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- Particlesh are further charged in eaving the bottom outlet of t e receptacle, to be elec- UNITED STATES PATENTS trostatically attracted to an article to be coated with 3,264,998 8/1966 Dingman 417/48 P them 3,122,882 3/1964 Schultz et al.
- This invention relates to apparatus for effecting controlled movement of powder-like or fine grained particulate material from a source thereof to an article to be coated with the material; and the invention is more particularly concerned with apparatus of that type that is especially suitable for use inelectrostatic powder coating processes, wherein the particles of the material must carry an electrical charge in at least the last stage of their movement towards an article to be coated, so that they can be electrostatically attracted to the article.
- the object of the invention is to provide an apparatus in which the above defects are overcome and wherein a gas flow need not be utilized, the apparatus being arranged, instead, to generate a beam-like flow of strongly electrified particles and to provide for accurate control of such fiow electrodynamically, thus enabling the above mentioned types of processes to be accurately performed.
- the above object is, in the present invention, attained in that, by utilizing an electrodynamical action of drawing out the particles by means of an alternating constantly varying electric field, the particles are electrified by contact with other bodies or by mutual contact and are peeled off the opponent of the contact or one another, and are drawn out into a space and then applied to the article to be coated.
- the mating objects for making contact with the dust particles and so producing contact electrification there can be used metals, semi-conductors, dielectrics and other arbitrary suitable bodies.
- dielectrics especially teflon, polystyrol or other organic dielectrics, are preferably to be used.
- a method may be resorted to in which the particles are made to contact with said stationary contact bodies, and are sent slidingly into an alternating unequal electric field portion to be driven out continuously by dint of gravity,
- said particles and said alternating electric field are made to move relatively and continuously. But by means of a suitable method, the particles are made to adhere to contacting bodies continuously and at the same time the particles adhering to said contacting bodies and the alternating electric field for driving out the particles are made to move relatively.
- This relative motion may be achieved by putting the alternating electric field at rest and moving relative to it the contacting bodies to which the particles adhere. But reversely the same object may be attained by letting the latter be at rest and, by forming an electric field curtain of traveling type, as will be shown in detail hereinafter, along the contacting bodies.
- the first object of the present invention i.e., no use of gas flow
- the electrified particles thus generated are liable to be dispersed by the mutual Coulombs repulsive force and to adhere to other bodies by electrostatic induction, and so it is generally very difficult to introduce them into aimed position effectively and without any contact.
- the present invention utilizes a transporting apparatus of electric field curtain type devised by the inventer.
- the inventor has found that if a group of electrodes is arranged in insulating relation, in parallel at equal intervals and divided into two groups connected alternately with a singlephase alternating current power source, a series of stationary wave alternating constantly changing electric fields is formed in neighboring relation to each other along said group of electrodes and this has a powerful electro-dynamical repulsive force against the electrified particles and he has named said electric field series an electric field curtain of stationary wave type.
- said group of electrodes is divided into 11 groups by connecting them at intervals to n electrodes, and these are connected one after the other in order to an n-phase alternating current power source, then a traveling wave constantly varying electric field progressing in an orderly direction along said group of electrodes is formed, this having a repulsive force against the electrified particles as well as an action of transportation in the traveling direction. He has named this electric field the electric field curtain of traveling wave type.
- an electric field curtain of stationary wave type or traveling wave type is formed along a surface of a predetermined cylinder, for example, by a group of coaxial annular electrodes perpendicularly to the axis and at equal intervals along said surface of the cylinder, then the group of electrified particles introduced into this region is held in a space near its axis without any contact with other surfaces and can be transported within the cylinder while being propelled by a suitable driving force such as gravity, wind force, Coulombs repulsive force between each particle, transporting force due to the traveling wave unequal electric field, etc., thus providing an electrodynamical electrified particle transporting apparatus which furnishes the particles in a beam-like flow from the end of the cylinder to the wanted position.
- a suitable driving force such as gravity, wind force, Coulombs repulsive force between each particle, transporting force due to the traveling wave unequal electric field, etc.
- the electrified particles generated by the present invention can be furnished to arbitrary positions effectively and without any contacting with other surfaces.
- the above stated object are attained as follows: initially particles are dispersed radially by centrifugal force imparted to the particles by means of a rotating disc, rotating cup, blade wheel, etc.; the particles are electrified intensively, in spite of their comparatively large quantities, by utilizing ionic collisions in making them pass through a positive or negative ionic current curtain extending across the traveling direction of the particles and surrounding the outer periphery of said particle revolving and supplying apparatus, by means of a corona discharge electrode arranged along the whole of the outer periphery of said particle revolving and supply apparatus, and an electrode confronting said corona electrode; the electrified particles thus generated and traveling in a radial direction after being suppressed on pass near the inner surface of a receptacle comprising a dielectric wall which is arranged near, or embeds, a group of electrodes for the formation of a stationary or traveling alternating electric field that encircles said particle revolving and supply apparatus and the whole or
- the novel electrified particle generating apparatus presents a remarkable effect in that a relatively large quantity of intensely electrified dust particles can be suppled to a required space without relying upon any gas flow.
- the single FIGURE is a longitudinal sectional view of an embodiment of an electrified particle generating apparatus for drawing out and supplying electrified particles to a necessary space by making them intersect with ionic current produced by a corona discharge.
- 121 is a revolving cup'made of conductor, semiconductor or dielectric having symmetry about an axis of revolution 122, and which gives particles a revolving motion, but which is supported on a metallic hollow cylinder or tube 124 that is concentric with the axis 122 and has a hole 123 at its lower end where it is attached to the cup.
- Said metallic tube 124 has three concentric discs 125, 126, 127 fixed to it at axially spaced intervals, and it is supported freely rotatably around the axis 122 by a bobbin 129 which is in turn supported freely rotatably by a bearing 128.
- Said metallic tube 124 has its upper end 130 sealingly and freely rotatably received in the lower outlet portion 132 of a fixed concentric dust particle storing tank 131.
- a gear 134 is concentrically fixed on the tube 124, in mesh with a smaller gear 133 driven by a driving motor 135, so that the tube is rotated about the axis 122 integrally with the revolving cup 121 and the bobbin 129.
- an annular metallic electrode 137 confronting the sharpedged rim 136 of the revolving cup 121.
- the lower edges 146 of said annular electrode 137 are rounded so as not to excite a corona discharge.
- the electrode 137 is connected to a metallic slip ring 139 fixed on the insulator body 138 of the bobbin, via a conductor embedded in said body 138, and is thereby connected to a positive direct current high voltage power source via a brush 141, the conductor 142, the terminal 143 and a protective resistance 144.
- Said annular electrode 137 thus confronts the sharp-edged circumferential portion 136 of the earthed revolving cup 121 across a space 147.
- Slip ring 139 and the brush 141, to which a high voltage is applied, are insulated by the insulator coating 148 on the conductor 140 and by the two insulator discs 125, 126 between which the slip ring and brush are located.
- a valve 169 for regulating the supply quantity of dust particles is received in the neighborhood of and cooperates with an inner surface 150 of conical joints formed in both the lower opening 132 of the tank 131 and the upper portion 130 of said metallic tube 124.
- the valve is adjustably supported on they upper tank lid 153 by means of the screw 152.
- the gap between the said inner surface 150 and the valve can be made to vary and so the supply quantity of the dust particles may be regulated.
- the upper surface 155 of the revolving cup 121 has a mountain shaped projection 156 and by this means drives the dust particles supplied into its central portion through the cylinder 124 radially away from its centre, thus bringing the particles under the action of centrifugal force.
- a receptacle 161 composed of insulator walls has a closed top through which the hollow cylinder 124 extends, an upper portion 158, a conical middle portion 159 and a lower cylindrical outlet portion 160 concentrically arranged with respect to the axis 122 and surrounding the above-mentioned revolving cup 121.
- the lowermost disc 127 of the insulator bobbin is arranged and fixedly supported in an air-tight manner to a closed insulator box 163 fixed in the outside of the lower outlet portion 132 of the tank 131 near the closed top of the receptacle 161.
- the revolving cup 121 is made of conductor or semi-conductor material there occurs of course a negative corona from its periphery 136 but if the revolving cup 121 is an insulator, a creeping corona is produced from the portion of the earthed metallic cylinder 124 that is connected with the upper surface of said cup 121, and, as the potential of the cup periphery 136 approaches to that of the earth, a negative discharge is produced from the periphery portion 136 as before. And in this case as the above-mentioned creeping corona discharge circuit is put in series, there is an advantage that there is no danger of producing sparks liable to ignite the dust in the space between the periphery 136 and the electrode 137.
- a negative corona discharge electrode 176 of needle shape is arranged on the axis 122, being supported by a metallic supporting arm projecting inward from an annular electrode 166" embedded near the outlet opening 173.
- a negative direct current high voltage is applied to the electrode 166" via a conductor 169 and a protective resistance 178 from a negative direct current high voltage power source 177.
- a negative corona discharge is generated against the earth from the point 179 of electrode 176 and re-electrifies the electrified particles to be supplied outward from the outlet 173, thus replacing any loss of the charge on them to the wall surface 171 as they move down it.
- a gas inlet 183 is provided on the insulator box 163 and dried air, CO N, or other inert gas is introduced from said gas inlet 183 into the insulator receptacle 161 via said box 163 and a gas hole 184, and then exhausted continuously outward from the outlet 173.
- the inner wall 171 of said receptacle 161 is always sufficiently dry so that the charge on the electrified particles contacting said inner wall is not lost in surface leakage owing to atmospheric moisture. If inert gas is used when the dust particles are inflammable, any spark discharge that might by chance occur between the periphery 136 and the electrode 137 will not cause burning or the explosion of the dust particles.
- Apparatus for controlledly supplying powder-like material from a source thereof to a surface of a solid article comprising:
- a centrifuging element in the upper end portion of the receptacle confined to rotation about said axis and having a rim that is spaced radially inwardly from the inner surface of the receptacle and axially inwardly from the upper end thereof;
- C. means for delivering particulate material from said source thereof to a portion of the upper surface of the centrifuging element that is near said axis;
- corona electrode means having circumferentially spaced portions in spaced, opposing relation to rim portions of said centrifuging element and cooperating with said rim portions to define a charging space through which particulate material must pass in leaving the centrifuging element, said corona electrode means being connectable with one terminal of a direct current high voltage source;
- F. means'connectable with the other terminal of said high voltage source and cooperating with said corona means to produce a corona discharge across said charging space by which particles passing therethrough are given an electric charge;
- G a plurality of annular electrodes in concentric contacting relation to said wall means and spaced radially outwardly from said interior surface thereof, said electrodes being spaced apart by substantially uniform distances along the height of the receptacle from the outlet at least up to the level of said charging space;
- H means for connecting each of the annular electrodes with only one of the terminals of an alternating current voltage source, adjacent annular electrodes being connected with different ones of said terminals and the sequence of such connections of the several annular electrodes being a regular one so that a constantly varying electric field is produced that repels charged particles from said interior surface;
- another corona discharge electrode substantially concentrically disposed at said outlet and connectable to one terminal of a direct current high voltage source that has its other terminal connected with an article to be coated, for producing a corona discharge which insures that particles passing out of said outlet will be charged and will be attracted to said article.
- the apparatus of claim 1 further characterized by: the upper surface of said centrifuging element being substantially bowl shaped, so as to be inclined upwardly and radially outwardly.
- said centrifuging element has a substantially sharpedged rim portion
- the first mentioned corona electrode means comprises an annular electrode spaced above, concentrically with, and in opposing relation to said rim portion;
- said means cooperating with the first mentioned corona electrode means comprises a collector ring and a cooperating brush which are connected with said other terminal of the first mentioned high voltage source and with said centrifuging element so that the rim portion of the centrifuging element cooperates with said first mentioned corona electrode means in producing corona discharge.
- J. means for forcing gas to flow downwardly through said receptacle.
- centrifuging element is electrically non-conducting, further characterized by:
- said means for delivering particulate material from said source to the centrifuging element comprising a coaxial electrically conducting tube having its lower end adjacent to the upper surface of the centrifuging element;
- said means cooperating with the first mentioned corona electrode means comprising means connecting said tube with said other terminal of the first mentioned high voltage source.
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Particulate material is fed onto a certrifuge constrained to rotate coaxially in the wide upper portion of a funnel-shaped receptacle of insulating material. Particles are centrifugally propelled toward the inner surface of the receptacle through a space at which there is a corona discharge that electrically charges them. Annular electrodes embedded in the receptacle wall at vertically spaced intervals are connected to terminals of an a.c. voltage source to produce a constantly varying electric field that repels charged particles from the wall. Particles are further charged in leaving the bottom outlet of the receptacle, to be electrostatically attracted to an article to be coated with them.
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Masuda Apr. 23, 1974 [54] ELECTRIFIED PARTICLES GENERATING 3,395,307 7/1968 Haegi et al 317/3 APPARATUS 3,387,218 6/1968 Friichtenich et al H A 7 i 3,369,252 2/1968 [76] Inventor: Senichi Masuda, 40-10-605, 2,224,505 12/ 1940 l-chome, Nishigahara, Kita-ku, 1,985,254 12/1934 Huse 310/14 Tokyo, Japan Primary Examiner-J. D. Miller [22] plied: 1972 Assistant Examiner-l-larry E. Moose, Jr.
[2]] Appl. No.: 237,822 Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Ira Milton Jones [30] Foreign Application Priority Data [57] ABSTRACT Apr. 8, 1971 Japan 46-21920 Particulate material is fed a Certrifuge Feb. 12, 1972 Japan 47-15001 Strained mate in the Wide upper Portion of a funnel-shaped receptacle of insulating material. 52 U.S. c1. 317/3, 118/621 Particles are cehhifugally Propelled toward the inner 51 Int. Cl B05b 5/02 Surface of the receptacle through a Space at which [58] Field of Search N 310/5 6 118/620 there is a corona discharge that electrically charges 118/621; 417/48, 308/10; 318/116; 5 them. Annular electrodes embedded in the receptacle 317/3, 262 A, 262 B; 239/3, 15; 117/934, Wall at vertically spaced intervals are connected to ter- 27 R, 127 B, 2 0 minals of an ac. voltage source to produce a con stantly varying electric field that repels charged parti- [56] References Cited fles from the wall. Particlesh are further charged in eaving the bottom outlet of t e receptacle, to be elec- UNITED STATES PATENTS trostatically attracted to an article to be coated with 3,264,998 8/1966 Dingman 417/48 P them 3,122,882 3/1964 Schultz et al. 3,440,458 4/1969 Knight 310/5 6 Claims, 1 Drawing Figure ELECTRIFIED PARTICLES GENERATING APPARATUS This invention relates to apparatus for effecting controlled movement of powder-like or fine grained particulate material from a source thereof to an article to be coated with the material; and the invention is more particularly concerned with apparatus of that type that is especially suitable for use inelectrostatic powder coating processes, wherein the particles of the material must carry an electrical charge in at least the last stage of their movement towards an article to be coated, so that they can be electrostatically attracted to the article.
Up to now in generating electrified particles in space for the purpose of electrostatic painting a method is mainly resorted to in which the particles are dispersed in a gas and made to pass for electrification through an ionic current produced by a corona discharge. However, where the electrified particles generated by this means are to be used in a precise process such as printing, particle classification, drawing, development in electrophotography, electrostatic painting, electrostatic dyeing, production of [C or L5], etc., the viscous force on the particles of the flowing gas disturbed the action of the electric force and caused the occurrence of errors in the processing.
If the velocity of gas flow was reduced for avoiding these errors, the electric force on the particles passing the corona electric field become effective, and the electrified particles were more powerfully attracted to the electrode opposing the corona electrode and adhered to it or had their trajectories markedly deviated, as the result of which satisfactorily electrified particles did not arrive at the necessary position and defects occurred because only the particles of lesser electric charge were delivered to the areas to be coated.
The object of the invention is to provide an apparatus in which the above defects are overcome and wherein a gas flow need not be utilized, the apparatus being arranged, instead, to generate a beam-like flow of strongly electrified particles and to provide for accurate control of such fiow electrodynamically, thus enabling the above mentioned types of processes to be accurately performed.
The above object is, in the present invention, attained in that, by utilizing an electrodynamical action of drawing out the particles by means of an alternating constantly varying electric field, the particles are electrified by contact with other bodies or by mutual contact and are peeled off the opponent of the contact or one another, and are drawn out into a space and then applied to the article to be coated.
in this case as the mating objects for making contact with the dust particles and so producing contact electrification there can be used metals, semi-conductors, dielectrics and other arbitrary suitable bodies. But, from the standpoint of convenience and the quantity of contact needed for the operation of the present apparatus, dielectrics, especially teflon, polystyrol or other organic dielectrics, are preferably to be used.
Further, for generating the electrified particles continuously by the above-mentioned method, a method may be resorted to in which the particles are made to contact with said stationary contact bodies, and are sent slidingly into an alternating unequal electric field portion to be driven out continuously by dint of gravity,
wind velocity, centrifugal force, mechanical force, etc., and, in producing such driving force, said particles and said alternating electric field are made to move relatively and continuously. But by means of a suitable method, the particles are made to adhere to contacting bodies continuously and at the same time the particles adhering to said contacting bodies and the alternating electric field for driving out the particles are made to move relatively.
This relative motion may be achieved by putting the alternating electric field at rest and moving relative to it the contacting bodies to which the particles adhere. But reversely the same object may be attained by letting the latter be at rest and, by forming an electric field curtain of traveling type, as will be shown in detail hereinafter, along the contacting bodies.
By the above-mentioned means, the first object of the present invention, i.e., no use of gas flow, is attained. However the electrified particles thus generated are liable to be dispersed by the mutual Coulombs repulsive force and to adhere to other bodies by electrostatic induction, and so it is generally very difficult to introduce them into aimed position effectively and without any contact.
In order to overcome this difficulty the present invention utilizes a transporting apparatus of electric field curtain type devised by the inventer. The inventor has found that if a group of electrodes is arranged in insulating relation, in parallel at equal intervals and divided into two groups connected alternately with a singlephase alternating current power source, a series of stationary wave alternating constantly changing electric fields is formed in neighboring relation to each other along said group of electrodes and this has a powerful electro-dynamical repulsive force against the electrified particles and he has named said electric field series an electric field curtain of stationary wave type. Further he has found that if said group of electrodes is divided into 11 groups by connecting them at intervals to n electrodes, and these are connected one after the other in order to an n-phase alternating current power source, then a traveling wave constantly varying electric field progressing in an orderly direction along said group of electrodes is formed, this having a repulsive force against the electrified particles as well as an action of transportation in the traveling direction. He has named this electric field the electric field curtain of traveling wave type.
Accordingly if an electric field curtain of stationary wave type or traveling wave type is formed along a surface of a predetermined cylinder, for example, by a group of coaxial annular electrodes perpendicularly to the axis and at equal intervals along said surface of the cylinder, then the group of electrified particles introduced into this region is held in a space near its axis without any contact with other surfaces and can be transported within the cylinder while being propelled by a suitable driving force such as gravity, wind force, Coulombs repulsive force between each particle, transporting force due to the traveling wave unequal electric field, etc., thus providing an electrodynamical electrified particle transporting apparatus which furnishes the particles in a beam-like flow from the end of the cylinder to the wanted position. Now if it is assumed that the operation of drawing out the electrified particles is done in the interior of said electrified particle transporting apparatus and that the stationary wave alternating unequal electric field or the traveling wave unequal electric field formed along its circumferencial surface is used again for the driving out of the electrified particles, then the electrified particles generated by the present invention can be furnished to arbitrary positions effectively and without any contacting with other surfaces.
In this case it is not necessary to move the contacting body and it becomes possible to make the apparatus of perfect statical type.
In the present invention the above stated object are attained as follows: initially particles are dispersed radially by centrifugal force imparted to the particles by means of a rotating disc, rotating cup, blade wheel, etc.; the particles are electrified intensively, in spite of their comparatively large quantities, by utilizing ionic collisions in making them pass through a positive or negative ionic current curtain extending across the traveling direction of the particles and surrounding the outer periphery of said particle revolving and supplying apparatus, by means of a corona discharge electrode arranged along the whole of the outer periphery of said particle revolving and supply apparatus, and an electrode confronting said corona electrode; the electrified particles thus generated and traveling in a radial direction after being suppressed on pass near the inner surface of a receptacle comprising a dielectric wall which is arranged near, or embeds, a group of electrodes for the formation of a stationary or traveling alternating electric field that encircles said particle revolving and supply apparatus and the whole or the greater part of said corona discharge electrode and opposing electrode; then by utilizing the intense repulsive and perturbing action of said stationary alternating unequal electric field and gravity action on the adhered electrified particles, or the intense repulsive and perturbing action and transportation action on the adhered electrified particles of said traveling alternating electric field, said electrified particles are conducted to an outlet along the inner surface of said dielectric wall body.
As based on the construction and the operational mechanism as mentioned above the novel electrified particle generating apparatus according to the present invention presents a remarkable effect in that a relatively large quantity of intensely electrified dust particles can be suppled to a required space without relying upon any gas flow.
In the following the constitution and operation will be explained in details with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:
The single FIGURE is a longitudinal sectional view of an embodiment of an electrified particle generating apparatus for drawing out and supplying electrified particles to a necessary space by making them intersect with ionic current produced by a corona discharge.
In the FIGURE, 121 is a revolving cup'made of conductor, semiconductor or dielectric having symmetry about an axis of revolution 122, and which gives particles a revolving motion, but which is supported on a metallic hollow cylinder or tube 124 that is concentric with the axis 122 and has a hole 123 at its lower end where it is attached to the cup. Said metallic tube 124 has three concentric discs 125, 126, 127 fixed to it at axially spaced intervals, and it is supported freely rotatably around the axis 122 by a bobbin 129 which is in turn supported freely rotatably by a bearing 128. Said metallic tube 124 has its upper end 130 sealingly and freely rotatably received in the lower outlet portion 132 of a fixed concentric dust particle storing tank 131. A gear 134 is concentrically fixed on the tube 124, in mesh with a smaller gear 133 driven by a driving motor 135, so that the tube is rotated about the axis 122 integrally with the revolving cup 121 and the bobbin 129. In the insulator disc 127 at the lowest portion of said insulator bobbin 129 is concentrically arranged an annular metallic electrode 137 confronting the sharpedged rim 136 of the revolving cup 121. The lower edges 146 of said annular electrode 137 are rounded so as not to excite a corona discharge. The electrode 137 is connected to a metallic slip ring 139 fixed on the insulator body 138 of the bobbin, via a conductor embedded in said body 138, and is thereby connected to a positive direct current high voltage power source via a brush 141, the conductor 142, the terminal 143 and a protective resistance 144. Said annular electrode 137 thus confronts the sharp-edged circumferential portion 136 of the earthed revolving cup 121 across a space 147. Slip ring 139 and the brush 141, to which a high voltage is applied, are insulated by the insulator coating 148 on the conductor 140 and by the two insulator discs 125, 126 between which the slip ring and brush are located. A valve 169 for regulating the supply quantity of dust particles is received in the neighborhood of and cooperates with an inner surface 150 of conical joints formed in both the lower opening 132 of the tank 131 and the upper portion 130 of said metallic tube 124. The valve is adjustably supported on they upper tank lid 153 by means of the screw 152. By making the valve rise and fall by rotating the knob 154, the gap between the said inner surface 150 and the valve can be made to vary and so the supply quantity of the dust particles may be regulated. The upper surface 155 of the revolving cup 121 has a mountain shaped projection 156 and by this means drives the dust particles supplied into its central portion through the cylinder 124 radially away from its centre, thus bringing the particles under the action of centrifugal force.
A receptacle 161 composed of insulator walls has a closed top through which the hollow cylinder 124 extends, an upper portion 158, a conical middle portion 159 and a lower cylindrical outlet portion 160 concentrically arranged with respect to the axis 122 and surrounding the above-mentioned revolving cup 121. The lowermost disc 127 of the insulator bobbin is arranged and fixedly supported in an air-tight manner to a closed insulator box 163 fixed in the outside of the lower outlet portion 132 of the tank 131 near the closed top of the receptacle 161. In the insulator wall of every part of the above-mentioned receptacle 161, as shown in the FIGURE, are embedded a group of annular concentric electrodes 164, 165, 166, 164, 165', 166, 164", 165", 166"; and every third one of them is connected respectively with one of the conductors 167, 168, 169, so that they are divided into three groups, as: 164, 164', 165, 165, and 166, 166', and then, upon said conductors being connected to the output terminals V, V, W of a three-phase alternating current power source 170 the electrodes are supplied with three-phase alternating voltage, the voltage applied to each electrode being out of phase with that applied to its neighbors by 120. By this means an alternating constantly varying electric field traveling in the direction of the arrow 172 is produced, and it presents an intense repulsive and perturbing action, and a transporting action in the direction of the arrow 172, on the electrified particles adhered on said inner wall 121 by its proper electrodynamical action, as was explained in detail by the inventor in the Japanese patent application A Method of Constituting an Electric Field of Contact Type and an Electric Field of Contact Type utilizing This (Japanese Patant Appln. No. 3 1860/71 Now if the motor 135 is put into rotation, with the valve 169 opened by rotating the knob 154, to supply dust particles from within the tank 131 to the upper surface at the central portion of the revolving cup 121, through the metallic hollow cylinder 124, then said dust particles, in tending to adhere to the upper surface 155 of the revolving cup, are pushed away immediately in the radial direction through the hole 123, and by the influence of the mountain shaped projection, as they revolve with the surface 155, are driven by the action of centrifugal force to fly out into the space 174. Since said upper surface 155 is concave, the centrifugal force acting on the particles produces a component of force on the particles that holds them against the surface 155, and consequently the effect of friction between the particle and the surface 155 is increased to promote the acceleration and dispersion of the particles. As the positive high voltage is applied on the annular electrode 137 arranged on the insulator disc 127, a negative corona discharge is generated from the sharpedged periphery 136 of the earthed revolving cup 121 toward the electrode, and a curtain of negative ionic current is formed in the space 147 so that the particles passing through this space are electrified intensely negatively by the collision with negative ions. If the revolving cup 121 is made of conductor or semi-conductor material there occurs of course a negative corona from its periphery 136 but if the revolving cup 121 is an insulator, a creeping corona is produced from the portion of the earthed metallic cylinder 124 that is connected with the upper surface of said cup 121, and, as the potential of the cup periphery 136 approaches to that of the earth, a negative discharge is produced from the periphery portion 136 as before. And in this case as the above-mentioned creeping corona discharge circuit is put in series, there is an advantage that there is no danger of producing sparks liable to ignite the dust in the space between the periphery 136 and the electrode 137. And in the construction of the present example as the particles pass through, by necessarily contacting 1 the peripheral portion 136 where the electric field is most strong and pointed, the electrifying effect due to ionic collision becomes most intense and so the quantity of charge becomes enoumously large. And though a portion of particles adhere on the surface of the periphery portion 136 or the annular confronting electrodes 137 on account of the vortices of the air current produced in the space 147, as both are revolving in the present case, the particles are peeled off immediately by the centrifugal force and both surface are kept clean always and so the corona discharge effect is not prevented. The electrified particles advance in the radial direction within the space 147 and tend to impinge at last on the inner wall 171 of the insulator receptacle 161, then slide in the direction of the arrow 172 along the inner wall 171 under the action of the elec- 6 trodynamical repulsion and perturbation of the abovedescribed traveling alternating electric field to be thus supplied to the space 174 just below the outlet opening of the receptacle 161. In the present embodiment a negative corona discharge electrode 176 of needle shape is arranged on the axis 122, being supported by a metallic supporting arm projecting inward from an annular electrode 166" embedded near the outlet opening 173. A negative direct current high voltage is applied to the electrode 166" via a conductor 169 and a protective resistance 178 from a negative direct current high voltage power source 177. A negative corona discharge is generated against the earth from the point 179 of electrode 176 and re-electrifies the electrified particles to be supplied outward from the outlet 173, thus replacing any loss of the charge on them to the wall surface 171 as they move down it. In the present embodiment there is an earthed conductor plate 180 in front of the outlet 173 and the negatively electrified particles 181 supplied from the outlet 173, being driven by the electric field existing between the needle electrode 176 and said conductor plate 180, are painted electrostatically on the surface 182 of the conductor plate 180. A gas inlet 183 is provided on the insulator box 163 and dried air, CO N, or other inert gas is introduced from said gas inlet 183 into the insulator receptacle 161 via said box 163 and a gas hole 184, and then exhausted continuously outward from the outlet 173. Thus the inner wall 171 of said receptacle 161 is always sufficiently dry so that the charge on the electrified particles contacting said inner wall is not lost in surface leakage owing to atmospheric moisture. If inert gas is used when the dust particles are inflammable, any spark discharge that might by chance occur between the periphery 136 and the electrode 137 will not cause burning or the explosion of the dust particles.
Although three-phase alternating voltage is applied to the group of electrodes embedded in the insulator wall 159 of the receptacle 161 in the embodiment here shown, single-phase or poly phase alternating voltage will do as well. In the case of the application of a polyphase alternating voltage there is generated a traveling alternating constantly varying electric field similar to that in the case of the three-phase and its effect is identical with the case of the three-phase. By the application of a single-phase alternating voltage a stationary alternating constantly varying electric field is generated and has an intense repulsive and perturbing action upon the electrified particles flying onto the inner surface 171 of the wall body 159, and due to this action together with the action of gravity the electrified particles slide along the inner surface 171 in the direction of the arrow 172, and are then exhausted and supplied outward from the outlet 173.
What is claimed is:
1. Apparatus for controlledly supplying powder-like material from a source thereof to a surface of a solid article, said apparatus comprising:
A. electrically insulating wall means defining a receptacle having a substantially funnel-shaped interior surface that is concentric to an upright axis, the end portion of said receptacle that is of larger internal diameter being uppermost and said receptable having a concentric outlet at its lower end;
B. a centrifuging element in the upper end portion of the receptacle confined to rotation about said axis and having a rim that is spaced radially inwardly from the inner surface of the receptacle and axially inwardly from the upper end thereof;
C. means for delivering particulate material from said source thereof to a portion of the upper surface of the centrifuging element that is near said axis;
D. means for rotating the centrifuging element to propel particulate material delivered thereto radially outwardly toward the inner surface of the receptacle;
E. corona electrode means having circumferentially spaced portions in spaced, opposing relation to rim portions of said centrifuging element and cooperating with said rim portions to define a charging space through which particulate material must pass in leaving the centrifuging element, said corona electrode means being connectable with one terminal of a direct current high voltage source;
F. means'connectable with the other terminal of said high voltage source and cooperating with said corona means to produce a corona discharge across said charging space by which particles passing therethrough are given an electric charge;
G. a plurality of annular electrodes in concentric contacting relation to said wall means and spaced radially outwardly from said interior surface thereof, said electrodes being spaced apart by substantially uniform distances along the height of the receptacle from the outlet at least up to the level of said charging space;
H. means for connecting each of the annular electrodes with only one of the terminals of an alternating current voltage source, adjacent annular electrodes being connected with different ones of said terminals and the sequence of such connections of the several annular electrodes being a regular one so that a constantly varying electric field is produced that repels charged particles from said interior surface; and
. another corona discharge electrode substantially concentrically disposed at said outlet and connectable to one terminal of a direct current high voltage source that has its other terminal connected with an article to be coated, for producing a corona discharge which insures that particles passing out of said outlet will be charged and will be attracted to said article.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, further characterized by: the upper surface of said centrifuging element being substantially bowl shaped, so as to be inclined upwardly and radially outwardly.
3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein:
1. said centrifuging element has a substantially sharpedged rim portion;
2. the first mentioned corona electrode means comprises an annular electrode spaced above, concentrically with, and in opposing relation to said rim portion; and
3. said means cooperating with the first mentioned corona electrode means comprises a collector ring and a cooperating brush which are connected with said other terminal of the first mentioned high voltage source and with said centrifuging element so that the rim portion of the centrifuging element cooperates with said first mentioned corona electrode means in producing corona discharge.
4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said alternating current voltage source provides single-phase voltage, further characterized by:
J. means for forcing gas to flow downwardly through said receptacle.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said alternating current voltage source provides plural-phase voltage.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said centrifuging element is electrically non-conducting, further characterized by:
1. said means for delivering particulate material from said source to the centrifuging element comprising a coaxial electrically conducting tube having its lower end adjacent to the upper surface of the centrifuging element; and
2. said means cooperating with the first mentioned corona electrode means comprising means connecting said tube with said other terminal of the first mentioned high voltage source.
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1. Apparatus for controlledly supplying powder-like material from a source thereof to a surface of a solid article, said apparatus comprising: A. electrically insulating wall means defining a receptacle having a substantially funnel-shaped interior surface that is concentric to an upright axis, the end portion of said receptacle that is of larger internal diameter being uppermost and said receptable having a concentric outlet at its lower end; B. a centrifuging element in the upper end portion of the receptacle confined to rotation about said axis and having a rim that is spaced radially inwardly from the inner surface of the receptacle and axially inwardly from the upper end thereof; C. means for delivering particulate material from said source thereof to a portion of the upper surface of the centrifuging element that is near said axis; D. means for rotating the centrifuging element to propel particulate material delivered thereto radially outwardly toward the inner surface of the receptacle; E. corona electrode means having circumferentially spaced portions in spaced, opposing relation to rim portions of said centrifuging element and cooperating with said rim portions to define a charging space through which particulate material must pass in leaving the centrifuging element, said corona electrode means being connectable with one terminal of a direct current high voltage source; F. means connectable with the other terminal of said high voltage source and cooperating with said corona means to produce a corona discharge across said charging space by which particles passing therethrough are given an electric charge; G. a plurality of annular electrodes in concentric contacting relation to said wall means and spaced radially outwardly from said interior surface thereof, said electrodes being spaced apart by substantially uniform distances along the height of the receptaCle from the outlet at least up to the level of said charging space; H. means for connecting each of the annular electrodes with only one of the terminals of an alternating current voltage source, adjacent annular electrodes being connected with different ones of said terminals and the sequence of such connections of the several annular electrodes being a regular one so that a constantly varying electric field is produced that repels charged particles from said interior surface; and I. another corona discharge electrode substantially concentrically disposed at said outlet and connectable to one terminal of a direct current high voltage source that has its other terminal connected with an article to be coated, for producing a corona discharge which insures that particles passing out of said outlet will be charged and will be attracted to said article.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, further characterized by: the upper surface of said centrifuging element being substantially bowl shaped, so as to be inclined upwardly and radially outwardly.
2. said means cooperating with the first mentioned corona electrode means comprising means connecting said tube with said other terminal of the first mentioned high voltage source.
2. the first mentioned corona electrode means comprises an annular electrode spaced above, concentrically with, and in opposing relation to said rim portion; and
3. said means cooperating with the first mentioned corona electrode means comprises a collector ring and a cooperating brush which are connected with said other terminal of the first mentioned high voltage source and with said centrifuging element so that the rim portion of the centrifuging element cooperates with said first mentioned corona electrode means in producing corona discharge.
3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein:
4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said alternating current voltage source provides single-phase voltage, further characterized by: J. means for forcing gas to flow downwardly through said receptacle.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said alternating current voltage source provides plural-phase voltage.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said centrifuging element is electrically non-conducting, further characterized by:
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