COLOR CUSTOMIZATION FOR PAINT APPLICATION ASSEMBLY

• Main Author: MARK E. DION
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: 13.12.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; ATOMISING APPARATUS; COLORIMETRY; MEASUREMENT OF INTENSITY, VELOCITY, SPECTRAL CONTENT,POLARISATION, PHASE OR PULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFRA-RED,VISIBLE OR ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT; MEASURING; MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING, DISPERSING; NOZZLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; PROCESSES FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; RADIATION PYROMETRY; SPRAYING APPARATUS; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; TESTING; TRANSPORTING

A method of painting a product in a production painting facility includes the steps of selecting a hue and a chroma corresponding to the hue. The production painting facility utilizes a plurality of base paints that are mixable to constitute the hue and chroma selected. The base paints are pumped to a blending device in a ratio determined to be necessary to formulate the hue and chroma selected. The base paints are blended in the blending device according to the predetermined ratio forming a secondary paint having the hue and chroma previously selected. The secondary paint is delivered to a paint applicator such as an atomizer bell or an equivalent and is applied to the product being painted. The base paints are mixed at the production facility to create a virtually limitless number of secondary paint colors with only a limited number of base paints. Un metodo de pintar un producto en una instalacion de pintura de produccion incluye los pasos de seleccionar un tono y un croma correspondiente al tono. La instalacion de pintura de produccion utiliza una pluralidad de pinturas base que se pueden mezclar para constituir el tono y croma seleccionados. Las pinturas base se bombean a un dispositivo mezclador en una relacion que se determina que es necesaria para formular el tono y croma seleccionados. Las pinturas base se mezclan en el dispositivo mezclador segun la relacion predeterminada formando una pintura secundaria que tiene el tono y croma previamente seleccionados. La pintura secundaria se suministra a un aplicador de pintura, tal como una campana atomizadora o un equivalente, y se aplica al producto que se pinta. Las pinturas base se mezclan en la instalacion de produccion para crear un numero virtualmente ilimitado de colores de pintura secundaria con solamente un numero limitado de pinturas base.