Abstract: A working system for an aeroplane comprising a hangar for accommodating the aeroplane, a partition wall provided within the hangar for partitioning the hangar into a fuselage work area around a fuselage of the aeroplane and a main wing work area around a main wing, and working tables arranged in the fuselage work area. The partition wall is movable between a predetermined partitioning position and a retracted position allowing entrance and exit of the aeroplane. The working tables are movable within the fuselage work area separately from the partition wall.

Abstract: A heating furnace for e.g. a hot rolling process of any object is disclosed. The furnace has a heat-resistant conveyer device for conveying a treatment object in a high-temperature atmosphere inside the furnace. The conveyer device includes an elongate cooling chamber, a rotary-member guiding passage, an endless rotary member, a drive unit and a roller. The elongate elongate cooling chamber is disposed along a direction of conveying the object inside the furnace and allowing flow of a cooling medium inside the chamber. The rotary-member guiding passage is constructed as a gutter-like recess formed along an entire length of the elongate cooling chamber. The endless rotary member includes a plurality of receivers interconnected with each other in the form of a loop. Each receiver has an object-receiving end thereof exposed from the guiding passage and the opposite end thereof disposed inside the guiding passage and the rotary member is driven by the drive unit to convey the object.

Abstract: A rotary gas treating apparatus has a front-stage rotor and a rear-stage rotor each consisting essentially of an adsorbent material and allowing gas flow along a rotational axis. These rotors have, within respective rotational areas thereof, adsorbing areas for introducing a treatment-object gas and desorbing areas for introducing a recycling gas. The adsorbing area of the front-stage rotor and the adsorbing area of the rear-stage rotor are disposed in the mentioned order in a continuous treatment-object gas flow passage from an upstream side thereof. The desorbing area of the front-stage rotor and the desorbing area of the rear-stage rotor are disposed in recycling gas flow passages, respectively. With the invention, a revolving direction of the front-stage rotor and a revolving direction of the rear-stage rotor are reverse to each other. Further, the adsorbing material of the front-stage rotor has a greater average pore diameter than that forming the rear-stage rotor.

Abstract: A cleaning system for use in treatment of excess paint is disclosed. The system includes a work area for cleaning excess paint by trapping the paint in a cleaning liquid, a collecting gutter being provided in a floor of said work area for introducing the cleaning liquid containing the excess paint in the form of paint sludge. The collecting gutter incorporates a filter for filtering the cleaning liquid introduced into this gutter. The system further includes a collecting device for collecting the paint sludge trapped by the filter.

Abstract: An air conditioning system for use in an aeroplane hangar. The hangar includes a fuselage work area for works on a fuselage of an aeroplane and a main-wing work area for works on a main wing of the aeroplane, with the work areas being partitioned by a partition wall. An air conditioning device is provided for conditioning temperature of air to be fed to either work area. Further, a recycling device is provided for cleaning air exhausted from the one area and then feeding the cleaned air to the other area.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic spray painting machine comprising a first movable portion movable in a direction toward and away from a work object, a second movable portion movable in a specified direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the first movable portion, a supporting portion for supporting a spray nozzle, a first actuator for moving the first movable portion, and a second actuator for moving the second movable portion. The first and second actuators are mounted on the supporting portion. The automatic spray painting machine further includes a transmission mechanism for transmitting drive of the actuator to the movable portion positioned closer to the spray nozzle in the supporting order effects drive transmission, with the other movable portion positioned closer to the supporting portion in the supporting order being allowed to move.

Abstract: A spray painting apparatus having an arm attached with a spray nozzle and a support unit for pivotably supporting the arm via a pivot shaft. An arc-shaped guide is provided to either the arm or the support unit, with the guide being coaxial with and larger in diameter than the pivot shaft while a drive unit is provided to the other of the arm and the support unit so as to move either the support unit or the arm relative to and along a periphery of the arc-shaped guide.

Abstract: A gas treating apparatus including a treating flow passage having a first opening and a second opening through which the gas passes to be treated; a pair of ducts for transporting the treatment-target gas or an element-refreshing gas through the treating flow passage positioned between a third opening and a fourth opening; and a rotary frame for radially supporting the treating flow passage and unidirectionally rotatable relative to the pair of ducts. At the upper and lower sides in the rotational direction of the third and fourth openings, there are provided first sealing members. As these sealing members come into sliding contact with at least one of the sealing faces at the upper and lower sides and at the sides of the first opening and of the second opening, the members provide gas sealing effect between the treating flow passage and the pair of ducts positioned between the third and fourth openings and in the vicinity of the same.

Abstract: A centrifugal separator type paint mist containing gas cleaning apparatus having a concave guide face extending downwardly from a downstream side end of a cleaning liquid flow-down face in a flowing down direction of cleaning liquid, the concave guide face being formed as a curved arc, a discharge guide face disposed at a downstream side end of the concave guide face for laterally discharging the cleaning liquid, a gas orienting face for orienting a paint mist containing gas fed from the upperside towards the concave guide face, whereby the paint mist containing gas is discharge through a discharge opening formed between a downstream side end of the gas orienting face and a portion of the concave guide face most adjacent the downstream side end of the gas orienting face, the discharge opening having a width smaller than an average radius of the concave guide face, the paint mist containing gas being discharge in a direction substantially along a tangential line of the concave guide face, the discharge opening

Abstract: A painting machine unit including a painting booth having a side wall with a substantially vertical wall portion insertable in an opening in the booth side wall and having a viewing window therethrough. The unit also includes a painting machine attached to an inner side of the wall portion and has a device for automatic painting of objects within the booth, and a control unit for controlling the device for automatic painting of objects within the booth. The control unit attaches to an outer side of the wall portion and is surrounded by a control chamber housing for accommodating painting booth operator.

Abstract: An electrostatic spray coating method where an electrical field is generated between a spray gun and an object for electrostatically attracting the paint to the object for coating the same. A positive or negative voltage is preliminarily applied to the object through a clamping device disposed on a floor face of a spray booth with the spraying system for spraying the paint from the spray gun being electrically grounded while the object is maintained electrically insulated by suspending it from a hanger rod with an insulator of a hanger conveyor type installed in the spray booth.

Abstract: An automatic painting apparatus comprising a spraying booth having ceiling openings through which ventilating air is delivered to the spraying booth in downward laminar flows. The spraying booth houses a portal framework including a pair of vertical frames disposed on both sides of a conveying track of articles under a spraying treatment, and a cross frame extending between the vertical frames over and across the article conveying track. The cross frame carries spray guns for spraying paint downwardly. A spray gun moving mechanism connects the cross frame to the vertical frames to be dispaceable longitudinally of the cross frame. One of the vertical frames includes a cross frame drive mechanism for reciprocating the cross frame longitudinally thereof.

Abstract: 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 exhaust route extending from the spraying booth to the exhaust for causing the air/mist mixture to strike against purifying water. This mist removing mechanism utilizing a difference in inertial mass between the air and the spray mist at times of passing through the constricted flow passages, whereby the spray mist is trapped in the purifying water upon collision therebetween.

Abstract: A paint waste separating and collecting apparatus comprising a separator tank for receiving cleaning water laden with paint waste and discharged from a cleaning device, and a circulating passage for supplying cleaning water stripped of the paint waste from the separator tank to the cleaning device.

Abstract: A paint waste separator-collector apparatus having a separator tank for receiving water containing paint waste and for causing the contained paint waste to separate and float, a weir for causing the floating paint waste together with overflowing water from the separator tank into a collector container and a water level adjusting mechanism for switchably providing a paint waste accumulating condition in which a water level in the separator tank is lowered for the water not to flow over the weir thereby causing the floating paint waste to accumulate inside the separator tank and a paint waste collecting condition in which the water level in the separator tank is raised for the excess water to flow over the weir into the collector container.

Abstract: A hot air drying system for drying automobile bodies, comprising a drying chamber including a transport device for transporting the automobile bodies having closed bottoms, and a hot air supplying device for supplying hot air into the drying chamber to heat and dry paint applied to the automobile bodies transported by the transport device. The hot air supplying device includes hot air delivery nozzles for directing the hot air toward inside surfaces of the automobile bodies through openings of the automobile bodies.

Abstract: A device for preventing resinous condensate dropping for use in a paint drying oven. The device includes a trough extending along an upper edge of a wall opening for passage of articles under drying treatment, to receive condensates of residual tar and guide them to laterally outwardly of the articles. The trough has a slate or other water-retentive member applied to an undersurface thereof to prevent formation of condensates on the undersurface. A glass wool member is interposed between the trough and slate to act as heat insulator.

Abstract: A spraying booth comprising a spraying area defined by a ceiling and side walls. The ceiling includes top feed openings connected with a feed duct extending from a conditioner for controlling a fresh air temperature. The side walls include side feed openings connected with a blast duct for supplying air from which paint mist has been removed at mist removing devices. Fresh air supplied through the top feed openings and the mistless air supplied through the side feed openings combine to produce an advantageous atmospheric condition for a paint spraying operation.

Abstract: A cooling method and a system therefor to remove sensible heat of a whole room to be cooled installed with a cooler of an absorption refrigerator utilizing a heating medium, and to dehumidify air of the room by utilizing thermal energy of the heating medium for regenerating the dehumidifying function of the dehumidifier. The cooling system includes an absorption refrigerator utilizing a heating medium heated by solar heat, a cooler having a relatively large panel area exposed to a room, a dehumidifier for dehumidifying indoor air by utilizing the thermal energy of the heating medium heated by solar heat, and an outlet element for blowing dehumidified air coming from the dehumidifier to the cooler.

Abstract: In a method for coating an article by electrodeposition which comprises: immersing the article to be coated in a bath comprising a powder containing electrodeposition coating composition comprising a water thinnable cationic synthetic resin which is a nitrogen-containing basic resin partially neutralized with an acidic compound and a synthetic resin in the form of fine powder which is solid at a room temperature but can melt when heated;employing as a cathode, said article to be coated;and applying a voltage between the cathode and plural anodes placed in the bath,the improvement which comprises positioning the above-mentioned anodes to face the respective surface of said article to be coated and controlling the amount of coating on the respective surfaces of said article by regulating the quantity of electricity allowed flowing to each anode.