Compagnie Europeenne Pour L'equipement Menager-cepem

Societe Anonyme Dite: Compagnie Europeenne Pour L'equipement Menager

Compagnie Generale D'electricite S.a.

Compagnie Europeenne Pour L'equipment Menager - Cepem

Societe Anonyme Dite: Compagnie Europeene Pour L'equipement, Menager

Alain Gernez

Paul Maitenaz

Claude Lasne

Michel Campion

Apparatus in the form of at least one cooking chamber, e.g. a cooker or an oven for building into a kitchen unit, with the cooking chamber being delimited by a generally rectangular muffle (20) having an open front face. Heater elements (41) are disposed inside the muffle and/or outside the muffle in a contiguous chamber, and a thermally insulating material (50) is moulded over the side walls of the muffle together with the contiguous chamber if present. The thermally insulating material constitutes the core of a frame for the apparatus and forms part of a structure which provides at least a portion of the outside walls of the apparatus. Moulding the insulating material directly over the cooking chamber facilitates manufacture and reduces heat losses through heat-conducting bridges.

Cooking chamber apparatus

Apparatus for electrostatically depositing powder on objects which move continuously through a powder-depositing booth of modular type having a powder depositing module (B) on each side of which there is an air filter module (A and C); the powder depositing module (B) has two compartment (B1, B2) next to each other each compartment having a distinct powder store tank (11, 12) which allows two layers of powder to be applied successively to the object to be treated. Application to enamelling objects.

Apparatus for electrostatically depositing powder in several different

An apparatus and method of using the apparatus for electrostatically depositing powder on moving objects. The apparatus includes powder-spraying chamber, air-filtering units adjacent the entrance and exit of the chamber, and at least one re-ionization chamber disposed between an air-filtering unit and the powder-spraying chamber. Each re-ionization chamber has walls extending transversely to the direction of motion of the objects through the apparatus to direct powder towards the objects on which powder is to be deposited.

Method and apparatus for re-ionizing insulating powder in an

Electrostatic powder-depositing installation

A fluidization unit comprising a fluidizer (2) and a chamber (1) for containing a granular, powdery or like substance (3) to be fluidized. The chamber has at least one air-tight wall and the fluidizer comprises an assembly of an air-tight base sheet member (5), a porous sheet member (4), and a peripheral sealing member (6), holding the sheet members apart in a fixed relationship. In operation, said fluidizer is placed in the chamber with its air-tight base member resting against an air-tight wall of the chamber. A preferred application is in the handling of powders for electrostatic enamelling.

Fluidization unit

Apparatus for electrostatically depositing powder on objects which move continuously through a powder-depositing booth of modular type having a powder depositing module (B) on each side of which there is an air filter module (A and C); the powder depositing module (B) has two compartment (B1, B2) next to each other each compartment having a distinct powder store tank (11, 12) which allows two layers of powder to be applied successively to the object to be treated. Application to enamelling objects Figure to be published: FIG. 2.

Method for electrostatically depositing powder in several different

An installation for electrostatic deposition of powder on objects travelling continuously, by means of a conveyor, through a treatment cage with a side entrance and exit comprises a filtering system, a system for supplying powder and compressed air and a tank for recovery of powder. The cage comprises at least two modules, namely, a first module for storing, projecting and recovering powder, which contains elements for projection of powder onto the objects to be processed, and a second module for filtering and recycling the air in which the air loaded with powder originating from the first module is filtered and recycled to the first module. The cage includes at least one air lock to prevent escape of powder laden air to the exterior of the cage.

Installation for electrostatic deposition of powder on objects

A device for applying voltage to a part to be treated by an electrochemical process in which physical contact is established between a current supplying device and the part to be treated only at the moment of treatment, in particular in the case of enamelling by electrophoresis. The device includes an insulating housing (9) for a contact unit, said housing surrounding a connection box (11) connected to electricity supply cables, the insulating housing and the connection box being movable with respect to each other and including contacts (13, 12) which are closed by movement of the insulating housing with respect to the connection box when the contact unit housing is pressed against the part to be treated. The device applies in particular to enamelling by electrophoresis.

Device for applying voltage to a part for electrochemical treatment

The method is particularly suitable for applying enamel by electrophoresis inside a hollow body, e.g. a sheet metal part. It consists in using an expandable cathode which, when expanded, approaches the interior angles of the hollow body, thereby favoring deposition of enamel in otherwise unfavored regions of the hollow body. Also, the expandable cathode is hollow and has a fluid flowing through it to drain off unwanted ions which could damage the enamel slip.

Method of coating the inside surface of a hollow body

A method of enamelling sheets (e.g. cooker panels) in which hooks are used to suspend the sheets during the enamelling procedure and in which deposits of enamel are prevented from building up on the hooks by covering them initially with an under-coat of non-pellicular aluminium paint. This has the effect of retaining the enamel that may be deposited on the hooks until after firing (thereby avoiding spoiling the enamel of the sheets with particles of broken hook enamel) but of enabling the enamel to be removed after firing either by heating and quenching the hooks or by vibrating them (or both).

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Orleans, France

Alain Gernez