Patent · US Expired

Spray gun

US5102051A · kind A · utility

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5Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJan 26, 1989
Grant dateApr 7, 1992
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Expiry dateJan 26, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB05B15/654
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A spray gun operable by low pressure high volume air is described. The spray gun (10) comprises an air cap (128) formed with a central spraying aperture and a fluid nozzle (70) projecting toward the spraying aperture, the profile of the nozzle is a plain frustum of a core terminating at a small front face bounding an orifice through which fluid is discharged. The arrangement being such that in operation a flow of atomizing air that emerges through a gap between the nozzle (70) and the air cap (128) attaches to the nozzle (70) and to an emergent fluid jet which assumes a conical form that is a continuation of the nozzle surface and changes to a parallel jet before it breaks up into atomized droplets.

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