. Railway mechanical engineer . Fig. 2—A Difficult Painting Job Made Easy. belt driven from a small gasolene engine and mounted ona portable truck. A paint tank and regulating head, to-gether with an air receiver are also mounted on the hose and connections are jirovided for use with the. Fig. 3—Paint Sprayer Used for Stenciling. nozzle. Where compressed air is available the air com-pressor and gas engine Would be unnecessary. The reallv vital part of the Aeron equipment is the nozzle,which is shown in Fig. 1 with the connections and attach-ments plainly indicateci. The flow of
. Railway mechanical engineer . Fig. 2—A Difficult Painting Job Made Easy. belt driven from a small gasolene engine and mounted ona portable truck. A paint tank and regulating head, to-gether with an air receiver are also mounted on the hose and connections are jirovided for use with the. Fig. 3—Paint Sprayer Used for Stenciling. nozzle. Where compressed air is available the air com-pressor and gas engine Would be unnecessary. The reallv vital part of the Aeron equipment is the nozzle,which is shown in Fig. 1 with the connections and attach-ments plainly indicateci. The flow of air and paint is underthe instantaneous control of the operator by means of the March. 1918 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER 175 trigger and the universal spray head produces a flat spraywhich may be adjusted horizontally or vertically, or forwide or narrow surfaces. Wide surfaces may be coveredwith rapidity and uniformity. In operation, the paint tank regulating head inlet is con-nected by y2-m. air hose to the compressor air system. Oneor more nozzles are then connected by ^s-in. air hose andj4-in. fluid hose to the regulating head outlet. The paintis put into the tank through a filler plug hole. With theregulator shown in Fig. 2 and the fluid adjusting nut onthe nozzle, the air pressure is contr
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