Apparatus for spraying at a spraying station aligned with a continuously moving conveyor belt
AssigneeAnchor Hocking Corporation
InventorsMichael L. Pietrowski, Gordon D. Norlin, Thomas J. Mohr, Charles R. Williams, Thomas J. Haug, John W. Herrmann
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Abstract
A spraying apparatus having a continuously moving conveyor belt which brings a vessel rim down to a spraying station, arrests movement of the vessel and aligns it with a vacuum gripping head, grips the vessel bottom and lifts and presents the vessel to a sprayer, rotates the vacuum gripped vessel rapidly to apply a plurality of thin layers of coating, and returns the coated vessel to the conveyor and releases the grip on the vessel so that the continuously moving conveyor can discharge the coated vessel from the spraying station.
Claims11
Apparatus for applying a coating to a vessel, said apparatus including
- a continuously operating conveyor which conveys a vessel to be coated to a spraying station vertically aligned with the conveyor,
- means for arresting the forward movement of the vessel at the spraying station while maintaining the vessel in sliding contact with the conveyor as the conveyor continues to operate,
- means for breaking physical contact between the vessel and the conveyor,
- means for presenting said vessel to the spraying station in an inverted position following separation of the vessel from the conveyor,
- means for spraying the vessel positioned and arranged in said spraying station,
- means for rotating the vessel at a high rate of speed at the spraying station whereby a coating applied by the spraying means consists of a plurality of layers, and
- means for re-contacting the coated vessel with the continuously operating conveyor whereby the coated vessel is discharged from the spraying station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.