Abstract: A snow making method and apparatus wherein water (3) in flexible hoses (2), within a cooling medium (1) is converted to snow and/or ice crystals. The hoses (2) are cyclically inflated and deflated to cause the crystals to be dislodged from the inner wall surfaces of the hoses (2). When the hoses (2) are full of crystals, the crystals can be discharged by pumping or blowing.

Abstract: A Machine and method for producing the illusion of snow is disclosed and described. It produces said product in a manner such that is easier to manufacture, operate, and produce than is currently available.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing man-made snow without using either compressed air or high-speed fans. The method makes use of a special water nozzle that is designed to provide a high volume spray of water particles that, owing to their size distribution (having a median size of between about 100 and 200 microns) in the spray, are readily susceptible to conversion to ice crystals as they settle to earth under favorable ambient conditions. Preferably, water applied to the nozzle is seeded with artificial nucleation sites so that water particles in a spray containing such sites are more susceptible to conversion to ice crystals as the particles settle to earth.

Abstract: A snow making system comprises a cooling subsystem having a fan that draws a first air into the cooling subsystem and a turbine that expands a second air to produce an expanded air, with the cooling subsystem combining the first air and the expanded air to produce a high mass-flow, high-velocity, cooled air. A nozzle subsystem has a channel that receives the cooled air and a water injector that injects water into the cooled turbine air such that the water is atomized and frozen by the high-velocity cooled air. The system thereby produces frozen water nuclei in the absence of a nucleating nozzle. The remainder of the channel receives high-velocity, high mass-flow fan air and water injectors that inject water into said air such that water particles are partly atomized. The two flows then mix upon exiting the system and produce snow if ambient conditions permit.

Abstract: A tower hydrant station for a snow making apparatus is illustrated wherein underground air and water pipes are respectively connected to remote sources of air and water under pressure and air and water hydrant pipes are respectively connected to these underground air and water pipes for supplying air and water under pressure above ground. Valves are respectively connected to these hydrant pipes for valving air and water therefrom. A substantially vertical closed metal snow tower mounting pipe is provided and has a hollow interior and is embedded in ground and exposed above ground for supporting a snow making tower thereon. The air hydrant pipe is connected to the interior of this tower mounting pipe whereby the interior portions of the mounting pipe constitute a portion or segment of the air hydrant pipe system and air under pressure supplied to the air hydrant coupling is circulated through above ground portions of the mounting pipe for cooling.

Abstract: Primarily crushed flaky or platy pieces of ice are supplied from a supply port into a rotary blade casing of a high speed rotary snow producing and throwing apparatus toward a rotor blade in the shaft direction of a rotating shaft by strong discharge pressure of a forced blast, crushed into pieces with smaller and finer particle size through second crushing by the rotor blade rotating at high speed, and sent out from a delivery port nearly in the direction of a tangent of the rotational outer periphery of the rotor blade.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system capable of accurately monitoring each of a plurality of snowmakers of ice crushing type which are placed on a skiing ground. The system has a monitoring device, which is placed in a monitoring station of the skiing ground and is connected to each of the snowmakers for monitoring an operational state of each of the snowmakers. The system further includes an external monitoring device provided in an external monitoring station located in a remote place from skiing grounds. The external monitoring device is capable of monitoring an operational state of each of the snowmakers in a selected skiing ground, since it can be selectively connected to the monitoring device placed in each skiing ground.

Abstract: A snow making tower including an elongated tower conduit combination which has an elongated air conduit extending within an elongated water conduit with upper and lower ends and provided with a ground support mount. Air and first water discharge nozzles are respectively provided adjacent the upper ends of the conduits and positioned for producing a plume of atomized water from external interacting air and water discharged under pressure from the air and first water discharge nozzles to produce snow in subfreezing ambient conditions. Couplings are provided for connecting air and water under pressure at the lower end of the tower. Three additional water discharge nozzles are positioned below the first water nozzle and connected to the water conduit for providing additional water sprays which are directed whereby at least portions thereof will intermix with the plume of atomized water as it falls.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for making snow. The method includes discharging a supply of pressurized water in ambient air, discharging a supply of pressurized air in ambient air, and controlling the discharge of the supply of pressurized water and/or the discharge of the supply of pressurized air to regulate a ratio of water to air, to more efficiently make snow over a range of ambient temperatures.

Abstract: A snow making tower including an elongated tower conduit combination which has an elongated air conduit extending within an elongated water conduit with upper and lower ends and provided with a ground support mount. Air and first water discharge nozzles are respectively provided adjacent the upper ends of the conduits and positioned for producing a plume of atomized water from external interacting air and water discharged under pressure from the air and first water discharge nozzles to produce snow in subfreezing ambient conditions. Couplings are provided for connecting air and water under pressure at the lower end of the tower. Three additional water discharge nozzles are positioned below the first water nozzle and connected to the water conduit for providing additional water sprays which are directed whereby at least portions thereof will intermix with the plume of atomized water as it falls.

Abstract: The invention relates to artificial snowmaking and specifically to the discovery that by introducing an effective amount of organo-modified polysiloxane material to the water being supplied to the snow guns, the quality of the snow thus made is significantly enhanced.

Abstract: A Machine and method for producing the illusion of snow is disclosed and described. It produces said product in a manner such that is easier to manufacture, operate, and produce than is currently available.

Abstract: A Machine and method for producing the illusion of snow is disclosed and described. It produces said product in a manner such that is easier to manufacture, operate, and produce than is currently available. Said machine is housed within a snowman or other winter themed housing.

Abstract: The invention relates to artificial snowmaking and specifically to the discovery that by introducing an effective amount of organo-modified polysiloxane material to the water being supplied to the snow guns, the quality of the snow thus made is significantly enhanced.

Abstract: The snow making apparatus includes an air tube and a water tube disposed in parallel relation and spaced apart by a predetermined distance. The air tube has a first end and a second end, the first end having an air inlet for receiving an air hose connected to an air compressor, the second end having a plug with a small diameter orifice defined therein for the egress of compressed air. The water tube has a first end and a second end, the first end having a water inlet for receiving a hose connected to a pressure washer which delivers water at 1200 p.s.i., and a second end coupled to a length of flexible copper tubing, the copper tubing being bent in order to discharge water into the stream of air discharged from the orifice at the second end of the air tube. The end of the copper tubing is compressed or crimped in order to discharge the water into the air stream in droplets or thin sheets.

Abstract: A snow gun (40) having outlet (43), for cold compressed air (42) and outlet (44) for water (49) discharged under pressure. The snow gun (40) has a tubular housing (41), and said outlet for water consists of nozzles (44) disposed along a ring-shaped cross-sectional area of the housing and wherein each nozzle forms an angle relative to the internal wall (41b) of the housing, that the water jets from the nozzles (44), where they meet upstream in relation to the outlet aperture (45) of the housing, form a configuration having approximately the shape of a polygon or circle (47), and that the ring of nozzles (44) is located downstream in relation to the compressed air outlet (43) where the compressed air expands and upstream in relation to the outlet aperture (45) of the housing, and that both the outlet (43) for compressed air (42) and the water nozzles (44) are thus surrounded by the tubular housing (41) within the inlet end (41a) and the outlet aperture (45) of the housing.

Abstract: A Machine and method for producing the illusion of snow is disclosed and described. It produces said product in a manner such that is easier to manufacture, operate, and produce than is currently available.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for making snow. The method includes discharging a supply of pressurized water in ambient air, discharging a supply of pressurized air in ambient air, and controlling the discharge of the supply of pressurized water and/or the discharge of the supply of pressurized air to regulate a ratio of water to air, to more efficiently make snow over a range of ambient temperatures.

Abstract: A snow making tower is illustrated wherein an elongated tower conduit combination is provided which includes an elongated air conduit extending within the water conduit and air and first water discharge nozzles are respectively provided adjacent the upper ends of the air and water conduits and positioned for producing a plume of atomized water from external interacting air and water discharged under pressure from the air and first water discharge nozzles to produce snow in subfreezing ambient conditions. These first water discharge nozzles have a nozzle discharge passage in their sides which are positioned to direct a jet of water into air immediately discharged under pressure from the air discharge nozzles prior to the external main interacting of air and water which produces the plume. This provides preliminary atomization of water in the air discharged prior to its interaction for producing a more finely atomized plume.