Patent ID: 6210480
Filing Date: 2001-04-03
Classification: B05C,H05K

Abstract:
A device for wet coating a board with lacquer, said device comprising: at least one application roller for wet coating the board when the board is disposed in a coating plane, the application roller having a circumference and being rotatable about an axis; at least one metering roller that cooperates with the at least one application roller; and a doctor blade arrangement which acts on the application roller over a portion of the circumference of the application roller and can displace parallel to the axis in order to leave at least one edge area of the board free of lacquer, the doctor blade arrangement being located between a lacquer reservoir and the board for removing applied lacquer along a portion of the circumference of the application roller, which portion has a variable width, and lacquer reservoir being located between the application roller and the metering roller, wherein the doctor blade arrangement comprises at least one stripper with a curved stripping edge from which excess lacquer stripped off along the portion of the circumference of the application roller is directly returned via an outer edge area of the associated application roller back to the lacquer reservoir.