Rotary atomizer spray painting device
US4589597A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 3, 1983 |
| Grant date | May 20, 1986 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 3, 2003 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB05B5/0533
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A rotary atomizer spray painting device having a nonconductive fixed, axial tube for feeding paint, and having a nonconductive rotor supported for rotation in a nonconductive housing about the tube on air bearings or nonconductive ball bearings, and having turbine drive blades proximate one end thereof, the rotatable rotor supported inside of a nonconductive housing which has a high voltage electrical path therethrough, electrically connected to one or more symmetrically spaced forwardly projecting needle electrodes, the rotatable rotor being fixedly attached to a nonconductive forwardly projecting bell-shaped atomizer, the housing having pressurized air inlets for directing air in driving relationship to the turbine blades.
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