US20100132612A1 - Applicator for applying fluid to a substrate, comprising valve mechanisms, method for cleaning said applicator, and valve mechanisms for said applicator - Google Patents

Applicator for applying fluid to a substrate, comprising valve mechanisms, method for cleaning said applicator, and valve mechanisms for said applicator Download PDF

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US20100132612A1
US20100132612A1 US12/664,450 US66445008A US2010132612A1 US 20100132612 A1 US20100132612 A1 US 20100132612A1 US 66445008 A US66445008 A US 66445008A US 2010132612 A1 US2010132612 A1 US 2010132612A1
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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
    • B05B1/00—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
    • B05B1/30—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to control volume of flow, e.g. with adjustable passages
    • B05B1/3033—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to control volume of flow, e.g. with adjustable passages the control being effected by relative coaxial longitudinal movement of the controlling element and the spray head
    • B05B1/304—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to control volume of flow, e.g. with adjustable passages the control being effected by relative coaxial longitudinal movement of the controlling element and the spray head the controlling element being a lift valve
    • B05B1/3046—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to control volume of flow, e.g. with adjustable passages the control being effected by relative coaxial longitudinal movement of the controlling element and the spray head the controlling element being a lift valve the valve element, e.g. a needle, co-operating with a valve seat located downstream of the valve element and its actuating means, generally in the proximity of the outlet orifice
    • B05B1/3053—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to control volume of flow, e.g. with adjustable passages the control being effected by relative coaxial longitudinal movement of the controlling element and the spray head the controlling element being a lift valve the valve element, e.g. a needle, co-operating with a valve seat located downstream of the valve element and its actuating means, generally in the proximity of the outlet orifice the actuating means being a solenoid
    • 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
    • B05B15/55—Arrangements for cleaning; Arrangements for preventing deposits, drying-out or blockage; Arrangements for detecting improper discharge caused by the presence of foreign matter using cleaning fluids
    • 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
    • B05C5/00—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work
    • B05C5/02—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work the liquid or other fluent material being discharged through an outlet orifice by pressure, e.g. from an outlet device in contact or almost in contact, with the work
    • B05C5/0225—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work the liquid or other fluent material being discharged through an outlet orifice by pressure, e.g. from an outlet device in contact or almost in contact, with the work characterised by flow controlling means, e.g. valves, located proximate the outlet
    • 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
    • B05C5/00—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work
    • B05C5/02—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work the liquid or other fluent material being discharged through an outlet orifice by pressure, e.g. from an outlet device in contact or almost in contact, with the work
    • B05C5/027—Coating heads with several outlets, e.g. aligned transversally to the moving direction of a web to be coated
    • B05C5/0275—Coating heads with several outlets, e.g. aligned transversally to the moving direction of a web to be coated flow controlled, e.g. by a valve
    • B05C5/0279—Coating heads with several outlets, e.g. aligned transversally to the moving direction of a web to be coated flow controlled, e.g. by a valve independently, e.g. individually, flow controlled
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B1/00—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
    • B05B1/14—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means with multiple outlet openings; with strainers in or outside the outlet opening
    • B05B1/20—Perforated pipes or troughs, e.g. spray booms; Outlet elements therefor

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  • the invention concerns an application device for applying fluid to a substrate, comprising valve devices which are arranged in a row and are each equipped with an application valve nozzle for emitting the fluid under pressure and with associated valve actuating device for controlling the emission of fluid by closing and opening the application valve nozzles, and comprising a common distributing fluid chamber which can be subjected to pressure from the fluid and which connects the application valve devices to each other for admission of the fluid, the distributing fluid chamber being provided with a fluid intake duct which is arranged in such a way that the fluid which is under pressure in the distributing fluid chamber is distributed along the row of application valve devices to the latter.
  • the invention also relates to a method for cleaning the application device as well as a valve device for the application device.
  • An application device which is in particular equipped with electromagnetically operated valves is concerned.
  • the valves are opened and closed by individual activation in order to produce an application in dots or dashes, which can result in a two-dimensional application, on a substrate, e.g. a flat strip of material or a surface portion.
  • a substrate e.g. a flat strip of material or a surface portion.
  • Any liquid substance is suitable as the application fluid, in particular dye or ink for a colour application.
  • coating or impregnation with adhesives, coating agents or the like can be carried out. Activation determines applied quantities, areas of application, patterns and/or applied symbols.
  • the valve nozzles have a diameter of e.g. only 60 to 150 micrometres.
  • the valve nozzles and fluid paths in the valve devices can easily be blocked by very fine particles or minute deposits.
  • Ordinary application devices frequently have to be completely dismantled in order in particular to clean the distributing fluid chamber which supplies the valve devices jointly. Contamination occurs in particular after an initial assembly. But breakdowns due to deposits also occur while operation is ongoing. Also, there are special cleaning requirements if the application substance is to be exchanged, that is, for example, a change of colour is to be made. Conventional application devices then usually have to be completely or largely dismantled into their constituent parts and, after subsequent assembly, adjusted with considerable effort using separate micrometric measuring devices.
  • the invention is to provide a remedy.
  • the invention is based on the aims of improving and simplifying the cleaning of the application device and its valve devices.
  • the application device and the valve device are to be capable of being effectively and easily cleaned in a large number of cases even without dismantling, in particular also while retaining adjustment settings of the valve nozzles.
  • the aims of the invention are achieved in conjunction with the features of the application device of the kind mentioned hereinbefore, by the fact that at least one cleaning valve device which is incorporated into the row of application valve devices for connection to the distributing fluid chamber and is fitted with a cleaning valve nozzle and with associated valve actuating device for closing and opening the cleaning valve nozzle, is associated with at least the one fluid intake duct of the distributing fluid chamber, a flow path which is effective when the cleaning valve nozzle is open, for cleaning the common distributing fluid chamber, being formed in the distributing fluid chamber between the fluid intake duct and the at least one associated cleaning valve device.
  • the aims are achieved in a method according to the invention for cleaning the application device according to the invention, by the fact that (i) the distributing fluid chamber which connects the valve devices in a row along the associated cleaning flow path to each other, admits pressurised cleaning fluid, (ii) the application valve devices are kept closed while on the other hand the cleaning valve nozzle of the cleaning valve device associated with the cleaning flow path is opened, and (iii) then the cleaning valve nozzle of the cleaning valve device is closed and the application valve devices are opened when the distributing fluid chamber admits pressurised cleaning fluid.
  • a valve device of an application device for applying fluid to a substrate, in particular in a plurality for arrangement in a row in the application device, comprises a valve housing having a valve seat with valve nozzle for emitting the fluid under pressure, a supply fluid chamber which can be subjected to fluid pressure, a valve actuating device which is formed by an electromagnetic device with valve piston movable back and forth against a return force and engaging in the valve seat for closing and opening the valve nozzle, and a piston stop against which the valve piston operates, the valve actuating device being arranged between the supply fluid chamber and the valve housing, and the valve housing together with the valve nozzle being detachably mounted on the nozzle side of the valve device which has the valve nozzle, as a result of which the valve piston is freed when the valve housing is removed, the valve device being provided with at least one rectilinear fluid duct that remains free from flow corners and that, passing the valve actuating device, connects the supply fluid chamber to the valve seat, the valve piston and part of the
  • the application device according to the invention is in particular distinguished by the fact that the distributing fluid chamber which supplies all the valve devices of the application device with fluid can be cleaned easily and effectively without the application device being opened or dismantled.
  • the cleaning valve device is designed according to the invention in such a way that, when the cleaning nozzle is open and the application nozzles are closed, the common fluid chamber is flushed by the fact that cleaning fluid under pressure is forced at high speed and hence entraining contaminants through the distributing fluid chamber.
  • the valve nozzle of the cleaning valve device has a relatively large nozzle cross-section. This is a nozzle cross-section which is not suitable for fluid application.
  • the cleaning valve device differs crucially from the application valve devices.
  • the cleaning valve device and the application valve devices of the application device are appropriately designed the same and matching in order to manufacture the application device cheaply and simplify valve control.
  • the application valve devices are cleaned by the fact that method steps i) to iii) are carried out under the control of a program using electronic control means, the valve nozzles being closed and opened under the control of the valve actuating devices, and in method step iii) the application valve devices being opened by opening the application valve nozzles.
  • the application valve devices are in each case only opened individually one after the other, while the other application valve nozzles are kept closed.
  • Appropriately water is used as the fluid for cleaning, if need be with a cleaning agent which dissolves application substance or some other suitable cleaning fluid.
  • Control of the cleaning method with controlled closing and opening of the nozzle openings can take place in a simple manner with an electronic processor control device designed for this purpose, by the fact that the latter is provided with a control program which presents the above sequence of method steps and prepares them for execution.
  • a control device can be designed in the usual manner e.g. with a computer in conjunction with a program representing the steps of the method.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention consists in that the fluid intake duct and the associated cleaning valve device are provided singly, all the application valve devices of the application device being arranged between the one fluid intake duct and the one cleaning valve device. It was found that, in particular with such an arrangement, a particularly effective cleaning flow path through the distributing fluid chamber is produced if the cleaning valve nozzle of the cleaning valve device has an effective flow cross-section which is many times larger, preferably approximately 10 times larger, than the corresponding or largest flow cross-section of the application valve nozzles of the application valve devices.
  • An application device which is particularly preferred in practice, in particular for colour application, comprises the one cleaning valve device and eight application valve devices. But also devices with fewer application nozzles, for example with five nozzles, or with more application nozzles, e.g. with fifteen nozzles, prove to be particularly practical.
  • Application units with preferably five to fifteen application valve devices and the one cleaning valve device are appropriately also designed as a module element which is assembled with identical module elements into an application device with nozzles arranged in rows and columns.
  • Such application module elements can be assembled with socket connections and/or screw connections.
  • An application device according to the invention is in a preferred embodiment designed with electromagnetically operated valve devices. In conjunction with the arrangement of the cleaning valve device according to the invention, particular advantages can be obtained.
  • the electromagnetic embodiment of the application device consists in that the valve actuating devices of the valve devices are arranged in a row spatially between the distributing fluid chamber and the nozzle side of the application device that comprises the valve nozzles of the valve devices, in that each valve actuating device comprises an electromagnet device with a valve piston movable back and forth against a return force, in that each valve device has a valve housing with valve nozzle and valve seat with which the associated valve piston for closing and opening the valve nozzle cooperates, in that each valve device is designed with a piston stop against which the valve piston operates, the piston stop being formed by an adjusting piston which is mounted so as to be displaceable in the direction of the stroke for setting and adjusting the piston stroke, and in that each valve device is provided with at least one rectilinear fluid duct which remains free from flow corners and which connects the common fluid chamber to the valve seat, the valve piston and part of the adjusting piston together forming a wall of the straight fluid duct, and each valve device on the nozzle side of the application device
  • the above application device according to the invention equipped with electromagnetic valves, in conjunction with the cleaning valve device provided according to the invention and the cleaning flow path obtained as a result, also offers advantages for cleaning the valve fluid ducts between the distributing fluid chamber and the application valve nozzles.
  • the individual application valve devices can now also be flushed at high pressure, appropriately individually in succession, as described above.
  • valve nozzle forms part of the valve housing.
  • a nozzle orifice is formed. Only by exchanging the valve housing for a valve nozzle with different dimensions, can different degrees of fineness and fluid quantities (ink quantities) be obtained for application.
  • a further advantage of the above embodiment lies in that, after the distributing fluid chamber has been cleaned according to the invention, the fluid duct between the distributing fluid chamber and the associated application nozzle can also be cleaned by the fact that the detachably mounted valve housing is removed in case of major contamination.
  • the valve housing and the valve piston are easily removed and remounted on the nozzle side of the application device, that is, on the lower side of the device which forms the application side.
  • Such partial dismounting may be necessary if a change of fluid is to be made, e.g. a change of colour.
  • the adjusting pistons i.e. adjusting devices arranged for this purpose on the upper or rear side of the application device, are not dismounted.
  • Flushing of the distributing fluid chamber with the cleaning valve device according to the invention also covers the adjusting pistons for cleaning, without dismounting taking place on the upper/rear side of the application device.
  • valve device of an application device achieves the result that, along the straight valve duct path between the supply fluid chamber and the valve nozzle, a straight longitudinal flow takes place.
  • the longitudinal construction avoids flow shadows which would otherwise arise due to undercuts, dead corners, areas with slow flow speeds or the like. Hence not only can the valve device, as already described, be cleaned particularly well by flushing through. Due to the longitudinal flow, the inner region of the electromagnet device, namely a magnet coil which partly surrounds the adjusting piston and the valve piston, is effectively cooled as well. This has a favourable effect on the life of the valve device. Design and assembly of the valve device are particularly simple.
  • the single valve device also has the advantages which were mentioned in connection with the valve devices of the application device.
  • the valve housing can easily be removed.
  • the mounting opening is so large that the valve piston likewise can easily be taken out.
  • the valve fluid duct or the piston chamber opens towards the nozzle side, that is, downwards.
  • flushing with cleaning fluid under pressure the valve fluid duct and the piston chamber are flushed through, and any particles of dirt present are flushed out downwards.
  • the adjusting piston and the adjusting device are not dismounted. Adjustment settings can be made precisely even during operation of the device, that is, during application.
  • FIGS. 1A to 1D in side views or axonometric view, an application device according to the invention with eight application valve nozzles and one cleaning valve nozzle,
  • FIG. 2 a longitudinal section through an application device according to FIGS. 1A to D,
  • FIG. 3 detail D of FIG. 2 .
  • FIG. 4 a single valve device according to the invention.
  • the application device according to the invention shown in FIGS. 1A to D comprises a box-like valve body 15 which is composed of a lower socket portion 151 and an upper cover portion 152 .
  • the lower portion 151 is closed by a narrow elongate nozzle plate 121 which receives valve nozzles 3 .
  • the valve nozzles 3 are arranged in a straight row on the nozzle/application side 12 .
  • the application device 1 has an electrical plug-in connection 17 and a connecting opening 16 for application fluid.
  • the row of valve nozzles 3 is defined by eight application valve nozzles 31 and one cleaning valve nozzle 30 which closes the row of nozzles.
  • the cleaning valve nozzle 30 is according to the invention arranged at the end of the row of nozzles opposite the connecting opening 16 .
  • the valve body 15 is connected to an electronic power switching device 9 .
  • This switching device 9 is connected by means of a frame 19 in a plug-in connection 18 to a cap 153 of the upper portion 152 .
  • the switching device 9 is electrically connected to the valve body 15 directly via the plug-in connection 17 , without using a flat-strip cable connection.
  • the electrical plug-in connection 17 makes electrical connections, not shown, to electromagnetic valve actuating devices 5 of the application device 1 .
  • FIG. 2 and the detail according to FIG. 3 show the design and structure of the application device 1 according to the invention in an embodiment.
  • valve device 20 at one end of the row is a cleaning valve device provided according to the invention, which is equipped with the cleaning valve nozzle 30 .
  • the other eight valve devices 21 are application valve devices of which the valve nozzles 31 emit application fluid which is under pressure during regular operation.
  • a distributing fluid chamber 11 which can be supplied with pressurised fluid from one side by the connecting opening 16 via a fluid intake duct 110 .
  • the chamber is in the shape of an elongate duct having a substantially circular cross-section, which extends along the row of valve devices 2 .
  • the distributing fluid chamber 11 is provided with openings 73 at equal intervals on its side facing towards the valve actuating devices 5 . This involves in each case the opening 73 of a through-bore 70 or through-hole in the lower portion 151 .
  • the through-bore 70 opens out in a projection 154 which engages in a mounting opening 13 of the nozzle plate 121 .
  • the lower portion 151 , the nozzle plate 121 which closes the latter at the bottom, the upper portion 152 and the cap 153 which closes the latter at the top are appropriately joined together with screw connections not shown in more detail.
  • the advantage obtained with the invention is that these parts remain in the mounted state when the application device 1 is cleaned.
  • FIGS. 1A to D can be seen a closure element 155 with which the fluid distributing duct 111 is closed sealingly at its end opposite the fluid intake duct 110 .
  • This closure element may if required be used to deaerate the distributing fluid chamber 11 . Due to the measures according to the invention, however, it is not necessary to remove this closure element 155 for cleaning the application device 1 . Even deaeration takes place only by way of exception.
  • the valve devices 2 namely the cleaning valve device 20 and the application valve devices 21 , are basically designed the same and matching. According to the invention, however, an essential difference lies in that the cleaning valve device 20 at the end of the row is equipped with the cleaning valve nozzle 30 which has a substantially larger flow cross-section than the flow cross-section of the application valve nozzle 31 of each application valve device 21 .
  • the application valve nozzles 31 have the same flow cross-section.
  • the flow cross-section of the cleaning valve nozzle 30 is to be ten times larger than the flow cross-section of the application valve nozzle 31 .
  • valve device 2 which is therefore provided nine times is described below.
  • the electromagnetic valve device 2 comprises the valve actuating device 5 arranged in the valve body 15 , a valve housing 4 with the valve nozzle 3 and a valve seat 41 , a valve piston 51 , and an adjusting device 6 with an adjusting piston 61 against which the valve piston 51 operates.
  • the valve housing 4 with the valve nozzle 3 forms a screw-in nozzle orifice.
  • the valve actuating device 5 is designed as an electromagnet device with a magnet coil 50 which surrounds the through-bore 70 . From the through-bore 70 , on the projection 154 the valve piston 51 protrudes downwards into a piston chamber 8 . The valve piston 51 forms the electromagnet armature of the magnet coil 50 and enters the magnet coil 50 in the through-bore 70 .
  • the valve piston 51 is mounted centrally in the through-bore 70 . Appropriately multipoint mounting, not shown, is provided. This can be formed by three knobs offset by 120° each on the longitudinal circumference of the valve piston 51 . Thus between the longitudinal circumferential surface of the valve piston 51 and the bore wall of the through-bore 70 is formed an annular gap.
  • the through-bore 70 and the valve piston 51 appropriately have a circular cross-section.
  • the rear side of the valve piston 51 which lies in the magnet coil 50 abuts against a congruent piston stop 60 of the adjusting piston 61 .
  • the adjusting piston 61 enters the magnet coil 50 in the through-bore 70 from the side of the distributing fluid chamber 11 .
  • the adjusting piston 61 extends approximately two-thirds in the magnet coil, while the valve piston 51 enters the remaining one-third.
  • the through-bore 70 and through-hole form a common piston chamber in which the two pistons are held.
  • the adjusting device 6 comprises a screw connection 63 which is formed on the wall of the distributing fluid chamber 11 that lies opposite the wall with the fluid intake openings 73 .
  • the adjusting piston 61 has the same cross-section as the valve piston 51 , the two pistons being aligned.
  • the adjusting piston 61 is centred in the through-bore 70 by the screw mounting of the screw connection 63 .
  • an annular gap is formed between the longitudinal circumference of the adjusting piston 61 and the wall of the through-bore 70 .
  • the two annular gaps in the through-bore 70 along the adjusting piston 61 and along the valve piston 51 form a valve fluid duct 7 in the form of a ring-chamber duct 72 . The latter extends from the fluid intake opening 73 to the outlet opening 74 at the projection 154 .
  • the ring-chamber duct 72 forms, along the two pistons 51 , 61 and the through-bore 70 , a rectilinear flow path which remains free from corners and edges forming flow shadows.
  • the adjusting piston 61 and the valve piston 51 come into contact with closed surfaces. Between the contact faces in the practical example there is only a stroke distance of approximately 0.5 ⁇ m. In every case the stroke distance with the closed end faces of the two pistons 51 , 61 is kept so small that the flow through the ring-chamber duct 72 remains smooth and undisturbed in a straight path.
  • the adjusting piston 61 extends far into the distributing fluid chamber 11 at the fluid intake opening 73 of the ring-chamber duct 72 .
  • the cross-section of the adjusting piston 61 is kept relatively small in the flow cross-section of the distributing fluid chamber 11 , in order to obtain a large effective flow cross-section towards the fluid intake openings 73 in the distributing fluid chamber 11 .
  • the valve housing 4 is designed in the form of a nozzle orifice which is a closure member 14 easy to attach and remove.
  • the valve housing 4 is formed as a swivel part with an external thread and screwed in a releasable screw connection into the associated internally threaded mounting opening 13 in the nozzle plate 121 .
  • the valve housing 4 ends on the outside with an edge orifice abutting against the nozzle/application side 12 .
  • the valve nozzle 3 is embedded centrally in the valve housing 4 . It is advantageously made of ceramic and can be inserted firmly in the valve housing 4 by pressing it in.
  • the valve housing 4 has a frustoconical inner chamber 8 which corresponds to the projection 154 , in order to receive the latter precisely and centrally. Furthermore, the inner chamber 8 of the valve housing 4 is designed to receive a pretensioned conical spring 52 which forms part of the valve actuating device 5 , pressing a head closure element 54 of the valve piston 51 for closing the valve nozzle 3 against the latter.
  • the valve nozzle 3 on the side of the valve piston 51 is recessed with the valve seat 41 which is engaged by the valve piston 51 with the head closure element 54 .
  • the conical spring 52 which is seated on the valve piston 51 is held or clamped in its pretensioned state between an annular edge of the projection 154 and an annular edge at the head end of the valve piston 51 .
  • the components of the application device 1 are sealed off from each other at contacting form-locking surfaces in the region of fluid-conducting chambers and ducts in the usual manner with seals, e.g. O-rings.
  • the distributing fluid chamber 11 admits pressurised cleaning fluid. This takes place in a state in which all the valve devices 2 are closed.
  • the cleaning valve nozzle 30 is inserted in the nozzle plate 121 .
  • the other valve housings 4 are likewise mounted on the nozzle plate 121 .
  • the cleaning valve nozzle 30 is opened with the associated valve actuating device 5 .
  • the valve piston 51 is moved against the force of the conical spring 52 over the stroke distance towards the adjusting piston 61 , so that cleaning fluid flows out of the cleaning valve nozzle 30 under pressure.
  • the cleaning valve nozzle 30 has, as described above, a relatively large flow cross-section.
  • the fluid passes from the fluid intake duct 110 at a high flow rate along the path 100 in the distributing fluid chamber 11 through the ring-chamber duct 72 of the cleaning valve device 20 to the cleaning valve nozzle 30 .
  • contaminants such as particles or deposits are removed particularly effectively from the distributing fluid chamber 11 .
  • the cleaning valve device 20 is closed by switching off the valve actuating device 5 .
  • the application valve devices 21 are now successively opened by activation of the associated valve actuating devices 5 . That is to say, in succession there is always only one of the application valve nozzles 31 open, while the other application valve nozzles 31 are kept closed.
  • the distributing fluid chamber 11 is supplied with pressurised cleaning fluid. In this way, in each case effective cleaning and flushing of the ring-chamber duct 72 as well as of the inner chamber 8 of the valve housing 4 which receives the conical spring 52 and includes the application valve nozzle 30 is achieved.
  • the sequence of applications of cleaning fluid under pressure as well as opening and closing the valve devices 2 that is carried out for the cleaning method described is advantageously performed by an electronic control device.
  • the latter is designed with a control program such that the sequence of steps is predetermined and can be carried out in the manner according to the invention.
  • the usual electronic control means of a computer and/or a logic circuit for application control can be used as the electronic control device, the program steps according to the invention being integrated in addition.
  • An electronic control device of this kind is not shown in the drawings. It is wired to the electrical contacts 91 of the electronic power device 9 for a example using a logic circuit board.
  • the application device 1 is particularly effectively flushed in particular after the initial assembly. It is a great advantage that cleaning and flushing take place in a state of the application device in which the adjusting devices 6 of the application device 1 remain mounted. On the side of the application device 1 opposite the nozzle plate 121 , there is therefore no handling by dismounting.
  • Removal of the valve housing 4 is particularly simple. After the valve housing 4 has been removed, the mounting opening 13 exposes the valve piston 51 and the conical spring 52 , parts which, as such, can easily be removed downwards through the mounting opening 13 . Then flushing takes place under high pressure, for example with water or a special cleaning agent. The valve piston 51 , the conical spring 52 and the valve housing 4 with its valve nozzle 3 are cleaned individually. Furthermore, to complete cleaning, the valve housing 4 of the cleaning valve device 20 can also be removed and, while the application valve devices are then closed, flushed with water. Such measures take place only in case of exceptions where there is major contamination. In most cases the application valve devices 21 can be cleaned particularly effectively according to the invention without removing the valve housings 4 (nozzle orifices).
  • the adjusting device 6 has a micrometric fine thread 622 with adjusting screw 621 .
  • An application device 1 as described in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 3 can also appropriately be provided as a module unit which can be assembled with identical module units into an application device with nozzles arranged in rows and columns.
  • valve devices 2 are accommodated and formed in parts 151 to 153 of the common valve body 15 .
  • the valve devices can also each be formed by a single valve device. Such a valve device is shown in the embodiment in FIG. 4 .
  • the single valve device has the same parts or corresponding parts as the valve device 2 of the application device 1 described. In FIG. 4 this is indicated by the fact that the reference numbers used in FIGS. 1 to 3 are used with the number 1 after the dot.
  • a single valve device 2 . 1 according to FIG. 4 can be assembled in a plurality into an application device according to the invention. It is then necessary, as not shown in FIG. 4 , to connect supply fluid chambers 11 . 1 in series by suitable sealing means, not shown. Joining single valve devices together in this way is known in the art.
  • a valve device 2 . 1 as in FIG. 4 has the features, functions and advantages described for the valve device 2 of the application device 1 described above in the embodiment.
  • the straight flow path of the ring-chamber duct 72 . 1 can be cleaned easily and effectively with the nozzle orifice which is easy to remove and fit.
  • the nozzle orifice can be exchanged and mounted quickly with the desired valve nozzle 3 . 1 . Only handling on the lower side of the valve device 2 . 1 takes place. On the upper/rear side of the valve device 2 . 1 , all parts remain mounted. The adjustment setting can be carried out easily and precisely in spite of the exchangeable nozzle orifice.
  • the straight flow path of the ring-chamber duct 72 . 1 has the advantage of avoiding flow shadows in which particles are otherwise caught, in the region of which deposits arise and/or which impair the through-flow for example as a result of trapped air. Due to the longitudinal flow, the inner region of the magnet coil 50 . 1 is cooled very effectively.

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