Durr Systems Gmbh

Richard Ostin

Frank Herre

Michael Baumann

Rainer Melcher

Manfred Michelfelder

Robert F Heldt

Herbert Martin

Joachim Hering

Bernhard Seiz

Marcus Frey

Thomas Hezel

Alexander Meissner

Hans Jurgen Nolte

Jürgen Haas

Detlev Hannig

Hans Schumacher

Einar Endregaard

Stefan Esslinger

Salvador Vergara

Andreas Schaal

A robot arrangement, for example for a painting booth, and exemplary methods associated with the same, are disclosed. An exemplary robot arrangement may comprise a displacement rail, a plurality of robots, such as painting robots or handling robots, which can be displaced along the displacement rail, and a plurality of energy supply chains. The energy supply chains may supply one of the robots each, and may be associated with said robot, and each of the energy supply chains may run along the displacement rail in a particular track. The energy supply chains which are associated with the robots on the same displacement rail may run in discrete tracks.

Robot arrangement, in particular in a painting booth

A coating material supply device is disclosed, such as for a paint facility. An exemplary coating material supply device may include a coating material reservoir and a coating material meter. During application of coating material, the coating material reservoir may be at ground potential and may be located upstream from the coating material meter, which may be at a high-voltage potential. The reservoir may be connected via an insulating path to the coating material meter. The coating material meter may be at ground potential when the coating material reservoir supplies coating material to the coating material meter. Before the coating material meter is returned to a high-voltage potential for continued application of coating material, the insulating path may be emptied to insulate the coating material meter from the coating material reservoir.

Coating material supply installation and associated operating procedure

The disclosed apparatus includes a supply line () between a source of liquid paint () and an applicator () having at least two pigs (A andB) and a source of liquid solvent () which delivers solvent () between the two pigs (A andB) and the pigs (A andB) are driven by paint () from adjacent the paint source () to the applicator (). The apparatus further includes a second source of liquid solvent () which delivers solvent () between the pigs (A andB) adjacent the applicator () and the pigs (A andB) are returned through the supply line (), thereby flushing the supply line (). In the disclosed embodiment, the source of liquid paint () is a piston dosing device () which receives paint () from a color changer or the like and delivers a predetermined volume of paint () to the applicator (). The delivery line () preferably includes a friction resistant inner layer, an intermediate dielectric layer and a protective outer layer.

Method and apparatus for delivering paint to an applicator and flushing same

A paint delivery and application system including a color changer, at least two paint canisters and a paint applicator, a first pair of supply lines connected between the color changer and the paint canisters and a second pair of supply lines connecting the paint canisters and the paint applicator, wherein the paint canisters operate in tandem permitting delivery of a first paint to one of the paint canisters while a second paint canister is electrically isolated from the color changer and is delivering paint to the applicator. In one disclosed embodiment, the delivery line from the paint canisters to the applicator includes two pigs and solvent is delivered between the pigs, such that this system is self purging.

Paint delivery and application system and method

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Farmington, MI, United States of America

Richard Ostin