Solvent vapor collector
- 20 Avondale Cres., Markham, CA
- R.R. #1, Caledon East, both of Ontario, CA
A solvent vapor collector is mounted on the upstream inlet end of an oven having a gas-circulating means and intended for curing a coating applied to a strip sheet metal at a coating station. The strip sheet metal may be hot and solvent vapors are evaporated at the coating station and from the strip as it passes from the coating station to the oven. Upper and lower plenums within a housing of the collector are supplied with oven gases or air from the gas-circulating means and such gases or air are discharged within the collector obliquely in a downstream direction against the strip passing through that collector to establish downstream gas flows along the top and under surfaces of the strip so as, in turn, to induct solvent vapors into the collector at the coating station. A telescopic multi-piece shroud is usefully provided on the housing for movement between an extended position in which it overlies the coating station to collect solvent vapors released thereat and a retracted position permitting ready cleaning and adjustment of that coating station.
- Assignee:
- B & K Machinery International Ltd. (Toronto, CA)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4136636
- OSTI ID:
- 863275
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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