Flexible loop leveling blade for flow coating process for manufacture of polymeric printer roll and belt components

摘要

A guide for leveling the flow of a coating onto a substrate of a component in a machine is provided. The substrate is rotatable about a longitudinal axis, whereby the coating is spirally applied to the substrate. The guide includes a member operably associated with the flow of the coating and operably associated with a slide movable with a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis. The member has a first end fixedly secured to the slide. The member has a second end spaced from the first end and fixedly secured to the slide. The member is resiliently cooperable with the periphery of the substrate and has a surface thereof slightly spaced from the periphery of the substrate. At least a portion of the flow of the coating may be positionable between the periphery of the substrate and the surface of the member so as to assist in evenly distributing the coating on the periphery of the substrate.