System for applying hot melt adhesive powder onto a non-metallic object surface

• US 8,505,477 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2012
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Orisol Asia Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Orisol Asia Ltd.
• Inventors: Makover, Jakov, Mardix, Bar Cochva, Sadeh, Yaacov
• Primary Examiner(s): TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T
• Application Number:
  US13/545,980
• Publication Number:
  US 20120272899A1
• Time in Patent Office: 398 Days
• Field of Search: 118/324, 118/308, 118/309, 118620-643, 118/58, 118/326, 118/66, 118 72- 74, 427457-486, 156/283
• US Class Current: 118/308
• CPC Class Codes: A43D 25/00 Devices for gluing shoe parts
• CPC Class Codes: A43D 25/20 Arrangements for activating or for accelerating setting of adhesives, e.g. by using heat
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 14/48 specially adapted for particulate material
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 16/95 the objects or other work to be sprayed lying on, or being held above the conveying means, i.e. not hanging from the conveying means
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 5/001 incorporating means for heating or cooling, e.g. the material to be sprayed
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 5/032 for spraying particulate materials
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 65/4815 Hot melt adhesives, e.g. thermoplastic adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 65/486 characterised by their physical form being non-liquid, e.g. in the form of granules or powders B29C65/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 65/522 by spraying, e.g. by flame spraying
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2031/50 Footwear, e.g. shoes or parts thereof

Abstract

A system for applying hot melt adhesive powder onto a non-metallic object surface comprises a convey belt, a radiation chamber, a spraying chamber and a heating chamber. The convey belt is used to deliver a non-metallic object treated by a cleaning agent and a conductive liquid through the radiation chamber where the surface of the non-metallic objected is irradiated by ultraviolet rays and ozone and then through the spraying chamber where the surface of the non-metallic object is sprayed with charged hot melt adhesive powder, and finally into the heating chamber where the hot melt adhesive powder attached onto the non-metallic object will be melted into a liquid adhesive film ready to be bonded.

Claims

1. A system for applying hot melt adhesive powder onto a non-metallic object surface comprising:

a convey belt, a radiation chamber, a spraying chamber and a heating chamber;

characterized in that;

the convey belt is located under the radiation chamber, the spraying chamber and the heating chamber for delivering a to-be-bonded object into the radiation chamber, the spraying chamber and the heating chamber in order;

the radiation chamber is located above the convey belt and installed with at least one ultraviolet ray lamp at an upper side thereof, the radiation chamber is further provided with a ozone generator, the radiation chamber irradiates the to-be-bonded object by ultraviolet rays and ozone;

the spraying chamber is located above the convey belt and installed with at least one spray head at an upper side thereof, the at least one spray head sprays charged hot melt adhesive powder onto a surface of the to-be-bonded object, the spraying chamber is further provided with at least one blowing device at a proper position to remove away the hot melt adhesive powder outside a to-be-bonded area on the surface of the to-be-bonded object;

the heating chamber is located above the convey belt and provided with a heating device to generate heat to melt the hot melt adhesive powder.

2. The system for applying hot melt adhesive powder onto a non-metallic object surface as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that:

a speed of the convey belt is adjusted by a variable speed motor.

3. The system for applying hot melt adhesive powder onto a non-metallic object surface as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that:

a speed of the convey belt is adjusted by a driver.

4. The system for applying hot melt adhesive powder onto a non-metallic object surface as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that:

each of the blowing devices is an air nozzle with adjustable directivity and flow intensity.

5. The system for applying hot melt adhesive powder onto a non-metallic object surface as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that:

the heating chamber is further provided with a thermostat cooperating with a temperature sensor disposed in the heating chamber to control a temperature in the heating chamber.

6. The system for applying hot melt adhesive powder onto a non-metallic object surface as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that:

the heating device in the heating chamber includes at least one infrared lamp.