Coating apparatus – Projection or spray type – Applying solid particulate material
Patent
1997-07-23
1999-12-07
Edwards, Laura
Coating apparatus
Projection or spray type
Applying solid particulate material
118312, 118317, 118326, 118DIG3, 239697, 239704, 239708, 239124, 239127, 2394273, 2394275, B05C 500
Patent
active
059976438
ABSTRACT:
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for spraying powder into the interior of welded hollow can bodies from a spray gun mounted to the welding arm of a can forming machine. The spray gun can either apply a stripe of highly charged powder on the welded seam areas of hollow can bodies, or can simultaneously apply a coating of powder having a first thickness on the longitudinally welded seam areas and a second thickness less than the first thickness on the remainder of the interior surface. Air is vented off from the powder flow being transported through the welding arm so that the powder to air ratio is increased. Air is introduced at the downstream end of the welding arm to provide a suction force to help draw the powder flow through the welding arm and to increase the velocity of the powder flow for better tribo charging of the powder in the gun and to improve spray pattern stability. A flow of cleaning air through the powder spray gun prevents powder from collecting on the front surface of an offset nozzle secured to the spray gun. The gun assembly is affectively grounded to prevent arcing, and has an exterior shape which has been geometrically configured to improve powder coating of the can. A collector hood surrounds an input conveyor on which cans are transported while being spray coated and an output conveyor which removes the cans at a higher speed than at which they traveled on the input conveyor. The collector hood has two operating conditions for collecting oversprayed powder from between the cans during the spraying operation or directly from the gun when the cans are not being sent down the line.
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Crum Gerald W.
Kakuta Wataru
Matsunaga Masafumi
Merk Raymond J.
Niemiec Ronald E.
Edwards Laura
Nordson Corporation
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