An installation for adjusting a thickness of a hot liquid
coating on a traveling strip with suppression of “
angel wing” flow defects, the traveling strip having a thickness equal to or greater than 2 mm, and for cooling the
coating, the
coating thickness being in a range above 25 μm, the installation successively include, from a bottom upwards, on either side of the traveling strip: a wiping device having gas knives for wiping excess liquid from the coated strip at an outlet of a liquid bath; at least one conventional
gas cooling header with gas blowers for solidifying the coating; and a
water cooling and freezing header for producing airless spraying of demineralized water for
skin freezing of the coating, the header being located as close as possible to the wiping device and between the wiping device and the at least one conventional
gas cooling header.