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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2010
Applicants:
Hironori Fujioka, Hiroshima, JP;
Takashi Yonekura, Hiroshima, JP;
Masashi Yoshikawa, Hiroshima, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F26B 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a gas wiping apparatus which blows gas through a wiping nozzle onto front and rear surfaces of a steel plate going out from a molten metal coating pot and running upward and which thereby controls a deposit mass, the wiping nozzle is separated into upper and lower lips, blocking faces partially closing a gas supply channel are formed in the upper and lower lips at vertically different positions on the opposite sides from each other in a gas outlet width direction, and the upper and lower lips are provided in such a manner as to be movable in a width direction of the steel plate.