Enclosure for painting and a method of enforcing evaporation from a coating on a panel surface

A method according to any preceding claim, in which the width of the jet of air in the plane of the panel as it reaches the panel edge portion is between 10% and 20% of the length of the panel edge.

A booth or other enclosure for the painting or re-painting of panelled articles such as motor vehicles, comprising an air inlet and an air outlet for the bulk movement of drying air over a painted article standing in the booth;

• at least one supplier of air at a flow velocity substantially greater than that of the bulk movement, means for holding the supplier at a predetermined position and orientation, in use, in relation to a panel of the painted article which is to be dried, to direct a jet of drying air towards one edge region of the panel, the air supplier being so shaped, and the flow velocity being such, that the jet is substantially narrower, when it reaches the panel edge region, than the length of the panel edge, and the air supplier being positioned such that the jet is inclined to the plane of the panel and the air from the jet is entrained by the panel in a spreading, predominantly laminar flow across the panel surface over that edge region and from that edge region to all the other edges thereof, thereby inducing such laminar flow over substantially the whole surface and replacing vapor-laden air closely adjacent the surface with fresh air to accelerate evaporation.