Patent ID: 6217652
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: B05B,B05C

Abstract:
A coating facility comprising, along an overhead conveyor formed in a circulation track,a loading device for loading works W conveyed from a preceding step at a predetermined loading position to hangers of the overhead conveyor,a pretreatment device for applying pretreatment to surfaces of the works W loaded by the loading device,a coating device for dipping the pretreated works W into a coating material to deposit the coating material on the surfaces thereof, anda lifting device for down loading the coated works W from the hangers and transferring them at a predetermined transferring position P.sub.2 to carriers of a floor conveyor that runs in a drying furnace in this order, and in which the pretreatment and the coating are applied while the works W are conveyed on the overhead conveyor, then the works are transferred to the carriers of the floor conveyor, dried during conveyance and then conveyed to a succeeding step after the completion of drying,wherein the floor conveyor is formed in a circulation track that runs in the drying furnace, passes from an exit of the drying furnace through the transferring position P.sub.2 and returns to an entrance of the drying furnace, the lifting device is disposed successively along the circulation track of the floor conveyor between the exit of the drying furnace and the transferring position P.sub.2 for re-transferring dried works W from the drying furnace at a predetermined re-transferring position P.sub.3 from the carriers of the floor conveyor to the hangers of the overhead conveyor again, and an unloading device is disposed successively along the circulation track of the overhead conveyor between the re-transferring position P.sub.3 and the loading position P.sub.1 for down loading the re-transferred works W from the overhead conveyor at a predetermined unloading position P.sub.4 and conveying them to a succeeding step,a looped first storage track is disposed for storing works W corresponding to a predetermined number of the hangers conveyed on the overhead conveyor circulation track in a state suspended from the hangers such that a pull-in side and a delivery side thereof are branched from and joined with the overhead conveyor circulation track between the re-transferring position P.sub.3 and the unloading position P.sub.4,a second storage track is branched from the circulation track between the exit of the drying furnace of the floor conveyor and the re-transferring position P.sub.3 for storing the works W in a state loaded to the carriers running on the floor conveyor circulation track, and in which pretreatment, coating and drying are completed for all the works W through conveyance in the overhead conveyor and the floor conveyor at the instance conveyance from the preceding step and conveyance to the succeeding step of the works W are stopped, a predetermined number of dried works W are re-transferred to the hangers at the re-transferring position P.sub.3 and then stored in the first storage track in a state suspended from the hangers, while the remaining works W are delivered out of the drying furnace and then stored in the second storage track in a state loaded on the carriers.