Patent ID: 6837930

Claim:
An apparatus for continuously producing baked long doctor blade materials comprising: a material reel for holding a long doctor blade material spirally; a plurality of pinch rolls for cramping and forwardly supplying the long doctor blade material continuously while a blade surface of the long doctor blade material is maintained in a horizontal direction with respect to a surface of a solution, for plating the long doctor blade material wherein a higher concentration of ceramic fine powder is deposited on a top surface of the long doctor blade material than a concentration of the ceramic fine powder on a lower surface of the long doctor blade material; a take-up reel for continuously taking up the long doctor blade material; treatment means for plating the long doctor blade material between the material reel and the take-up reel including: means for degreasing the long doctor blade material; means for rinsing the long doctor blade material; means for immersing the long doctor blade material in an acid immersion solution; second rinsing means for rinsing the long doctor blade material; means for electroless ceramic composite nickel plating of the long doctor blade material; means for collecting plating solution after the long doctor blade material has been plated; third rinsing means for rinsing the plated long doctor blade material; and means for drying the rinsed plated long doctor blade material a plurality of pinch rolls for continuously forwardly straightening out the long doctor blade material plated from the take-up reel; and a straightening furnace for baking through which the straightened plated long doctor blade material passes.