Abstract: A dilator for a test of a female mammal operates to facilitate the flow of fluids from the teat. The dilator has a body having a passage adapted to be positioned in communication with a duct of the teat. Elongated finger structure extends from the body into the duct. In one form of the dilator, the finger structure has a pair of angle shaped flexible fingers secured at one end to the body and at the opposite end to a sleeve. In another form, the finger structure is an elongated tubular member having a passage allowing the flow of fluid through the dilator. A one-way valve mounted on the body allows the flow of fluid out of the dilator and restricts the entrance of external foreign substances back into the passage and duct of the teat. The valve has flexible side walls terminating in normally closed lips. A slit mouth is located between the lips. The slit mouth can be opened to facilitate the dispensing of medicinal compounds into the teat and udder of the mammal.

Abstract: An apparatus for supplying aerosol fuel particles uniformly mixed with air to utilizer, as an internal combustion engine or burner. The apparatus has several fuel mixing and atomizing nozzles operable to mix one or more liquid hydrocarbon fuels and discharge the fuels through orifices in small fuel particles of uniform size. The fuel particles are mixed with air and flow through a pair of venturi throats with converging inlet walls and diverging outlet walls. The velocity of the air and fuel particles flowing through the venturi throats is at or above the speed of sound. The fuel particles are finely divided into particles between 0.5 and 1.5 micron in diameter as they move through the turbulent inlet and outlet interfaces of the air flowing through the nozzle throats at sonic and supersonic velocities and are evenly distributed into the air. The length or major dimension of one of the venturi throats is regulated with a baffle in accordance with the speed requirements of the engine.