Method and apparatus for applying a material to a web

• Main Authors: CUTRIGHT, EDWIN L, VOGT, HOWARD W, SCOTT, G. ROBERT
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 31.12.1997
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; ATOMISING APPARATUS; CIGARETTES; CIGARS; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HUMAN NECESSITIES; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; LAUNDERING; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; NOZZLES; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PAPER-MAKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; PROCESSES FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE; PULP COMPOSITIONS; SMOKERS' REQUISITES; SPRAYING APPARATUS; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; TEXTILES; TOBACCO; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; TRANSPORTING; TREATING TEXTILE MATERIALS BY LIQUIDS, GASES OR VAPOURS; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE

This invention relates to the treatment of substrates such as paper with material in repetitive patterns. The substrate web (2) passes beneath an applicator (8) in which orifices for discharging the material onto the web are moved along a path crossing that of the moving web preferably at an angle....