BOOTH FOR APPLYING A POWDERED COATING TO THE SURFACE OF WORKPIECES

• Main Authors: REISER, ARMIN, VOEHRINGER, GERHARD, FRIEDRICH
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; German
• Published: 05.02.1992
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; SEPARATION; SPRAYING APPARATUS; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; TRANSPORTING

PCT No. PCT/DE85/00558 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 2, 1986 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 2, 1986 PCT Filed Dec. 23, 1986 PCT Pub. No. WO86/03994 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 17, 1986.A booth for applying a powdered coating to the surface of workpieces in which a clean gas zone (47) is joined to the coating zone (18) via the rear wall (14), which is connected to an extractor fan. Located in a recess (21) of the rear wall (14) is a frame-like structure (22), the outer frame (17) of which is split up into individual areas (24) by means of frame cross-members (23), each area receiving a filter element (25), which is housed in an interchangeable cassette, and consisting of a continuous zig-zig shaped or wave-shaped surface-membrane filter strip. Each area of the frame is covered in a leakproof manner by a protective hood (69) in whose hood space (25) in an oblique manner towards the coating zone (18) and detach the excess powder attached to the membrane applied thereon, which is diverted through a slat-type screen (55) down to the floor of the booth (67) and into a powder container (80). Thorough cleaning can be effected by a second cleaning device arranged in the coating zone or after removal of an interchangable cassette from the booth.