Patent ID: 6533861
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: B05B

Abstract:
An automatic coating apparatus, comprising:a working mechanism to be put in predetermined coating actions relative to a coating object; a common main assembly body fixedly mounted on said working mechanism to serve as a common main assembly body for a number of sprayers; a number of bell-shape heads each displaceably connectible to said common main assembly body to form bell-shape sprayers and adapted to spray supplied paint in a finely atomized form by means of a bell-shaped cup rotating at high speed; and a head changer provided within a working area of said working mechanism and adapted to hold a grip on and off said bell-shape heads at the time of replacing a bell-shape head on said common main assembly body, wherein said bell-shape heads are each internally provided with an axial feed tube passage hole, and wherein said head changer is provided with washing mechanisms for washing said bell-shape heads while being gripped on said head changer, said washing mechanisms each being provided with a wash fluid supply tube adapted to be inserted into said axial feed tube passage hole in said bell-shape head for spurting a wash fluid thereinto.