Abstract:
Disclosure is made of an apparatus for the application of powdered materials onto an article in an electrostatic field, said apparatus having an electrically insulating housing communicating with a bin, said housing having a rotary screw conveyor disposed inside it, said screw conveyor being made of a dielectric material; said screw conveyor and the housing make up a channel for the supply of a powdered material from the bin to a pulverizer electrode made in the form of two coaxial cylindrical sleeves, one of said cylindrical sleeves being rigidly secured at the outlet end of the housing and having on its inner surface acicular pins arranged radially and pointing with their sharp ends toward an article being coated, whereas the other sleeve is disposed at the outlet end of the screw conveyor and is also provided with acicular pins arranged along the perimeter of the end face of the cylindrical sleeve, parallel to the screw conveyor axis, the sharp ends of said acicular pins pointing toward the article being coated; both said cylindrical sleeves are under an equal electric potential.