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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2017
Applicant:
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Thomas Norton, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Kevin Ellwood, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C25D 13/12 (2006.01); B65G 35/06 (2006.01); C25D 13/22 (2006.01); B65G 49/04 (2006.01); B65G 17/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C25D 13/12 (2013.01); B65G 17/20 (2013.01); B65G 35/06 (2013.01); B65G 49/0413 (2013.01); C25D 13/22 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0294 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure includes a method for coating a vehicle body-in-white (BIW) in a tank of processing fluid. In one form, the method includes lowering the vehicle BIW in a tank of processing fluid, rotating the vehicle BIW around its lateral axis until the vehicle BIW is completely submerged in the processing fluid, and simultaneously conveying the vehicle BIW along a longitudinal axis of the tank while rotating the vehicle BIW around its longitudinal axis in a 'corkscrew' type movement.