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Apparatus for spraying at a spraying station aligned with a continuously moving conveyor belt

US5518543A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 17, 1993
Grant dateMay 21, 1996
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Expiry dateAug 17, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S118/07
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A spraying apparatus having a continuously moving conveyor belt which brings a vessel rim down to a spraying station, arrests movement of the vessel and aligns it with a vacuum gripping head, grips the vessel bottom and lifts and presents the vessel to a sprayer, rotates the vacuum gripped vessel rapidly to apply a plurality of thin layers of coating, and returns the coated vessel to the conveyor and releases the grip on the vessel so that the continuously moving conveyor can discharge the coated vessel from the spraying station.

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