Patents Assigned to ITW Gema GmbH
  • Patent number: 8601977
    Abstract: An electronic spraycoating control device for implementing spraycoating methods includes at least one manually driven program selecting element for selecting programs from two different groups of programs. The electronic spraycoating control device further includes a plurality of manually driven parameter setting elements and display units to automatically display the adjusted parameter references values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: ITW Gema GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer
  • Patent number: 8371242
    Abstract: In a powder spraycoating cabin or substructure for same, a cabin bottom contains bottom flaps configured near outer longitudinal walls and a walk-on bottom part situated between the bottom flaps. The bottom flaps are rotatable about an axis of rotation running in the lengthwise cabin direction, as a result of which the width of lengthwise bottom gaps situated bilaterally about the flaps can be varied. A suction duct is situated underneath. The walk-on bottom part is fitted with compressed-air outlets to blow compressed air toward/into the lengthwise bottom gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: ITW Gema GmbH
    Inventor: Silvano Gelain
  • Patent number: 8333165
    Abstract: A powder spraycoating control system and its combination with a powder pump or with a powder spraycoating unit. The control system contains an controller programmed to alternatingly operate a powder spraycoating unit in turn containing an injector serving as the powder pump or a powder spraycoating unit containing a dense phase powder pump serving as the powder pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: ITW Gema GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer
  • Patent number: 8166908
    Abstract: Powder spraycoating equipment and powder supply system for same. The powder supply system comprises a closed or closable powder receptacle which is fitted with a cleaning fixture to remove residual powder from a powder chamber of the powder receptacle using compressed cleaning air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: ITW Gema GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Mark Steinemann
  • Patent number: 8162570
    Abstract: A spraycoating powder feed apparatus includes a powder pump of which the direction of feed is reversible and a conduit switch configured to alternately link either of two powder conduits to a powder hookup of the powder pump as a function of the conveyance direction of the powder pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: ITW Gema GmbH
    Inventors: Feix Mauchle, Marco Sanwald
  • Publication number: 20110162579
    Abstract: A coating powder feed method, coating powder feeding device, electrostatic powder spraycoating apparatus containing such a coating powder feeding device. The invention includes a dense phase powder pump fitted with at least one feed chamber. A control signal to create a partial vacuum in the feed chamber is generated no earlier than simultaneously with, preferably by a predetermined delay time after, a control signal opening a powder intake valve of the feed chamber, as a result of which the beginning of partial vacuum buildup in the feed chamber shall take place no earlier than simultaneously with the initial opening of the powder intake valve or by a defined time delay after the opening of the powder intake valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: ITW GEMA GMBH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer, Hanspeter Vieli
  • Patent number: 7871090
    Abstract: A powder spraycoating cart comprising two lateral posts fitted at their upper ends with a grip system and connected to each other by a control implement bin, said posts being connected at their lower ends by a base designed to support any one of several different powder containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: ITW Gema GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Staub
  • Publication number: 20100243759
    Abstract: The invention relates to a powder feed apparatus of a powder spraycoating equipment, containing a dense phase powder pump fitted with at least one feed chamber, preferably two feed chambers, alternatingly discharging coating powder, each feed chamber having one powder intake valve at a powder intake to aspirate coating powder during a suction stage and one powder outlet valve at a powder outlet to discharge coating powder during a discharge stage; further control valves to operate the dense phase powder pump; further an electric control unit containing at least one computer controlling the dense phase powder pump by means of said control valves, characterized in that a dependence mode of the total open time (ttotal) of the powder intake valves is stored in the control unit and defines the dependence of the total open time (ttotal) on an adjustable nominal value (mp) adjusted by a powder adjusting element at the control unit and relating to the rate of powder to be conveyed to be conveyed by the dense phase po
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: ITW GEMA GMBH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer
  • Publication number: 20100221421
    Abstract: A powder spraycoating method and powder spraycoating equipment. A dense phase powder pump is used. According to a predetermined conveying-air function in a control unit, different rates of compressed conveying air can be defined for different powder rates. In one predetermined total-air function in the control unit, the sum of total-air rate composed of the rate of compressed conveying air and of the rate of supplemental compressed air can be kept constant even if the rate of compressed conveying air changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: ITW GEMA GMBH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer, Hanspeter Vieli
  • Publication number: 20100212589
    Abstract: A powder spraycoating control system and its combination with a powder pump or with a powder spraycoating unit. The control system contains an controller programmed to alternatingly operate a powder spraycoating unit in turn containing an injector serving as the powder pump or a powder spraycoating unit containing a dense phase powder pump serving as the powder pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: ITW GEMA GMBH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer
  • Publication number: 20100213281
    Abstract: A powder spraycoating equipment's powder feed apparatus containing a dense phase powder pump fitted with at least one, preferably two feed chambers each of which comprises at one chamber end a powder intake valve and at the opposite chamber end a powder outlet valve and further comprises at least one air exchange aperture to alternatingly apply compressed conveying air or a partial vacuum to the feed chamber, characterized by an integral structural block, by the feed chambers being constituted in the structural block, by all those first control valves that are connected in fluid communication to the minimum of one feed chamber for the purpose of applying compressed conveying air and a partial vacuum to it, being configured at the structural block and being directly connected, in fluid communication and by means of ducts constituted in the structural block, to the minimum of one feed chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: ITW GEMA GMBH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer, Thomas Staub
  • Patent number: 7617998
    Abstract: A powder spraycoating gun and its gun housing. The spraygun housing is a plastic, integral body constituting a stock fitted with a powder discharge tube and a grip fitted with a powder intake tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: ITW Gema GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Hanspeter Michael, Marco Sanwald
  • Patent number: 7478763
    Abstract: A spray apparatus for coating material, in particular for coating powders, contains a spray outlet spraying the coating material, a shaping air outlet in the form of a plurality of holes shaping the spray jet and an ambient-air passage radially configured between the spray outlet and the holes to aspirate ambient air by means of the flow suction effect of the spray jet and/or of the shaping air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: ITW Gema GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Hanspeter Vieli, Hanspeter Michael
  • Publication number: 20080257257
    Abstract: Powder spraycoating equipment and powder supply system for same. The powder supply system comprises a closed or closable powder receptacle which is fitted with a cleaning fixture to remove residual powder from a powder chamber of the powder receptacle using compressed cleaning air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: ITW GEMA GMBH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Mark Steinemann