Patent ID: 8343588

Claim:
A slide curtain coating method employing a slide curtain apparatus comprising slits configured to discharge coating liquids, a slide having an inclined surface on which the coating liquids flow down as a curtain, a slide edge guide along which the curtain flows, and an auxiliary liquid supply means, the method comprising: discharging the coating liquids through the respective slits; allowing the coating liquids to stack on top of each other to form the curtain on slide having the inclined surface; and allowing the curtain to freely fall from the slide for deposition onto a running web to form a coating thereon; the slide edge guide being provided at each of both edges of the slide; and discharging an auxiliary liquid from the auxiliary liquid supply means all over a surface of the slide edge guide touching the curtain, wherein a member constituting the surface of the slide edge guide which touches the curtain is a porous material member having a porosity of 30% or higher.