Painting booth and robotic painting installation therefor
US5733374A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 19, 1996 |
| Grant date | Mar 31, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 19, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB05B13/0431
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A robot installation for painting objects inside a painting booth (CA) having walls (WA, WB) isolating the object (AU) to be painted from the surroundings, is suitably integrated in the booth walls in order to save interior booth space and achieve a robot operation better adapted to the painting process. The installation includes at least one main robot shaft (RS) associated with a painting tool and protruding through at least one slot (LS) penetrating the booth walls for servo-controlled movements along such slots and possibly also in the direction of and/or about the axis of the shaft. Servo-drive means are disposed for controlling the robot shaft movements in accordance with a preprogrammed motional pattern for the painting tool, including tracking of a travelling object to be painted. The slot is disposed on a rotatable element e.g., a disk or cylinder (CD,SC) supported in or on the booth walls, and the servo-drive means includes means for controlling the rotational movements of the rotatable element in accordance with a preprogrammed motional pattern.
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