Coating apparatus – With heat exchange – drying – or non-coating gas or vapor... – With solid heat exchange means contacting work
Patent
1991-02-01
1993-05-11
Wityshyn, Michael G.
Coating apparatus
With heat exchange, drying, or non-coating gas or vapor...
With solid heat exchange means contacting work
118 72, 118202, 118242, 118256, 118410, 118421, B05C 502, B05C 914, B05C 1302
Patent
active
052097803
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention is directed to an apparatus for treating the underside face of skis.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Arrangements of this sort are known. Such an arrangement comprises a housing which can be entered by skiers with strapped-on skis, where an upper working aperture is formed with sufficient room for both skis next to each other. Support members in the shape of swiveling plates spaced longitudinally project from both sides of the housing into the aperture, upon which members the skis are respectively abutted. A working trolley is guided in the housing itself so as to be longitudinally mobile and motor driven, wherein the treatment arrangements for the undersides of the skis are located. During passage of the trolley the support members are swiveled out of the trolley's path and after the trolley has passed they again swing back into their support position. The skier maintains his position with respect to the apparatus (DE-OS 32 27 922, U.S. Pat. No. 4 457 255) during the entire treatment process. The trolley contains a container divided into several compartments. Rollers rotatably supported around a transverse axis are supported in the compartments, for instance a cleaning roller plunging into a liquid bath, as well as a wax application roller plunging into a wax reservoir; both these rollers can be heated. The trolley contains the additional ski underside treatment arrangements, such as the heating arrangement, blower, polishing roller, drying device, scrape-off device, possibly an edge-grinding device etc. This design is very expensive. The large quantity of existing swiveling plates must indeed not only swivel, rather they also must be supported so as to be additionally raisable and lowerable, which requires a plurality of joints, which makes the design complicated and expensive and in addition malfunction-prone; it must also be taken into account, that such arrangements as a rule are operated outdoors if indeed however under a covering.
The coating arrangements of this type are also provided in such apparatus for waxing skis, where the reservoir for the wax supply and the coating rollers plunging into same are supported in a housing so as to be stationary therein and the skier together with his skis is pulled or directed across this coating arrangement by means of conveyor rollers. In these previously known arrangements the wax is brought to the underside of the skis by a rotation of the roller and applied there by means of a coating roller plunging into the wax reservoir. In actual practice it was seen that this type of coating is not devoid of problems, since the wax thickness is often very uneven to the extgent that partially there is no coating at all.
Furthermore, such apparatus for waxing a ski must be mentioned, where a stationary wax container is placed in a housing into which projects a rotatably supported coating roller. Backup rollers are provided on both sides of the stationary container of the liquid wax, whose axes are also supported to be stationary in the housing, which rollers are however driven as conveyor rollers. The skier who steps with strapped-on skis on these rotatable conveyor rollers is pushed across the coating rollers. Compared to the previously known and previously mentioned design, this type of apparatus for waxing skis is indeed designed to be more simply constructed, however it has been shown that the wax application is unsatisfactory in this previously known apparatus.
A ski waxing apparatus which can be entered is also known from the DE-OS 3249 449, which has an elongated box-shaped housing with a cover plate comprising two guidance tracks for the skis. Stationary brushes are rotatably supported in the housing. A shifting arrangement for the skis is furthermore provided with a conveyor belt endlessly revolving in a vertical plane around two reversing rollers, with a support arm being fastened at the conveyor belt. This support arm is movable by the revolving conveyor belt in a longitudinal slot provided between the guide tracks and it
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