Automatic apparatus for simultaneously enameling inside and outside electric conduits

Claim 1

ELECTRIC CONDUIT ENAMELING APPARATUS COMPRISING A CHAIN CONVEYOR INCLUDING A TRAIN OF CONNECTED CARRIAGE SECTIONS AND A TRACK ALONG WHICH THE CARRIAGE SECTIONS TRAVEL, A PART OF THE LENGTH OF THE TRACK EXTENDING ABOVE AND ALONG THE LENGTH OF AN ENAMEL TANK, OF THE CHAIN CONVEYOR, HANGERS AT SPACED REGIONS ALONG THE LENGTH OF SAID CHAIN CONVEYOR AND CONNECTED THERETO FOR HOLDING ONE END OF A CONDUIT THAT IS TO BE ENAMELED, A SECOND CONVEYOR WITH MEANS TO HOLD A GROUP OF SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTALLY DISPOSED CONDUITS AND THAT ADVANCES THE CONDUIT WITH THE CONDUITS EXTENDING HORIZONTALLY, SAID SECOND CONVEYOR AND THE CHAIN CONVEYOR CONVERGING TOWARD ONE ANOTHER IN THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT OF THE CHAIN CONVEYOR AND AT A REGION NEAR THE END OF THE SECOND CONVEYOR AND WITH SUCH COORDINATION THAT THE HANGERS OF THE CHAIN CONVEYOR ENGAGE THE ENDS OF THE ELECTRIC CONDUITS ON THE SECOND CONVEYOR AND SHIFT THEM INTO SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL POSITIONS, SAID CHAIN CONVEYOR HAVING A DOWNWARDLY EXTENDING SECTION ABOVE THE TANK FOR IMMERSING SUCCESSIVE CONDUITS IN THE TANK, AND HAVING AN UPWARDLY EXTENDING SECTION FOR WITHDRAWING THE SUCCESSIVE CONDUITS FROM THE ENAMEL.