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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2007
Hirofumi Morita, Tokyo, JP;
Akio Hirano, Chiba, JP;
Hiroyuki Kohno, Fukushima, JP;
Voith Patent GmbH, Heidenheim, DE;
Abstract
This invention relates to a curtain applicator on which a two-layer curtain is formed by dispensing two types of coating medium, for example color, from a medium feeder positioned to the upper side of a moving web in order to apply two layers of coating medium onto the web surface. The medium feeder has a middle lip, which is arranged in the flow channels for the two types of medium and has a pointed part projecting toward the web side from the pointed parts of the two side lips which are arranged on the outer side of the flow channels for the two types of medium on the outer side in the width direction of the web. The curtain applicator also includes a convexly formed medium separation device, which adjoins the pointed part of the middle lip and individually separates the two types of surplus medium, for example, color, which are dispensed from the medium feeder.