Abb Research Ltd.

Gunter Borner

Jorg Sopka

Johann Christoph Nienburg

Josef Wittmann

Hans-Christoph Nienburg

Helmut Bohme

Anton Puhane

Hans Christoph Nienburg

Lars-Erik Johansson

Wolfgang Kleber

Enar Ahlbert

A process and a dispersion apparatus for shaping a powder cloud emerging from a powder spraying apparatus achieve large powder clouds and good electrostatic charging by directing control air in a tangential direction towards a powder/air stream flowing through the dispersion apparatus in an axial spraying direction. A helically accelerated movement of the powder/air stream in the direction of an outlet is achieved thereby.

Dispersion apparatus and process for producing a large cloud of an

Workpieces are electrostatically coated with powder materials. It is possible to attain a relatively large coating thickness in a single operation by simultaneously or alternately coating with powder particles that have a different electrical charge. The process can be used in applying single-component or multi-component coating materials.

Electrostatic coating process

A method and an apparatus for powder spraying can be used, for example, for electrostatic enameling. In order to achieve an easily regulatable high powder output rate, it is proposed to fluidize powder in a closed container, extract it in the region of the fluid bed and cause it to emerge through a nozzle on the container. The container is subdivided by a frit into a first chamber to which air is fed and a second chamber which contains the powder and out of which air is discharged through a valve. A powder output rate can be regulated by the regulation of air pressures.

Method and apparatus for powder spraying

A method and a device for controlling the outflow of fluid powder from a container can be used for controlling the expulsion of powder out of a powder-spraying apparatus for electrostatic coating. The disadvantages of a mechanical closing device are avoided by introducing closing air into an extraction pipe for extracting fluidized powder out of a container. The closing air is introduced through a pipe which opens into an orifice in the casing of the extraction pipe. The mass flow of fluidized powder can be controlled by an appropriate setting of a pressure in the extraction pipe in relation to the pressure in the fluid bed, that is to say by the introduction of closing air at an appropriate pressure.

Method and device for controlling the outflow of a fluidized solid from

A piston valve for liquids provides potential isolation between an inlet-side and an outlet-side liquid. The piston valve is suitable, in particular, for controlling water-based paints in painting appliances which operate by electrostatic charging. At least one control electrode which is at the electric potential of the liquid present at the outlet of the valve is provided in order to improve the service life of the valve.

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Muhlhausen, Germany

Gunter Borner