Patents Examined by Arthur O. Hall
  • Patent number: 11826766
    Abstract: An example portable fluid spraying system includes a handheld fluid sprayer. The handheld fluid sprayer includes a fluid reservoir configured to store a fluid, a pump configured to pump the fluid from the fluid reservoir to an outlet of the handheld fluid sprayer and a handle. The handheld fluid sprayer includes a first trigger proximate the handle, configured to control fluid flow to the outlet. The portable fluid spraying system includes a fluid hose having a coupling mechanism configured to removably couple to the handheld fluid sprayer proximate the outlet and a fluid spray gun. The fluid spray gun includes a gun inlet configured to couple to the fluid hose and receive the fluid from the handheld fluid sprayer, a gun outlet configured to expel the fluid in a spray pattern and a second trigger configured to control fluid flow to the gun outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: WAGNER SPRAY TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher J. Sulzer, Joseph W. Kieffer
  • Patent number: 11596956
    Abstract: An oscillating sprinkler includes a turbine operatively connected to a movable gear cage that is biased into either a first position or a second position using three torsion springs to drive rotation of a nozzle housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: K-RAIN MANUFACTURING CORP.
    Inventor: Danhui Luo
  • Patent number: 11298709
    Abstract: A low-pressure spraying equipment for atomizing a working fluid at a low-pressure, includes a spray tip body having a top and a lower end, a handle arranged on the top of the spray tip body, and a chamfer defined at the lower end of the spray tip body. The spray tip body further includes a retaining shoulder and a ring collar, a mounting hole having a channel axis, a pre-atomizing component, and a tip atomizing component. The pre-atomizing component further includes a feeding channel, a pre-atomization channel, and a pre-atomization regulating channel. The feeding channel, the pre-atomization channel, and the pre-atomization regulating channel are three coaxial hollow channels sequentially defined and connected along the channel axis inside the pre-atomizing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: QUA TECH LIMITED
    Inventor: Bijun Li
  • Patent number: 10960854
    Abstract: The present invention for rights for a system configured for use with an existing motor vehicle windshield washer system whereby a portion of solution is directed to a headlamp washing outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: MARIC LTD.
    Inventor: Eric Richardson
  • Patent number: 10953413
    Abstract: A jet cartridge for jetting fluid material includes a body adapted to receive fluid material, and a fluid passage defined within the body and extending along a longitudinal axis thereof. At least a portion of the fluid passage extends obliquely relative to the longitudinal axis. The body is adapted to receive heat from a heating element and to transfer the heat to the fluid material flowing through the fluid passage. A method of jetting fluid material with a jet dispenser including a jet cartridge includes receiving fluid material into the jet cartridge, directing the fluid material through the jet cartridge along a longitudinal axis thereof and obliquely relative to the longitudinal axis, heating the fluid material directed through fluid cartridge to a target temperature, maintaining the target temperature as the fluid material enters a nozzle, and jetting the heated fluid material through the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen R. des Jardins, Alan R. Lewis, Jared Wilburn, Robert J. Wright
  • Patent number: 10919065
    Abstract: This skirt (20) is intended to equip a coating product rotary projector. The skirt (20) has a plurality of air ejection nozzles (40, 42, 44, 46) arranged in said skirt (20) to eject jets of air forming shaping air suitable for shaping the jets of coating product, said air ejection nozzles (40, 42, 44, 46) comprising at least three separate series of nozzles (41, 43, 45, 47) each made up of a plurality of air ejection nozzles (40, 42, 44, 46) fluidly connected to a shared supply chamber, specific to said series of nozzles (41, 43, 45, 47).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: EXEL INDUSTRIES
    Inventors: Cyrille Medard, Sylvain Perinet, Philippe Provenaz
  • Patent number: 10894261
    Abstract: The washing nozzle for washing an inside of the machine tool with fluid includes a base portion having a tubular passage inside thereof, a supply port through the tubular passage, and a rotary member rotatable about an axis parallel to a surface on which the base portion is mounted, the rotary member having inside thereof a nozzle jet port and a nozzle flow passage allowing communication between the tubular passage and the nozzle jet port, wherein the jet port is formed so that fluid jetted from the jet port of the rotary member hits the surface on which the base portion is mounted and the jet of the fluid causes the rotary member to rotate about the parallel axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: KIWA MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Saratani, Koji Nishii
  • Patent number: 10888883
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nozzle arrangement for atomizing a fluid flow, which is supplied under pressure, into fine particles, which has: a conical element with an upper surface, a lower surface and an outer surface which is adjacent to the upper and the lower surface, wherein the outer surface has a multiplicity of grooves which are formed therein and extend between the lower surface and the upper surface; and a counter element which is provided with a recess and is designed to receive the conical element and which has an inner surface such that the grooves are at least partially covered by the inner surface in order to form a multiplicity of channels; wherein the channels define outputs in order to let out a respective fluid jet which strikes against at least one other fluid jet in a region spaced apart from the upper surface of the conical element in order thus to atomize the fluid flow, and wherein the conical element is movable along the axis in order to increase or to reduce the effective cross sectio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SOFTHALE NV
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Juergen Rawert
  • Patent number: 10882064
    Abstract: A paint cup assembly for a paint sprayer is disclosed and includes a cap, a paint reservoir formed with an air inlet port, and a valve assembly disposed within the paint reservoir and engaged with the air inlet, wherein the valve assembly is configured to be operable from a closed configuration, in which air flow through the air inlet port is prevented, and an open configuration, in which air flow through the air inlet port is permitted, upon actuation of a spray gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIVES, INC./SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIFS
    Inventors: Biagio P. Pellegrino, Thomas R. Nixon, Clemens E. Zoellner
  • Patent number: 10875038
    Abstract: A slow area massage water outlet device has an impeller, a planetary gear speed reduction mechanism, a rotating water blocking plate, a water diversion member and a water outlet member; the planetary gear speed reduction mechanism is respectively communicated with the impeller and the rotating water blocking plate; the impeller is rotated by a planetary gear decelerating mechanism to rotate the water blocking plate; the water diversion member has at least two separately isolated water diversion cavities; one end of the water diversion cavity is a water inlet end and the other end is a water outlet end; the water outlet end of each of the water diversion cavities is respectively communicated with the water outlet holes of different areas in the water outlet member; the rotating water blocking plate has a water outlet and a water sealing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengde Lin, Mingfu Zhang, Tianming Wang, Wenxing Chen
  • Patent number: 10874888
    Abstract: A method of providing a deluge system (10) on a boom (12) such as a boom that is used to conduct well flaring operations at an end thereof. The deluge system comprises a base unit (30), a stanchion (20), and a nozzle apparatus (22); the method comprising attaching the deluge system to a burner boom with a walkway, such that there remains a width of at least 30 cm clear passage on the boom's walkway after the deluge system has been attached. This provides an escape and/or rescue route for personnel should a dangerous situation occur, such as uncontrolled fire or personnel falling overboard. In preferred embodiments, the deluge system is attached to the boom outboard of handrail supports (which includes on a single handrail). The deluge system may have its own mechanism e.g. a winch, for moving the stanchion from a stowed position to an operative position which allows a safe and more optimum positioning of the stanchion away from the well flaring operation, as herein described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Rig Deluge Global Limited
    Inventor: Ian Garden
  • Patent number: 10865753
    Abstract: An injection hole has an injection hole passage communicating an inner opening with an outer opening. The inner opening is smaller than the outer opening in cross-sectional area. The needle moves in a valve closing direction to abut against a valve seat to restrict a flow of fuel through the injection hole. A first inner wall of the injection hole is located on a valve closing direction side relative to an injection hole axis. A second inner wall of the injection hole is located on an opposite side of the injection hole axis from the valve closing direction side. The injection hole passage is defined by the first inner wall and the second inner wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Niwa, Noritsugu Kato
  • Patent number: 10850144
    Abstract: A thermal trigger assembly for remote mechanical actuation of another fire protection system component includes an activation component with a distal base, a distal movable member, a proximal base, a proximal movable member, and a bias member biasing the proximal movable member from a preactivation position to an activated position located proximally of the preactivation position. A thermally responsive element is retained by the distal base, loses structural integrity under occurrence of a predetermined thermodynamic condition, and thereby allows the distal movable member to move from a preactivation position to an activated position with respect to the distal base. A flexible connector connects the proximal movable member to the distal movable member. Upon the loss of structural integrity by the thermally responsive element, a biasing force from the bias member causes a movement of the proximal movable member from the preactivation position to the activated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: VICTAULIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Stephen J. Meyer, Thomas Edwin Archibald, Kevin Desmond Maughan, Yoram Ringer, John Desrosier
  • Patent number: 10843220
    Abstract: A discharge device includes a plunger unit (20) provided with three or more plungers (31), a plunger drive unit (60), a valve unit (40) including three or more metering bores (42) into which the plungers (31) are inserted, discharge ports (53) and a liquid material supply path (45) that are communicable with the metering bores (42), the valve unit (40) selectively taking a first position at which the metering bores (42) are communicated with the liquid material supply path (45) and a second position at which the metering bores (42) are communicated with the discharge ports (53), a valve drive unit (70) for switching over the valve unit (40) between the first and second positions, wherein the plunger holder (31) is detachably attached to the plunger drive unit (60) such that the number of the discharge ports and an interval therebetween can be changed depending on uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: MUSASHI ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventor: Kazumasa Ikushima
  • Patent number: 10842090
    Abstract: A drip emitter is provided for delivering irrigation water from a supply tube to an emitter outlet at a reduced and relatively constant flow rate. Water enters the emitter through a first inlet and proceeds into a first chamber. When the water pressure is above a predetermined level, a one-directional valve opens to allow fluid flow past the first chamber, through a tortuous path flow channel, and through an emitter outlet. A second inlet is used to compensate for water pressure fluctuations in the supply tube to maintain output flow at a relatively constant rate. Water enters the second inlet and presses a flexible diaphragm toward a water metering surface to provide pressure-dependent control of the output flow. A copper member is mounted to the emitter over the emitter outlet to prevent plant root intrusion into the emitter outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Rain Bird Corporation
    Inventors: Rick Mavrakis, Brian Pope, Samir Shah, Christopher Leland O'Neal, David R. Laybourn
  • Patent number: 10835914
    Abstract: A telescopic lance, comprising a lance handle (5) with a fixed inner pipe (3), an extractable outer pipe (4) and at least one locking mechanism (10,20), wherein the extractable outer pipe (4) is located outside, and slidably longitudinally arranged with the fixed inner pipe (3), and said locking mechanism (10,20) is arranged to allow motion of the extractable outer pipe (4) with respect to the fixed inner pipe (3). A first locking mechanism (20) comprises a protrusion (21) for engagement with a locking slot (22), wherein twisting of the extractable outer pipe (4) brings the protrusion (21) into or out of engagement with the locking slot (22), and a second locking mechanism (10) comprises a spring loaded lock handle (13) with a through going aperture (15) for trapping and releasing the extractable outer pipe (4). The invention also relates to a combination of a telescopic lance and a trigger gun (8) for use with a high pressure washer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SwanTech AS
    Inventor: Morten Torlei
  • Patent number: 10814837
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress variations in shape of flow channels to have an enlarged flow channel. When an attachment main body 51 of a lid member 50 is attached to a recessed attachment part 46 of a main body member 40, a pair of flange parts 52 provided to the lid member 50 abuts on the main body member 40. Therefore, the insertion amount of the attachment main body 51 into the recessed attachment part 46 in each product can be maintained approximately constant while enlarging a main channel MC and a pair of sub channels SS1 and SS2, which are formed by the main body member 40 and the lid member 50, and variations in shape of these flow channels can be reliably suppress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Umezawa, Atsushi Otani, Hiroshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10808674
    Abstract: A fluid flow actuated tool including a housing, a tool and an actuating mechanism. The housing includes a housing interior. The housing interior receives a flow of fluid. The actuating mechanism includes a fluid wheel structure. The fluid wheel structure is connected to the tool. At least a portion of the fluid wheel structure is arranged in the flow of fluid for rotating the fluid wheel structure. The tool is actuated based on rotation of the fluid wheel structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Inventor: Erik Edenholm
  • Patent number: 10799894
    Abstract: A spray tip includes a body portion with an aperture extending through the body portion from an aperture inlet to an aperture outlet, and a handle portion attached to the body portion. The handle portion is configured to rotate the body portion. A retainer with an upstream end and a downstream end is positioned in the aperture of the body portion. A pre-orifice piece with an upstream end and a downstream end is positioned in the aperture of the body portion. A tip piece with an upstream end and a downstream end is positioned in the aperture of the body portion. The downstream end comprises an outlet nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. Kinne, Pamela J. Muetzel
  • Patent number: 10792689
    Abstract: A combined spray and vacuum nozzle includes a nozzle housing containing a powder supply passage and a vacuum withdrawal passage, where the powder supply passage and the vacuum withdrawal passage are arranged in a side-by-side relationship. The nozzle housing has a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The distal end portion features a spray port in communication with the powder supply passage and a vacuum port in communication with the vacuum withdrawal passage. The spray port is positioned adjacent to the vacuum port. The proximal end portion of the nozzle housing adapted to communicate with a source of aspirated powder and a vacuum source so that the powder supply passage communicates with the source of aspirated powder and the vacuum withdrawal passage communicates with the vacuum source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Nylok LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Seid, Eugene Sessa