Method of an apparatus for heating a substrate
AssigneePlaner Products Limited
InventorsPaul Lakra, Stephen James Butler
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Abstract
A method of uniformly or substantially uniformly heating at least one surface of a substrate, comprises the steps of supporting a substrate, generating a heated air flow, directing the heated air flow to heat a strip of a first surface of the substrate, and moving the flow path of the heated air in a direction transverse to the direction in which the heated air flow impinges on the substrate until the temperature of the whole or substantially the whole first surface of the substrate has been uniformly or substantially uniformly raised. Apparatus for performing this method is also disclosed.
Claims10
A method of uniformly or substantially uniformly heating at least one surface of a substrate, the method comprising the steps of:
- a) supporting the substrate;
- b) using two convector heaters to generate a heated air flow, each convector heater having at least one elongate outlet from which heated air of the heated air flow is output, each said at least one elongate outlet being positioned to face the other at least one elongate outlet and being in parallel or substantially in parallel with the substrate, and;
- c) directing the heated air flow along a flow path towards a first surface of the substrate to heat a strip of said first surface;
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- d) controlling the relative flow rates of the heaters to move the flow path of the heated air flow in a direction transverse to the direction in which the heated air flow approaches and impinges on the substrate until the temperature of the whole or substantially the whole first surface of the substrate has been uniformly or substantially uniformly raised.
Apparatus for uniformly or substantially uniformly heating at least one surface of a substrate, the apparatus comprising means for supporting the substrate, two convector heaters which generate a heated air flow, each convector heater having at least one elongate outlet from which heated air of the heated air flow is output, each said at least one elongate outlet being positioned to face the other at least one elongate outlet and being in parallel or substantially in parallel with the substrate, and control means for controlling the relative flow rates of the convector heaters to move the flow path of the heated air flow in a direction transverse to the direction in which the heated air flow approaches and impinges on the substrate until the first surface of the substrate is heated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.