COATING DEVICE

摘要

The invention relates to a coating device for a paper or board machine comprising a coating rod (2), by means of which a coating is applied onto a base to be coated, such as paper or board or a roll of a film size press and which coating rod (2) can be loaded, and a rod bed (1) on which the coating rod (2) is supported substantially over its entire length and arranged to rotate in its rod space (14). The rod bed (1) comprises a structure which has at least two parts which have been disposed in a longitudinal direction one within the other or partly one within the other. The invention also relates to a rod bed and to a method of fitting a coating rod in connection with a coating device of a paper machine and to a method of changing a coating rod.