Float Patents (Class 222/464.6)
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Patent number: 9289989Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting head including a liquid ejection surface through which liquid is ejected, a head casing body in which the liquid ejection surface is provided on one surface, an atmosphere opening port which is open in an outer-side wall surface of the head casing body, a first space portion which communicates with the atmosphere opening port in the head casing body, and a second space portion which communicates with the first space portion through a connection path. The first space portion reserves liquid entering through the atmosphere opening port.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Hagiwara
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Patent number: 9278539Abstract: There is provided a printer including: a recording head which performs recording by ejecting ink; a recording unit which stores the recording head; a liquid storage unit which is provided outside the recording unit, and stores a liquid storage body that stores the ink to be ejected from the recording head; ink supply tubes which supply the ink that is stored in the liquid storage body stored in the liquid storage unit to the recording head; and a supporting portion which is provided in the liquid storage unit, and supports the ink supply tubes. As a mark which is a reference of a part supported by the supporting portion, a line is provided in the ink supply tubes.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Saka, Yuji Miyamoto
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Patent number: 8640930Abstract: A venting apparatus for a liquid dispensing container adapted to hold a quantity of liquid having a liquid level within the liquid dispensing container. The venting apparatus includes a vent that has an aperture through which gas can exit the liquid dispensing container, a float, a liquid barrier carried by the float, and a flexible tube connecting the vent and the float. The flexible tube establishes fluid communication for gas through the vent and the liquid barrier between an interior space within the liquid dispensing container located above the liquid level and an exterior of the liquid dispensing container.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Diversey, Inc.Inventors: Justin M. Nunez, David K. Osenga
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Patent number: 8590756Abstract: A consumable supply item for an imaging device holds an initial or refillable volume of pigmented ink. Its housing defines an interior and a fluid exit port. Users orient the housing to deplete the ink in a downward direction. A float on a surface of the ink suspends an inlet opening of a fluid conduit tube underneath the surface. A height of the opening falls downward as the fluid depletes and the float drops. The tube draws a desired concentration of ink and supplies it to the exit port. The concentration is predetermined relative to an overall height of the fluid. The tube height remains proportional to the height of the fluid, increases/decreases proportionally, or other. The design overcomes settling. The design also avoids mechanical stirring and other complex sediment mixing techniques. Embodiments include float/tube arrangements and testing observations, to name a few.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Marc Frazier Baker, Neal David Erickson, Mark Doerre, Alan Anthony Bidwell
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Patent number: 8430278Abstract: A floating fluid inlet that adjusts to the level of a beverage within a soda keg or similar container. The floating fluid inlet is constructed preferably of stainless steel and food grade plastic tubing. By rotating its inlet port aperture from downward facing when the soda keg is full of a beverage, to upward facing when the soda keg is nearly empty, the floating fluid inlet avoids picking up sediment from the bottom of the soda keg. The principal components are a tube that connects at its one end to the outlet port of a soda keg and at its other end to a pickup tube that is retained within a bracket to which is attached a float. The pickup tube has an aperture disposed in its sidewall for ingress of a beverage.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2011Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Inventor: William Broderick
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Publication number: 20120273529Abstract: A consumable supply item for an imaging device holds an initial or refillable volume of pigmented ink. Its housing defines an interior and a fluid exit port. Users orient the housing to deplete the ink in a downward direction. A float on a surface of the ink suspends an inlet opening of a fluid conduit tube underneath the surface. A height of the opening falls downward as the fluid depletes and the float drops. The tube draws a desired concentration of ink and supplies it to the exit port. The concentration is predetermined relative to an overall height of the fluid. The tube height remains proportional to the height of the fluid, increases/decreases proportionally, or other. The design overcomes settling. The design also avoids mechanical stirring and other complex sediment mixing techniques. Embodiments include float/tube arrangements and testing observations, to name a few.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2011Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventors: MARC FRAZIER BAKER, Neal David Erickson, Mark Doerre, Alan Anthony Bidwell
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Publication number: 20120187156Abstract: A floating fluid inlet that adjusts to the level of a beverage within a soda keg or similar container. The floating fluid inlet is constructed preferably of stainless steel and food grade plastic tubing. By rotating its inlet port aperture from downward facing when the soda keg is full of a beverage, to upward facing when the soda keg is nearly empty, the floating fluid inlet avoids picking up sediment from the bottom of the soda keg. The principal components are a tube that connects at its one end to the outlet port of a soda keg and at its other end to a pickup tube that is retained within a bracket to which is attached a float. The pickup tube has an aperture disposed in its sidewall for ingress of a beverage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2011Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventor: William Broderick
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Patent number: 7976796Abstract: A centrifuge tube assembly includes an elongate tubular receptacle having a capped upper end. The capped upper end includes a single inlet/outlet port formed therethrough for communication with an interior of the tubular receptacle. A flexible aspiration pipe is communicably engaged with the inlet/outlet port for extending longitudinally through the cylindrical receptacle. A sealing diaphragm is attached to a distal end of the pipe. The diaphragm is longitudinally movable within the tubular receptacle and sealably interengages an interior wall of the receptacle. Biological products are introduced into and aspirated from the receptacle below the diaphragm by the fluid conducting pipe.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2009Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Emcyte Corp.Inventors: Emery Smith, Patrick Pennie, David K. Buzenius
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Patent number: 7331489Abstract: A liquid metered dispensing squeeze bottle includes: (a.) a squeezable container having an opening for dispensing liquid therefrom at one end and a bottom at the other end; (b.) a nonflexible trap chamber of a predetermined volume, connected to the opening of the container; (c.) a dip tube, and (d.) a one way valve at the bottom of the dip tube. There is an inlet leg that freely rotates around the bottom of the dip tube and a drive mechanism, such as a counterweight or a float, to assure that the leg extends into an air pocket when the container is tilted for liquid squeeze dispensing.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2005Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: GlynnTech, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth P. Glynn, Stuart W. DeJonge
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Publication number: 20040108340Abstract: A spout affixed to a fluid-dispensing container that allows unobstructed fluid flow until the spout end becomes immersed. The anti-spill and self-venting features are achieved by establishing an airway from the top of the spout and extending into the container in the form of a flexible tube. A float attached to the tube lifts the end to the surface of the fluid within the container. As fluid exits, air enters the container allowing for smooth fluid discharge. When the spout end becomes immersed, fluid is drawn into the vent instead of air. An air vacuum develops that is equal to fluid pressure within the container. Fluid flow is interrupted until the container is returned to an upright position. This allows for fluid to evacuate from the floating vent and back into the contained. The self-venting feature of the spout is then reestablished.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2003Publication date: June 10, 2004Inventor: Daniel Dale Witt
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Patent number: 6170711Abstract: The present invention relates to a container for dispensing a fluid product, the container having a dispensing device on or within which is placed at least one magnet.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1998Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignee: E-L Management Corp.Inventors: Adam Sherman, Charles Craig Tadlock, Andrew J. Bevacqua