By forming an air flow in which a quantity and a blowoff angle of the air supplied toward an atomized spray paint flow don't influence a
coating pattern, there are provided a
coating apparatus and a
coating method, each of which does not disturb the coating pattern, does not require conditions such as
wind speed and temperature of a conventional coating booth, and can perform remarkable reduction in an
air conditioning energy of the coating booth, prevention of scatter of a paint, and an improvement in a paint adhesion efficiency. In a
spray coating apparatus which possesses a casing and an injection
nozzle provided in a tip side of the casing and which forms a coating pattern by injecting paint and shaping air from the injection
nozzle to thereby form a coating film on a coated object, a first adapter which blows off the air in an injection direction of the injection
nozzle is provided on an substantially concentric circle of the injection nozzle, and the first adapter covers, by blowing off the introduced air while giving it a blowoff angle slanting toward a circumferential direction, an outer periphery of the coating pattern near the injection nozzle with the air.