EP2651574A2 - Rotary device for the storage and distribution of liquid products, such as base colours for automotive paint - Google Patents
Rotary device for the storage and distribution of liquid products, such as base colours for automotive paintInfo
- Publication number
- EP2651574A2 EP2651574A2 EP11817343.4A EP11817343A EP2651574A2 EP 2651574 A2 EP2651574 A2 EP 2651574A2 EP 11817343 A EP11817343 A EP 11817343A EP 2651574 A2 EP2651574 A2 EP 2651574A2
- Authority
- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- brush
- valves
- cleaning
- liquid products
- circular path
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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Classifications
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B08—CLEANING
- B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
- B08B1/00—Cleaning by methods involving the use of tools
- B08B1/30—Cleaning by methods involving the use of tools by movement of cleaning members over a surface
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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
- 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
- B05B15/52—Arrangements for cleaning; Arrangements for preventing deposits, drying-out or blockage; Arrangements for detecting improper discharge caused by the presence of foreign matter for removal of clogging particles
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
- B01F33/00—Other mixers; Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
- B01F33/80—Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
- B01F33/84—Mixing plants with mixing receptacles receiving material dispensed from several component receptacles, e.g. paint tins
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
- B44D—PAINTING OR ARTISTIC DRAWING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PRESERVING PAINTINGS; SURFACE TREATMENT TO OBTAIN SPECIAL ARTISTIC SURFACE EFFECTS OR FINISHES
- B44D3/00—Accessories or implements for use in connection with painting or artistic drawing, not otherwise provided for; Methods or devices for colour determination, selection, or synthesis, e.g. use of colour tables
- B44D3/06—Implements for stirring or mixing paints
- B44D3/08—Implements for stirring or mixing paints for liquid or semi-liquid paints
Definitions
- Rotating device for storing and dispensing liquid products, especially basic colors for automotive paint
- the invention relates to a rotary device for storing and dispensing liquid products.
- the invention finds a particularly advantageous application in the field of storage, selection and dosage of basic colors for paint, especially for paints prepared on demand by automotive repair professionals.
- bodybuilders develop the quantities of paint needed to repair a body by mixing a number of basic colors. Each mixture is determined from a formula defined by the paint manufacturer, this formula giving the mass of each base color to be incorporated for a given quantity of mixture to be obtained. This preparation commonly involves mixing five to six base shades to obtain the particular shade prescribed by the paint manufacturer.
- a rotary device for dispensing liquid products comprising a plurality of containers storing different respective basic colors.
- a container is constituted, for example, of a cell defining an enclosed interior volume adapted to seal a deformable bag containing one of the base colors.
- Each pocket is provided with a metering valve for expelling the corresponding base tint to a collection container of the device when the internal volume of the cell is pressurized.
- the containers are fixed, in a circumferential configuration, on a carousel with horizontal axis of rotation.
- the carousel is indexed in rotation so that the metering valve of a selected container is brought into a sampling position, opposite the collecting container.
- Dosing means then control the expulsion of a predetermined dose of hue into the collection container.
- the metering valves are arranged along the carousel along one or more parallel circumferential rows, the valves of each said circular path when the carousel of the dispensing device is rotated.
- a metering valve comprises an end-ended conduit, generally spherical in shape, pierced with a through-hole communicating with the inside of the deformable pouch so as to permit the expulsion of the basic shade contained to the collecting container. in the pocket.
- the passage hole can be opened or closed at will by means of a shutter coupled to an electromagnetic coil placed around the valve conduit and adapted to drive the shutter in a translatory movement parallel to the conduit under the action of the valves. aforementioned dosing means. In practice, it is found that after sampling there may be traces of paint on the spherical tip of the valve at the passage hole and the shutter. By drying, these soils may clog the passage hole and thus cause dosing problems related to a valve whose passage hole is partially or completely plugged.
- the rotary devices for distributing liquid products are generally provided with so-called "wet” cleaning means which consists in washing the conduits and the spherical valve tips by means of brushes or mobile sponges having a humidification system with a solvent, which can be water, so as to dilute the remaining paint and facilitate cleaning.
- wet cleaning means which consists in washing the conduits and the spherical valve tips by means of brushes or mobile sponges having a humidification system with a solvent, which can be water, so as to dilute the remaining paint and facilitate cleaning.
- a rotary device for dispensing liquid products comprising metering valves arranged in at least one circumferential row so that the valves of a circumferential row describe a circular path during the rotation.
- this device being remarkable in that it further comprises a valve cleaning system comprising at least one fixed dry brush during cleaning, arranged on at least one circular path so as to come into contact by friction with the valves of at least one circumferential row of valves.
- the cleaning system of the invention implements one or more brushes called “dry” in the sense that the cleaning of the valves is achieved by the only friction on the brush bristles, excluding any solvent additional.
- the carousel is also rotated, continuously or at intervals, in order to produce a rotating gravity field capable of preventing the sedimentation of the particles present in suspension in the basic colors contained in the pockets of the containers.
- the brushes may optionally be retracted outside the cleaning periods, when the device is not used, in particular to reduce the wear of the spherical tips of the valves after the latter have been cleaned. The retraction can be triggered automatically after a given period of time (for example one hour) or a predetermined number of revolutions of the carousel after the last use of the device.
- the cleaning system comprises at least one brush disposed on a circular path of valves.
- each circumferential row has one or more brushes that are specific to it.
- the cleaning system comprises at least one brush disposed on a plurality of circular valve paths. In this case, several circumferential rows share one or more same brushes.
- said brush is configured to have a variable depth of penetration of the valves in the brush.
- a gradual cleaning of the valves is achieved, for example by a coarse cleaning where the depth of penetration into the brush is important to finish by a finer cleaning of the spherical tip of the valves by outcropping on the ends of the bristles. of brush.
- the invention also provides that said brush is placed at the outlet of a liquid product sampling station of the dispensing device, that is to say near and downstream of the sampling station with respect to the rotation of the carousel, in order to that the selected valves can be cleaned at the earliest after expulsion of the paint and before it has had time to dry or flow along the spherical tip.
- the device according to the invention comprises two brushes placed on either side of the liquid product sampling station of the dispensing device.
- This arrangement is particularly advantageous when the dispensing device comprises means for reversing the direction of rotation, since the early cleaning of the valve can be obtained at the outlet of the sampling station irrespective of the direction of rotation of the carousel.
- a dust collector is located under the brush, in order to collect the dust particles. These are released by the friction of the hairs on the valves and prevent them from dispersing and eventually pollute and affect the operation of certain sensitive organs of the dispensing device.
- One advantage of the cleaning system provided by the invention is its ease of design and construction, which results in reduced cost. Another advantage is that it requires only a very limited maintenance, since there is no reserve of solvent to maintain level and wiper system to keep wet and clean. 0
- Figure 1a is a front view of a rotary device for dispensing liquid products according to the invention.
- Figure 1b is a perspective view of the device of Figure 1a.
- Figure 2 is a detail view of the device of Figure 1a.
- Figure 3 is a perspective view of a curved brush for fitting the device of Figures 1a and 1b.
- FIGs 1a and 1b there is shown a rotary device for dispensing liquid products, in particular paint basecoats, of the type described in the aforementioned WO 2009/153504 A1.
- This device is built around a fixed frame 10 including in particular a 1 1 sampling station comprising a collector container, not shown, in which are collected the basic colors of the paint to achieve.
- These base colors are contained in deformable pockets 21, 22, 23 from which they can be expelled through the metering valves 31, 32, 33 of Figure 1b, which are referenced generally in FIGS. 2.
- the deformable pockets 21, 22, 23 and the metering valves 31, 32, 33 of FIGS. 1a, 1b and 2 are mounted in three parallel circumferential rows on a carousel that is rotatable around the fixed frame 10. Of course the number of circumferential rows may be any.
- a number of deformable pockets are automatically selected by the dispensing device from the prescriptions of the paint manufacturers.
- the pockets thus selected are successively brought by indexing means opposite the sampling station 1 1.
- the expulsion of a predetermined amount of color into the collection container of the sampling station 1 1 is then controlled by dosing means.
- valves of each circumferential row describe a circular path respectively denoted TC1, TC2, TC3 in FIG. 1b, and globally TC in FIG. 1a.
- the rotary dispensing device shown in FIGS. 1a, 1b and 2 is equipped with a cleaning system comprising, of a in general, at least one dry brush fixed to the fixed frame of the device disposed on at least one circular path so as to come into frictional contact with the valves of at least one circumferential row of valves.
- the cleaning system comprises five brushes, namely the brush 41 to which the brush 42 corresponds by rotation of 180 °, the brush 51 to which is also rotated by 180 ° the brush 52, and a central brush 60.
- these brushes are used without the addition of any solvent, hence their term "dry".
- the cleaning of the conduit 301 and the spherical tip 302 of the valves is obtained only by friction with the bristles of the brushes.
- the bristles are preferably nylon.
- these brushes are fixed in the sense that, being fixed to the frame 10, their position is independent of the rotation of the carousel 20. The friction between the valves and the brushes results from their relative rotational movement.
- the brushes 41, 42, 51, 52, 60 are flat and are arranged transversely on all circular paths TC1, TC2, TC3.
- the valves of the three circumferential rows share the five brushes in common.
- the width ⁇ of the brushes 41, 42, 51, 52, 60 is at least equal to the distance between the extreme circumferential rows of valves, while their length L is determined to allow sufficient cleaning, and may not concern that one valve at a time taken on each circumferential row, as shown in Figures 1a, 1b and 2.
- the brushes can be curved in a generally arcuate shape with a radius of curvature close to that of the circular paths TC1, TC2, TC3.
- the angular length of the brush is about 50 °.
- this same figure illustrates a brush 80 to be disposed on a single circumferential row of valves.
- the brush then has a width at least equal to the diameter of the valves.
- the bristles 81 are implanted in holes 82 staggered in three rows, the holes of the same row being angularly spaced 2 °, which gives a total number of holes of the order of 125.
- the number of hairs per hole can vary from 150 to 200.
- the brushes 41 and 51 are placed on either side of the station 1 1 picking basic colors.
- This configuration corresponds to a dispensing device equipped with means for reversing the direction of rotation of the carousel 20.
- a brush, 41 or 51 is immediately at the outlet of the station 1 1 of sampling, which allows an early cleaning of the valve after expulsion of the hue.
- the permanent rotation of the carousel avoids the sedimentation of the hues in the pockets, and the periodic reversal of the direction of rotation makes it possible to symmetrize the cleaning of the valves and thus to treat the entire surface of the spherical tip of the valves.
- one of the brushes 41 or 51 may be omitted, as well as possibly the brush 42 or 52 diametrically opposite.
- Figure 1a shows the presence under the upper brushes 41, 51 of two trays 71, 72 for the recovery and removal of dust produced by the friction of the brush bristles on the valves.
- valve may be advantageous to achieve a variable depth of penetration of the valve into the bristles, for example by initially leaving the valve to penetrate to a depth of several millimeters to be roughly cleaned and then only touched to a very small depth to optimize the cleaning of the spherical tip of the valve.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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FR1060479A FR2968576B1 (en) | 2010-12-14 | 2010-12-14 | ROTARY DEVICE FOR STORING AND DISPENSING LIQUID PRODUCTS, IN PARTICULAR BASIC COLORS FOR AUTOMOBILE PAINT |
PCT/FR2011/052995 WO2012080667A2 (en) | 2010-12-14 | 2011-12-14 | Rotary device for the storage and distribution of liquid products, such as base colours for automotive paint |
Publications (2)
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EP2651574A2 true EP2651574A2 (en) | 2013-10-23 |
EP2651574B1 EP2651574B1 (en) | 2015-02-11 |
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EP11817343.4A Not-in-force EP2651574B1 (en) | 2010-12-14 | 2011-12-14 | Rotary device for the storage and distribution of liquid products, such as base colours for automotive paint |
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US (1) | US20130248561A1 (en) |
EP (1) | EP2651574B1 (en) |
FR (1) | FR2968576B1 (en) |
WO (1) | WO2012080667A2 (en) |
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EP2651574B1 (en) | 2015-02-11 |
WO2012080667A2 (en) | 2012-06-21 |
US20130248561A1 (en) | 2013-09-26 |
FR2968576A1 (en) | 2012-06-15 |
WO2012080667A3 (en) | 2012-12-20 |
FR2968576B1 (en) | 2012-12-28 |
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