Method for lacquering pencils, and lacquering apparatus

A method for lacquering pencils via a push-through method, which comprises the steps of:

• guiding a respective pencil horizontally through a lacquering chamber for applying lacquer thus forming a lacquer coat, after exiting the lacquering chamber, successive ones of the pencils butt against one another and are held against one another at their end sides such that a plurality of the pencils form a horizontal strand, the respective pencil being held exclusively by the holding forces at the end sides between a preceding and a following pencil;
• and
• guiding the strand, downstream of the lacquering chamber, horizontally through a drying section, with a result that the respective pencil is held horizontally in the strand in a hovering manner without a supporting point on a circumference of the respective pencil on leaving the lacquering chamber.