US 11,674,752 B2
Treatment installation and method for treating workpieces
Oliver Iglauer, Stuttgart (DE); Kevin Woll, Ilsfeld (DE); Dietmar Wieland, Waiblingen (DE); and Joachim Wickenhaeuser, Holzgerlingen (DE)
Assigned to Dürr Systems AG, Bietigheim-Bissingen (DE)
Filed by Dürr Systems AG, Bietigheim-Bissingen (DE)
Filed on May 22, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/881,616.
Application 16/881,616 is a continuation of application No. 15/749,064, granted, now 10,697,702, previously published as PCT/EP2016/068214, filed on Jul. 29, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2015 214 711.8 (DE), filed on Jul. 31, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2020/0284510 A1, Sep. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. F26B 15/14 (2006.01); F26B 21/00 (2006.01); F26B 15/12 (2006.01); F26B 15/16 (2006.01)
CPC F26B 15/14 (2013.01) [F26B 15/12 (2013.01); F26B 15/16 (2013.01); F26B 21/004 (2013.01); F26B 2210/12 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A treatment installation for treating workpieces, wherein the treatment installation includes a treatment chamber and a conveying device, by means of which the workpieces are suppliable to the treatment chamber, are removable from the treatment chamber, and/or are conveyable through the treatment chamber in a conveying direction,
wherein the treatment chamber includes
a) at least one heating section in which the workpieces are heatable and/or are maintainable at a temperature higher than an ambient temperature and
b) a flushing device for flushing a gas stream through a flushing section of the treatment chamber;
wherein the gas stream is guided from at least one of a cooling zone and heating zone and holding zone of the treatment chamber and supplied to a lock; and
wherein the gas stream is removable from the lock is then suppliable to the flushing section of the treatment chamber as a flushing gas stream.