Paint booth with purifier

A paint booth with a purifier, comprising:

• a booth body comprising a coating chamber and a booth opening;
• a water tank disposed in a lower part of the booth body;
• a water rope formation mechanism comprising a water case disposed in an upper part of the booth body and configured to form a plurality of parallel water ropes from water falling from nozzles formed in a bottom wall of the water case;
• a pump configured to draw up water from the water tank and feed the water into the water case;
• a barrier member comprising a vertically extending wall portion disposed behind the water ropes;
• an exhaust chamber formed behind the barrier member and divided from the coating chamber by the barrier member;
• an exhaust mechanism configured to discharge air from the exhaust chamber;
• an inclined plate disposed below the nozzles and comprising a water receiving surface sloping forwardly down at an angle from a vertically intermediate portion of the barrier member toward a water surface of the water tank, the inclined plate including a porous ventilation section with a large number of holes disposed at a lower part of the inclined plate above the water surface;
• a windshield plate comprising an upper end and a lower end and defining an air circulation section in conjunction with a rear surface of the inclined plate, the lower end contacting water in the water tank;
• a sludge removal mechanism comprising a conveyor configured to discharge paint sludge in the water tank to the outside of the water tank;
• an intake guide member disposed in front of the porous ventilation section and opposed to the porous ventilation section;
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• an airflow inlet disposed between the intake guide member and the porous ventilation section.