Patent ID: 8336161

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; said housing tubular passage having an inlet end and an outlet end; 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 set of nozzles and said second sets of nozzles mounted for directing the respective gas streams obliquely to the internal elongated tubular passage; said first set of nozzles and said 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, wherein said first set of nozzles and said second sets of nozzles are adapted to be screwed in or out of said housing tubular passage, further comprising, wherein said first set of nozzles and said second sets of nozzles are disposed about a 360 degree locus; a ceramic insert disposed in the internal tubular passage of the housing and through which the elongated product passes; and said ceramic insert including a tapered input through which the elongated product is received and an output through which the elongated product passes from the housing.