Fluid sprinkling – spraying – and diffusing – One fluid stream impinges upon another
Patent
1998-06-11
2000-09-05
Kashnikow, Andres
Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing
One fluid stream impinges upon another
239552, B05B 126, F23D 1136
Patent
active
061130133
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention refers to a nozzle for feeding a mixture of thermosetting plastic and hardener from a mixing chamber, to which feed lines for supply of. thermosettable plastic as well as hardener are connected. The invention also refers to a method for feeding the mixture.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Thermosetting plastics, for instance polyester, urethan and is epoxy can be mixed in fluid state and are fed out by means of a spray-gun, which is equipped with a nozzle providing a defined spray image. In this way, the plastic can be applied, e.g. in a mold for casting plastic products.
Generally, solvent agents are needed as gelling agents in the plastic, to allow it to receive correct viscosity for spraying through the nozzle.
This known technique involves drawbacks, as one generally has to calculate with a certain amount of spillage, when plastic due to an uncontrollable spray image wrongly lands in the mold or next to it. This spillage results in consuming an unnecessary large amount of plastic and also solvent agents. For environmental reasons such spillage should be minimized. Furthermore, it becomes difficult to maintain an even and high production quality, if one does not have control over the amount of plastic fed out per unit area.
The amount of the spillage will not be reduced, if the spray-gun, when spraying according to prior art, is moved closer to the surface to be covered with the thermosetting plastic, as drops of thermosetting plastic hitting a surface with a great force, tend to break into smaller drops, which rebound back towards the spray-gun.
THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM
An object of the present invention is therefore to provide a nozzle of a type described initially, which makes it possible to hold the spray-gun closer to the surface to be covered without risk of back-spray, and which provides a stable and well-defined spray image with distinct edges.
THE SOLUTION
For this object the nozzle according to the invention is characterized in that the mixing chamber communicates with at least two beam channels having a diameter of 0.5-1.5 mm, which converge in an angle of 70-140.degree. towards a point outside the nozzle. The method according to the invention is characterized in that the mixture of plastic and the hardener has a viscosity between 150 and 75,000 cpois, and that the mixture is extruded from the nozzle with a pressure of 75 to 100 bar. Through the present design of the nozzle small plastic drops having uniform size are produced, which move with low speed towards the surface to be covered. In this way a surprisingly well-defined spray image is obtained, without risk of back spray.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention will be described with reference to an embodiment, which is shown on the enclosed drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 shows a cross-section of a nozzle according to an embodiment of the invention,
FIG. 2 is a bottom view of the nozzle, and
FIG. 3 shows the nozzle schematically in perspective under use.
DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENT
The nozzle in FIG. 1-3 is made of a metallic cylinder 10 with mounting flange 11 formed through turning. The end of the cylinder closest to the flange exhibits a concentric turned space 12. The opposite end of the cylinder is provided with two plane surfaces 13 inclining towards each other, sloping towards the longitudinal axis of the cylinder, with a mutual divergent angle. The angle between said plane surfaces can be between 70.degree. and 140.degree..
A beam channel 14 is bored in each plane surface 13, each substantially perpendicular to the corresponding plane surface. The two channels 14 are consequently drilled with such a mutual angle .alpha. that they converge towards a point outside the nozzle. The angle .alpha. between the beam channels is between 70.degree. and 140.degree.. The channels extend into the space 12. Each channel 14 has a diameter b of 0.5-1.5 mm and the distance a between the downstream mouth of the beam channels is 2-5 mm.
The nozzle is used mounted on the outlet from a mixing chamber on the
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Aplicator System AB
Kashnikow Andres
O'Hanlon Sean P.
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