Systems and methods for providing coating operations
AssigneeMichael Matlack
InventorMichael Matlack
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Abstract
A coating system operations vehicle. Related methods are provided for filling a tank and operating coating equipment on a vehicle. The methods include pumping coating from containers into a tank on the vehicle and dispensing the coating for application on a surface. A method also includes removing residual coating from the containers after pumping out coating and adding the residual coating material to the tank. If the level of coating is at the desired level in the tank, a layer of water may be formed over the coating in the tank.
Claims4
A method of dispensing liquid coating material, including paint, for application to surfaces, comprising:
- a) providing a mobile road vehicle having a bed on which a plurality of tanks are mounted for use on the vehicle, the combined holding capacity of the tanks being at least 300 gallons, the tanks being filled with coating material to a predetermined level, the vehicle further comprising a plurality of hydraulic sprayers mounted for powered operation on the vehicle and a plurality of hose lines connected to extend from the mounted sprayers to dispense the coating material at least 200 feet away from the vehicle;
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- b) providing a first input manifold connected between multiple ones of the tanks and at least a first of the hydraulic sprayers, the first input manifold including a plurality of manifold input lines, each connected to receive flow of coating material from one of the tanks, and at least one output line connected between the manifold input lines and at least one of the hydraulic sprayers to carry flow of coating material from the manifold input lines to at least one of the hydraulic sprayers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.