Abstract:
An electrostatic powder coating apparatus is provided which includes a spray gun and a powder supply unit. The spray gun includes facilities for dually functioning to both pulverize and disperse the aggregated powder and powder adhesion preventing facilities. Both the pulverizing and dispersing facilities and the powder adhesion prevention facilities are provided in a nozzle lip of the spray gun of the electrostatic powder coating apparatus. The powder supply unit includes a temperature/humidity control facilities for adjusting the temperature and humidity of the compressed air supplied to an air chamber within the powder supply unit.
Abstract:
A process for improving the electrostatic charge developed on a resin powder composition for electrostatic coating of solid objects and the method of application thereof. The resin powder comprises (i) a thermosetting or thermoplastic resin and (ii) an electrostatic property modifying agent (polyalkylene ether, polyalkylene glycol, polyethoxylated stearyl alcohol) incorporated in the resin or on the surface of the resin. The methods of application of the powder involves charging the powder by electrical induction/conduction and spraying the charged powder onto a grounded solid object to which it adheres prior to the thermal fusing to produce a permanent finish.
Abstract:
An apparatus for spraying a spacer material having a sprayer for spraying the spacer material; a charger for applying an electrical charge to the spacer material; and a device for imparting a potential to an electrode disposed in the rear of a plate for constituting a liquid crystal cell wherein the potential causes an electrical attraction to take place between the charged spacer material and the electrode.
Abstract:
An electrostatical powder coating method and apparatus therefor, in which an auxiliary electrode is disposed in the vicinity of a desired coating surface of an object to be coated, a gun for performing electrostatically powder coating is directed to the object to be coated and the auxiliary electrode, a DC electric field is formed between the gun, the auxiliary electrode and the object to be coated, the auxiliary electrode is electrically charged to the same polarity as the gun so as to form an auxiliary electric field between the auxiliary electrode and the desired coating surface of the object to be coated whereby a powder coating material is transferred to be applied onto the desired coating surface by the electric field.
Abstract:
A process for the production of solid particles, characterized by the solidification in flight of an electrically charged spray of fluid droplets of narrow particle size distribution, and an apparatus for that process comprising a sprayhead with a channel for the fluid communicating with an outlet; means for subjecting the fluid to an electrical field such that the fluid will move from the sprayhead under the influence of the field to produce a spray of the fluid, the means including means for applying a first potential to the fluid; an electrode mounted spaced from but adjacent to the sprayhead with means to apply a second potential to that electrode; and a spray chamber, so positioned that in use the sprayhead delivers the spray to the chamber interior, and provided with means to apply a third potential to the chamber, and so dimensioned and arranged that in use the majority of the spray droplets solidify before impinging on any surface of or within the chamber.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for charging powdered particles and delivering only these charged particles to a workpiece. A high voltage electric field is created between upper and lower surfaces. Powder is continuously delivered to the lower surface. The lower surface is vibrated to bounce the particles so that each repeatedly contacts the lower surface and picks up an electrostatic charge with each contact. When the charge from the particle is great enough to overcome gravity, the particle levitates and is thereafter transported to a workpiece, where it adheres by electrostatic attraction. Three important features of this method are: (1) No uncharged particles are levitated to the workpiece, thereby eliminating the need for recirculating uncharged powder. (2) The method is capable of producing high throughput of charged particles. (3) The method is capable of producing powder with a controlled charge level.
Abstract:
An electrostatic powder spray coating method and apparatus for producing evenly coated continuous films of thermoplastic and thermosetting powders on substrates or parts having electrically conductive geometric complex surfaces and enables the use, without the occurrence of "cobwebbing," of significantly higher charging voltages for the spray gun in the spray coating of preheated substrates and parts, thus allowing faster coating lines. The invention features the use of a grounded electrically conductive ring for grounding the ionized field in the powder discharge region of the spray gun.
Abstract:
METHODS OF COATING IRREGULARLY SHAPED ARTICLES AND OF SHADING THE EDGES OF ARTICLES ARE PERFORMED AUTOMATICALLY USING A SENSOR THAT MOVES WITH THE COATING APPARATUS TO GENERATE A CONTROL SIGNAL FOR THE COATING APPARATUS. WHERE THE SENSITIVE AREA OF THE SENSING MEANS IS NOT CO-EXTENSIVE WITH THE COATING ZONE OF THE COATING APPARATUS, THE CONTROL SIGNAL IS STORED IN A MEMORY MEANS SYNCHRONIZED WITH THE COATING APPARATUS. THE RECORDED SIGNAL IS DETECTED TO OPERATE THE COATING APPARATUS OVER THE APPROPRIATE PORTION OF ITS PATH OF MOVEMENT WHEN THE ARTICLES TO BE COATED IS WITHIN THE COATING ZONE OF THE COATING APPARATUS.