EP0860212A1 - Auftragsgerät für Heissschmelzkleber und Kleberstift für diesen Gerät - Google Patents

Auftragsgerät für Heissschmelzkleber und Kleberstift für diesen Gerät Download PDF

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EP0860212A1
EP0860212A1 EP98400400A EP98400400A EP0860212A1 EP 0860212 A1 EP0860212 A1 EP 0860212A1 EP 98400400 A EP98400400 A EP 98400400A EP 98400400 A EP98400400 A EP 98400400A EP 0860212 A1 EP0860212 A1 EP 0860212A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05C—APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05C17/00—Hand tools or apparatus using hand held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces
    • B05C17/005—Hand tools or apparatus using hand held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces for discharging material from a reservoir or container located in or on the hand tool through an outlet orifice by pressure without using surface contacting members like pads or brushes
    • B05C17/00523—Hand tools or apparatus using hand held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces for discharging material from a reservoir or container located in or on the hand tool through an outlet orifice by pressure without using surface contacting members like pads or brushes provided with means to heat the material
    • B05C17/00546—Details of the heating means
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B3/00—Ohmic-resistance heating
    • H05B3/40—Heating elements having the shape of rods or tubes
    • H05B3/42—Heating elements having the shape of rods or tubes non-flexible
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1798—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means with liquid adhesive or adhesive activator applying means
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/18—Surface bonding means and/or assembly means with handle or handgrip

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  • the present invention relates to an applicator hot melt glue and a designed glue stick to power such an applicator.
  • FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawing a hot melt glue applicator of a type currently widely spread. It takes the form of a pistol whose the handle 1 extends beyond a body 2.
  • the body 2 comprises an elongated chamber 3 having a first end 4 shaped as an inlet for a stick 5 of glue hot-melt, and a second end 6 equipped with a nozzle 7 for dispensing molten glue.
  • the applicator still includes mechanical means (not shown) actuated by pressing a trigger 8 to gradually push the glue stick 5 into the bedroom 3, and mounted electric heating means around chamber 3 to melt the material hot melt stick 5 contained in this chamber.
  • These means are arranged in a volume 9 around the bedroom 3 and are powered by an energy source electric outdoor (the sector for example), by through an electric cable 10 crossing the handle.
  • the drops of molten glue coming out of the nozzle 7 can be used to assemble many parts between them, or to supports, for example to fix rods or cladding pieces on walls, ceilings, etc. etc.
  • the heating means currently incorporated into such applicators are essentially of two types. According to the first, these means consist of a cylindrical cartridge filled with a constituent material an electrical resistance and having a coefficient of positive temperature. The cartridge is fed electrically and mounted in a metal sleeve crossed by chamber 3, so as to heat this sheath by thermal conduction. Due to the coefficient of positive temperature of the material contained in the cartridge, the resistance of this material increases with its temperature, which ensures current regulation electric heating.
  • these means take the form of an electrical resistance wire-like insulated, wound around chamber 3 on a metallic sheath crossed by this chamber.
  • the present invention therefore aims to achieve a glue applicator which does not have the disadvantages mentioned above of the applicators of the prior art and which, in particular, goes up very quickly in temperature, has a yield high thermal and high melt glue flow.
  • the present invention also aims to achieve such an applicator which is reliable, which has a good electrical safety for the user, and which is low manufacturing cost price.
  • a hot melt glue applicator comprising a) an elongated chamber having a first end shaped as an inlet for a stick of said hot-melt adhesive and a second end equipped with a molten glue distribution nozzle, b) means for gradually pushing said rod in said room and c) heating means the part of the stick contained in the bedroom.
  • said heating means include at least one heating element consisting of a track made of an electrically resistant material and provided with means for connection to an energy source electric, said track being formed on a surface electrically insulating of a substrate arranged so as to be in close thermal contact with a mass of glue contained in said room.
  • the substrate of a heating element is planar.
  • the heating element is then placed in a wall side of the room. Alternatively, it can be arranged in a central position in this room.
  • the applicator includes a plurality of such elements, these elements lining the wall of the room, the faces of their substrates which carry the resistive tracks being facing the axis of said chamber.
  • said chamber has a taper of vertex placed from side of the glue dispensing nozzle.
  • Substrates heating elements then each have the shape of an elongated triangle, adapted to said taper of the bedroom.
  • the body comprises a socket 11 preferably made of a material electrically and thermally insulating. She presents advantageously, but not exclusively, a form taper of axis X, a ring 12 being mounted on the inlet 4 'from the sleeve to guide a 5' glue stick pushed, according to arrow F, in an elongated chamber 3 ' internal to the socket 11 and centered on the X axis. other end 6 ', the socket is fitted with a nozzle 7' stick adhesive distribution, after melting this in the heating body. It is clear that the elements or organs 3 ', 4', 6 'and 7' are identical or equivalent to elements 3,4,6 and 7 respectively of the prior art applicator shown in the figure 1.
  • the wall of the chamber 3 ' is lined with at least one, and preferably several, heating elements 13 1 , 13 2 , ... 13 6 distributed symmetrically around the axis X so as to cover substantially the entire surface of this wall.
  • Each heating element is retained in its notch by wedging and / or gluing.
  • each heating element 13 i comprises a flat substrate 14 i in the shape of a very elongated triangle, adapted to the conicity of the chamber 3 '. It is understood that the frustoconical shape given to this chamber, with the apex placed on the side of the nozzle 7 ', allows the mass of molten glue that the chamber 3' contains in operation, to gradually taper towards the nozzle 7 'for s 'adapt to the small diameter of a channel passing through this nozzle.
  • the substrate 14 i in the form of an elongated triangle which constitutes the base of a heating element 13 i has an insulating surface which carries a track 15 i made of an electrically resistant material, track itself covered with a layer of electrical insulation (not shown).
  • the electrical resistance of this material is chosen so that the passage of an adequate electric current through all of the tracks 15 i of the heating body quickly ensures the softening and then the melting of the adhesive of a stick 5 'introduced into the chamber. 3 '.
  • the tracks 15 are turned towards the axis X of the chamber 3 '(see FIG. 3). They are thus advantageously in close contact with the mass of adhesive which is in the chamber 3 ', through the thin layer of electrical insulation which separates each track from this adhesive.
  • a heating element such as that shown in the Figure 4 can be achieved using the means used for manufacturing hybrid layer circuits thick.
  • a circuit is made up conventionally of a substrate, of alumina, of enamelled sheet or in stainless steel sheet covered with a dielectric by example, receiving by screen printing a network of tracks conductive and resistance and supplemented by active and / or passive components reported on the substrate.
  • the heating element of FIG. 4 can be produced by depositing on a first substrate a conductive track 16 i , and by covering the track with an insulating paste on which the resistive track 15 i is screen printed. It is finally covered with a layer of electrical insulation, as we saw above.
  • Tracks 15 i and 16 i are connected through a via disposed at the end 17 i of the element.
  • Contacts 18 i , 19 i are welded to the ends of the tracks 15 i , 16 i respectively, for the connection of these tracks to a source of electrical energy.
  • Such a bilayer circuit could also be implemented by the technique of "co-cooked" multilayer circuits, so as to avoid multiple cooking stages necessary for the manufacturing procedure described above.
  • the resistive track 15 i of the heating element of FIG. 4 takes the form of a coil to increase its surface, and therefore the value of its electrical resistance.
  • the resistive track 15 ′ i is straight, just like the conductive return track 16 ′ i , adjacent and formed in the same layer as the track 15 ′ i .
  • the circuit of the heating element 13 " i shown is also monolayer, the resistive track 15" i running on two opposite longitudinal edges of one face of the substrate 14 i .
  • these tracks are performed by screen printing following a well-defined procedure known in the manufacture of hybrid layer circuits thick with electrical resistances.
  • the track is then constituted by a resistive "ink” deposited at the pasty state on the substrate through a mask and then dried to remove the solvents incorporated into the paste filed.
  • These steps are followed by high cooking temperature (about 850 ° C) to give a good stability to the heating element.
  • high cooking temperature about 850 ° C
  • Many compositions well known to those skilled in the art are usable in the present invention.
  • an ink with a positive temperature coefficient will be chosen to regulate the supply current of the heating elements.
  • Those skilled in the art have at their disposal a wide range of inks having temperature coefficients up to 3,500.10 -6 / degrees C.
  • the nature and the positions of the heating elements of the heating body of the adhesive applicator according to the invention are favorable for obtaining a rapid rise in temperature of the adhesive and a high thermal efficiency of the applicator, for the following reasons.
  • the position of each heating element in close contact with the surface of the adhesive volume, ensures direct heat transfer between the heating element and the adhesive. This is not the case in the glue applicators mentioned in the preamble to this description where the heating elements serve to heat a metal sheath which, in turn, transfers calories to the glue.
  • the efficiency of this double thermal transfer is lower than that of the direct thermal transfer operated in an applicator according to the invention.
  • the efficiency of the latter is further increased by the fact that the heat radiated by the heating elements is focused in the mass of adhesive.
  • An appropriate choice of materials constituting the substrates 14 i of the tracks and the sleeve 11 makes it possible to minimize the losses by thermal conduction in these materials.
  • the cross section of the adhesive stick 5 ′ is advantageously conformed according to the invention (see figure 2) so as to facilitate its introduction into the chamber and to bring the outer surface of the stick closer to that of the heating elements.
  • the invention is not limited to embodiments described and shown which have not been given as an example.
  • This is how the wall of chamber 3 'could take a cylindrical shape rather than conical and that its cross section could have a polygonal shape other than hexagonal, or even a circular shape.
  • One or more resistive tracks helical in shape can then be formed on the wall of the chamber 3 ', to constitute the elements heated.
  • this comprises a socket 20 pierced with a cylindrical chamber 21 suitable for accommodating a stick of glue of the same shape, in the solid state.
  • Room 21 accommodates a heating element 22 extending along the longitudinal axis of the chamber 21 in a plane substantially diametral thereof (see Figure 9).
  • the heating element 22 consists of a planar substrate 23 of structure similar to the substrates 14 i of the heating elements 13 i described above. This substrate is covered, on at least one face, by a track 24 made of an electrically resistant material, covered with a layer of electrical insulation (not shown). Terminals 25, 26 ensure the connection of this track to an external electrical energy source.
  • the glue stick is introduced into the body of heats by the end 21a of the chamber 21.
  • the end of the substrate 23 of the heating element 22 therein is cut at point 27 to facilitate entry of the rod in chamber 21, this rod then impaling itself on the heating element. This action is facilitated by the fact that the calories released by the heating element soften the glue stick as its penetration into chamber 21.
  • the central position of the heating element 22 in chamber 21 ensures complete absorption of calories by the mass of the glue stick, which is favorable from the point of view of the thermal efficiency of the body of heated.
  • a substrate 23 having good thermal conductivity such as suitably electrically insulated metal substrate, so that the heat given off by track 24 diffuses on both sides of the substrate.
  • the heating element 22 can be arranged as shown in Figure 10 so that constitute part of the wall of a chamber 29 formed in a heater 28, the single track 24 being facing the interior of this room, which accommodates the glue stick.
  • FIG. 11 shows a heating body constituted by a cylindrical envelope 30 partially cut away in the figure, made of a thermal insulation material, for example, a cylindrical heating element 32 being slid against the wall of an elongated chamber 31 passing through the envelope 30.
  • the element 32 comprises a cylindrical substrate 33 on the inner wall of which one or more tracks 34 1 , .... are formed of an electrically resistant material.
  • FIG. 12 represents a variant of the embodiment of FIG. 11 which differs from it only in that the conductive track or tracks 34 i are formed on the external wall of the substrate 33, so as to facilitate the realization of these tracks.
  • the substrate 33 used be thin (a few tenths of a mm for example) and made of a material which is good conductor of heat so as to allow the radiation of the heat emitted towards the interior of the chamber 31.

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