US 12,168,242 B2
Surface-treatment facility and method for surface-treating vehicle bodies
Herbert Schulze, Aidlingen (DE)
Assigned to EISENMANN GMBH, Böblingen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/278,205
Filed by EISENMANN GMBH, Böblingen (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 11, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/074237
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/058063, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 26, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 102018123270.5 (DE), filed on Sep. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0346905 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. B05B 12/18 (2018.01); B01D 3/34 (2006.01); B05B 12/32 (2018.01); B05B 13/04 (2006.01); B05B 16/00 (2018.01); B05B 14/40 (2018.01)
CPC B05B 16/95 (2018.02) [B01D 3/346 (2013.01); B05B 12/18 (2018.02); B05B 12/32 (2018.02); B05B 13/0452 (2013.01); B05B 14/40 (2018.02)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surface treatment facility for the surface treatment of vehicle bodies, the surface treatment facility comprising:
a) at least two transport trucks that are floor-bound, each transport truck of the at least two transport trucks having a fastening installation to which vehicle bodies are able to be fastened, wherein each transport truck is able to be independently displaced by a dedicated drive that is able to be carried onboard each transport truck;
b) a treatment chamber, which is delimited in a substantially gas-tight manner by a housing, and in which the surfaces of the vehicle bodies are treated, and in which at least part of the fastening installations and the vehicle bodies fastened thereto are able to be at least temporarily moved, respectively, by each transport truck in the treatment chamber;
c) a travel region, which is disposed outside the housing, and in which each transport trucks is able to at least temporarily travel, wherein each transport truck is situated in the travel region when at least part of the respective fastening installation and the vehicle body fastened thereto is situated in the treatment chamber;
d) a gap, which in the housing is configured between the travel region and the treatment chamber, and through which the fastening installation of each transport truck protrudes when each transport truck is situated in the travel region; and
e) a monitoring installation, which is disposed on each transport truck and for checking a spacing of the at least two transport trucks from objects and/or people has a monitoring region, wherein a size of the monitoring region and/or a position of the monitoring region relative to each transport truck are/is variable,
wherein
a first atmosphere is able to be generated in the travel region, and a second atmosphere, which differs from the first atmosphere, is able to be generated in the treatment chamber, and
the monitoring region is smaller when each transport truck is situated in the travel region.