Electrostatic spray gun for powdered material

• US 4,169,560 A
• Filed: 02/16/1978
• Issued: 10/02/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ESB Elektrostatische Spruh- und Beschichtungsanlagen GF Vohringer GmbH
• Original Assignee: Elektrostatische-Spritz-Und Beflockungsgesellschaft GF Vohringer GmbH
• Inventors: Vohringer, Gerhard F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Saifer, Robert W.
• Application Number:
  US05/878,377
• Time in Patent Office: 593 Days
• Field of Search: 239/456, 239/515, 239/600, 239/697, 239/698
• US Class Current: 239/698
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 5/032 for spraying particulate materials
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 5/1691 Apparatus to be carried on or by a person or with a container fixed to the discharge device

Abstract

An electrostatic spray gun for powdered material in which separate connecns for supplying powder and compressed air are provided together with a spray tube and spray nozzle. A charging device charges the powder electrostatically. The connections for the powder and compressed gas supply are held in a common housing portion. A gun barrel, together with spray nozzle, constitute nested hollow members fastened to the front of the housing. A barrel head on an outer end of the gun barrel holds the spray nozzle to the outer end of the spray tube which is fastened axially and radially to the housing by an exterior barrel tube. A spacer which encloses the spray tube is held on both ends and is fixed to rotate with housing and barrel head.

Claims

1. An electrostatic spray gun for powdered material comprising, in combination, a common housing;

connection means for supplying powder and compressed gas;

a spray tube, a spray nozzle;

a charging device for electrostatically charging the powder, said connection means for the powder and compressed gas supply being held in said common housing portion;

a gun barrel, said gun barrel with said spray nozzle comprising detachably nested hollow members fastened replaceable to the front side of said housing;

a barrel head mounted on an outer end of said gun barrel and holding said spray nozzle fitting to an outer end of said spray tube fastened axially and radially to said housing by an exterior barrel tube; and

a spacer enclosing said spray tube and held on both ends and rotating with said housing and said barrel head.

2. The spray gun as defined in claim 1, including a barrel base fastened detachably to said housing, said barrel tube being threaded to said barrel base.

3. The spray gun as defined in claim 2, wherein said spacer has a rectangular external cross section and engages front side transverse grooves of said barrel base and said barrel head.

4. The spray gun as defined in claim 3, including a high voltage line in annular space between said barrel tube and said spacer and in rim grooves from said barrel base and said barrel head, said rim grooves being located in proximity of said transverse grooves.

5. The spray gun as defined in claim 4, including a hollow handle for passing therethrough said high voltage line;

and a protective resistor in a recess in said housing, said high voltage line passing through said recess in said housing to said gun barrel and being connected to said protective resistor.

6. The spray gun as defined in claim 5, including an adjustable nozzle sleeve;

said spray nozzle on the inside of said barrel head on the free end thereof and said nozzle sleeve on the outside of said barrel head being removably attached and being shiftable in the longitudinal direction of the barrel.

7. The spray gun as defined in claim 6, including O-rings on the outside of said barrel head for holding said spray nozzle and O-rings on the inside of said barrel head for holding said nozzle sleeve by static friction.

8. The spray gun as defined in claim 7, wherein said spray nozzle comprises a rod passing axially through said spray opening, a cone-shaped baffle mounted on said rod at an axial distance from the nozzle opening.

9. The spray gun as defined in claim 8, including an O-ring for attaching said baffle to said rod, said baffle being mounted on said rod and being movable in the longitudinal direction of said rod.

10. The spray gun as defined in claim 8, including two interchangeable spray nozzles, one spray nozzle having at least one axially projecting electrode on the free end of said rod, and one spray nozzle having an electrode on the nozzle opening located to the rear of said nozzle sleeve.