Having Flow Modifier And External Operator Therefor Carried By Nozzle Patents (Class 239/476)
  • Patent number: 10399129
    Abstract: A nozzle for water jet equipment and a method of use thereof. The nozzle has a body including a base with a shaft extending outwardly therefrom. The shaft is inserted through a bore of a sleeve that rotatable about the shaft. The base and shaft define a bore therein. At least one opening is defined in the shaft and one or more grooves are milled into the shaft's exterior surface. Each opening places the body's bore in fluid communication with one of the grooves and the sleeve's bore. Water flowing through the body's bore will flow through each opening, into the associated groove and into a space between the shaft and sleeve. The grooves create turbulence in water in this space and thereby reduce leakage from the nozzle. The shaft terminates in a conical section usable as a battering ram to break up blockages in pipes during cleaning operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Terydon, Inc.
    Inventors: Terry D. Gromes, Sr., Gary L. Manack, Jr., Kristen E. Gromes
  • Patent number: 8864052
    Abstract: A trigger sprayer has a housing, a piston bore within the housing, and a piston reciprocally mounted within the piston bore. The housing further includes a flow passage through which liquid passes from a passage inlet to a passage outlet. An actuator is operable to reciprocate the piston within the piston bore between a vacuum stroke creating reduced pressure in the piston bore and a compression stroke creating increased pressure in the piston bore. A valve assembly within the flow passage controls the flow of liquid through the flow passage upon operation of the actuator. The valve assembly further comprises a check valve and a priming valve. The sprayer has a closure for mounting the sprayer to a container. The valve seat for the check valve is in a component formed separately from and operatively connected to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: MeadWestvaco Calmar, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Dean Foster, Philip Luther Nelson
  • Patent number: 8640675
    Abstract: A fuel injector has an injector body and a control rod, which is movable in the injector body along an axis for controlling opening/closing of a nozzle that injects fuel in an engine cylinder; the injector body houses a metering servovalve, provided with a control chamber and with an open/close element of a balanced type, axial sliding of which causes a variation in pressure in the control chamber; the metering servovalve comprises a valve body made of two pieces coaxially coupled to one another via a deformable ring, which defines also a gasket for guaranteeing fluid tightness between the two pieces and maintains in a fixed position a disk on which a calibrated restriction is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Mario Ricco, Raffaele Ricco, Sergio Stucchi, Onofrio De Michele
  • Patent number: 7938342
    Abstract: A spray nozzle designed to be mounted in a push button of a liquid distribution system, including a body equipped with an assembly tube that is defined by a front wall in which a distribution orifice is formed, wherein the inside face of the front wall is equipped with a vortex chamber that communicates with the distribution orifice, at least two radial tubes to supply liquid to the vortex chamber, and an annular duct to supply liquid to the upstream end of the tubes, in which the lateral inside wall of the tube is equipped with at least two axial grooves which respectively extend between an upstream end opening onto the rear edge of the tube and a downstream end opening onto the annular duct, wherein the grooves are positioned angularly so that each downstream end of a groove is equidistant from the two upstream ends of the tube adjacent to it on either side along the length of the annular duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Rexam Dispensing Systems S.A.S
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Octeau, Pierre Dumont, Jean-Pierre Songbe, Herve Imenez
  • Publication number: 20080164347
    Abstract: The invention concerns a push-button nozzle for liquid or semi-liquid product dispenser, said dispenser comprising means for delivering the product under pressure which are mounted on the product container bottle and which comprise an ejection tube projecting outside. The invention is characterized in that said nozzle comprises a needle valve tightly closing the spraying orifice provided at the end of said nozzle, means for being fixed on the ejection tube and means for supplying products to a turbulence chamber located proximate said orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: David Leuliet, Francois Nicolle
  • Publication number: 20080164346
    Abstract: Spray nozzle comprising a front wall, an outlet channel delimited by a lateral surface substantially of revolution about an axis perpendicular to the front wall, an intake conduit supplying fluid product to the outlet channel, said intake conduit extending in a plane perpendicular to the axis, substantially tangentially to the lateral surface of the outlet channel, between an upstream and a downstream end opening out into the lateral surface of the outlet channel, the lateral surface of the outlet channel comprising a relief arranged radially relative to the axis and suitable for forming a static surface layer of fluid product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Songbe, Bernard Clerget
  • Patent number: 7328856
    Abstract: The invention relates to an airless dispenser which is used to dispense low doses of liquid products. The inventive dispenser is characterised in that it consists of: a first part comprising a spray nozzle which is communicated with a network of channels on the wall of an inner truncated-cone-shaped bore, and a second part comprising a deformable container which equipped with a rigid flange for fixing the first part in the aforementioned bore. The outer periphery of the flange comprises an inclined surface which defines a vortex chamber, opposite the above-mentioned network of channels, and which, together with the wall of the first part, forms an internal peripheral outlet groove. The outlet groove is defined radially by a flexible lip forming an inlet valve which is supported by the first or second part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Rexam Dispensing Systems S.A.S.
    Inventors: Richard Bloc, Herve Lompech
  • Patent number: 7028924
    Abstract: A sprinkler nozzle having a nozzle housing with an inlet for liquid and having a longitudinally extending axis. The nozzle housing, opposite the inlet, is delimited by a surface of revolution with nozzle outlet openings arranged around the axis. In the flow direction opposite the nozzle outlet openings, respective impact faces are arranged for reflecting the liquid that flows out through the nozzle outlet openings. The impact faces are constituted by the ends of respective threads that are secured to the nozzle housing, whereby the impact faces are able to reflect water that flows out of the respective nozzle outlet openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: GW Sprinkler A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Palle, Søren Hansen
  • Patent number: 6631860
    Abstract: The guide member (1) for a liquid jet (30) to be deflected allows a liquid (3) after flowing out of a container (2) to be deflected onto a target (5; 7) which is located below the container. The deflecting takes place by means of a shaped material plate (10; 10a, 10b) which is arranged ahead of an outlet opening (20) of the container and which reshapes and further conducts the jet (30) in such a manner that the liquid is conveyed to the target at a lower end (17) of the shaped material plate. At the location ahead of the outlet opening (20), where the liquid jet (30) is incident onto the shaped material plate (10), a first and a second piece of surface (11 and 12 respectively) of the material plate form a mouth region (13) in which the first piece of surface (11) deflects the liquid (3) transversely with respect to the vertical, whereas the second piece of surface (12) is provided as a catcher for squirts. The first piece of surface merges into a channel (14) in which the liquid is guided downwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Sulzer Chemtech AG
    Inventors: Christian Bachmann, Emil Fehr, Adrian Faust
  • Patent number: 6533196
    Abstract: A dispenser head (1) designed to be mounted on the plunger stem of a dispenser, such as a pump or a valve, for dispensing a fluid substance, the dispenser head (1) includes a body (2) provided with a recess (21) serving to receive the plunger stem, and with at least one duct (22) causing the recess (21) to communicate with a dispenser orifice (45; 35), the dispenser head being characterized in that the body (2) is received securely in an over-cap (3) which covers it while leaving the recess (21) unobstructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Valois S.A.
    Inventors: Christian Ouin, Olivier de Pous
  • Patent number: 6499672
    Abstract: A rotating stream sprinkler including a rotor plate supported on one end of a shaft for rotation, in an operative mode, relative to the shaft; a nozzle located along the shaft upstream of the rotor plate; the rotor plate formed with a chamber and one end of the shaft has a stator fixed thereto within the chamber, the fluid chamber at least partially filled with a viscous fluid; and wherein the chamber is at least partially closed at an upper end thereof by a rotor cap plate; and further wherein an underside of the rotor cap plate is provided with a first plurality of teeth and an upper surface of the stator is provided with a second plurality of mating teeth adapted to engage the first plurality of teeth to enable rotation of the rotor plate with the shaft in the adjustment mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Nelson Irrigation Corporation
    Inventor: George Sesser
  • Publication number: 20010038044
    Abstract: The guide member (1) for a liquid jet (30) to be deflected allows a liquid (3) after flowing out of a container (2) to be deflected onto a target (5; 7) which is located below the container. The deflecting takes place by means of a shaped material plate (10; 10a, 10b) which is arranged ahead of an outlet opening (20) of the container and which reshapes and further conducts the jet (30) in such a manner that the liquid is conveyed to the target at a lower end (17) of the shaped material plate. At the location ahead of the outlet opening (20), where the liquid jet (30) is incident onto the shaped material plate (10), a first and a second piece of surface (11 and 12 respectively) of the material plate form a mouth region (13) in which the first piece of surface (11) deflects the liquid (3) transversely with respect to the vertical, whereas the second piece of surface (12) is provided as a catcher for squirts. The first piece of surface merges into a channel (14) in which the liquid is guided downwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Inventors: Christian Bachmann, Emil Fehr, Adrian Faust
  • Patent number: 5593094
    Abstract: A pump sprayer has a hinged nozzle cap assembly for shifting the spray mechanics away from a spinner probe to adjust a fine mist spray from a full divergent spray cone to a less divergent spray cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Calmar Inc.
    Inventors: Jacques J. Barriac, R. Pat Grogan
  • Patent number: 5368234
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a trigger sprayer having a cap rotatable relative to a housing to establish the spray character of the fluid discharged and a slot and cam follower connection between the trigger sprayer housing and the cap with the cam shaped to impart an "off" condition, a gradually increasing spray condition, a combination spray and stream condition of gradually reversed relative influence, and a stream only condition. The different flow conditions are established by the interrelationship between a spinner head section and the cap that is rotatable along a path controlled by the cam and cam follower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: Contico International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald D. Foster, Philip I. Nelson
  • Patent number: 5323963
    Abstract: A nozzle for spraying liquids includes a body pierced with a bore, preferably a cylindrical or cylindro-conical bore, and carrying an endpiece pierced with an orifice which may be frustoconical flowing out towards the outside or dihedral opening out towards the outside, this orifice being coaxial with a preferably hemispherical swirl chamber and opening out into the latter via a narrow passage. The endpiece is made from an elastically deformable material, and a restraining component, carried by the body and able to move with respect to the endpiece, acts on the endpiece in order to adjust the cross-section and/or the shape of the the orifice without substantially deforming the swirl chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Tecnoma
    Inventor: Patrick Ballu
  • Patent number: 5044560
    Abstract: The invention describes a nozzle head for effectuating a broad angle cone of spray of liquid which liquid is contained in a tank and is forced into the nozzle head by pressure applied to the liquid contained in the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Inventor: Yap Y. Cheng