Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – Sheet – web – or strand
Reexamination Certificate
2007-01-09
2007-01-09
Rinehart, Kenneth (Department: 3749)
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
Sheet, web, or strand
C034S447000, C034S572000, C034S648000, C034S658000, C034S408000, C034S449000, C034S468000, C034S469000, C034S073000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11185305
ABSTRACT:
A web coating machine for coating a web of material having first and second faces and a web travel path, the web coating machine including a tension zone in a portion of the web travel path, a fixed port structure over which the web travels, and a web positioning device including at least one gas flow port in the port structure capable of generating a vacuum that brings the first face of the web of material into contact with a portion of the port structure immediately surrounding one of more of the gas flow ports and reduces, retards or arrests longitudinal travel of the web of material through the web coating machine.
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Hendrickson Don W.
Huelsman Gary L.
Kolb William Blake
3M Innovative Properties Company
Franzen Rick L.
Rinehart Kenneth
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