PROGRAMMED MEANS FOR IMPARTING COMPOUND MOTION TO A SPRAY GUN

• US 3,606,162 A
• Filed: 08/28/1969
• Issued: 09/20/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ransburg-Gema AG
• Original Assignee: Lehmann Ernst
• Inventors: LEHMANN ERNST
• Application Number:
  US04/853,911
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• US Class Current: 239/227
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 13/0431 with spray heads moved by robots or articulated arms, e.g. for applying liquid or other fluent material to 3D-surfaces B05B13/0436, B05B13/0442, B05B13/0447, B05B13/0463 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/023 Cartesian coordinate type
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/16 Programme controls programme controls in general G05B19/00, e.g. numerical pogramme controls G05B19/18; recording or playback systems G05B19/42
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/08 using plugboards, cross-bar distributors, matrix switches, or the like

Abstract

SPRAYING APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY COATING WORKPIECES WITH COATING MATERIAL APPLIED BY MEANS OF A SPRAY GUN THE APPARATUS INCLUDING A CARRIER HEADS ON WHICH A SPRAY GUN IS MOUNTED FOR PIVOTING MOVEMENT IN A VERTICAL PLANE. THE CARRIER HEAD IS MOUNTED ON A LIFTING STAND FOR VERTICAL UP AND DOWN MOVEMENT AND THE LIFTING STAND IS PLACED ON CARRIAGE MEANS FOR MOVEMENT IN A HORIZONTAL PLANE IN TWO DIRECTIONS AT RIGHT ANGLES TO EACH OTHER. THE MOVEMENTS OF THE SPRAY GUN, LIFTING STAND AND CARRIAGE MEANS ARE EFFECTED BY MOTORS CONTROLLED BY PROGRAM CONTROL DEVICES ADAPTED TO BE SET TO PRODUCE A SEQUENCE OF OPERATING STEPS OF THE SPRAY GUN, LIFTING STAND AND CARRIAGE MEANS.

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