Abstract: A dispensing spray nozzle particularly adapted for application to a squeeze bottle containing a liquid product, comprises two interfitting parts integrally formed as a single plastic injection molding and including an integral hinge on which, after being injection molded with the hinge holding the two parts side-by-side, the parts can be swung together into interfitting relation so as to produce a finished assembly ready for use.

Abstract: Aerosol valve is provided with a mixer-homogenizer plate disposed in the bottom of the valve cup. Vapor tap passing vapor into a central chamber between the valve inlet and the homogenizer plate creates a swirl in that chamber and subsequent passage of the mixture through arcuate slots effects high shear to enhance the mixing and promote homogenization in preparation for the ultimate atominzation by the actuator.

Abstract: A vortex burner includes a first feed pipe and a second feed pipe disposed within the first feed pipe. A first set of gas distribution tubes extends from an end of the first feed pipe and extends towards a radiant cup portion of the vortex burner. Also, a second set of gas distribution tubes extends from the second feed pipe also toward the radiant cup portion of the vortex burner. A first fuel gas is capable of flowing through a portion of the first feed pipe not occupied by the second feed pipe, i.e. an annulus area of space, and through the associated first set of gas distribution tubes. A second fuel gas, of either a higher or lower Wobbe index than the first fuel gas is capable of flowing through the second feed pipe and its associated second set of gas distribution tubes. Thus, the vortex burner is capable of burning either high or low Wobbe fuel gases. The first and second fuel pipes may also be separately disposed within the vortex burner.

Abstract: In a fuel supply apparatus for an internal combustion engine, a fuel discharging apparatus includes a fuel discharge port opened in an air intake conduit and a fuel valve for injecting a controlled quantity of fuel into the air intake passage through the discharge port. An annular fuel whirling chamber is formed around the fuel valve to receive fuel flow in a tangential direction to cause the fuel flow to whirl within the annular chamber. On the other hand, an annular recess is formed in a passage communicating the discharge port and the fuel valve with each other to forcively feed air to the fuel flowing through the passage. The fuel is thus intensively mixed with air and can be easily atomized upon being injected into the air intake passage through the discharge orifice.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transferring energy from a first fluid flow to a second fluid flow via vortex generating means. Various embodiments and various support means for elements of the apparatus are also disclosed.

Abstract: A heavy oil supply pipe, a protective pipe, an air supply pipe for burning heavy oil, a coal-air supply pipe, a coolant supply pipe and a protective caster are arranged concentrically in the order mentioned. A coal whirler and an air whirler are provided to inpart whirling motions to coal flame and heavy oil flame for thoroughly admixing them.

Abstract: The atomizing device of the present invention comprises a cylindrical swirl chamber provided with a nozzle, and a pipe running coaxially through the chamber and the nozzle to protrude into the zone of material atomization. The device is provided, according to the invention, with another chamber which is essentially an acoustic resonator, the outlet end of said pipe entering the interior of the second chamber which adjoins the nozzle. The second chamber is implemented as a quarter-wave acoustic resonator. The present invention can find most utility when applied in those industries where quality atomization and/or mixture-formation of various materials is involved, such as in the chemical engineering industry.

Abstract: A flat flame burner assembly comprises a refractory block having a flaring port and a hollow body, mounted thereon, provided with an inlet for the admission of combustion air and with an air diffuser presenting passages directed so as to cause the combustion air to swirl in the combustion zone of the flaring port; a burner mechanism comprising a lance for feeding the fuel terminating with a burner head extending in the combustion zone, a first pipe for a fluid atomizing agent coaxial to said lance, a second pipe, coaxial to the first pipe, for feeding air for the protection of the burner head from the heat, in communication with a sheath which surrounds the burner head. The burner head consists of a first chamber in which the fuel is admitted by means of a distributor, and of a second chamber, or mixing chamber, in which the fuel is atomized by the atomizing agent, and then sprayed into the combustion zone through a nozzle.

Abstract: Purging apparatus for removing air from a fluid conduit is shown in the form of a burner nozzle which automatically purges air from the nozzle elements to thereby limit post-drip of liquid fuel from the nozzle. The nozzle is designed with a partitioning element within the nozzle adjacent the burner tip having at least one passage of limited cross-section which, in response to flow of liquid fuel therethrough, disperses or atomizes air bubbles which may be entrapped within the nozzle assembly. Several embodiments are illustrated and described in which a restricted passage in the partition is positioned adjacent the top of the interior chamber of the nozzle holder to pick up air bubbles and eject them through the nozzle tip.

Abstract: A fuel injector for a gas turbine engine consists of a hollow body adapted to be supplied with compressed air and having a number of fuel orifices in the internal surface of the body. An annular member is located inside the body adjacent to the orifices so as to define an annular gap between it and the internal surface of the hollow body. The gap receives fuel from the orifices and has a radial width of 0.015 to 0.020 inches.

Abstract: A right-angle spray nozzle, intended for a squeeze bottle containing a liquid product with air above the product, provides for forming an aerosol spray from an orifice supplied by a swirl chamber having two tangential injection inlets separately fed by air and product respectively when the bottle is squeezed to pressurize the air above the product in the bottle. The spray is ejected in the form of an aerosol at right angles to the axis of the bottle.

Abstract: In a nozzle for atomizing fuel into a spray for combustion in gas turbine engines, wherein the atomization is effected by the use of high velocity and/or high density air, and wherein the supply of fuel to two separately metered points is such that at low flow rates the first fuel supply is spread into a thin sheet for atomization but at high flow rates the second fuel supply is spread into a thicker sheet which combines with the thin sheet produced from the first supply, thus resulting in a single spray of constant shape at all operating conditions.

Abstract: A water jet nozzle comprises an inlet pipe extending into a converging conical section of an outlet pipe, with a narrow annular opening between the inlet pipe end and the outlet pipe inner wall. The outlet pipe also has a straight section in continuation of the smaller end of the converging conical section followed by a diverging conical section and a substantially straight outlet section. Pressurized air is introduced through the annular opening to surround the central water flow, thereby reducing friction against the outlet pipe wall, the consecutive outlet pipe sections further improving the shape and reach of the ejected water jet.

Abstract: A welded joint between two telescoped and threaded together inner and outer parts of an assembly wherein the joint may be cut apart to permit unthreading of the one part from the other and for their subsequent reuse after repair or cleaning of the assembly. The inner part has an external thread and has a cylindrical portion between the external thread and the welded joint for expanding any inwardly projecting burr that may be formed on the outer part during the cutting operation so that the burr may pass over the external threads without damaging the same when the parts are unthreaded from each other. The invention is particularly adaptable for use with fuel injection nozzles but has use in other applications where welded together threaded parts are subject to disassembly and reuse.

Abstract: A flame retention apparatus for flare stacks for waste combustible gases is provided which includes fixed mounted guide vanes mounted at the top of the tubular stack and preferably spaced around the interior of the stack, the guide vanes having inclined or tilted terminal ends to impart a swirling or vortex action to a substantial portion of the waste gas exiting from the stack, and preferably with one or more teeth to impart added turbulence to the swirling portion of the waste gas.

Abstract: Apparatus for burning a product gas having a low BTU content wherein a single burner is adapted to burn the low energy gas alone with the turndown capability of a multi-burner arrangement. The gas flow is separated into two independent flow streams with one flow stream being exhausted into a primary air stream and the other into a secondary air stream prior to combustion. A common control means responsive to changes in load is provided to modulate the secondary air stream and its associated gas stream whereby at decreasing loads proportionately increased amounts of air and gas are directed through the primary air and gas streams.

Abstract: An airspray burner is supplied with fuel tangentially through a port and the upstream end of the burner is provided with a helical wall to prevent the fuel from passing back out of the fuel delivery port.

Abstract: A spray nozzle which employs compressed air for atomizing the liquid to be sprayed and for projecting these droplets into the desired spray pattern. The nozzle includes a tubular member and a liquid supply conduit and nozzle head mounted within the tubular member. There is an annular passage through the nozzle with a converging portion and a portion diverging from the converging portion. Liquid and gas are supplied to the converging portion. The compressed gas is supplied in a manner to achieve swirling of both the gas and liquid within the converging portion. The compressed gas discharges the atomized liquid in a hollow conical spray pattern.

Abstract: An atomized fuel-air mixture is obtained in a heartshaped chamber of a rotating member which is mounted in the combustion air inlet duct of an internal combustion engine. Fuel and a gaseous medium are injected into the chamber and are thoroughly mixed by a fuel flow dividing portion formed by the curved walls of the chamber in axial alignment with the fuel injection nozzle, which deflects the fuel flow from the axis of rotation towards the periphery of the chamber. Outlet channels exhaust the fuel-gaseous medium mixture from the chamber and impart a rotational force to the member.

Abstract: A nozzle of a gas cutting torch includes an inner central passage for a cutting oxygen, and an outer annular passage for a preheating gas provided about the inner passage. A helical groove is provided in the outer passage so as to cause the swirling motion of the preheating gas passing along the outer passage. Another helical groove may be provided in the inner passsage for the cutting oxygen.

Abstract: An ejector mixer for gases and/or liquids comprising three coaxial nozzles in communication with a mixing chamber that merges into a diffuser. One component to be mixed is fed into the middle annular nozzle, while the other component is supplied via the outer and the inner annular nozzle, so that the stream or the first component, upon entry into the annular mixing chamber, will be confined by the two streams of the second component.

Abstract: A burner nozzle providing substantially smokeless combustion of inflamable fluids such as petroleum that must be burned off, in a burner system not requiring water spray. A compressed gas, introduced to the inflamable fluid within the nozzle structure acts as an atomization aid, and as an initial combustion sustaining vehicle for the inflamable fluid. The compressed gas is directively introduced within the nozzle so as to, with combined flow from the nozzle, achieve an optimum flame shape and insure clean burning.

Abstract: A wall burner is described for firing a flame laterally into a duct of the type generally known as a waste heat recovery duct wherein hot exhaust gases are passed in a heat exchange relationship with a second fluid downstream from the wall burner. The wall burner may be used as an igniter for a grid burner system disposed within the duct or the wall burner may itself be used to reheat the hot exhaust gases. The wall burner includes a combustion chamber pipe and ignition means located outside the duct so that ignition occurs outside the duct thereby obviating instabilities inherent in trying to ignite a combustible mixture within the hot exhaust gas path.

Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle for gas turbines in which atomization of the liquid fuel is accomplished by high-velocity air entering the combustion chamber, characterized by minimizing the surface area of metal in contact with the fuel during the atomization process and further characterized by designing the air passages such that a swirling motion is imparted to the air followed by an acceleration of the air stream to eliminate variations in air velocity and to maximize air velocity at the point of impact with the fuel.

Abstract: An improved fuel injection apparatus is provided to uniformly disperse a low pressure fuel in a highly atomized manner for introduction into a combustion apparatus. The fuel injection apparatus of this invention employs a central fuel injector which initially swirls and distributes the fuel in a near uniform sheet for receipt within the system of counter-rotating air swirl means.There is also included a system of counter-rotating air swirl means disposed about a shroud member whereby the primary atomizing forces are the high shear stresses developed at the confluence of the counter-rotating air streams.

Abstract: A burner gun to provide a narrow spray pattern under high or low fire conditions, having a nozzle with an elongated tunnel passage therein which nozzle is spacially adjustable with respect to a spray tip; the spray tip has an oil swirl chamber with an axially movable piston to obstruct in varying degree oil intake ports in the swirl chamber, to reduce the flow when low fire operation is required.

Abstract: A burner operative to inject fuel and a portion of the amount of air required for stoichiometric combustion as a core into a combustion zone and the balance of the air required for substantially stoichiometric combustion is introduced coaxially around the core to form an air jacket. The burner includes a central fuel delivery pipe, a first coaxial atomizing air delivery pipe and a second coaxially surrounding air delivery pipe. The central fuel delivery pipe terminates in an outer conical surface and the first coaxial air delivery pipe terminates in a spaced coaxial inner surface and a shaped transverse outer surface for shaping the central fuel-rich flame core. The second coaxial air delivery pipe delivers an air jacket to form the fuel core and additional air is delivered coaxially around a baffle assembly and in a direction generally parallel to the core for additional flame shaping.

Abstract: A burner for burning crude or contaminated oil comprises a body defining a bore open at both ends, at one of which the oil is burnt, air being drawn into the flame through the bore, and an annular oil inlet in the bore wall such that air flowing through the bore to the flame will draw oil from the inlet in atomised form, will mix with it and will carry it into the flame. The burner is surrounded by an annular water ring provided with nozzles for spraying water into the flame.

Abstract: An improved fuel injection apparatus is provided to uniformly disperse a low pressure fuel in a highly atomized manner for introduction into a combustion apparatus. The fuel injection apparatus of this invention employs a system of counter-rotating air swirl means disposed about a shroud member whereby the primary atomizing forces are the high shear stresses developed at the confluence of the counter-rotating air streams and the greater velocity and uniformity at which the fuel is dispersed within the shroud provides for a substantially increased atomization efficiency.

Abstract: Dual orifice spray nozzles for spraying of fluids and other sprayable materials which produce two cone-shaped sprays of very fine droplets that are uniformly discharged by the use of two swirl chambers.

Abstract: A fuel injector in which, an annular intermediate flow containing fuel is ndwiched between an inner and an outer flow of air caused to rotate by swirl-promoting bladed devices called "swirlers," the inner flow being generated in a tubular duct which is closed at its upstream end with a bottom plate, and the "swirler" associated with said inner flow being a centripetal bladed device that opens to the tubular duct upstream of an annular duct supplied with fuel and itself opening at its downstream end to the tubular duct, thus forming a sharp enlargement within the tubular duct.

Abstract: This invention relates to a fluid-distribution apparatus in which one main fluid inlet flow is divided substantially equally between a number of outlets for example as the feeding of a plurality of burners on a gas turbine engine from a single fuel supply. At low total flow rates the difference in height of the various outlets can adversely effect the equality of distribution of liquid between the outlets and it is known to provide a restrictor in series with each outlet to improve the flow division between the outlets. However, where there is a large range of flow rates, the simple restrictors which are effective at low flow rates will cause a very substantial pressure loss at high flow rates. Further a simple restrictor essentially involves a passage of small cross-section which can become blocked by solid particles within the liquid.