Application and dosing device having a mini application roller and a sealingly supported doctor rod

Claim 1

In an application and dosing device for the distribution of a highly fluid medium onto a sheet of material, said device being of the kind including an application roller, and a doctor rod disposed adjacent to said application roller, the improvement wherein the application roller is in the form of a mini roller having a diameter less than 60 mm, the application roller having an axial channel therethrough for passage of cooling water, the doctor rod being supported for rotation in a bearing which partly embraces the lower side of said rod, said bearing comprising a bearing support which supports two spaced bearing members fabricated of a viscoelastic material, the doctor rod being sealingly engaged by and supported under resilient clamping pressure between said bearing members along substantially the entire length of said doctor rod, said bearing members having scraper edges adjacent their upper edges respectively in engagement with spaced portions of the lower side of said rotatable doctor rod, said bearing members having respective portions which extend in generally parallel relation to one another below said doctor rod to define the sides of a wash water channel immediately below the doctor rod, a ledge secured to said bearing support and having a transverse groove therein, an elastic compressed air tube supported in said groove and constituting an adjustable pressure element, one of said bearing members being movable and being abutted by said adjustable pressure element, said pressure element being operative to resiliently urge said one bearing member towards the other bearing member so as to provide adjustment between said bearing members and said doctor rod to maintain said sealing engagement when the bearing becomes worn.