EP0230147A2 - Gehäuse mit Luftvorhang für Förderer - Google Patents

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EP0230147A2
EP0230147A2 EP86310210A EP86310210A EP0230147A2 EP 0230147 A2 EP0230147 A2 EP 0230147A2 EP 86310210 A EP86310210 A EP 86310210A EP 86310210 A EP86310210 A EP 86310210A EP 0230147 A2 EP0230147 A2 EP 0230147A2
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Stanley Charles Napadow
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B13/00—Machines or plants for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces of objects or other work by spraying, not covered by groups B05B1/00 - B05B11/00
    • B05B13/02—Means for supporting work; Arrangement or mounting of spray heads; Adaptation or arrangement of means for feeding work
    • B05B13/0221—Means for supporting work; Arrangement or mounting of spray heads; Adaptation or arrangement of means for feeding work characterised by the means for moving or conveying the objects or other work, e.g. conveyor belts
    • B05B13/0264—Overhead conveying means, i.e. the object or other work being suspended from the conveying means; Details thereof, e.g. hanging hooks
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B16/00—Spray booths
    • B05B16/60—Ventilation arrangements specially adapted therefor
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B16/00—Spray booths
    • B05B16/90—Spray booths comprising conveying means for moving objects or other work to be sprayed in and out of the booth, e.g. through the booth

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  • This invention relates to a device for protecting the mechanism of a conveyor system that carries articles through deleterious atmospheres existing within paint spraying booths, washer or filter air cleaning systems, finish-baking ovens, and other product treatment booths.
  • the atmosphere within a product treatment booth through which a conveyor system transports the product is quite corrosive or contaminated and, consequently, is capable of binding up or corroding the support and drive components of the conveyor system within a very short period of time.
  • This can dramatically increase the power required to operate the conveyor and, ultimately, cause a breakdown of the conveyor system, often entailing great expense due to the cost of repairs as well as the loss of production during the time which the conveyor is nonfunctional.
  • Such a system has proven successful in preventing the migration of deleterious atmospheric fluid into the conveyor housing, thus maintaining the conveyor mechanism generally clean, and in protecting the workpiece from being marred due to drippings from the conveyor, etc.
  • a system introduces large quantities of air into the treatment booth, which pressurizes the booth and introduces additional air which, in many cases, must be washed or filtered prior to being exhausted to the outside atmosphere. This burdens the booth's existing air cleaning systems.
  • the air curtain introduces ambient temperature air into the booth, e.g., air at 68°F, the use of this air curtain in ovens has required that additional heated air be introduced into the oven to maintain the desired temperature, resulting in higher energy costs.
  • an air curtain conveyor protection system that prevents airborne particles from entering a slot through which the product support members extend from the conveyor mechanism housing into the product treatment booth.
  • a continuous stream or curtain of high velocity air flows across the slot in the conveyor housing, exiting from an outlet or supply nozzle formed by a plenum on one side of the slot and entering into an suction means or suction nozzle formed on the opposite side of the slot by a second plenum.
  • Fan or blower means are associated with each plenum to force ambient air through the supply nozzle and to draw air through the exhaust nozzle.
  • the invention is generally used in connection with a protective chamber or booth, indicated by 10, through which articles 11 are transported by a conveyor system 12 in order to treat the articles 11 by, for example, spraying a finish thereon, baking on a finish, etc.
  • a protective chamber or booth indicated by 10
  • the illustrated booth 10 is a baking oven having insulated vertical side walls 14, top wall 15, and a heating plant 16 and exhaust stacks 17.
  • the booth 10 provides an enclosed environment that contains an atmosphere which may contain excessive amounts of sprayed liquid, liquid vapor, airborne particles, heat, acidic air, phosphates, etc., which are deleterious to the conveyor system.
  • an air cleaning system (not shown) is included with the booth 10 to remove the bulk of such deleterious impurities in the air before the air is discharged into the atmosphere ambient the outside of the booth 10.
  • the baking oven 10 has tandem conveyor systems 12a,b that transport the articles 11 on a U-shaped path through the booth 10 so as to enter and exit the booth 10 at the same end.
  • the conveyor 12 includes hangers 18 extending downwardly therefrom on which the articles 11 are placed in order to be transported through the booth 10.
  • the conveyor system 12 may be of various configurations and, as illustrated, includes an elongated channel or beam support 20 (best seen in FIG. 3) secured to the top wall 15 of the booth 10 with rollers 21 being maintained within the channel 20 for axial movement therealong by means of a flexible chain 22 and drive system (not shown).
  • the channel 20 and chain 22 are endless, i.e., in the form of a continuous loop, which allows bidirectional movement of the conveyor system 12.
  • the rollers 21 carry hook supports 24 which are secured to certain of the rollers 21 at spaced intervals along the length of the chain 22 for carriage of the hangers 18.
  • Each article 11 to be conveyed through the booth 10 is hung from the lower end of the hanger 18, typically at a distance considerably spaced from the conveyor support channel 20.
  • the space heretofore was preferably on the order of two to two and one-half feet in paint spray booths. This distance heretofore insured that any air flow from the air curtain downward toward the article 11 was dissipated before it could contact the article and mar the finish with particles carried thereby or ripple the paint due to the air velocity.
  • the conveyor components except for the lower portions of the hangers 18, are located within a housing or shrouding, generally indicated by 25, constructed of a fluid-impervious L-shaped sheet material 26 and generally surrounding the conveyor system except for an elongated continuous slot 28 defined by adjacent longitudinally-extending edges 29, 30 on the lower or bottom walls 31, 32, respectively, of the housing 25.
  • the conveyor hangers 18 extend through the slot 28 to provide the lower, exposed portion on which the articles 11 can be carried.
  • the outer surfaces of housing 25 support an insulating material 34 in order to protect the components of the conveyor system 12 from the high temperatures in the oven which might otherwise vaporize the lubricants on the conveyor or cause other problems.
  • the temperature of the conveyor leaving a high-temperature oven of 900°F would be about 200°F. Temperatures of this magnitude have an adverse effect on the conveyor lubrication and bearings. At such high temperatures, lubricants degrade or become liquid and drip from the conveyor onto the articles being conveyed. Also, it is preferred to limit this heat transfer so that the insulating material may be eliminated for the lower and medium temperature ovens operating at temperatures below 800°F.
  • the amount of ambient air exhausted into a large booth such as a washer or paint bake oven from a conventional conveyor protection device is quite large.
  • the air flowing through the slot of the air protection device at ambient temperatures may be ten percent of the air being heated in and recycled in the booth.
  • fans supplying air at 1200 cfm through the slots of conventional conveyor protection devices will soon pressurize the acidic air in the washer.
  • acidic air must be withdrawn and normalized before discharge.
  • the discharge of acidic air from a washer also results in the loss of steam, heat, phosphates, etc. that are in a typical washer atmosphere.
  • the conveyor protection device protects the conveyor by an air curtain discharged across the slot 28 with only a minimal discharge of the air curtain fluid or air flowing into the interior of the booth 10 which would lower the temperature in the booth or pressurize the booth.
  • This is achieved by discharging air from a first nozzle means 45 on one side of the slot and by receiving the discharged air in a suction means or second nozzle means 46 on the other side of the slot which draws the discharged air and pulls the same into an air discharge duct.
  • a push-pull effect across the slot with air being pushed from the air supply nozzle and pulled across the slots and taken off by the pull or suction means 46.
  • this air curtain also acts as a barrier to heat transfer from the oven to the conveyor so that the conveyor operates at a lower temperature.
  • rising airborne particles from the booth 10 are prevented from entering slot 28 into the protective conveyor housing 25, while any particles dripping from the conveyor system 12 are kept from entering the interior of the booth 10, by means of a continuous stream or curtain of high-velocity air across the slot 28 defined by the edges 29, 30 of the housing 25.
  • the air curtain exits from an outlet nozzle means formed by a plenum on one side of the slot and is received into an inlet nozzle formed by a plenum on the opposite side of the slot.
  • Fan or blower means are associated with the two plenums to force the air into the plenum defining the outlet nozzle and to pull the air through the plenum defining the inlet nozzle.
  • plenums 35, 36 are formed interior of the conveyor housing 25 on opposite sides of the slot 28 by means of substantially impermeable L-shaped sheet members 38, 39 respectively.
  • the bottom walls 40, 41 of the sheets 38, 39 are substantially parallel to the bottom walls 31, 32 of the housing 25, with the edges 42, 44 of the bottom walls 40, 41 being substantially perpendicularly aligned with the edges 29, 30 that define the slot 28 in the housing 25.
  • the bottom walls 30, 41 together define an outlet or supply nozzle 45 for the plenum 35, while the bottom walls 31, 42 together define an inlet or exhaust nozzle 46 for the plenum 36.
  • blower or fan means Connected to each plenum 35, 36 through the top wall 15 of the booth 10 are blower or fan means, generally designated 48, 49.
  • blower system 48 supplies air to the outlet plenum 35 by means of a fan 50 powered by motor 51, with the downstream side of the fan 50 operably connected to the plenum 35 at spaced intervals along the length of the conveyor system by means of supply ducts 52 which are secured to duct fittings 54 extending through the top wall 15 into the plenum 35.
  • supply ducts 52 Extending between the blower means 48 and the individual supply ducts 52 is a common air delivery duct 53 which has sections 53a, 53b and 53c of reduced cross-sectional area in the downstream direction to aid in having each supply duct 52 receive a substantially uniform flow of air.
  • blower system 49 exhausts air from the inlet plenum 36 through duct fitting 55 and exhaust ducts 56 by means of fan 58 powered by a motor 59. Downstream of the fan 58 is an exhaust stack 61 through which the air from the conveyor or protection system is exhausted into the ambient atmosphere. Like the supply plenum 35, the exhaust ducts 56 are spaced at intervals along the plenum 36 for the length of the conveyor system.
  • a substantially-uniform, high-velocity flow between the supply nozzle 45 and the exhaust nozzle 46 forms an air curtain across the slot 48, generally indicated by the arrow 60 in FIGS. 3 and 4.
  • Such an air curtain 60 serves to prevent both the ingress of particles into the conveyor housing 25 and the egress of drippings from the conveyor system 12 through the slot 28 into the booth 10. It has been found that an air curtain having a velocity between about approximately 1,200 to 1,500 feet per minute produces an effective barrier at the slot 28.
  • the booth 10 illustrated and described herein which has approximately 60 feet of conveyor system mechanism in each of the tandem systems 12a, b, it has been estimated that for each system supply and exhaust fans 50, 58, having a capacity of 3,000 cubic feet per minute, provide such a velocity.
  • the exhaust nozzle 46 is sized to have a larger cross-sectional area than the supply nozzle 45. This ensures that as the wake of the flow 60 expands as it crosses the slot 28, substantially all the flow 60 is captured by the inlet nozzle 46 of the exhaust plenum 36. In practice, it has been found that satisfactory flow containment is achieved if the distance between the supply plenum walls 31, 40 is on the order of approximately 1/2 in., the distance between the exhaust plenum walls 32, 41 is between approximately 2 to 4 in., and the width of the slot 28 is between approximately 3 to 8 in.
  • an air curtain conveyor protection system is particularly advantageous when used in conjunction with finish-baking ovens. It is estimated that for an air curtain of approximately 1,000 cubic feet per minute having an ambient air temperature of approximately 70°F in an oven having a temperature of approximately 650°F, approximately 47,520 BTUs per hour are saved over a system in which the air curtain spills over completely into the oven and which, consequently, must be heated.
  • the protection device may be used with a variety of conveyor mechanisms different from the illustrated chain and hanger conveyor.
  • the conveyor may be floor mounted with a conveying pedestal projecting upwardly through a slot to hold the conveyed article above the slot and conveyor, with air being pushed and pulled across the slot.
  • the conveyor protection device can be used in a wide variety of environments and is not limited to the environments of paint spray booths, washers, and ovens herein described.

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EP0321693A2 (de) * 1987-12-23 1989-06-28 Präzisions-Werkzeuge AG Verfahren zur Reduzierung von Umgebungseinflüssen auf die Pulverbeschichtung eines Werkstückes und Pulverbeschichtungsanlage
EP0505694B1 (de) * 1991-03-27 1994-08-24 Thomas Merkenschlager Vorbehandlungsanlage zur Sprüh-Vorbehandlung von in einer nachgeordneten Beschichtungsanlage zu beschichtenden Gegenständen
US6802256B1 (en) * 1998-01-20 2004-10-12 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag Method and device for preventing uncontrolled spread of powder in a printing machine
CN113414039A (zh) * 2021-05-25 2021-09-21 安庆中船柴油机有限公司 一种船用部件喷涂生产线的气体过滤系统

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FR1367620A (fr) * 1963-06-11 1964-07-24 Perfectionnements au stockage de grains en vrac dans des fosses
FR2212765A5 (en) * 1973-01-03 1974-07-26 Emballage Ste Gle Pour Electrostatic resin coating of glass articles - using air curtains to prevent fouling of carrying jig
US4207833A (en) * 1978-12-28 1980-06-17 Protectaire Systems Co. Protected conveyor system

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FR1367620A (fr) * 1963-06-11 1964-07-24 Perfectionnements au stockage de grains en vrac dans des fosses
FR2212765A5 (en) * 1973-01-03 1974-07-26 Emballage Ste Gle Pour Electrostatic resin coating of glass articles - using air curtains to prevent fouling of carrying jig
US4207833A (en) * 1978-12-28 1980-06-17 Protectaire Systems Co. Protected conveyor system

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0321693A2 (de) * 1987-12-23 1989-06-28 Präzisions-Werkzeuge AG Verfahren zur Reduzierung von Umgebungseinflüssen auf die Pulverbeschichtung eines Werkstückes und Pulverbeschichtungsanlage
EP0321693A3 (en) * 1987-12-23 1990-05-02 Prazisions-Werkzeuge Ag Method for reducing ambient influences on the powder coamethod for reducing ambient influences on the powder coating of objects, and apparatus for powder coating ting of objects, and apparatus for powder coating
US5061510A (en) * 1987-12-23 1991-10-29 Prazisions-Werkzeuge Ag Process for reducing environmental influences on the powder coating of a workpiece, and powder coating facility
EP0505694B1 (de) * 1991-03-27 1994-08-24 Thomas Merkenschlager Vorbehandlungsanlage zur Sprüh-Vorbehandlung von in einer nachgeordneten Beschichtungsanlage zu beschichtenden Gegenständen
US6802256B1 (en) * 1998-01-20 2004-10-12 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag Method and device for preventing uncontrolled spread of powder in a printing machine
CN113414039A (zh) * 2021-05-25 2021-09-21 安庆中船柴油机有限公司 一种船用部件喷涂生产线的气体过滤系统
CN113414039B (zh) * 2021-05-25 2022-06-14 安庆中船柴油机有限公司 一种船用部件喷涂生产线的气体过滤系统

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