falling curtain and situated at a fixed distance down from the hopper lip. Auxiliary solutions are introduced from the width directions so as to maintain the curtain in the width direction.