Patent ID: 8157190
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: B05B

Abstract:
1. An air atomizing type coating apparatus, comprised of: a main body formed with a cartridge mount portion and a passage change-over means mount portion at rear and front sides thereof, respectively, along with a first feed tube passage hole extending forward from said cartridge mount portion toward said passage change-over means mount portion; a first wash fluid passage provided on said main body to supply therethrough a wash fluid for washing off paint residues; a passage change-over means attached to said passage change-over means mount portion of said main body and provided with a second feed tube passage hole which is in a coaxially communicating position relative to said first feed tube passage hole, and a second wash fluid passage which is in a communicating position relative to said first wash fluid passage, and selectively switching either said second feed tube passage hole or said second wash fluid passage; an air atomizing type spraying means attached on a front side of said passage change-over means, and composed of a paint nozzle adapted to spurt paint forward and an air nozzle adapted to blow atomizing air to atomize paint from said paint nozzle; and a paint cartridge composed of a tank portion which store paint and a feed tube projected forward from said tank portion, said feed tube being passed into said first and second feed tube passage holes and when said tank portion is set in said cartridge mount portion.