US 12,378,653 B2
Installation for coating a longitudinally-running strip-shaped metal product
Laurent Cloutot, Killwangen (CH); Lionel Goiset, Montbrison (FR); and Benjamin Grenier, Saint-Paul-en-Jarez (FR)
Assigned to Clecim SAS, Savigneux (FR)
Appl. No. 17/924,757
Filed by Clecim SAS, Savigneux (FR)
PCT Filed Mar. 24, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/057607
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 11, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/228461, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20290042 (EP), filed on May 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0193444 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. C23C 2/20 (2006.01); C23C 2/00 (2006.01); C23C 2/14 (2006.01); C23C 2/16 (2006.01); C23C 2/18 (2006.01); C23C 2/24 (2006.01)
CPC C23C 2/20 (2013.01) [C23C 2/00344 (2022.08); C23C 2/14 (2013.01); C23C 2/16 (2013.01); C23C 2/18 (2013.01); C23C 2/24 (2013.01); C23C 2/522 (2022.08); C23C 2/524 (2022.08); C23C 2/5245 (2022.08)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An installation for coating a metal product, wherein said metal product is longitudinally-running and has a shape of a strip, the installation comprising:
a tank containing a coating in a liquid form into which the metal product is dipped;
a wiper disposed at a vertical outlet of the product from said tank, said wiper configured to wipe each face of the metal product;
at least one ancillary device disposed at an outlet of the metal product from said wiper, said at least one ancillary device facing at least one of the faces of the metal product; and
a holder holding said wiper and said at least one ancillary device, said holder including a securing unit forming a common lateral support for directly supporting said wiper and each of said at least one ancillary device; said holder includes a horizontal crossmember holding the securing unit;
said securing unit including lateral elements extending in a vertical direction from the crossmember; a plurality of securing points arranged on the lateral elements of the securing unit; each of said lateral elements having the plurality of securing points being coupled to at least two lateral ends of the wiper and of each said at least one ancillary device;
said ancillary device including at least a strip-stabilizer
said ancillary device and said wiper each having a height from a surface of the coating in the liquid form in the tank;
said securing points provided movably such that the height of the ancillary device or the wiper can be varied;
said lateral elements are moveable in a horizontal direction to compensate for a width of the metal product.