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US1613428A
US1613428A US64189A US6418925A US1613428A US 1613428 A US1613428 A US 1613428A US 64189 A US64189 A US 64189A US 6418925 A US6418925 A US 6418925A US 1613428 A US1613428 A US 1613428A
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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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    • 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
    • B05B7/16—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 incorporating means for heating or cooling the material to be sprayed
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    • B05B7/1613—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 incorporating means for heating or cooling the material to be sprayed the spraying of the material involving the use of an atomising fluid, e.g. air comprising means for heating the atomising fluid before mixing with the material to be sprayed
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    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
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    • B05B7/16—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 incorporating means for heating or cooling the material to be sprayed
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  • the present invention relates to improvements in coating processes and particularly to such processes involving the application by spraying or atomizing of coatings of lacquers, varnishes and the like carried or dissolved in volatile solvents.
  • Among the objects of the invention is to avoid the common difficulty, usually attendant on such processes, of producing a pebbly or uneven surface necessitating a rubbing step to produce a smooth polished surface.
  • the atomizationor spraying of such materials has usually been accomplished by means of compressed air and the pebbly effect has been ascribed to the partial evaporation of solvent from some of the droplets in the spray, thereby rendering the spray non-uniform in character, some of the droplets being more concentrated than others.
  • Patent No. 1,546,357 issued July 21, h1925, to the present applicant, there is disclosed and claimed a process which obviates the above difficulty, but in which air or other lixed gas saturated with solvent vapor is used as the propellant.
  • the present process consists broadly in spraying the lacquer or the like with the solvent itself in gaseous form under pressure as the propellant.
  • the ⁇ ligure illustrates diagrammatically apparatus used 1n carrying out the processn
  • a body of the solvent 1, such as acetone, butyl alcohol or acetate, or other solvent such as is used in the particular lacquer to be atomized, is put under pressure in a closed tank 2 by means of compressed air from pipe 3 leading from a suitable source.
  • the air pressure forces the solvent from tank 2 up through pipe 4, leading from near the bottom of tank 2, and to /the .lower end of a worm 5 in a vessel 6 containing water or other heat transfer medium, the vessel 6 being provided lwith heating means, such as steam jacket 7.
  • the liquidsolvent from pipe a is gasified in Worm 5 and passes out of the upper end 8 thereof to the sprayr apparatus, means being provided, if desired, to heat-insulate the pipe 8 to maintain the gaseous state of the solvent.
  • a conventional representation of the spray gun is indicated at 20 as connected to pipe 8 and through pipe 22 to a tank 21 which contains the lacquer or other coating material.
  • tank 2 with a liquid level gauge .10 and filling means such as the upper tank 11, suitable valves 12 and 13 being provided for shutting olf air pressure and for allowing inflow of liquid respectively.
  • the temperatures to be maintained in tank 6 will depend upon the nature of the solvent and upon the pressure used and should be maintained somewhat above the dew point of solvent.

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W. H. ALLEN COA'IING PROCESS Filed Oct. 22 1925 Jan. 4, 1927.
Patented Jan. 4, 1927.
WILLIAM H. ALLEN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.
PATENT OFFICE.
COATING PROCESS.
Application led October 22, 1925. Serial No. 64,189.
The present invention relates to improvements in coating processes and particularly to such processes involving the application by spraying or atomizing of coatings of lacquers, varnishes and the like carried or dissolved in volatile solvents.
Among the objects of the invention is to avoid the common difficulty, usually attendant on such processes, of producing a pebbly or uneven surface necessitating a rubbing step to produce a smooth polished surface.
Heretofore, the atomizationor spraying of such materials has usually been accomplished by means of compressed air and the pebbly effect has been ascribed to the partial evaporation of solvent from some of the droplets in the spray, thereby rendering the spray non-uniform in character, some of the droplets being more concentrated than others. I
In Patent No. 1,546,357, issued July 21, h1925, to the present applicant, there is disclosed and claimed a process which obviates the above difficulty, but in which air or other lixed gas saturated with solvent vapor is used as the propellant.
Another object, therefore, of the present process is the elimination of air or other fixed gas for the propellant and along with it certain difficulties which inevitably accompany such use. y 1
With these and other objects in view as will more clearly hereinafter appear, the present process consists broadly in spraying the lacquer or the like with the solvent itself in gaseous form under pressure as the propellant.I
Reference should be made to the accompanying drawing, in which the` ligure illustrates diagrammatically apparatus used 1n carrying out the processn In the apparatus illustrated, a body of the solvent 1, such as acetone, butyl alcohol or acetate, or other solventsuch as is used in the particular lacquer to be atomized, is put under pressure in a closed tank 2 by means of compressed air from pipe 3 leading from a suitable source.
The air pressure forces the solvent from tank 2 up through pipe 4, leading from near the bottom of tank 2, and to /the .lower end of a worm 5 in a vessel 6 containing water or other heat transfer medium, the vessel 6 being provided lwith heating means, such as steam jacket 7. The liquidsolvent from pipe a is gasified in Worm 5 and passes out of the upper end 8 thereof to the sprayr apparatus, means being provided, if desired, to heat-insulate the pipe 8 to maintain the gaseous state of the solvent. A conventional representation of the spray gun is indicated at 20 as connected to pipe 8 and through pipe 22 to a tank 21 which contains the lacquer or other coating material.
(It `will be desirable to provide tank 2 with a liquid level gauge .10 and filling means such as the upper tank 11, suitable valves 12 and 13 being provided for shutting olf air pressure and for allowing inflow of liquid respectively.
The temperatures to be maintained in tank 6 will depend upon the nature of the solvent and upon the pressure used and should be maintained somewhat above the dew point of solvent.
'Ihe spraying will be conducted in the usual manner, except that the compressed solvent gas will be substituted for the compressed air, several advantages being derived. In the lirst place, in the present process, no evaporation of solvent from the sprayed lacquer can take place. Second, there is no chance for the trapping of air in the coating upon the object with vthe production of roughness. If the gas is trapped, it will merge into the solvent of the lacquer.
Having now described the invention and the preferred `method of -practicing the same, it is to be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the precise details here in described but only by the scope of the claims which follow.
I claim: i t v l. The process of coating an object with a material dissolved in a solvent which comprises gasifying additional solvent under pressure and spraying said dissolved material onto the object by means of said gasificd solvent' as the propellant.l
2. The process of coatin an object with a material dissolved in a so vent which comprises heating additional solvent under pressure to a temperature above the vaporizing point and spraying said dissolved material onto said object by means of the solvent "5l gas so produced.
3. The process of coating with lac 11ers consisting of cellulosic compounds disse ved in volatile organic solvents, which comprises heating a body of such solvent under pressure to a temperature above the evaporating point and spraying said lacquer onto an object by means of the solvent gas so produced. Y
WILLIAM H. ALLEN.
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US2941726A (en) * 1954-11-19 1960-06-21 Szczepanski Harry Booster-action airless spray unit
US3288109A (en) * 1964-10-05 1966-11-29 Sherman Car Wash Equip Co Car wash apparatus

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2941726A (en) * 1954-11-19 1960-06-21 Szczepanski Harry Booster-action airless spray unit
US3288109A (en) * 1964-10-05 1966-11-29 Sherman Car Wash Equip Co Car wash apparatus

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