Patent ID: 6878205

Claim:
A powder coating system permitting for quick color changes, the powder coating system operating to dispense powder onto objects to be coated by the powder and including a booth in which objects are oriented for powder coating, the booth including a bottom wall beneath which is defined an equipment-receiving space, the bottom wall including a pair of transversely spaced-apart openings through which an air-powder mixture moves from the booth, and a plurality of powder-recovery modules, the powder-recovery modules being selectively and interchangeably insertable into the equipment-receiving space to receive the air-powder mixture through the openings, each of the powder recovery modules including a pair of ducts, each duct of the pair of ducts for selectively engaging a respective one of the transversely spaced-apart openings when a respective powder recovery module is oriented in the equipment receiving space to receive the air-powder mixture.