EP0411585A1 - Sprühbeschichtungs- und Trocknungsverfahren - Google Patents

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EP0411585A1
EP0411585A1 EP90114712A EP90114712A EP0411585A1 EP 0411585 A1 EP0411585 A1 EP 0411585A1 EP 90114712 A EP90114712 A EP 90114712A EP 90114712 A EP90114712 A EP 90114712A EP 0411585 A1 EP0411585 A1 EP 0411585A1
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Yoshio Ing. Mazda Motor Corp. Tanimoto
Tadamitsu Mazda Motor Corp. Nakahama
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
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    • B05D1/00—Processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials
    • B05D1/002—Processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials the substrate being rotated
    • 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
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05D—PROCESSES FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05D3/00—Pretreatment of surfaces to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be applied; After-treatment of applied coatings, e.g. intermediate treating of an applied coating preparatory to subsequent applications of liquids or other fluent materials
    • B05D3/02—Pretreatment of surfaces to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be applied; After-treatment of applied coatings, e.g. intermediate treating of an applied coating preparatory to subsequent applications of liquids or other fluent materials by baking
    • B05D3/0254—After-treatment
    • B05D3/0272—After-treatment with ovens
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05D—PROCESSES FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05D3/00—Pretreatment of surfaces to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be applied; After-treatment of applied coatings, e.g. intermediate treating of an applied coating preparatory to subsequent applications of liquids or other fluent materials
    • B05D3/04—Pretreatment of surfaces to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be applied; After-treatment of applied coatings, e.g. intermediate treating of an applied coating preparatory to subsequent applications of liquids or other fluent materials by exposure to gases
    • B05D3/0406—Pretreatment of surfaces to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be applied; After-treatment of applied coatings, e.g. intermediate treating of an applied coating preparatory to subsequent applications of liquids or other fluent materials by exposure to gases the gas being air
    • B05D3/0426—Cooling with air
    • 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
    • B05B13/04—Means for supporting work; Arrangement or mounting of spray heads; Adaptation or arrangement of means for feeding work the spray heads being moved during spraying operation
    • B05B13/0447—Installation or apparatus for applying liquid or other fluent material to conveyed separate articles
    • B05B13/0452—Installation or apparatus for applying liquid or other fluent material to conveyed separate articles the conveyed articles being vehicle bodies

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  • the present invention relates to a coating method.
  • a method of coating an outer surface of a coating substrate such as a vehicle body generally includes steps: the preparatory step of removing dirt attached on the coating substrate, the coating step of spraying the coating substrate with a paint and the drying step of drying the paint coated on the coating substrate.
  • the drying step may generally be executed at two stages: a setting step and a baking step.
  • the setting step is usually carried out prior to the baking step at temperatures lower than those applied in the baking step, for example, in ambient atmosphere or at temperatures of 40 to 60 °C , as is called temporary baking.
  • the temperature in the baking step may usually be around approximately 140 °C .
  • the coating substrate is being passed through the preparatory step, the coating step and the drying step while being transported on a transporting means such as a carriage.
  • the coating substrate is held in a given posture at each step, in which the substrate is treated.
  • a degree of evenness As one standard for evaluating the quality of a coated surface is a degree of evenness (a degree of smoothness). The greater the degree of evenness becomes, the smaller a degree of irregularities or roughness on the coated surface, thereby providing a better coated surface. In order to improve the degree of evenness, it is known that it can be done if the thickness of a coated layers that is, the thickness of a paint coated, is made thicker.
  • the "sagging" of a paint is a factor for adversely affecting the quality of the surface of the coated substrate.
  • the sagging arises as the coated paint flows downwardly to a large extent due to gravity, and a "sag” is more likely to occur as the thickness of a paint coated per once gets larger.
  • the cause of the "sag” is eventually an influence of the gravity so that the sagging is likely to arise on a surface of the coating substrate extending in its vertical direction, that is, a so-called vertical surface.
  • a fender extending vertically is likely to cause sagging while a bonnet and a trunk lid extending transversely are unlikely to cause sagging, when coated with a paint.
  • the thickness of the paint thicker on a surface of the coating substrate extending in a horizontal direction, that is, a so-called horizontal surface, which does not cause problems with the "sagging" so much, than on the vertical surface. Furthermore, if the thickness of the coat layer on the horizontal surface is made equal to that on the vertical surface, irregularities on the horizontal surface is rendered smaller due to the flow of the paint coated thereon to such an extent as causing no sagging, than the vertical surface, and a degree of evenness is provided on the horizontal surface than on the vertical surface.
  • the coating is effected using a paint having the smallest possible flowability, or the lowest possible viscosity, in order to provide a coated surface with the highest possible degree of evenness while preventing the "sagging" of the coated paint.
  • a so-called “sagging limit” that is a limit to the thickness of the paint, which causes sagging on the vertical surface, is approximately 40 ⁇ m that is the maximum that is the thickness of the coat layer for conventional thermosetting. More specifically, the "sag" of such thermosetting paints is likely to occur at the initial stages of the setting and baking steps, particularly at the initial stage of the baking step.
  • U. S. Patent Nos. 4,874,639 and 4,919,977 disclose coating methods which can provide a coat surface having a higher degree of evenness, when the film thicknesses of the two coats are the same, while overcoming the sagging limit of the paint which may cause a problem when coated by spraying in the manner as described hereinabove. More specifically, the coating method involves coating by spraying with the paint so as to form a coat layer having a film thickness thicker than its sagging limit and rotating the coated substrate about its substantially horizontal axis until the paint coated causes no sagging any longer.
  • This coating method can provide a coat surface having a higher degree of evenness, when the thicknesses of the two coats are the same, while occurrence of the sag of the paint can be prevented, by taking positive advantage of such a high flowability of the paint used.
  • the paint can be prevented from sagging or dripping by spraying the coating substrate with the paint in a film thickness thinner than its sagging limit at which it causes sagging at least during the transient period or by diluting the paint with the solvent or the like to make flowability of the paint smaller.
  • these techniques suffer from the disadvantages as conventional coating methods do and they may reduce the advantages that have been achieved with much effort by the coating methods as disclosed in the prior patents as hereinabove described, which have overcome the barrier set by a sagging limit of the paint to be sprayed.
  • the present invention has the object to provide a coating method adapted so as to suppress the occurrence of sags of a paint sprayed on a coating substrate during a period of time when the substrate coated is being transferred from the coating step to the drying step by physically making the paint sprayed on the coating substrate less flowable, without imposing restrictions on the coating conditions under which the substrate is sprayed with the paint.
  • the present invention consists of a coating method comprising a coating step for spraying a substrate with a paint and a drying step for drying the paint sprayed on the substrate; wherein the coating step is to spray a surface of the substrate extending substantially upwardly and downwardly with the paint to form a coat in a thickness thicker than a thickness at which the paint starts sagging; the drying step is to dry the coat formed on the substrate by rotating the substrate about its axis extending in a substantially horizontal and longitudinal direction of the substrate for a period of time ranging from the time when the paint coated starts sagging on the surface of the substrate extending substantially upwardly and downwardly to the time when the paint of the coated formed thereon achieves a substantially sagless state, the rotation of the substrate sprayed with the paint thereon being carried out at a speed which is high enough to rotate the substrate from a vertical position to a horizontal position before the paint coated thereon substantially sags due to gravity yet which is low enough so as to cause no s
  • This arrangement for the steps of the coating method allows the coat formed on the substrate to be dried without causing sagging because the paint coated on the substrate does not sag due to changes of the direction in which gravity acts on the coat formed thereon by rotating the substrate about its axis extending in the substantially horizontal and longitudinal direction of the substrate, the axis being sometimes referred to merely as "horizontal axis" or related words.
  • this coating method can provide a coat surface having a smaller degree of irregularity. i.e., a higher degree of evenness, than the conventional methods. It is further to be noted that, when a coat is intended to be provide. which has its surface having the identical degree of evenness, for example, as high as the one obtainable by the conventional methods, then this coating method can thin the film thickness of the coat, thereby saving the amount of the paint to be otherwise consumed.
  • the paint may be sprayed by electrostatic coating.
  • the sag of the paint is intended to mean a movement of the paint to such an extent such a movement can be recognized by visual observation when the paint is left as it was sprayed (which is observed as marks in a string-­like form), and that the paint has sagged is determined when the paint flows generally by approximately 2 mm.
  • the spraying of the paint in a film thickness thicker than its sagging limit means such a film thickness of the paint as causing the paint to flow at least by approximately 2 mm when it is left as it was sprayed.
  • the paint may be sprayed once (as in a manner as called “one-stage spraying") or in two or three or more installments ("multi-stage spraying") to thereby provide a final film thickness which is thicker than its sagging limit thickness.
  • the coated substrate may be rotated continuously or intermittently in one direction or in alternate directions until the paint becomes in such a less flowable state as causing no sagging, i.e., during a period of time when that the paint gets cured.
  • the angle at which the coated substrate is rotated about its horizontal axis at approximately 270° as high as an arbitrary portion of the coat formed by spraying with the paint in the film thickness thicker than its sagging limit can be reversed relative to the direction of gravity.
  • the axis about which the coated substrate is rotated may be inclined at approximately 30° relative to the real horizontal axis thereof or may be pivoted.
  • surface of the substrate extending substantially upwardly and downwardly and the related terms referred to herein are intended to mean such a surface of the substrate as extending in an upward and downward direction, or ascending and descending, on which the paint sprayed thereon flows downwardly and starts sagging due to gravity when the coat of the paint is left without being rotated.
  • the cooling step to be applied to the coating method according to the present invention is such that the paint in the coat formed on the substrate increases its viscosity so as to make the coat less flowable and unlikely to flow downwardly to such an extent that the paint of the coat formed thereon does not sag during the transient time period when the substrate is being transferred from the coating step to the drying step.
  • the flowability of the paint is reduced by cooling the paint of the coat formed on the substrate, thereby suppressing the occurrence of sags of the paint on the surface of the substrate extending substantially upwardly and downwardly, or substantially vertically.
  • FIG. 1 shows an cutline of the whole steps of the coating method according to the present invention, in which a vehicle body as a coating substrate is coated and the steps are indicated by steps P1 to P3, respectively.
  • the vehicle body is first undercoated by per se known electrodeposition method and then conveyed to the coating step P1 while being supported by a carriage.
  • the coating step P1 an outer face of the body is sprayed as a whole with a paint in a desired color to form a coat.
  • the body W is then transferred to cooling step P2.
  • the coat formed on the body is then cooled at the cooling step P2 and thereafter transferred to drying step P3 where the body is sequentially set and baked to dry the coat to a sufficient degree of dryness.
  • the substrate is sprayed with the paint form a coat having a film thickness thicker than a thickness that causes sagging if the coat would be stayed as it has been sprayed.
  • the substrate is rotated about its substantially horizontal axis in such a manner as shown in FIG. 2, until the coat formed on the surface of the substrate is set and dried to a sufficient degree of dryness.
  • the speed of rotating the substrate may vary with the film thickness and the viscosity of the paint sprayed.
  • the substrate is rotated at the speed between such an upper limit value and a lower limit value as will be defined hereinafter.
  • the upper limit value of the speed at which the substrate rotates is a minimum value of the rotating speed at which the coated substrate is turned at least from its vertical state to its horizontal state before the paint on the surface of the coat flows downwardly by its weight and sags due to gravity.
  • the upper limit value of the rotating speed is a maximum value thereof at which the paint causes no sagging as a result of centrifugal force.
  • the coated substrate may preferably be rotated at a speed of 380 cm per second or slower, measured at a radially outward tip portion of the substrate. It is to be noted herein that, when the coated substrate is rotated about its substantially horizontal axis, the rotary axis may be inclined at approximately 30° with respect to the horizontal axis thereof, preferably at about 10° or smaller.
  • the time period for which the coated substrate is rotated in the drying step about its substantially horizontal axis may last from the time before the paint coated begins sagging on its coat surface to the time when it is cured to a sagless state.
  • the coated substrate may be rotated over the entire length of the drying step.
  • the rotation of the coated substrate may be continuous or intermittent in one direction, alternate in one direction and thereafter in the opposite direction, or intermittent with interruption for suspension of the rotation.
  • the paints to be used for coating particularly vehicle bodies W may be any paint containing a resin having a number average molecular weight ranging from 2,000 to 20,000, as shown in Table 1 below.
  • the reasons for preference to the paint having the resin with the number average molecular weight ranging from 2,000 to 20,000 is because those having the number average molecular of less than 2,000 correspond to paints that can be cured by electron rays or ultraviolet rays and they are so brittle due to their high cross-link density that they are less durable (two to three years) so that they are not preferred for outer panels of automotive vehicles, while a latex polymer having the number average molecular weight greater than 20,000 becomes highly viscous immediately after spraying and hard to improve a degree of evenness, so that such a polymer is not preferred.
  • FIG. 3 indicates influences of film thicknesses of a coat of a thermosetting paint on the sagging limit.
  • FIGS. 3 takes three different kinds of film thicknesses, i.e., 40 ⁇ m, 53 ⁇ m and 65 ⁇ m, as examples. In each case, it can be understood that sags have reached their peak points in the early stages of both the setting step and the baking step.
  • the sagging limit of the paint is usually defined as the value at the time when sags are caused to occur at a rate ranging from 1 to 2 mm per minute. More specifically.
  • the sagging limit of the paint is a limit of the film thickness at which, in the drying step, a mark indicated by the movement of the paint by 1 to 2 mm from the original position in which the paint had been coated can be recognized on the coat surface after having been dried.
  • the maximum film thickness that had ever been obtained at a range below a sagging limit was as thin as about 40 ⁇ m.
  • FIG. 4 shows the effects of the horizontal rotation of the vehicle body W on the degree of evenness.
  • reference symbol A denotes a state of a coat coated where the vehicle body W is not rotated (by a conventional method).
  • Reference symbol B in FIG. 4 denotes the state of a coat obtained by rotating the vehicle body W in a clockwise direction at the angle of 90° and then reversing direction and rotating the vehicle body back 90° , namely, rotating it from the position of FIG. 2(a) through (b) to (c) and then reversing it from the position (c) through (b) back to (a).
  • Reference symbol D in FIG. 4 denotes the state of the coat obtained by rotating the vehicle body W at the angle of 180° , namely, rotating the body from the position of FIG. 2(a) through (b), (c) and (d) to (e) and then back to the original position of FIG. 2(a) through (d), (c) and (b) from (e).
  • Reference symbol E in FIG. 4 denotes the state of a coat obtained when the vehicle body W is rotated a full revolution in one direction, namely, from the original position of FIG. 2(a) through (b), (c), (d). (e), (f), (g) and (h) back again to the original position of FIG. 2(i), or FIG. 2(a).
  • a film thickness of 65 ⁇ m formed by rotating the vehicle body W at 360° provides a coat surface which gets an 87 on the I.G. (image gross) scale (the lower limit at a PGD value being 1.0).
  • a film thickness of 40 ⁇ m scores a 58 on the I.G. scale (the lower limit at a PGD value being 0.7) when obtained without rotation of the vehicle body W and a 68 on the I.G. scale (the lower limit at a PGD value being 0.8) when obtained by rotating it at 360° .
  • an I.G. (image gross) score is a ratio to an image sharpness degree relative to a mirror surface on a black glass being 100, and PGD values stand for a degree of identification of a reflected image and is rated so as to be decreased from 1.0 as the degree of evenness gets lower.
  • FIG. 5(a) shows the coating step P1 for spraying the vehicle body W with the paint and the cooling step P2 for cooling the coat formed on the vehicle body, which is disposed immediately after the coating step P1.
  • reference numeral 12 denotes a carriage for conveying the vehicle body W along a coating line and the carriage 12 is disposed so as for its wheels 14 mounted on its bottom portion to run on a rail 16.
  • a conveying chain 20 is disposed so as to be drivable by an appropriate drive means, and the carriage 12 is conveyed upon engagement with a rod 22 secured to the conveying chain 20.
  • the carriage 12 has a pair of body supporting shafts 24 and 25, located in its forward and rearward positions, respectively, for rotatably supporting the vehicle body W and extending in its horizontal and longitudinal direction.
  • the body supporting shaft 24 is provided at its front end portion with a gear box 26 in which a bevel gear 28 is disposed.
  • the bevel gear 28 is in mesh with another bevel gear 32 fixed at an upper end portion of a vertical rotary shaft 30 which in turn is rotatably held in a position forward of the vehicle body W.
  • To a lower end portion of the vertical rotary shaft 30 is fixed a sprocket wheel 34 which in turn is engaged with a rotating chain 36 disposed inside the pit 18.
  • the vertical rotary shaft 30 is rotated in association with rotation of the rotating chain 36, thereby rotating the body supporting shaft 24 through the bevel gears 28 and 32 and eventually leading to the rotation of the body W.
  • vehicle body W may be rotated in the manner as disclosed in U.S. Patent Nos. 4,874,639 and 4,919,977, and these prior patents are understood to be incorporated by reference in this application.
  • the vehicle body W is first undercoated with a paint in a manner known per se by those skilled in the art, such as by electro-­deposition, followed by removing dirt from the vehicle body W by cleaning means such as air blowing. Thereafter, the vehicle body W is conveyed by the carriage 12 to the coating step P1 and the vehicle body W undercoated is sprayed with the paint through a coating line where the coating step P1 is carried out.
  • a plurality of coaters 38, 38 are disposed in appropriate positions upward of the body W and on the left and right sides thereof.
  • a coat is formed by spraying the body W with the paint from the coaters 38, 38 continuously in order from its front portion through its middle portion to its rear portion.
  • the spraying of the body W may be executed for 2 to 3 minutes.
  • a station for carrying out the cooling step P2 is provided in the coating line, adjacent the coating step P1, namely, in a position adjacent an exit section of the coating step P1 from which the vehicle body is removed after coating.
  • the station for the cooling step P2 is provided with a cooling housing 40 having openings at its front and rear portions.
  • the cooling housing 40 is provided at its upper portion with a plurality of a duct 42 through which cooled air is supplied to the housing 40.
  • the duct 42 has a plurality of outlets 42a having openings directed downwardly to the inside of the housing 40 where the coat formed on the vehicle body W is cooled.
  • the air to be supplied through the duct 42 and the outlets 42a thereof is cooled by a heat exchanger 43 which in turn cools open air and the cooled air is blown by a blower 44 into the cooling housing 40 through the duct 42 and its outlets 42a.
  • the vehicle body W coated with the paint enters into the cooling step P2 followed by cooling the coat formed on the vehicle body W with the cooled air blown through the outlets 42a from the duct 42 of the housing 40, thereby increasing the viscosity of the paint in the coat formed thereon and consequently preventing the paint from sagging or dripping during a period of time when the vehicle body W is conveyed to the drying step P3.
  • FIG. 6 shows the relationship of the viscosity of the paint, expressed in poise. with the temperature of the paint, expressed in centigrade. As shown in FIG. 6, it is shown that the paint having the viscosity of 0.6 poise at 20°C is increased to about 2 poises when cooled to 5°C. It is thus to be noted that, although the temperature at which the coat formed on the vehicle body W is cooled is not restricted to a particular range of temperatures, the temperature may range from about 15 °C to about 3 °C although the temperature around 5°C is preferred.
  • the vehicle body W is rotated in its substantially horizontal and longitudinal axis by the body supporting shafts 24 and 25 at such an stage at which the body W has been withdrawn from the coating step P1 and it has been conveyed nearly as a whole to the cooling step P2.
  • the rotation of the vehicle body W is carried out in order to cool the coat formed thereon in a uniform fashion and to prevent the coat from sagging or dripping on a surface of the coat extending substantially upwardly and downwardly, or substantially vertically, particularly when the paint has been sprayed on the vehicle body W in a film thickness thicker than a thickness that the paint starts sagging.
  • the coat formed on the vehicle body W is cooled uniformly followed by uniformly increasing the viscosity of the paint of the coat formed thereon.
  • the vehicle body W is transferred to the cooling step P2 immediately after the completion of coating the body W with the paint in the coating step P1 and then cooled in the cooling step P2, thereby increasing the viscosity of the paint in the coat to such an extent to which the paint does not sag or drip.
  • FIG. 5(b) shows the posture of the vehicle body W taken in the setting step of the rotary baking step P3 in which the body W is turned at the angle of 180° from the original position as shown in FIG. 5(a).
  • solvents contained in the paint coated on the vehicle body W are caused to volatilize while being rotated in its substantially horizontal axis extending in the longitudinal direction of the body W.
  • the vehicle body W is set to pass through the setting step over the period of approximately 7 minutes, although the time period during the body W is conveyed in the setting step may be shortened or extended in accordance with the kind of the paint and so on.
  • the solvents in the paint of the coat sprayed on the vehicle body W may be volatilized in the setting step at ambient temperature or at elevated temperature, depending upon the kind of the paint used.
  • the paint of the coat formed on the vehicle body W may be cured to such an extent that it does not sag or drip any longer on the surface of the coat extending vertically even if it would have been stayed unrotated.
  • FIG. 5(c) showing the state of the vehicle body W in which the body W is placed in the baking step P3 to be executed after the setting step.
  • the station for carrying out the baking step P3 has a drying oven 45 in a tunnel shape, which is provided with an appropriate heating means.
  • the vehicle body W is baked at the temperature of 145 °C , for example, after it has been conveyed to the baking step P3 from the setting step.
  • the paint of the coat has been already cured and does not sag or flow any more so that it is not necessarily required to rotate the vehicle body W in the baking step P yet it is preferred to rotate the body W about its substantially horizontal axis extending in the longitudinal direction thereof in order to bake the coat in a uniform fashion.
  • FIG. 7 corresponds to FIG. 3 and shows the relationship of the speed of paint sagging (mm per minute) vs. the time period (minutes) during which the coat is overcoated at the coating step P1, cooled at the cooling step P2, set and then baked at the baking step P3, when a melamine alkyd, high-solid, thermoset-type paint having the viscosity of 0.6 poise is sprayed so as to form overcoats having film thicknesses of 65, 53 and 40 microns.
  • the provision of the cooling step P2 in the coating method can delay the timing at which the paint flows downwardly or sags, thereby giving the sufficient time for the vehicle body W with the coat thereon to be conveyed from the coating step P1 to the drying step P3 without causing the paint of the coat to sag or drip.
  • the coat is rated as poor when a mark or marks would be left after drying to such an extent to which they can visually be observed, which is or are given by moving or flowing by 1 to 2 mm from the site on which the paint has been sprayed, and the sagging limit of the paint is a maximum value at which such a mark or marks is or are not left.
  • the coat having the film thickness of 40 microns exceeds its sagging limit in about 7 minutes
  • the coat having the film thickness of 53 microns exceeds its sagging limit in about 5 or 6 minutes
  • the coat having the film thickness of 65 microns exceeds its sagging limit in about 4 or 5 minutes.
  • the sagging of the paint from the coat formed on the vehicle body W can be prevented when the coat formed on the body W starts setting while being rotated in the manner as described hereinabove, prior to the time when the film thickness of the coat to be formed thereon reaches the sagging limit of the paint.
  • FIG. 8 shows the instance where the melamine alkyd, high-solid, thermoset-type paint having the viscosity of 0.2 poise is sprayed on the vehicle body W.
  • FIG. 9 shows the results when the melamine alkyd, hid-solid, thermoset-type paint having the initial viscosity of 0.6 poise is sprayed to form a coat having the film thickness of 65 microns, as represented by the solid line, and when the paint having the initial viscosity of 0.2 poise is sprayed to form one having the film thickness of 40 microns, as represented by the dot-dash line.
  • the broken line means the temperature of the body W.
  • FIG. 10 shows the solid line where the two-liquid paint having the initial viscosity of 0.6 poise has been sprayed so as to form a coat having the film thickness of 65 microns while the broken line represents the instance of the paint having the initial viscosity of 0.6 poise being sprayed so as to form a coat having the film thickness of 40 microns.
  • FIG. 11 shows the case where the paint having the initial viscosity of 0.2 poise is sprayed on the vehicle body W. From the results as shown in FIGS.
  • the provision of the cooling step P2 behind the coating step P1 can present the advantage that the timing of sagging the paint coated on the vehicle body W can be delayed, thereby providing the sufficient time for transferring to the setting step from the coating step without causing the paint to sag or drip during the time period when the coated body is conveyed.
  • Table 2 shows the test results, as expressed by the IG values (image sharpness gross values) and the PGD values of coats having film thicknesses of 50-55 microns and 62-68 microns, which are obtained by separately spraying a bonnet and a door with the paint and cooling immediately after the coating step and, by comparison, which are obtained without cooling immediately thereafter. From the results as shown in Table 2, it has been found that there is little difference in the IG and PGD values between the two categories of the coats. This means that the cooling of the overcoat immediately after coating does not adversely affect the coat finish at all.
  • Table 3 shows the finish results obtained by spraying the bonnet and the door separately with different paints having different viscosities.
  • a step P2′ for changing carriages may be disposed after the cooling step P2, as shown by dot line in the drawing, in which the vehicle body W is transferred to a carriage 12 which is designed for exclusive use with the drying step P3.
  • the addition of the step P2′ to the coating line of the coating method according to the present invention can present the advantage that the paint stuck to the carriage 12 used for the coating and cooling steps can be prevented from scattering and adhering to the vehicle body W in the drying step P3, particularly in the baking step, where the coat formed on the body W is baked at a considerably high temperature.
  • the cooling of the coat enables the addition of the step P2′ to the cooling step P2 because the paint in the coat is cooled and the sagging of the paint is delayed for a certain period of time after the coating step P1.

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