Method of, and apparatus for, applying flowable material across a surface

US7799253B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ProMetal RCT GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Hochsmann · Genderkingen, DE
• Martin Stachulla · Augsburg, DE
• Bernd Krabler · Thierhaupten, DE
• Stefan Hühn · Augsburg, DE
• Alexander Muller · Steinen, DE
• Frank Sonntag · Thum, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 21, 2006
• Grant date: Sep 21, 2010
• Expiry date: May 24, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B33Y30/00
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for applying for a flowable material, especially a particulate material, in individual superimposed layers across a support (50), the flowable material being first filled from a stationary feed station (10) into a storage container (24) of an application device. In the application device (30), which travels back and forth across the support, the flowable material is distributed inside the storage container across the entire length of the device and is then metered through a slot into a metering shaft in such a manner that the filling level in the metering shaft remains constant during application of the flowable material from the metering shaft onto the support.