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doctor blade

doctor blade

[′däk·tər ‚blād]
(engineering)
A device for regulating the amount of liquid material on the rollers of a spreader. Also known as doctor bar; doctor knife; doctor roll.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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SEM images and thickness of the TI[O.sub.2] film coated and sintered by (A) Doctor blade at 450 [degrees]C/0.4[degrees]C [s.sup.-1]and (B) at 450[degrees]C (C) Spin Coating at 450[degrees]C /0.4[degrees]C [s.sup.-1] and (D) at 450[degrees]C.
Kadant Solutions, based in Auburn, MA, is a leading supplier of doctor blades, doctor blade holders, and doctoring systems for papermaking and other industrial processes.
For working widths above 240 cm use of a magnetic doctor blade is recommended.
It can be applied via gravure or flexographic process with an enclosed-chamber doctor blade.
The cells are first filled with liquids by rotating the gravure roll into a liquid pool, and then the excess liquid on the roll surface is wiped off by a doctor blade. Finally, the remaining liquid is partly transferred from the cell to the substrate as the liquid bridges between the two moving surfaces stretch and eventually break apart.
Some methods have already existed, for example, doctor blade, electrophoresis, spin coating, and so forth, in the laboratory, which are not convenient for rapid and mass production [4-8].
A doctor blade scrapes sludge and debris collected on the outside of the cylinder, while an internal spray line dislodges particles blinding the screen.
"Its wide operating window makes it 'press-friendly,' and customers reported increased opacity, lower doctor blade wear and very good cost of use," said Paul Lodewyck, director product management of Flint Group's Packaging and Narrow Web division.
UK-based United Biscuits (UB) has recently specified a new coating to significantly reduce the downtime required for the re-coating of a compression roller and a doctor blade that are both deployed in its cake manufacturing facility.
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