Portable manufacturing facility for manufacturing anti-slip flooring and method of manufacturing

• US 20050153075A1
• Filed: 03/02/2005
• Published: 07/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: W S Molnar Company
• Original Assignee: W S Molnar Company
• Inventors: Schulte, Joseph J., Pelto, Brian P., Heinl, Kevin J., Molnar, William S.
• Application Number:
  US11/070,616
• Publication Number:
  US 20050153075A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 427/299
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/14 the object being a workshop for servicing, for maintenance, or for carrying workmen during work lifting devices for movable platforms or cabins for workmen B66F11/04
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 4/00 Coating by spraying the coating material in the molten state, e.g. by flame, plasma or electric discharge build-up welding B23K, e.g. B23K5/18, B23K9/04
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 4/02 Pretreatment of the material to be coated, e.g. for coating on selected surface areas
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 4/12 characterised by the method of spraying
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 118/07 Hoods

Abstract

A method for coating a workpiece in a truck trailer manufacturing facility. The method includes the steps of cleaning and roughening a surface of a workpiece with a surface preparing machine, loading the workpiece into a coating machine housed in a truck trailer, and applying a coating to the surface of the workpiece.

Claims

1. A method for coating a workpiece in a truck trailer manufacturing facility, the method comprising:

cleaning and roughening a surface of a workpiece with a surface preparing machine;

loading the workpiece into a coating machine housed in a truck trailer; and

applying a coating to the surface of the workpiece.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the surface preparing machine is housed in the truck trailer.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the surface preparation machine is placed on the workpiece to clean and roughen the surface.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the workpiece is indexed through the truck trailer as the coating is applied.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the coating machine comprises a welding gun having automatic wire feed and compressed air for directing a thermal spray.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the welding gun is indexed across the workpiece as the workpiece moves through the coating machine on a power operated conveyor.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of cooling the workpiece.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of indexing the workpiece to an unloading platform disposed outside the truck trailer and cooling the workpiece on the unloading platform.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the surface preparing machine is a shot blasting machine, a scarifier, a wire wheel, or a grinding machine.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the workpiece is a plate made of metal.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the metal is an aluminum alloy.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein the metal is steel.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the workpiece is a metal grating section.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the metal is an aluminum alloy.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein the metal is steel.

16. A method for coating a workpiece in a truck trailer manufacturing facility, the method comprising:

providing a workpiece having a surface;

cleaning and roughening the surface with a surface preparing machine;

loading the workpiece onto a loading platform of the truck trailer;

feeding the workpiece into the truck trailer;

applying an anti-slip coating to the surface of the workpiece with a coating machine;

feeding the workpiece out of the truck trailer onto an unloading platform; and

allowing the workpiece to cool.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the workpiece is indexed through the truck trailer as the coating is applied.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein the coating machine comprises a welding gun having automatic wire feed and compressed air for directing a thermal spray toward the workpiece.

19. The method of claim 16 wherein welding gun is indexed across the workpiece as the workpiece moves through the coating machine on a power operated conveyor.