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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7189272 | Movable spray painting stand A movable spray-painting stand includes a worktable provided with four casters and having a wind-exhausting device and a filtering device assembled thereon. The wind-exhausting device has an air inlet communicating with the wind outlet of the filtering device. A sep... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7077740 | Paint spray booth A paint spray booth is provided containing a plenum packed with a contact material for treatment of paint overspray generated during operation of the paint spray booth. The contact material is packed to provide a relatively large surface area and a relatively large ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7066091 | Methods and apparatus for controlling impurity levels in an enclosed printing press environment Methods and apparatus for controlling impurity levels in an enclosed printing press environment are disclosed. A disclosed system controls impurity levels by using variable speed fans to control the intake of air into the enclosed environment and the exhausting of a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7014338 | Spray booth A spray booth has an enclosure structure, a ventilation system and overhead lighting. An upper region of the structure defines an air inlet plenum. Air exits the inlet plenum into the work area of the booth through an array of filter elements. The resistance to airf... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6666166 | Spraybooth scrubber noise reflector A spray application system includes an enclosed spraybooth area in which airborne particles are generated and a scrubber system is located below the enclosed spraybooth area. The scrubber system includes an inlet receiving water and air from the sprayboot... | 12/23/2003 |
| 5882404 | Powder coating apparatus Powder coating apparatus (10) comprises an enclosure or booth (12) in which an article to be powder coated is locatable. Spray heads (24) are provided in the booth (12) to spray water over the inside of the booth (12) to remove over-spray powder coat mate... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5746650 | Integrated paint spray booth and air conditioning system and process An integrated paint spray booth and air conditioning system and process utilize a spray booth housing, scrubber and filtering chambers located below the housing, and an air conditioning apparatus including an adiabatic saturator. The components are arrang... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5741178 | Reducing area, increasing velocity paint booth structure and method A paint booth structure and method having, in one form a specially shaped painting volume wherein the painting occurs is provided with an air flow system to carry away paint overspray and a decreasing cross-sectional area in the direction of air flow to c... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5643077 | Continually optimized, variable flow rate ventilation system A ventilation system for use, in example, on a spray booth or paint stripping enclosure, in which variable speed fans (or equivalent) are employed, and controlled by a sensor so that the flow rate exhausted from the booth (and directed either to an emissi... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5634975 | Air distribution arrangement for paint spray booth An air distribution apparatus in a paint spray booth plenum for increasing the uniformity of down draft velocities from the plenum to the spray booth paint application zone. The increased uniformity of down draft velocities correspondingly increases paint... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5618333 | Method for volatile organic compound recycling In the method of the instant invention, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) liberated in the course of solvent-based painting of a workpiece, are recovered. The atmosphere within a closed spray-booth is maintained at a fixed humidity such that vaporized wat... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5569073 | System for the removal and disposal of airborne contaminants from an outdoor paint booth A system for removing airborne contaminants from the effluent air streams om spray paint booths and the like. The system includes a rectangular shaped underground pool having pool of water positioned below the work area. The underground pool has a plurali... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5545239 | Painting installation A painting installation has an enclosure and a perforated floor. Air flows downwards inside the enclosure and is mixed with a liquid. Excess paint is extracted from the resulting mixture of the liquid plus excess paint particles from the air. At the same ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5460569 | Air supply housing arrangement for paint spray booths An air conditioning system for a paint spray booth is located entirely within the booth below the paint application zone for supplying a modified temperature, humidity, and/or filtrated air to the application zone.... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5425670 | Spray booth overspray removal arrangement and method A method and apparatus for reducing the debris that enters the air inlet of a paint overspray scrubber includes at least an upper collection pond positioned above the air inlet. Lower collection ponds are placed beneath the upper collection pond in horizo... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5380243 | Air supply housing arrangement for paint spray booths An air supply housing arrangement for a paint spray booth is located at an elevation in the booth such that the air flowing through a booth paint spray zone is processed below a level of water held in a booth recirculation tank.... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5360539 | Scrubbing water handling system for paint spray booths A paint spray booth (40) having an air supply system for processing air is improved in that a housing arrangement (16) for the air supply system is located entirely within the paint spray booth (40).... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5286268 | Paint mist removing apparatus A paint mist removing apparatus comprising a constricted passage for allowing a paint mist laden gas from a spraying chamber to flow at high velocity confluently with a cleaning liquid for delivery to an exhaust chamber; a liquid shooting section for scat... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5264014 | Arrangement for cleaning ventilation air polluted with paint particles An arrangement for cleaning ventilation air coming from a paint spray booth and polluted with paint particles is provided with a liquid flow for separating part of the paint particles from the ventilation air and a wet electrostatic precipitator for separ... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5147422 | Paint spray booth A paint spray booth is provided which comprises a floor covered with flowing liquid, the floor including an elongated passageway formed therein defined by a pair of passageway walls and having an entrance opening and an exit opening. The paint spray booth... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5135550 | Recirculating water washer means and method A recirculating washer for a paint spray booth is illustrated and described, and uses upward air motion and gravity to recirculate water on and along two or more recirculating baffles facing each other to form one or more curtains of water for cleaning pa... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5098450 | Surfactant additive for hec emulsion A method for detackifying oversprayed paint solids in a paint spray booth utilizes an oil-in-water emulsion as the hydrophilic fluid for capturing and detackifying oversprayed paint, which emulsion contains a certain nonionic surfactant, which surfactant ... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5042996 | Procedure for the denaturation of paints and products for this procedure Procedure for the denaturation of paints collected in painting booths and comprising a cleansing apparatus in which the air laden with paint droplets is placed in contact with a fluid to which is added a powder selected from phenolic or polyisocyanate pow... | 08/27/1991 |
| 5040482 | Paint spray booth A paint spray booth for painting articles is disclosed having a liquid wash scrubber beneath an upper chamber for removing the overspray paint particles from the air by intermixing the paint latent air with a liquid such as water. The scrubber forms a sub... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4985056 | Device for purifying contaminated gas A device for purifying contaminated gas, such as air drawn from an automobile painting tunnel and containing a mist of paint particles, includes an upper water feed orifice 1 connected to a lower flow channel 4 by an intermediate channel 3 which diverges ... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4981263 | Paint booth thermal reclamation system for space heating A paint spray and bake booth has an air heating and circulating system with two blowers and a combination of dampers and ducts which provide different air circulating circuits for the spraying and baking steps. A gas fired furnace with heat exchanging sys... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4955990 | Disposable baffle system and method A spray booth is provided with inexpensive, disposable pre-baffles which collect overspray thereon prior to the overspray reaching the filtering stages. The preferred disposable pre-baffles are made of paperboard and after being coated with overspray for ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4895100 | Painting installation A painting installation with several treatment zones and a system for washing-out paint mist by means of circulated water, in which for each treatment zone or group of treatment zones with similar solvent concentration in the exhaust air, a closed-cycle w... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4894073 | Filter The filter is formed by a wall (6) separating a vacuum chamber (3a, 3b) from a space (1) where a paint spray gun (2) is located. The lower part (5) of the wall (6) dips into the water of a collecting tank (7). The wall (6) is pierced by a multiplicity of ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4885010 | Spray booth An improved scrubbing apparatus is disclosed which is particularly well suited for use in spray booths for extracting particulate matter entrained in a gas stream flowing therethrough. The scrubbing apparatus of the present invention combines an elongated... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4865628 | Method for confining and removing spray drift A method is described for spraying toxic chemicals onto agricultural plants that produces only a small amount of contained drift and then removes this drift from the air polluted. The environment is not badly damaged, less toxic chemical is used, the prob... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4848215 | Apparatus for removing spray mist from spraying booth An apparatus for removing spray mist from a spraying booth. The apparatus comprises an exhauster for forcibly discharging a mixture of air and a mist of superfluous paint from the spray booth, and a plurality of constricted flow passages arranged in an ex... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4735637 | Method for denaturing paints A process is provided for denaturing paints which are collected in paint rooms of the type comprising a scrubber in which air charged with droplets of paint is brought into contact with a scrubbing liquid. An additive in the form of an expanded polyuretha... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4729775 | Device for scrubbing a polluted gas A device is provided for scrubbing a polluted gas in which this gas passes through at least one sheet of a scrubbing liquid. The device comprises trickle walls (7) which together define a first opening (8), a first transverse wall (12) disposed beneath th... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4726287 | Water washed subfloor system for paint spray booth A paint spray booth water washed subfloor system, including distribution piping for supplying water to only one portion thereof. The distribution piping has only one main pipe to supply water to the one portion of the subfloor. The water supplied to the o... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4704952 | Method and apparatus for applying paint A paint spray booth in which articles such as automobiles are sprayed while moving along a conveyor line passing through the working area of the booth. Air is moved from an area above the articles and downwardly around the articles for discharge through a... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4700615 | Spray booth A spray booth includes an air cleaning apparatus providing an air intake beneath its floor, and provides air curtains along the interior surfaces of its side walls. The preferred air cleaning apparatus provides a first slot and water curtain through which... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4687686 | Spray booth with climate regulation system An apparatus and method is provided for regulating the climate in a spray booth. The spray booth comprises a chamber for housing articles during spray application of a coating material to the articles and an air circulation system for supplying either amb... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4664060 | Paint spray booth A paint spray booth for painting articles, such as motor vehicles, having a housing with a bottom, a substantially horizontal floor spaced upwardly from the bottom and in which the floor divides the housing between an upper housing chamber and a lower hou... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4643082 | Spray booths The paint laden air extracted from a paint spray booth is flowed through a tubular member in intimate contact with a cleaning liquid such that the paint is washed from the air. To maintain the efficiency of the washing operation auxiliary air is supplied ... | 02/17/1987 |
