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JP3800757B2
JP3800757B2 JP30237797A JP30237797A JP3800757B2 JP 3800757 B2 JP3800757 B2 JP 3800757B2 JP 30237797 A JP30237797 A JP 30237797A JP 30237797 A JP30237797 A JP 30237797A JP 3800757 B2 JP3800757 B2 JP 3800757B2
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【0001】
【発明の属する技術分野】
本発明は、連続的に走行している支持体に有機溶剤を用いた塗布液を塗布する方法に関するものである。
【0002】
【従来の技術】
有機溶剤を用いた塗布液を塗布すると一般に溶剤の蒸発が速いため塗布液が乾燥してスジ状の故障を発生しやすい。
【0003】
その対策として、コーター上方をフードで覆い(特開昭55−75758号公報)、あるいはコーターの2次側に三角形の乾き防止具を設けて(特許第2645623号公報)、スロット出口から塗布点の近傍を蒸発溶剤ガスで満たし、外気の侵入を防いで塗布液の乾きを防止する方法が開発されている。
【0004】
【発明が解決しようとする課題】
従来のフード、あるいは三角形状の乾き防止具を用いた方法は、どうしても支持体と間隙を設けなければならず、外気の侵入を完全に無くすことができなかった。また、ホッパーを支持体に近づけ塗り付けるまでは、スロット出口から塗布点の近傍は溶剤ガスで満たされず、乾き防止具の効果は全く無かった。よって、乾きが速い塗布液(例えば、固形分濃度が高く、低沸点溶媒で希釈した液)では塗り付け直後からすでに塗布液の固化が進み、スジが発生する場合があった。
【0005】
本発明の目的は、上記課題を解決して、有機溶剤や塗布液の種類にかかわりなく、安定してスジ状故障のない塗布層を可撓性支持体に設けることができる塗布方法を提供することにある。
【0006】
【課題を解決するための手段】
本発明者らはかかる課題を解決するべく鋭意検討の結果、塗布層の上に薄い溶剤層を設けることによって安定してスジ状故障のない塗布層を可撓性支持体に設けることができることを見出した。
【0007】
すなわち、本発明は、走行している長尺可撓性支持体にエクストルージョン型ホッパーまたはスライド型ホッパーで塗布液を塗布して塗布層を設ける際に、2つ以上のスロットを有するホッパーを用い、該スロットのうち上流側のスロットからは塗布液を塗布するとともに、最下流側からは塗布後該塗布層に影響を与えることなく気化逃散する有機溶剤を塗布して前記塗付層の外表面に有機溶剤層を設けたことを特徴とする長尺可撓性支持体への塗布方法に関するものである。
【0008】
本発明の方法においては、エクストルージョン型ホッパーまたはスライド型ホッパーのスロット出口から塗布までの間に、塗布後最上層の溶剤層がまず蒸発して塗布層表面に均一に濃い溶剤蒸気層を形成し、これが塗布層からの溶剤の蒸発速度を抑制してスジ状故障の発生を防止している。
【0009】
【発明の実施の形態】
本発明の塗布対象である長尺可撓性支持体は、ポリエチレンテレフタレート、ポリエチレン−2,6−ナフタレート等のポリエステル類、ポリプロピレン等のポリオレフィン類、セルローストリアセテート、セルロースジアセテート等のセルロース誘導体、ポリカーボネートなどのプラスチック;Cu、Al、Zn等の金属;パライタ紙、合成紙、等である。単層体のほか、複数層よりなる積層体であってもよい。厚さは、通常2〜300μm程度のものである。この支持体は必要により、コロナ放電等の表面活性化処理、アンカー剤その他による下塗り処理等が施されたものであってもよく、さらに既に塗布層等が積層されているものであってもよい。
【0010】
塗布層を形成する塗布液は、磁気記録媒体、写真感光材、等の塗膜材のように、その用途に応じ夫々異なった固形分が有機溶剤に溶解あるいは分散されているものである。
【0011】
有機溶剤としては、アセトン、メチルエチルケトン、メチルイノブチルケトン、メタロヘキサノン等のケトン系;メタノール、エタノール、プロパノール、ブタノール等のアルコール系;酢酸メチル、酢酸エチル、酢酸ブチル、乳酸エチル、酢酸グリコールモノエチルエーテル等のエステル系;エーテル、グリコールジメチルエーテル、グリコールモノエチルエーテル、ジオキサン等のグリコールエーテル系;ベンゼン、トルエン、キシレン等のタール系(芳香族炭化水素);メチレンクロライド、エチレンクロライド、四塩化炭素、クロロホルム、エチレンクロルヒドリン、ジクロルベンゼン等の塩素化炭化水素等のものがある。有機溶剤はこれらの複数の混合物であってもよい。
【0012】
塗布液の濃度は有機溶剤が40%〜100%程度、通常85%〜95%程度である。
【0013】
塗布層の厚みは未乾燥厚で1〜500μm程度、特に2〜100μm程度である。塗布層が2層以上よりなっている場合にはこの厚みは各層の合計厚みである。
【0014】
有機溶剤層は、有機溶剤よりなる層であって、上記塗布層に影響を与えることなく気化逃散して消滅する層である。塗布層に影響を与えることなくとは、有機溶剤層が消滅して乾燥した塗布層が、有機溶剤層をはじめから設けなかった場合に比べて、物理的性質および化学的性質において差異がないことをいう。塗布層が複数の層よりなっている場合は、この影響を与えることのない対象塗布層は有機溶剤層が接する、すなわち最外層の塗布層である。
【0015】
有機溶剤層に使用される溶剤は多種のものを使用することができ、例えば前述の塗布層に使用しうるもののなかから選択することができる。簡便な方法としては、塗布層と同じ有機溶剤を使用すればよい。有機溶剤層として、一般に好ましい有機溶剤はアセトン、酢酸エチル、メタノール、メチルエチルケトン、エタノール等である。有機溶剤の混合物を使用することもできる。
【0016】
有機溶剤層の塗布厚みは1μm以上とし、均一に塗布できる範囲であれば極力少なくすることが望ましい。塗布安定性を保つため、好ましくは5μm以上、特に好ましくは15μm以上である。一方、一般に、約20μmは本発明が解決したい充分な塗布厚みであり、それ以上は乾燥負荷、流れムラ、乾燥風ムラなどの弊害が予想される。有機溶剤層は原則として、塗布層の全面に設け、それによって、乾き速度の速い塗布液と外気とが接する箇所をほとんど無くすことで塗布液の固化の進行を無くすことができる。
【0017】
以下、本発明の実施態様の例を図面に基づいて説明する。
【0018】
図1はエクストルージョン型ホッパーを用いて塗布している状態を示す要部側面図である。長尺可撓性支持体Wはバックアップローラー1に掛架されて図面下部の右方より進入し、バックアップローラー1で方向転換して図面右方に退出する。バックアップローラー1の左方にはローラー1の外周面に近接してエクストルージョン型ホッパー2が配設されている。このホッパー2の先端には2つのスロットS1、S2が並行に開口している。塗布液L2と有機溶剤L1はそれぞれ定量ポンプ(図示されていない。)によって供給され、スロットS2、S1を通って開口端から塗布点Cで走行している支持体Wの外表面に塗布液L2 を内側にして塗着される。こうして支持体W上に有機溶剤層LL1、塗布層LL2が設けられ、その後LL1は蒸発消滅する(図示されていない。)。
【0019】
図2はスライド型ホッパーを用いて塗布している状態を示す要部側面図であり、ホッパー以外は図1と同様である。
【0020】
図3はエクストルージョン型とスライド型を組み合わせたホッパーを用いて塗布している状態を示す要部側面図であり、ホッパー以外は図1と同様である。
【0021】
【実施例】
図3の装置を用いて塗布を行なった。支持体には厚さ100μmのPETフィルムウェブを用いた。塗布液、有機溶剤の種類、塗布量および塗布速度は次の通りである。
【0022】

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【0023】
上記条件にて24時間塗布したところ、その間塗布液の固化によるスジ状の欠陥およびノロ状の欠陥の発生は皆無であった。
【0024】
比較例
従来の三角形状の乾き防止具を使用した方式では塗り付け直後からスジが多発した。
【0025】
【発明の効果】
本発明の塗布方法により、乾きによる塗布液固化を防止し、塗り付け直後から長時間安定に塗布することができた。乾きの速い塗布液は特許2645623の方式では塗り付けまでの間で乾きが発生し塗り付け直後からスジが発生したが、本発明の塗布方式ではこれら問題はなかった。
【図面の簡単な説明】
【図1】 エクストルージョン型ホッパーを用いて塗布している状態を示す要部側面図である。
【図2】 スライド型ホッパーを用いて塗布している状態を示す要部側面図である。
【図3】 エクストルージョン型とスライド型を組み合わせたホッパーを用いて塗布している状態を示す要部側面図である。
【符号の説明】
1……バックアップローラー
2……ホッパー
1,S2……スロット
1……有機溶剤
2……塗布液
LL1……有機溶剤層
LL2……塗布層[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a method of applying a coating solution using an organic solvent to a continuously running support.
[0002]
[Prior art]
When a coating solution using an organic solvent is applied, generally the solvent evaporates quickly, so that the coating solution is dried and a streak-like failure is likely to occur.
[0003]
As countermeasures, the upper part of the coater is covered with a hood (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 55-75758), or a triangle dry prevention tool is provided on the secondary side of the coater (Japanese Patent No. 2645623), and the coating point is removed from the slot outlet. A method has been developed in which the vicinity is filled with an evaporating solvent gas to prevent the outside air from entering and prevent the coating liquid from drying.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
A conventional method using a hood or a triangle-shaped dry prevention device must always provide a support and a gap, and the intrusion of outside air cannot be completely eliminated. Further, until the hopper was applied close to the support, the vicinity of the application point from the slot outlet was not filled with the solvent gas, and there was no effect of the dry prevention tool. Therefore, in a coating liquid that dries quickly (for example, a liquid having a high solid content concentration and diluted with a low-boiling solvent), solidification of the coating liquid has already progressed immediately after application, and streaks may occur.
[0005]
The object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and provide a coating method capable of stably providing a coating layer free from streak-like failure regardless of the type of organic solvent or coating solution. There is.
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
As a result of intensive studies to solve such problems, the present inventors have found that a coating layer having no streak-like failure can be stably provided on the flexible support by providing a thin solvent layer on the coating layer. I found it.
[0007]
That is, the present invention uses a hopper having two or more slots when applying a coating liquid to an elongate flexible support by using an extrusion hopper or a slide hopper to provide a coating layer. The coating liquid is applied from the slot on the upstream side of the slot, and the outer surface of the coating layer is coated from the most downstream side by applying an organic solvent that escapes after vaporization without affecting the coating layer. The present invention relates to a coating method on a long flexible support, characterized in that an organic solvent layer is provided on the substrate.
[0008]
In the method of the present invention, the uppermost solvent layer is first evaporated after coating from the slot outlet of the extrusion type hopper or slide type hopper to form a uniformly thick solvent vapor layer on the surface of the coating layer. This suppresses the evaporation rate of the solvent from the coating layer and prevents the occurrence of streak-like failure.
[0009]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The long flexible support to be applied in the present invention includes polyesters such as polyethylene terephthalate and polyethylene-2,6-naphthalate, polyolefins such as polypropylene, cellulose derivatives such as cellulose triacetate and cellulose diacetate, polycarbonate, and the like. Plastics; metals such as Cu, Al, Zn; parawriter paper, synthetic paper, and the like. In addition to a single layer body, a laminated body composed of a plurality of layers may be used. The thickness is usually about 2 to 300 μm. This support may be subjected to surface activation treatment such as corona discharge, undercoating treatment with an anchor agent or the like, if necessary, and may further have already been coated with a coating layer or the like. .
[0010]
The coating liquid for forming the coating layer is a coating material such as a magnetic recording medium, a photographic photosensitive material, or the like, in which different solid contents are dissolved or dispersed in an organic solvent depending on the application.
[0011]
Organic solvents include acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl inobutyl ketone, metallohexanone and other ketones; methanol, ethanol, propanol, butanol and other alcohols; methyl acetate, ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, ethyl lactate, glycol acetate monoethyl ether Esters such as ethers; Glycol ethers such as ether, glycol dimethyl ether, glycol monoethyl ether and dioxane; Tars such as benzene, toluene and xylene (aromatic hydrocarbons); Methylene chloride, ethylene chloride, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, There are chlorinated hydrocarbons such as ethylene chlorohydrin and dichlorobenzene. The organic solvent may be a mixture of these.
[0012]
The concentration of the coating solution is about 40% to 100%, usually about 85% to 95% for the organic solvent.
[0013]
The thickness of the coating layer is an undried thickness of about 1 to 500 μm, particularly about 2 to 100 μm. When the coating layer is composed of two or more layers, this thickness is the total thickness of each layer.
[0014]
The organic solvent layer is a layer made of an organic solvent, and is a layer that disappears by vaporization and escape without affecting the coating layer. Without affecting the coating layer, the organic solvent layer disappears and the dried coating layer has no difference in physical and chemical properties compared to the case where the organic solvent layer is not provided from the beginning. Say. When the coating layer is composed of a plurality of layers, the target coating layer that does not have this influence is the outermost coating layer in contact with the organic solvent layer.
[0015]
Various solvents can be used for the organic solvent layer. For example, the solvent can be selected from those that can be used for the coating layer. As a simple method, the same organic solvent as that of the coating layer may be used. As the organic solvent layer, generally preferred organic solvents are acetone, ethyl acetate, methanol, methyl ethyl ketone, ethanol and the like. Mixtures of organic solvents can also be used.
[0016]
The coating thickness of the organic solvent layer is 1 μm or more, and it is desirable to reduce it as much as possible as long as it can be applied uniformly. In order to maintain the coating stability, the thickness is preferably 5 μm or more, particularly preferably 15 μm or more. On the other hand, generally, about 20 μm is a sufficient coating thickness that the present invention wants to solve, and beyond that, adverse effects such as drying load, flow unevenness, and drying wind unevenness are expected. As a general rule, the organic solvent layer is provided on the entire surface of the coating layer, thereby eliminating the progress of solidification of the coating solution by eliminating the portion where the coating solution having a high drying speed is in contact with the outside air.
[0017]
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
[0018]
FIG. 1 is a side view of an essential part showing a state where coating is performed using an extrusion type hopper. The long flexible support W is hung on the backup roller 1 and enters from the right side of the lower part of the drawing, changes its direction by the backup roller 1 and exits to the right side of the drawing. An extrusion hopper 2 is disposed on the left side of the backup roller 1 adjacent to the outer peripheral surface of the roller 1. Two slots S 1 and S 2 are opened in parallel at the tip of the hopper 2. The coating liquid L 2 and the organic solvent L 1 are respectively supplied by a metering pump (not shown), and pass through the slots S 2 and S 1 and travel from the opening end to the coating point C on the outer surface of the support W. Is applied with the coating liquid L 2 inside. Thus, the organic solvent layer LL 1 and the coating layer LL 2 are provided on the support W, and then LL 1 evaporates and disappears (not shown).
[0019]
FIG. 2 is a side view of an essential part showing a state where application is performed using a slide type hopper, and is the same as FIG. 1 except for the hopper.
[0020]
FIG. 3 is a side view of an essential part showing a state where coating is performed using a hopper that is a combination of an extrusion type and a slide type, and is the same as FIG. 1 except for the hopper.
[0021]
【Example】
Coating was performed using the apparatus of FIG. A PET film web having a thickness of 100 μm was used as the support. The types of coating solution, organic solvent, coating amount and coating speed are as follows.
[0022]
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[0023]
When the coating was performed for 24 hours under the above conditions, no streak-like defects or norole-like defects were generated due to solidification of the coating solution.
[0024]
Comparative Example In the method using the conventional triangular dry prevention device, streaks frequently occurred immediately after the application.
[0025]
【The invention's effect】
By the coating method of the present invention, it was possible to prevent solidification of the coating liquid due to drying and to stably apply for a long time immediately after application. In the method of Japanese Patent No. 2645623, the coating solution that dries quickly dries before application, and streaks occurred immediately after application. However, the application method of the present invention did not have these problems.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a side view of an essential part showing a state where coating is performed using an extrusion-type hopper.
FIG. 2 is a side view of an essential part showing a state where application is performed using a slide-type hopper.
FIG. 3 is a side view of an essential part showing a state where coating is performed using a hopper combining an extrusion type and a slide type.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 ...... backup roller 2 ...... hopper S 1, S 2 ...... slot L 1 ...... organic solvent L 2 ...... coating liquid LL 1 ...... organic solvent layer LL 2 ...... coating layer

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走行している長尺可撓性支持体にエクストルージョン型ホッパーまたはスライド型ホッパーで塗布液を塗布して塗布層を設ける際に、2つ以上のスロットを有するホッパーを用い、該スロットのうち上流側のスロットからは塗布液を塗布するとともに、最下流側からは塗布後該塗布層に影響を与えることなく気化逃散する有機溶剤を塗布して前記塗付層の外表面に有機溶剤層を設けたことを特徴とする長尺可撓性支持体への塗布方法When a coating liquid is provided by applying a coating solution to an elongate flexible support with an extrusion hopper or a slide hopper, a hopper having two or more slots is used. A coating solution is applied from the slot on the side, and an organic solvent layer is applied on the outer surface of the coating layer by applying an organic solvent that evaporates and escapes without affecting the coating layer after coating from the most downstream side. Method for applying to a long flexible support
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