Method of multi-layer coating
First Claim
1. In a method of simultaneously applying a plurality of layers of liquid coating compositions to a moving web in which each of said compositions is fed into a coating bead which is maintained in bridging relationship between the surface of said web and a coating device spaced therefrom and the surface of said web is continuously moved across and in contact with said coating bead to simultaneously pick up all of said layers, the improvement wherein the speed of the web is at least 100 centimeters per second, the lowermost layer is thin and formed of a coating composition of low viscosity, and the layer immediately above the lowermost layer is thicker than the lowermost layer and formed of a coating composition of higher viscosity;
- the thickness and viscosity of the lowermost layer and of the layer immediately above it being such that vortical of said coating bead is confined within the lowermost layer and the layer immediately above it, whereby interlayer mixing occurs between the lowermost layer and the layer immediately above it but all other layers are coated in distinct layer relationship.
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Abstract
The simultaneous high speed application of a plurality of liquid coating compositions to a moving web by the method of multi-layer bead coating is improved by coating the lowermost layer as a thin layer formed from a low viscosity coating composition and coating the layer immediately above the lowermost layer as a thicker layer of higher viscosity such that vortical action of the coating bead is confined to the lowermost layer and the layer immediately above it. By this means, intermixing of the coating composition forming the lowermost layer with the coating composition forming the layer immediately above it occurs, but all other layers are coated in discrete form. The method is especially useful in the manufacture of multi-layer photographic films and papers.
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15 Claims
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1. In a method of simultaneously applying a plurality of layers of liquid coating compositions to a moving web in which each of said compositions is fed into a coating bead which is maintained in bridging relationship between the surface of said web and a coating device spaced therefrom and the surface of said web is continuously moved across and in contact with said coating bead to simultaneously pick up all of said layers, the improvement wherein the speed of the web is at least 100 centimeters per second, the lowermost layer is thin and formed of a coating composition of low viscosity, and the layer immediately above the lowermost layer is thicker than the lowermost layer and formed of a coating composition of higher viscosity;
- the thickness and viscosity of the lowermost layer and of the layer immediately above it being such that vortical of said coating bead is confined within the lowermost layer and the layer immediately above it, whereby interlayer mixing occurs between the lowermost layer and the layer immediately above it but all other layers are coated in distinct layer relationship.
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2. In a method of manufacturing a photographic element by simultaneously applying a plurality of layers of liquid photographic coating compositions to a moving web of photographic support material in which each of said compositions is fed into a coating bead which is maintained in bridging relationship between the surface of said web and a coating device spaced therefrom and the surface of said web is continuously moved across and in contact with said coating bead to simultaneously pick up all of said layers, the improvement wherein the speed of the web is at least 100 centimeters per second, the lowermost layer is thin and formed of a coating composition of low viscosity, and the layer immediately above the lowermost layer is thicker than the lowermost layer and formed of a coating composition of higher viscosity;
- the thickness and viscosity of the lowermost layer and of the layer immediately above it being such that vortical action of said coating bead is confined within the lowermost layer and the layer immediately above it, whereby interlayer mixing occurs between the lowermost layer and the layer immediately above it but all other layers are coated in distinct layer relationship.
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