Loading device for a coating system and a coating system

A loading device for a coating system with at least one holding device which comprises:

• at least one rack-like frame and at least one carrier made of a rod-like or wire-like continuous material, which can be or is secured with one end to the frame and on which at least one hook-like holding section is formed, on which a workpiece to be coated can be arranged, with at least one detection device which comprises a detection means, by which at least the dimensions of the frame and of the workpiece can be detected, and which comprises at least one control unit, by which, on the basis of the dimensions of the frame and the workpiece, the dimensions of the at least one hook-like holding section and of a minimum distance between two hook-like holding sections on the carrier for contact-free arrangement of the workpiece and by which the total length of the continuous material for forming the carrier can be determined, and
• with at least one provisioning device which interacts functionally with the detection device, by which the carrier can be produced, which provides a continuous material carrier, which provides the continuous material forming the carrier, which provides a deformation unit, by which a hook-like holding section can be moulded by a region-wise plastic deformation of the provided continuous material in accordance with the determined dimensions and the determined minimum distance, and which provides a cutting means, with which the provided continuous material can be cut once the total length of the remaining continuous material carrier is achieved.