Separating device for trimming the width of a poured curtain of coating material

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A severing organ for trimming the width of a curtain of coating material poured onto an impingement site on a substrate, in particular a printed circuit board to be coated, and being moved at a distance below the foot end of the severing organ transverse to the direction of the flow of the curtain consists of a single separating element whose upper end is designed as a knifelike sharp severing edge. The side of the separating element turned toward the central region of the poured curtain is an uninterrupted, smooth wall surface which extends in only one plane from the severing edge in the direction toward the foot end of the separating element forming, a lower foot-end edge therewith and …