Patent ID: 8607729
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. A line for dip coating objects comprising: at least one dip tank, which is capable of being filled to a certain level with coating fluid; a conveyor system, which conveys the objects to be coated towards the at least one dip tank, into the at least one dip tank, out of the at least one dip tank and away from the at least one dip tank, and which has a guide device and at least one transport carriage which is capable of being moved along the guide device and which in turn comprises: a control device in which a set immersion curve of the at least one object fixed to the holding frame is stored and which controls a movement of the at least one object fixed to the holding frame; a collision prevention system which comprises: the control device, from signals delivered to the control device by the position transducer and the stored data relating to the course of the second boundary surface or boundary line and relating to the contour representing the at least one object fixed to the holding frame, calculates a position of the boundary line continuously or at particular time intervals and whether the contour penetrates the anti-collision area or not and, in the first case, stops a further movement of the object.