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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1989
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
A highly reflective surface coating is formed by spraying a paint on a substrate as a vehicle body in a thickness thicker than a thickness at which the paint sags and rotating the substrate about its horizontal axis at a speed between a lower limit and an upper limit in order to cause no sagging until the paint sprayed is cured to a sagless state. Before the paint is sprayed in that thickness, an edge portion of the substrate is lowered than other portions thereof, thus preventing a mass of the paint from swelling on a top coat at its edge portion and providing a good appearance on the surface coating. The lowering of the edge portion thereof is effected by lowering the substrate itself without any coat or by spraying the edge portion in a film thickness thinner than the other portion thereof. The coat sprayed with a paint containing a volatilizable solvent may be dried through sequential setting and baking steps, while a powder paint sprayed may be baked without setting. The paint containing such a solvent may cause sagging in both the setting and baking steps or only in the setting step. The sagging is prevented by rotating the substrate during the time when the paint is sagging.