Patent ID: 8783209

Claim:
An apparatus for producing an electrophotographic photosensitive member, comprising: a coating machine for dipping plural members to be coated in a coating liquid in a coating bath and then lifting up the coated members to form a coating film on the surface of each of the plural members to be coated; a transport holding member for holding and transporting the plural members to be coated; and plural stretching hoods which individually cover each side of the plural members to be coated and extend in association with the movement of the plural members to be coated to individually cover each side of the plural members to be coated when the coating machine is lifting up the plural members to be coated, wherein the plural stretching hoods are plural slide hoods comprising plural cylinders, the plural slide hoods are in a state where the plural slide hoods are hanged from the coating machine or the transport holding member, and the plural slide hoods are linked with each other at the uppermost cylinder of the plural cylinders of each slide hood and at the lowermost cylinder of the plural cylinders of each slide hood.