Patent ID: 8225524

Claim:
An air wiping device for drying an elongated product that passes through the air wiping device, said air wiping device comprising: a housing having an internal elongated tubular passage through which the elongated product extends and including opposite one and other ends; said housing tubular passage having an inlet end and an outlet end for respectively receiving and passing the elongated product; a first set of nozzles mounted at the one end of the housing for communicating a compressed gas stream to the internal elongated tubular passage; a second set of nozzles mounted at the other end of the housing for communicating a compressed gas to the internal elongated tubular passage; said first and second sets of nozzles mounted for directing the respective gas streams obliquely to the internal elongated tubular passage; said first and second sets of nozzles mounted for directing the respective gas streams in a direction having a compressed gas stream component toward each other for discharge transversely from the housing.