Patent ID: 7182813

Claim:
An apparatus for forming a desired number of multiple coating layers on a belt-like substrate, the apparatus comprising: a feeding device which continuously feeds the belt-like substrate; a coating/drying device in which following devices (i) to (iii) are configured as a single unit; (i) a transferring device which introduces the belt-like substrate fed out from the feeding device into a casing and leads the substrate out of the casing after continuously transferring the substrate along a transfer path in the casing; (ii) a coating device which is provided in the casing and forms a single coating layer by applying a coating solution onto the belt-like substrate being continuously transferred; (iii) a drying device which is provided in the casing and dries the single coating layer formed on the belt-like substrate being continuously transferred; a winding device which winds the belt-like substrate led out of the casing, wherein a desired number of the coating/drying devices are serially arranged between the feeding device and the winding device, a supply port of a clean air is formed on a ceiling surface of the casing, and an exhausting port is formed on a bottom surface of the casing; wherein in the transfer path, a box-shaped or cylindrical-shaped transfer path case through which the belt-like substrate is transferred is provided except for the drying device; an air inlet port from which a part of the clean air blown out from the supply port is introduced and an air exhausting port from which the introduced clean air is exhausted are formed in the transfer path case; a pass roller which transfers the belt-like substrate is arranged along the transfer path; and the transfer path case surrounds only a roller shell portion of the pass roller.