Device for controlling the temperature of vehicle bodies

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10060676-B2
Application number	US-201213984583-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 5, 2012
Priority date	Feb 15, 2011
Publication date	Aug 28, 2018
Grant date	Aug 28, 2018

Abstract

A device for controlling the temperature of vehicle bodies, in particular for drying painted vehicle bodies, having a housing in which a temperature control tunnel and at least one pressure chamber separated therefrom by a wall are provided. In said wall there is a plurality of conventional nozzles via which temperature controlled air, which is introduced into the pressure chamber, is applied in particular in the upper region of the vehicle body. At least one nozzle device is provided which has a plurality of nozzle openings on the side thereof facing the vehicle body and at least roughly following the geometry of the lower region of the vehicle body at a distance from the vehicle body, which is smaller than the distance of the other nozzles arranged in the same wall.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A device for controlling the temperature of vehicle bodies comprising:
a housing;
a temperature control tunnel for receiving vehicle bodies, the temperature control tunnel being formed within the housing;
at least one pressure chamber formed within the housing and separated from the temperature control tunnel by at least one wall;
a plurality of nozzles provided in orifices formed in the at least one wall, the plurality of nozzles including at least one nozzle having a first configuration and at least one nozzle having a second configuration, the second configuration being different from the first configuration,
wherein the at least one nozzle having the second configuration includes a nozzle body having a plurality of nozzle orifices, the nozzle body extending laterally beyond a surface of the at least one wall defining the temperature control tunnel into an interior of the temperature control tunnel and being configured to follow a geometry of a lower region of a vehicle body positioned in the temperature control tunnel.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one nozzle having the second configuration includes a portion which anchors the at least one nozzle having the second configuration within the orifices formed in the at least one wall.

3. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of nozzle orifices formed in the nozzle body of the at least one nozzle having the second configuration include nozzle orifices aimed in at least two different directions.

4. The device according to claim 2 , wherein the orifices to which the portion which anchors the at least one nozzle having the second configuration are configured to receive at least one nozzle having the first configuration.

5. A device for controlling the temperature of vehicle bodies comprising:
a housing;
a temperature control tunnel for receiving vehicle bodies, the temperature control tunnel being formed within the housing;
at least one pressure chamber formed within the housing and separated from the temperature control tunnel by at least one wall, the at least one wall having a plurality of orifices;
a plurality of nozzles provided in the orifices formed in the at least one wall, the plurality of nozzles including
at least one nozzle having a first configuration and
at least one nozzle having a second configuration, the second configuration being different from the first configuration,

wherein the at least one nozzle having the second configuration includes a nozzle body having a plurality of nozzle orifices, the nozzle body extending laterally beyond a surface of the at least one wall defining the temperature control tunnel into an interior of the temperature control tunnel and being configured to follow a geometry of a lower region of a vehicle body positioned in the temperature control tunnel, and
each orifice formed in the at least one wall is configured to be capable of receive a nozzle having the first configuration.

6. A device for controlling the temperature of vehicle bodies comprising:
a housing;
a temperature control tunnel for receiving vehicle bodies, which is accommodated in the housing;
at least one pressure chamber which is accommodated in the housing and separated from the temperature control tunnel by at least one wall;
a plurality of nozzles provided in the at least one wall, the plurality of nozzles including at least one nozzle having a first configuration and at least one nozzle having a second configuration;
an air-temperature control device, which introduces temperature controlled air into the pressure chamber in such a way that the temperature controlled air flows into the temperature control tunnel through the plurality of nozzles and acts on a vehicle body located in the temperature control tunnel;
wherein the at least one nozzle having the second configuration includes a nozzle body whereof a side facing a vehicle body in the temperature control tunnel is provided with a plurality of nozzle orifices and at least roughly follows a geometry of a lower region of a vehicle body at a spacing which is less than a spacing from the vehicle body of the at least one nozzle having the first configuration.

7. A device according to claim 6 , wherein the at least one nozzle having the second configuration reaches around a vehicle body at a bottom.

8. A device according to claim 6 , wherein the at least one nozzle having the second configuration is detachably mounted on at least one orifice in the at least one wall between the at least one pressure chamber and the temperature control tunnel.

9. A device according to claim 8 , wherein the at least one orifice on which the at least one nozzle having the second configuration is mounted is constructed in the same manner as orifices in which the at least one nozzle having the first configuration is mounted in the at least one wall.

10. A device according to claim 6 , wherein the at least one nozzle having the second configuration is pivotally mounted on the at least one wall.

11. A device according to claim 6 , wherein a spacing between the side of the at least one nozzle having the second configuration which faces the vehicle body and the vehicle body is approximately 20 cm.

12. A device according to claim 6 , wherein the nozzle body is replaceable.

13. The device according to claim 6 , wherein the at least one nozzle having the second configuration extends laterally beyond a surface of the wall defining the temperature control tunnel and into the temperature control tunnel.

14. The device according to claim 6 , wherein the at least one nozzle having the second configuration includes a portion which anchors the at least one nozzle having the second configuration within the at least one wall.

15. The device according to claim 6 , wherein the plurality of nozzle orifices formed in the nozzle body of the at least one nozzle having the second configuration include at least two nozzle orifices aimed in at least two different directions.

Assignees

• Hihn Erwin
• Eisenmann Se

Inventors

• Hihn Erwin

Classifications

• F26B21/50 Primary

  Ducting arrangements from the source of air or other gases to the materials or objects being dried · CPC title

• F26B2210/12

  Vehicle bodies, e.g. after being painted · CPC title

• F26B21/004 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F26B15/14

  the objects or batches of materials being carried by trays or racks {or receptacles, which may be connected to endless chains or belts (trays, racks per se F26B25/18; with vertical movement F26B15/22)} · CPC title