Patent ID: 8746167

Claim:
An atomizer for spraying a coating material towards articles to be coated, the atomizer comprises: a body equipped with a flange for fastening the atomizer to a robot, the robot and/or the flange defining a terminal axis about which the atomizer is designed to move relative to the articles to be coated; a coating material reservoir housed in a proximal portion of the body and extending along a main axis; and atomizer means for spraying the coating material, the atomizer means are disposed in a distal portion of the body, the atomizer means having a bell cup atomizer member that rotates about an axis Y 51 superimposed with a spraying direction Y 50 ; wherein the spraying direction Y 50 is oriented from the bell cup toward the article to be coated; the spraying direction Y 50 and the main axis X 10 of the reservoir are convergent on the body of the atomizer; the angle between the main axis of the reservoir and the spraying direction lies in the range 50° to 100°, and the terminal axis Y 19 forms an angle with the spraying direction that lies in the range 110° to 130°; on a side of the spraying direction Y 50 oriented towards the flange and on a side of the terminal axis oriented toward the bell cup atomizer member.