Patent ID: 8642131

Claim:
A shaping air ring, comprising: a plurality of shaping air nozzles for discharging a shaping air jet for shaping a spray jet of an atomizer, the shaping air nozzles being formed such that the shaping air jet and the spray jet contain directed flows within a first region proximate to the shaping air ring; wherein the shaping air nozzles are formed such that the shaping air jet generates, in a targeted manner, more turbulences in a second region of the spray jet downstream of the first region so that the shaping air jet and the spray jet contain substantially more turbulences in the remote region than in the close region; and wherein a slit is provided on the shaping air nozzles, the shaping air nozzles are arranged in a ring shape, and the slit runs through the shaping air nozzles in a ring-shaped manner.