Abstract:
A wide slit nozzle having a slit as a discharge opening for a coating material is provided. The slit has a first thickness at a lateral center part and a second thickness at opposite lateral end parts. The second thickness of the lateral end part is set smaller than the first thickness at the lateral center part. The first thickness of the lateral center part is fixed. The second thickness of the lateral end part changes linearly from opposite lateral ends of the lateral center part to the opposite lateral ends of the slit. For example, the slit has dimensions: xnull15 mm, ynull14 mm, a nullnull0.3 mm and nullnull0.6 mm. Consequently, an entire length or an entire width of the slit 2 is 15null14null2null43 mm. However, the coating material is discharged from the slit while applied with pressure, so that the coating material is coated while expanded wider than the width of the slit. The coating material is discharged at 7 liter per minute, and a coating width of the first example is 100 mm, for example. A thickness increase of the overlapped part is null25% even when a width or an overlapped margin z of the overlapped part is 10 mm or 20 mm.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method of creating a material for use as a material to be coated by curtain coating, comprising the step of: creating a surface texture of said material such that when said material is coated with a freely falling curtain formed of a composite layer of one or more coating compositions that impinges at a point of impingement against a continuously moving receiving surface of said material using roughness assisted wetting, the height of the composite layer at a distance null from the point of impingement, in which null is the average periodicity of the surface texture, is less than or equal to Rz. The invention also provides a method of identifying a material suitable for coating with Roughness Assisted coating.
Abstract:
A coating method characterized by coating, with a curtain flow coater, a liquid coating composition which comprises fluorine-containing polymer particles having an average particle size of from 0.01 to 100 nullm and has a viscosity of from 0.1 to 500 mPanulls at coating. The curtain flow coater is used for coating of the coating composition comprising fluorine-containing polymer, though use of it has been difficult.
Abstract:
A method for coating a liquid composition from an applicator to a moving web supported by a backing roller, characterized by the steps of a) conveying the web in a partial wrap around the backing roller of diameter equal to or greater than 10 cm, the backing roller being provided with a conductive, relieved surface; b) fabricating the relieved surface with a pattern that provides venting, the pattern having a geometry and depth such that the electrostatic force at the coating point does not vary by more than a factor of about ten, the pattern covering at least 30% or more of the width of the web; c) providing an electrostatic field at the coating point; and d) coating at a web speed greater than or equal to 75 meters/minute.
Abstract:
Thiazole substituted benzenesulfonamides are .beta..sub.3 adrenergic receptor agonists with very little .beta..sub.1 and .beta..sub.2 adrenergic receptor activity and as such the compounds are capable of increasing lipolysis and energy expenditure in cells. The compounds thus have potent activity in the treatment of Type II diabetes and obesity. The compounds can also be used to lower triglyceride levels and cholesterol levels or raise high density lipoprotein levels or to decrease gut motility. In addition, the compounds can be used to reduced neurogenic inflammation or as antidepressant agents. The compounds are prepared by coupling an aminoalkylphenyl-sulfonamide with an appropriately substituted epoxide. Compositions and methods for the use of the compounds in the treatment of diabetes and obesity and for lowering triglyceride levels and cholesterol levels or raising high density lipoprotein levels or for decreasing gut motility are also disclosed.
Abstract:
Curtain coating processes arc well known wherein a composition is coated on to a moving support. However, the maximum coating speeds in such processes are severely limited at high curtain flow rates by the formation of a region metastable to air-entrainment. Described herein is a method which enhances the maximum coating speed at high flow tales by the application of small levels of voltages, typically below 400 V, to the moving support. Progressive suppression of the metastable region is obtained as the, voltage level is increased. All levels of voltage up to 400 V give a degree of removal of the metastable region, and therefore will enhance the maximum practical coating speed. Lower levels of voltage may also be used in conjunction with forward application angles to selectively enhance the maximum practical coating speed for a given laydown.
Abstract:
A coating method and apparatus in which a freely falling film of a coating solution is applied to a web moving along a continuously rotating backing roll. The film width is wider than that of the web. The coating solution is removed from the backing roll by a cleansing device such as one that applies a solvent to the backing roll and then suctions the solvent and coating solution from the backing roll.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for applying one or a plurality of superimposed layers of a photographic coating composition by the curtain coating method onto a moving support. The spacing between the edge guides, used to maintain the width of a curtain throughout its free fall from the coating hopper to the impingement line on the support, is arranged to coat less than the width of the support so as to provide an uncoated margin on the support. The curtain fluids are extracted from the edge region of the falling curtain by connecting a suction device to the edge guides near the point of impingement of the falling curtain, thus substantially reducing the thickness of the curtain at its edge region and thereby reducing the thickness of the coated edges.
Abstract:
A process for forming a multilayered coating film is disclosed, comprising forming a liquid film of a coating composition, increasing the viscosity of the liquid film, and laminating the liquid film having an increased viscosity onto a support or onto a coating film on a support. A multilayered coating film can thereby be formed easily and efficiently without involving interlaminar mixing between adjacent layers.
Abstract:
A high speed uniform coating method may be carried out with the use of a curtain coating head comprising a means for dispersing coating material in a first of a laterally disposed succession of open reservoirs each reservoir disposed at a lower elevation than the next and the last reservoir terminating in a vertically disposed smooth continuous face plate containing two vertically disposed rods along the face and width of the face plate.