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AssigneeGosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issle-Dovatelsky Institut Stroitelnoi Keramiki Niistroikeramika
InventorsEvgeny I. Sheinin, Nelli S. Belostotskaya, Lev N. Yakovlev
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Apparatus for application of a coat of coating material to hollow articles provided with at least one internal partition to divide the interior of said items into an entry and an exit portions having an inlet and an outlet openings, repsectively. The coat application unit has at least two sprayer heads each of which has a configuration corresponding to the shape of the area to be coated and is adapted to be passed though the inlet and the outlet openings into the entry and exit portions, respectively. One of the sprayers may be carried by a bracket arm which is locked-in with a tipper device and is provided with a retainer adapted to keep the article in position after the abovesaid sprayer has been fitted into the item under process for a conjoint turning of the item and the tipper to remove surplus coating material.
Apparatus for applying a coating on inner surfaces of a cavity in an article of manufacture comprising, a carriage movable to a spray station and retractable therefrom selectively, means for moving said carriage to said station and retracting it therefrom, said carriage comprising means for mounting and releasably holding an article of manufacture having a cavity open on a top end of the cavity and closed at the bottom thereof and a lateral opening into said cavity intermediate the open top of the cavity and closed bottom thereof, a tiltable device at said spray station comprising means for receiving said carriage with said article thereon and releasably holding said carriage in a tilted position, means for selectively tilting said tiltable device to a tilted position for tilting said article for draining excess coating material therefrom through said lateral opening, spray mechanism comprising a first spray device insertable into said cavity of said article through said lateral opening for spraying upwardly a coating material in said cavity and allowing coating material to drain to the bottom of the cavity, a second spray device in said spray mechanism insertable into said cavity through said top opening and spraying coating material along upper peripheral interior edges of said cavity and allowing coating material to drain to said closed bottom, said spray mechanism including a closure device movable into position overlying said top opening and closing said cavity during spraying of said coating material, means for automatically moving and actuating said first and second spray device and said closure in timed relationship, and receptacle means disposed for receiving excess coating material drained from the bottom and interior of said cavity through said lateral opening upon cessation of spraying in said cavity and said article is tilted to drain said excess coating material.
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