Patent Application
20240369299
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The disclosure relates to paint drying systems and more particularly pertains to a new paint drying system for drying paint on a vehicle using heated pressurized air.
The prior art relates to paint drying systems and includes a variety of paint drying systems configured to dry paint upon a vehicle by blowing pressurized air upon the vehicle. Known prior art does not include a housing containing a heat emitter, wherein the housing is attached to an air hose such that the pressurized air dispensed from the air hose is heated as it passed through the housing and onto the vehicle to decrease the drying time of the paint.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising an air supply configured to supply pressurized air. An air hose is coupled to the air supply and is configured to transfer pressurized air from the air supply through the air hose. A housing is gun-shaped and includes a handle section and a head section. The housing has a channel extending through the housing from the head section to the handle section. The air hose is couplable with the housing, wherein the air hose is in fluid communication with the channel when the air hose is coupled to the housing. A valve is positioned within the channel of the housing and is operated to allow or inhibit passage through the channel. A trigger is operationally coupled to the valve to selectively allow or inhibit passage through the channel by manipulating the trigger. A heat emitter is coupled to the housing and is turned on to emit heat. The heat emitter is positioned within the channel, wherein the heat emitter is configured to heat pressurized air passing through the channel when the heat emitter is turned on. An electricity generator is electrically coupled to the heat emitter. The electricity generator has a driver, and the electricity generator produces electricity when the driver is manipulated by the flow of pressurized air, wherein the heat emitter is turned on when the driver is manipulated.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A housing 20 is gun-shaped and includes a handle section 22 and a head section 24. The head section 24 has a perimeter wall 26 elongating from a first end 28 to a second end 30. The first end 28 is open and the second end 30 is closed. An exterior surface of the perimeter wall 26 is convexly arcuate such that the perimeter wall 26 is oval-shaped. The handle section 22 has a projection extending downwardly from the head section 24 to define a grip 32 of the housing 20. A bottom side of the grip 32 has an opening extending through the grip 32 into the housing 20.
The housing 20 has a channel 34 extending through the housing 20 from the head section 24 to the handle section 22. The air hose 16 is couplable with the housing 20, wherein the air hose 16 is in fluid communication with the channel 34 when the air hose 16 is coupled to the housing 20. The channel 34 extends from the opening of the grip 32 to the first end 28 of the perimeter wall 26, wherein the opening defines an inlet 36 of the channel 34 and the first end 28 defines an outlet 38 of the channel 34. A securing member 40 is attached to a peripheral edge of the inlet. The coupling member 18 of the air hose 16 is couplable with the securing member 40 of the inlet 36, wherein the channel 34 is in fluid communication with the air hose 16 when the coupling member 18 is coupled with the securing member 40 of the inlet 36. The securing member 40 is typically a male quick connect coupler such that the male quick connect coupler of securing member 40 corresponds to the female quick connect coupler of the coupling member 18.
A valve 42 is positioned within the channel 34 of the housing 20 and is operated to allow or inhibit passage through the channel 34. The valve 42 is positioned proximate to the inlet 36 of the channel 34. A trigger 44 is operationally coupled to the valve 42 to selectively allow or inhibit passage through the channel 34 by manipulating the trigger 44. The trigger 44 is retractably extendable into the grip 32 of the housing 20 by an extending member 45. The extending member 45 is a compression spring positioned between a body of the trigger 44 and the valve 42. The trigger 44 is extendable from an engaged position 46 wherein the body of the trigger 44 is positioned within the grip 32 to a disengaged position 48 wherein the body of the trigger 44 is positioned outside of the grip 32. The engaged position 46 of the trigger 44 operates the valve 42 to allow passage through the channel 34, wherein the disengaged position 48 of the trigger 44 operates the valve 42 to inhibit passage through the channel 34.
A heat emitter 50 is coupled to the housing 20 and is turned on to emit heat. The heat emitter 50 is positioned within the channel 34, wherein the heat emitter 50 is configured to heat pressurized air 14 passing through the channel 34 when the heat emitter 50 is turned on. The heated pressurized air 14 is configured to be blown upon a vehicle 52 that has been freshly applied with a water-based paint 54, wherein the heated pressurized air 14 reduces the drying time for the freshly applied water-based paint 54. The heat emitter 50 comprises a plurality of heating coils positioned proximate to the outlet 38 of the channel 34. An electricity generator 56 is electrically coupled to the heat emitter 50. The electricity generator 56 has a driver 58, and the electricity generator 56 produces electricity when the driver 58 is manipulated by the flow of pressurized air 14, wherein the heat emitter 50 is turned on when the driver 58 is manipulated. The driver 58 comprises a shaft rotatably coupled to the electricity generator 56. The shaft has a plurality of blades extending outwardly from the shaft to define a fan 60. The fan 60 is positioned within the channel 34 such that the fan 60 spins when pressurized air 14 passes through the channel 34, wherein the driver 58 is manipulated when pressurized air 14 passes through the channel 34.
A muzzle 62 extends outwardly from the first end 28 of the perimeter wall 26. The muzzle 62 is configured to direct the flow of pressurized air 14 discharged from the outlet 38. The muzzle 62 is conically shaped such that a boundary wall 64 of the muzzle 62 tapers from an outer edge 66 of the boundary wall 64 towards the first end 28 of the perimeter wall 26.
In use, the coupling member 18 of the air hose 16 is coupled to the securing member 40 of the inlet 36. The user positions the muzzle 62 of the first end 28 towards the vehicle 52 that has been freshly applied with the water-based paint 54. The user manipulates the trigger 44 by pushing the trigger 44 inwardly toward the grip 32 from the disengaged position 48 to the engaged position 46 to operate the valve 42 to allow passage of pressurized air 14 through the channel 34 of the housing 20. The flow of the pressurized air 14 spins the fan 60 of the electricity generator 56, wherein the heat emitter 50 is turned on and heats the pressurized air 14 within the channel 34. The heated pressurized air 14 is discharged from the muzzle 62 onto the water-based paint 54 upon the vehicle 52, wherein the heated pressurized air 14 reduces the drying time for the freshly applied water-based paint 54.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
