Ransburg-gema Ag

Silvano Gelain

Bernard Dinkel

Bernhard Dinkel

A powder coating apparatus fluidizes coating powder in a powder container and mixes with the fluidized powder an additional substance, such as steam, water or other liquid. The additional substance is delivered into the interior of one or a plurality of enclosed bells which extend across the powder container. Each bell has a respective lower opening deep enough into the powder container to be immersed in the fluidized coating powder. The additional substance is delivered under pressure through a tube passing through the bell, through outlet nozzles in the tube and into the bell and then pressurizes the bell to keep the fluidized powder out of the bell and to deliver the additional substance out of the lower opening into the fluidized powder.

Powder coating apparatus

A generally rectangularly shaped powder coating booth of a powder spraying apparatus is fomed of two main sections, each of which is constituted of wall and roof elements which are swingably interconnected to one another. The walls and roof of each half of the booth may be straightened out to form a flat, continuous and rectangularly shaped surface from which residues of powder may be removed easily and rapidly. Thus when the two halves of the booth are flattened out the booth is transformed into two parallel and spaced surfaces which can be cleaned by being vacuumed by a respective suction nozzle that is disposed to travel over and vacuum the surfaces automatically.

Powder coating booth

A powder coating booth has a bottom surface on which powder is collected and from which the powder should be removed. Two scrapers are supported on a transport device which move them together. Each scraper is movable from its respective end of the booth toward a central collection region. Since the scrapers are moved simultaneously, one is moving toward the collection region while the other is moving away. As a scraper moves toward the central collection region, it scrapes powder from the surface and delivers it to the collection region. Each scraper swings into an operating, surface scraping position as it moves from its respective end of the booth toward the collection region, and swings into an upraised, non-scraping position, as each moves from the collection region back to the end region. A cable with scraper engaging flights on it is movable for engaging the scrapers and for moving and for swinging them. The scraper moving cable exits from the booth through a wall and a gas nozzle external to the wall blows powder off the cable and back into the booth.

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St. Gallen, Switzerland

Silvano Gelain