Patent ID: 6551413
Filing Date: 2003-04-22
Classification: B08B,C23G

Abstract:
Method of recycling strip treatment fluid in a high speed strip treatment bath, wherein said strip treatment fluid is carried at high speed along with a strip, comprising (a) guiding said treatment fluid carried along with and on top of said strip in a flow reversal path designed to employ the momentum of said treatment fluid to reverse the direction of flow of said treatment fluid, wherein an arcuate deflector reverses the direction of flow of said treatment fluid (b) receiving said treatment fluid on a separator panel between said treatment fluid being carried with said strip and said treatment fluid flowing in a reversed direction, wherein said separator panel is inclined for receiving said treatment fluid from said arcuate deflector and (c) guiding said treatment fluid flowing in a reversed direction on said separator panel to a point upstream of said flow reversal path and recycling said treatment fluid by depositing said treatment fluid from said separator panel onto said strip, guiding said treatment fluid with said strip into at least one additional flow reversal path and repeating steps (a), (b) and (c) in said at least one additional flow reversal path.