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Rotary spray head coater

US6050499A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 3, 1998
Grant dateApr 18, 2000
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Expiry dateAug 3, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB05B5/0407
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A rotary atomizing head type coating machine which is capable of washing deposited paint from fore end portions of outer peripheral surface of a bell cup. Thinner passages are provided on the bell cup to communicate a paint reservoir with the outer peripheral surface of the bell cup. Thinner which flows out onto the outer peripheral surface of the bell cup through the thinner passages is guided toward the marginal releasing edge of the bell cup. To this end, assist air is spurted out through assist air outlet holes which are provided in the fore end face of a shaping air ring at positions radially on the inner side of shaping air outlet holes. Accordingly, at the time of a washing operation, the thinner which has come out onto the outer peripheral surface of the bell cup is forcibly pushed on the outer peripheral surface by the actions of assist air and shaping air as the thinner is guided toward the fore end of the bell cup to wash away deposited paint therefrom.

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