Treatment installation and method for treating workpieces
AssigneeDürr Systems AG
InventorsOliver Iglauer, Kevin Woll, Dietmar Wieland, Joachim Wickenhaeuser
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Abstract
In order to provide a treatment installation for treating workpieces that is of simple construction and enables optimised workpiece treatment, it is proposed that the treatment installation should include a treatment chamber and a conveying device, by means of which the workpieces are suppliable to the treatment chamber, are removable from the treatment chamber, and/or are conveyable through the treatment chamber in a conveying direction.
Claims15
A treatment installation for treating workpieces, wherein the treatment installation includes a treatment chamber, surrounded by a housing, and a conveying device, by means of which the workpieces are suppliable to the treatment chamber, are removable from the treatment chamber, and/or are conveyable through the treatment chamber in a conveying direction,
- wherein the treatment installation includes
- at least one circulating air module which forms a section of the treatment installation and comprises a fan device for guiding a gas stream in a circuit through the treatment chamber or a section thereof,
- at least one flushing module which forms a section of the treatment installation, and
- a lock, through which an isolating gas stream is flowable,
- wherein each circulating air module forms at least one of a heating zone, a holding zone, and a cooling zone of the treatment chamber,
- wherein a circulating air module, a flushing module, and a lock are arranged such that they succeed one another in this order in the conveying direction, and wherein the isolating gas stream of the lock is suppliable by means of a gas guide arrangement of the treatment installation to the flushing module as a flushing gas stream.
A method for treating workpieces, wherein the method includes the following:
- supplying workpieces to a treatment chamber of a treatment installation, the treatment chamber being surrounded by a housing, and a conveying device, by means of which the workpieces are suppliable to the treatment chamber, are removable from the treatment chamber, and/or are conveyable through the treatment chamber in a conveying direction;
- guiding workpieces through the treatment chamber;
- removing workpieces from the treatment chamber,
- wherein the treatment installation includes at least one circulating air module which forms a section of the treatment installation and comprises a fan device for guiding a gas stream in a circuit through the treatment chamber or a section thereof, at least one flushing module which forms a section of the treatment installation, and a lock, through which an isolating gas stream is flowable, wherein each circulating air module forms at least one of a heating zone, a holding zone, and a cooling zone of the treatment chamber,
- wherein a circulating air module, a flushing module, and a lock are arranged such that they succeed one another in this order in the conveying direction, and wherein the isolating gas stream of the lock is suppliable by means of a gas guide arrangement of the treatment installation to the flushing module as a flushing gas stream.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.