Patent ID: 6066207
Filing Date: 2000-05-23
Classification: B05B,Y02P,Y10S

Abstract:
An apparatus for performing powder coating onto an article to be coated, comprising a powder coating booth divided into an automatic coating zone in which coating is performed only by an automatic coating machine and a manual coating zone in which coating is performed by a worker, said powder coating booth including:a first recovering apparatus which recovers, in a dry state, only that powder coating material in said automatic coating zone which has not been coated onto the article to be coated; anda second recovering apparatus which uses water to recover, in a wet state, that powder coating material in said manual coating zone which has not been coated onto the article to be coated, said first recovering apparatus being provided separate from said second recovering apparatus, with recovered powder coating material from said automatic coating zone collected separately from recovered powder coating material from said manual coating zone.