Device for applying a liquid film to a continuously advanced web of goods

Device for applying a liquid film of considerable working width, said film flowing in a laminar fashion in a flow direction and being uniformly thin across the wording width, to a continuously advanced web of goods, comprising a liquid supply chamber delimited on a first side by a first barrier directed upward diagonally to the horizontal and extending across the working width, said first barrier being followed in the flow direction of the liquid by an overflow barrier as well as a guide surface that abuts the overflow barrier, the liquid film overflowing a lower edge of said guide surface and running onto the web of goods said liquid supply chamber being delimited on a side opposite the first barrier by a second barrier provided at a distance from the first barrier to form a gap between the first and second barrier, with said liquid supply chamber having a liquid supply area at an end opposite the overflow barrier, in which area a plurality of liquid supply passages terminate, said liquid supply passages being connected with liquid supply hoses supplied with liquid by a pump, with said liquid supply chamber extending across the working width being divided widthwise by a plurality of limiting walls extending in the gap of the liquid supply chamber from overflow barrier to the liquid supply area, and with the liquid from each of said liquid supply hoses being distributed stepwise to said plurality of liquid supply passages in such fashion that respective inflow openings connected to said liquid supply hoses are connected to an intermediate portion of a first branch line extending in the direction of the working width, respective ends of said first branch line being connected to intermediate outflow openings, each of said intermediate outflow openings being connected to an intermediate portion of a second branch line the direction of the working width, said second branch line being shorter by half of said first branch line and having a reduced across section, said second branch line being connected with a plurality of outflow openings, each of said plurality of outflow openings being operably connected with one of said liquid supply passages, wherein each of said first branch lines is located in a plane parallel to that of said outflow openings, and the liquid is distributed to said outflow openings through said second branch lines from the plane of said first branch lines to the plane of said outflow openings.