Abstract: A device for spreading a substance onto a moving web of material, which comprises an extrusion head and a rotating bar which is carried by a support member applied to the extrusion head near the outlet of a delivery slit. This latter has an inner profiled recess in which engage limiting blade segments which extend up to the outlet of the delivery slit in order to laterally limit the regions in which spreading is carried out. The rotating bar has its outer surface operatively contacting the web only in the regions in which the substance is spread, and it is recessed or interrupted where no spreading is wanted. This device allows to spread a substance onto a width of web reduced with respect to the width of the extrusion head, or even onto separate strips of the web.

Abstract: A device for applying an operating pressure to a roller, especially the counterroller of a unit for spreading a thin layer of material onto a strip, wherein the roller is mounted on support levers by means of eccentric bushings to which are connected pressure applying means operating by rotating the said bushings. The operating pressure is applied to the roller without involving displacements of the support levers, whose position is stationary during operation. Preferably, bars are connected to said bushings, and these bars carry at one end a counterweight, whereas the other ends thereof are connected to pneumatic cylinders, feeded through pressure adjusters, for applying the operating pressure to the roller.