Pressure-Siphon Switch for Pneumatic Spray Gun

• US 20100163649A1
• Filed: 12/30/2008
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MAT Industries, LLC (MAT Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Campbell Hausfeld/Scott Fetzer Company (Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated)
• Inventors: Bass, Gary S., Mulford, Ronald J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,066,205 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 239/408
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 15/62 Arrangements for supporting spraying apparatus, e.g. suction cups
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 15/63 Handgrips
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/066 with an inner liquid outlet surrounded by at least one annular gas outlet
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/0815 with at least one gas jet intersecting a jet constituted by a liquid or a mixture containing a liquid for controlling the shape of the latter
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/083 comprising rotatable spray shaping gas jet outlets
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/0838 comprising a single means controlling simultaneously the flow rates of shaping and spraying gas jets
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/1209 the controlling means for each liquid or other fluent material being manual and interdependent
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/2408 characterised by the container or its attachment means to the spray apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/2435 the carried liquid and the main stream of atomising fluid being brought together by parallel conduits placed one inside the other
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/2437 and a secondary stream of atomising fluid being brought together in the container or putting the carried fluid under pressure in the container
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/2478 Gun with a container which, in normal use, is located above the gun

Abstract

An apparatus for use with a paint container includes a nozzle and a housing. The nozzle receives paint from the container. The housing has a handle, an air inlet, and an air flow path configured to direct air from the inlet into the container. A valve body opens and closes the air flow path into the container upon moving back and forth between open and closed positions. The valve body moves between those positions by rotating about an axis without moving along the axis.

Claims

1. An apparatus for use with a paint container, comprising:

a nozzle configured to receive paint from the paint container;

a housing having a handle, an air inlet, and an air flow path configured to direct air from the inlet into the paint container; and

a valve body configured to open and close the air flow path into the paint container upon moving back and forth between open and closed positions by rotating about an axis while remaining stationary along the axis.

2. An apparatus as defined in claim 1 wherein the open and closed positions of the valve body are spaced apart from each other less than 360 degrees about the axis.

3. An apparatus as defined in claim 1 wherein the valve body is further configured to shift the paint container into and out of air flow communication with the atmosphere upon moving into and out of the closed position.

4. An apparatus as defined in claim 3 wherein the valve body has an air pressure passage configured to align with the air flow path when the valve body is in the open position, and further has a vent passage configured to communicate the paint container with the atmosphere when the valve body is in the closed position.

5. An apparatus as defined in claim 4 wherein the vent passage is entirely separate from the air pressure passage.

6. An apparatus comprising:

a paint container;

a nozzle assembly configured to receive paint from the paint container;

a housing having a handle, an air inlet, and an air flow path configured to direct pressurized air from the air inlet into the paint container; and

a valve configured to place the paint container in a pressure condition in which the pressurized air is directed to flow into the paint container, to place the paint container in a siphon condition in which the paint container is vented to the atmosphere and the pressurized air is blocked from flowing into the paint container, and to shift the paint container between the pressure condition and the siphon condition by rotating about an axis while remaining stationary along the axis.

7. An apparatus as defined in claim 6 wherein the valve comprises a valve body configured to open and close the air flow path upon rotating back and forth between open and closed positions, and the valve body has an axially extending air pressure passage configured to move into and out of alignment with the fluid flow path when the valve body rotates into and out of the open position.

8. An apparatus as defined in claim 7 wherein the valve body further has a vent passage configured to communicate the paint container with the atmosphere when the valve body is in the closed position.

9. An apparatus as defined in claim 8 wherein the air pressure passage and the vent passage are entirely separate from each other.

10. An apparatus as defined in claim 6 wherein valve comprises a valve body configured to open and close the fluid flow path upon rotating back and forth between open and closed positions, with the valve and container together defining opposite ends of a rotational range of movement of the valve body between the open and closed positions.

11. An apparatus as defined in claim 10 wherein the rotational range of movement of the valve body is less than 360 degrees about the axis.

12. An apparatus as defined in claim 11 wherein the range is less than 90 degrees.

13. An apparatus as defined in claim 12 wherein the range is about 30 degrees.

14. An apparatus comprising:

a nozzle;

a housing having a handle, a fluid inlet, and a fluid flow path configured to communicate the inlet with the nozzle;

a trigger valve configured to open and close the fluid flow path; and

a valve body configured to open and close the fluid flow path separately from the trigger valve upon moving back and forth between open and closed positions by rotating about an axis while remaining stationary along the axis;

the valve body having an axially extending air pressure passage configured to move into and out of alignment with the fluid flow path when the valve body rotates into and out of the open position.

15. An apparatus as defined in claim 14 wherein the housing is configured to receive a paint container in paint flow communication with the nozzle, the fluid inlet is an air inlet, the fluid flow path has a pressure mode section configured to direct air into the paint container, and the valve body is configured to open and close the pressure mode section of the fluid flow path.

16. An apparatus as defined in claim 15 wherein the valve body further has a vent passage configured to vent the container to the atmosphere when the valve body is in the closed position.

17. An apparatus as defined in claim 16 wherein the vent passage is entirely separate from the air pressure passage.