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Spraying

Spraying is a painting technique that employs a spraying device,


usually coupled with compressed air, to air-spray a workpiece with a
choice of coating. Coatings can differ between paint, ink, varnish,
and various other materials.

Airbrushes and spray guns are the two main devices used for
industrial spraying. They are distinguishable by their sizes and by
the size of spray the pattern they produce. While airbrushes are
hand-held, they are typically applied to projects that require a
greater amount of detail such as fine art, small nails, or photo
retouching. The equipment used with spray guns is generally quite
large. Spray guns are typically well suited for covering large
surfaces with an even liquid coat. Their interchangeable heads allow
users to spray different patterns and they can be either automated
or handheld.

The Southern Pacific Railway stakes claim to one of the original uses
of spray painting as far back as the 1880’s. Subsequently, in what
was an effort to accelerate the whitewashing process of the miles-
long subbasement walls of the Marshall Field’s Wholesale Chicago
store, Joseph Binks developed a cold-water paint spraying machine
in 1887. Later in 1893, Francis David Millet employed Binks and his
system to apply the paint to the buildings of the World’s Columbian
Exposition in Chicago. The rapidity of the process was impressive
and the exposition’s buildings were referred to as “The White City.”

Ed Seymore, a paint company proprietor in Sycamore, Illinois, is


given credit for making spray painting portable in 1949 following his
invention of mixing aerosol and paint in a can while attaching a
spray head to effectively disperse an aluminum coat of paint on
radiators.

There are numerous spraying techniques. They include air atomized


systems, High Volume Low-Pressure gun (HVLP), and airless spray
guns.

 Air atomized systems are the most conventional systems and


combine compressed air and paint, therefore producing small
atomized particles. This technique offers a good finish quality
at a fast rate and can cover complex shapes with indented
areas. Different paint consistencies can be achieved thanks to
a wide range of nozzle shapes and sizes.

 A High Volume Low-Pressure Gun (HVLP) is similar to the


conventional method but differs in terms of a reduced spray
velocity due to the use of different air and fluid nozzles.

 Airless spray guns produce a soft spray by forcing paint


through a very small opening using hydraulic pressure. The
atomizing nozzle’s internal passageway is shaped in a manner
that is mechanically driven into a highly unstable, typically
fan-shaped, form.

In addition to the above techniques, spray booths are used to paint


vehicles in automotive body shops. The booth is a pressure-
controlled, closed environment that carefully creates the ideal
temperature, airflow, and humidity conditions as well as ventilation
that exhausts toxic particles to reduce and control air pollution.

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