Painting method
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKouichi Sashihara
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Abstract
A shuttle feed passage 7 is provided in each functional processing station from a coating booth 1 to an after-heating booth 6 for performing a series of operations from coating to baking and drying. A conveyance frame 12 is fed to each of the booths 1-6 using a shuttle feed method, and conveyance of the workpiece W is stopped to perform the coating operation and the like. An empty conveyance frame 12 from which the coated workpiece W is removed is circulated through a self-propelled feed passage 9. A carriage 39 of the conveyance frame 12 is caused to travel outside the booth 1, and the supporting arm 13 of the conveyance frame 12 is caused to travel inside the booth, wherein the supporting arm is caused to rotate around the axis.
Claims4
A painting method comprising the steps of:
- feeding a conveyance frame consisting of a carriage and a workpiece supporting arm to functional processing stations arranged along a cyclical conveyance passage, and using a shuttle feed method in order to perform a series of operations from painting to baking and drying;
- allowing the carriage to travel outside a booth of the functional processing stations;
- allowing only a workpiece and the workpiece supporting arm to travel within the booth;
- stopping conveyance of the workpiece in each of the functional processing stations;
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- performing the series of operations, rotating the workpiece around its axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.