Unipolarity powder coating systems including tribocharging and corona gun combination

A plurality of unconventional negative tribo-charging materials are described for use as the powder contact surfaces in tribocharging and corona powder spray guns, gun components, and powder delivery system components. The invention also provides a short s barrel tribo-charging powder spray gun (200...

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Main Authors REHMAN WILLIAM R, MESSERLY JAMES W
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 16.12.2004
Edition7
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APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
ATOMISING APPARATUS
NOZZLES
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
SPRAYING APPARATUS
SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL
TRANSPORTING
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Summary:A plurality of unconventional negative tribo-charging materials are described for use as the powder contact surfaces in tribocharging and corona powder spray guns, gun components, and powder delivery system components. The invention also provides a short s barrel tribo-charging powder spray gun (200) having an interchangeable powder contact insert (220) and nozzle (230), with turbulence inducing air jets. The invention further provides novel tribocharging and corona gun designs. Improved powder coating systems are made possible wherein, for example, negative tribo guns can be utilized with negative corona guns to coat different parts of the same workpiece in a powder coating system Also provided is an inside-out configuration in which pressurized air directs powder coating material outward towards a charging surface. Additional configurations provide air jet (981) induced tribocharging and conventional tribocharging portions combined in a single gun. Also provided is a spraying apparatus that combines tribocharging and/or directed air tribocharging with corona charging. A switch arrangement (1000) is provided to select or change charging modes of the spraying apparatus.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20040491228