EP2004331B1 - Sprühpistolenköpfe - Google Patents

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EP2004331B1
EP2004331B1 EP07732013A EP07732013A EP2004331B1 EP 2004331 B1 EP2004331 B1 EP 2004331B1 EP 07732013 A EP07732013 A EP 07732013A EP 07732013 A EP07732013 A EP 07732013A EP 2004331 B1 EP2004331 B1 EP 2004331B1
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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
    • B05B7/00—Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas
    • B05B7/02—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge
    • B05B7/08—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge with separate outlet orifices, e.g. to form parallel jets, i.e. the axis of the jets being parallel, to form intersecting jets, i.e. the axis of the jets converging but not necessarily intersecting at a point
    • B05B7/0807—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge with separate outlet orifices, e.g. to form parallel jets, i.e. the axis of the jets being parallel, to form intersecting jets, i.e. the axis of the jets converging but not necessarily intersecting at a point to form intersecting jets
    • B05B7/0815—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge with separate outlet orifices, e.g. to form parallel jets, i.e. the axis of the jets being parallel, to form intersecting jets, i.e. the axis of the jets converging but not necessarily intersecting at a point to form intersecting jets with at least one gas jet intersecting a jet constituted by a liquid or a mixture containing a liquid for controlling the shape of the latter
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B15/00—Details of spraying plant or spraying apparatus not otherwise provided for; Accessories
    • B05B15/50—Arrangements for cleaning; Arrangements for preventing deposits, drying-out or blockage; Arrangements for detecting improper discharge caused by the presence of foreign matter
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B7/00—Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas
    • B05B7/02—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge
    • B05B7/06—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge with at least one outlet orifice surrounding another approximately in the same plane
    • B05B7/062—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge with at least one outlet orifice surrounding another approximately in the same plane with only one liquid outlet and at least one gas outlet
    • B05B7/066—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge with at least one outlet orifice surrounding another approximately in the same plane with only one liquid outlet and at least one gas outlet with an inner liquid outlet surrounded by at least one annular gas outlet

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  • This invention relates to spray gun heads.
  • Spray guns are used for spaying fluid solutions in the food, agricultural, pharmaceutical and similar industries.
  • Such spray guns generally have a spray delivery head that has a central nozzle for say a coating fluid, an orifice for introducing atomising air to the fluid to produce a spray plume and additional orifices for air to control the pattern of spray plume.
  • Document US6494387 discloses a spray head according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the atomising air orifice is an annulus surrounding a projecting fluid delivery nozzle and control fluid orifices are provided either side of the central nozzle in angled faces of the spray head, so that the central nozzle is in a trough.
  • a drawback with this arrangement is that there is a tendency for droplets of the fluid to fall back and adhere to surfaces of the nozzle body, which is known as bearding.
  • This droplet build up continues whilst spraying leading to a loss in nozzle performance including blockage.
  • the build up of droplets can solidify and break off and fall into and contaminate the process. This results from the presence of low-pressure zones adj acent to the outlet orifices due to the sudden geometrical enlargement, through which the escaping air is emitted.
  • These low-pressure zones generate recirculating eddy currents in the air flow, which entrain fluid droplets and deliver them onto the local external faces of the spray head adjacent to the orifices and annulus. Over time these droplets stick to each other forming the undesirable build up mainly in the nozzle region.
  • An object of this invention is to provide a spray nozzle for a multiple fluid spray gun, which at least reduces the effect of bearding.
  • a spray head for a multiple fluid atomiser spray gun has all the features of claim 1.
  • Spray heads of the invention are preferably made of metal or of plastics material may be served to a spray gun by means of a locking collar or nut.
  • a spray head 10 for a multiple fluid atomiser spray gun has a body 12 having a circular base 14 for mounting on a spray gun apparatus and sloping faces 16 leading to a narrow spray delivery face 18.
  • the body 12 has a central passage 20 for delivery of coating fluid to a delivery nozzle 22 end part only and for delivery of atomising fluid though an annular orifice 24 surrounding the main fluid delivery nozzle.
  • the nozzle 22 for the coating fluid protrudes beyond the spray face 18, which enables interaction of air and fluid streams beyond the spray face helping to inhibit atomised fluid droplets being picked up by air currents in the vicinity of the face.
  • At the tip of the nozzle 22 its outer edge is chamfered at 23 to reduce a low pressure zone at the nozzle tip.
  • Figure 5 of the drawings shows the zone of low pressure at 25.
  • a conventional nozzle has a generally square tip, which creates a larger low pressure zone at the nozzle tip.
  • the orifices 26, 28 are served by bores 30, 32 respectively, which are interconnected via an annular channel 34 in the base of the spray head.
  • Annular wall 36, which separates the passage 20 from the channel 34 serves to locate the spray head relative to the spray gun apparatus.
  • the spray head may be of metal or plastics material.
  • a coating fluid is delivered via the nozzle 22 and air delivered through the annular orifice 24 atomises the coating fluid to create a spray plume, which is generally conical in shape (see particularly Figure 5 ).
  • the spray pattern controlling fluid orifices 26, 28 deliver air from either side of the coating fluid spray plume to change the shape of the spray plume to being of generally oval section in order to control the area of delivery of the coating fluid.
  • the coating fluid is applied to tablets in the pharmaceutical industry.
  • the spray delivery face 18 is shaped in the region of the delivery nozzle 22 and the orifices 24, 26 and 28 in order to allow atomising air and spray pattern controlling air to drive droplets of main fluid from the region to inhibit bearding.
  • the part of the face surrounding the annular orifice is dish shaped (38) and at opposite ends of the dish the face 40 slopes down to the spray shaping fluid orifices at 26 and 28. Smooth transitions between the dish 38 at opposite ends and the respective slopes 40 are shown at 42.
  • the sides of the dish 38 and the sloping faces 40 are generally at less than 90° to the axes of their respective orifices, so that the air from those orifices tends to drive any droplets of the coating fluid from the delivery face in the region of the nozzle and orifices.
  • the spray face 18 of the spray head is so profiled in the region of the main coating fluid nozzle, atomising fluid annulus and spray pattern controlling orifices that the escaping air is provided with a gradual geometrical enlargement as defined by the dish 38, slopes 40 and smooth transitions 42.
  • the effect of the gradual geometrical enlargement is a gradual air release (as opposed to a sudden release) in that the air does not form recirculating eddy currents and thus little or no entrapment of coating fluid droplets back onto the spray face occurs.
  • Figure 5 illustrates the atomising air plume 50 emitted from the annular orifice 24, the spray pattern controlling air plume 52 emitted from orifices 26 and 28 and the zone of interaction between both air plumes 50 and 52 to provide a combined air plume 54.
  • the air streams shown as 50 and 52 keep the local external surfaces free from droplets, which would otherwise stick to the surfaces and cause bearding.
  • Broken line 56 represents the typical shape of existing nozzle designs. Considering the likely shape of the air plumes as they emerge from orifices 26 and 28 it is probable that a low pressure zone is created in the region between these orifices and the annular orifice, which generates recirculating eddy currents in the air-flow, which entrain small droplets back onto the spray face adjacent to the orifices 24, 26 and 28.
  • the invention eliminates this low pressure zone with solid material as shown at 58, which then through geometrical form provides a gradual geometrical enlargement which has the effect of eliminating the recirculating eddy currents normally produced with a face shown by the line 56.
  • Figure 8 shows the sloping faces 16, which provide a path for spray plume replenishing air 60 to enter the vicinity of the orifices 24, 26 and 28 and replace air consumed by the air plumes 50 and 52.
  • shallow angled faces illustrated by line 62 do not allow replenishing air 60 to enter the vicinity of the atomising and pattern air outlets akin to orifices 24, 26 and 28 creating low-pressure zones that result in bearding.

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Claims (13)

  1. Sprühkopf (10) für eine Mehrfluidzerstäuber-Spritzpistole, der eine Sprühnebel-Abgabefläche (18) umfasst, die eine Hauptfluid-Abgabedüse (22) und eine mit derselben verknüpfte Zerstäubungsfluid-Abgabeöffnung (24) hat, wobei die Sprühnebel-Abgabefläche (18) so geformt ist, dass sie bewirkt, dass Tröpfchen des Hauptfluids durch ein Zerstäubungsfluid aus der Zerstäubungsfluid-Abgabeöffnung (24) von der Sprühnebel-Abgabefläche (18) weggetrieben werden, wobei
    die Hauptfluid-Abgabedüse (22) durch die ringförmige Zerstäubungsfluid-Abgabeöffnung (24) umschlossen wird, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Sprühnebel-Abgabefläche, welche diese Öffnung umschließt, die Form eines länglichen Hohlraums (38) hat, der eine durchgehende Oberfläche hat, von der die Hauptfluid-Abgabedüse (22) vorspringt.
  2. Sprühkopf (10) nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Hauptfluid-Abgabedüse (22) über die ringförmige Öffnung (24) hinaus vorspringt.
  3. Sprühkopf (10) nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, wobei die Sprühnebel-Abgabefläche (18) von der Zerstäubungsfluid-Abgabeöffnung (24) nach außen und angrenzend an dieselbe in einem Winkel von weniger als 90° zu der Achse der Öffnung verläuft.
  4. Sprühkopf (10) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, der eine oder mehrere Öffnungen (26, 28) zur Abgabe eines Sprühmuster-Steuerungsfluids hat, um den zerstäubten Fluid-Sprühnebel zu formen.
  5. Sprühkopf (10) nach Anspruch 4, wobei die Sprühnebel-Abgabefläche (18) so geformt ist, dass sie bewirkt, dass Tröpfchen des Hauptfluids in dem Bereich der Sprühmuster-Steuerungsfluid-Abgabeöffnung oder -öffnungen (26, 28) von der Sprühnebel-Abgabefläche weggetrieben werden.
  6. Sprühkopf (10) nach Anspruch 5, wobei die oder jede Sprühmuster-Steuerungsfluid-Abgabeöffnung (26, 28) eine Achse in einem Winkel hat, um ihr Fluid durch den zerstäubten Hauptfluid-Sprühnebel abzugeben.
  7. Sprühkopf (10) nach Anspruch 5 oder 6, wobei die Sprühnebel-Abgabefläche (18) von der oder jeder Sprühmuster-Steuerungsfluid-Abgabeöffnung (26, 28) nach innen in einem Winkel von weniger als 90° zu der Achse der Öffnung verläuft.
  8. Sprühkopf (10) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, der eine im Allgemeinen kreisförmige Basis (14) und ein Paar von entgegengesetzten abfallenden Seiten (16) zu der Sprühnebel-Abgabefläche (18) hin hat.
  9. Sprühkopf (10) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, der einen im Allgemeinen mittigen Durchgang (20) hat, der zu der Hauptfluid-Abgabedüse (22) und der Zerstäubungsfluid-Abgabeöffnung (24) führt.
  10. Sprühkopf (10) nach einem der Ansprüche 4 bis 9, wobei die oder jede Sprühmuster-Steuerungsfluid-Abgabeöffnung (26, 28) durch ihre eigene Bohrung (30, 32) versorgt wird.
  11. Sprühkopf (10) nach Anspruch 10, wobei, wenn mehr als eine Sprühmuster-Steuerungsfluid-Abgabeöffnung (26, 28) bereitgestellt wird, deren Bohrungen (30, 32) miteinander verbunden sind.
  12. Sprühkopf (10) nach Anspruch 11, wobei die Bohrungen (30, 32) mit Hilfe eines ringförmigen Durchgangs (34) miteinander verbunden sind.
  13. Sprühkopf (10) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 12, wobei die Abgabefläche (18), an entgegengesetzten Enden des länglichen Hohlraums (38), zu einer Sprühmuster-Steuerungsfluid-Abgabeöffnung (26, 28) hinab abfällt.
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