One Wall Only Tapered To Direction Of Flow Patents (Class 239/593)
  • Patent number: 9649644
    Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment for emitting water from an elevated water source. The attachment comprises an inlet section, a transitional section connected to the inlet section an outlet section connected to the transitional section opposite from the inlet section, and a rib member attached to the outlet section to support the shape of the outlet section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Euramax International, Inc.
    Inventor: W. Haynes Sloan
  • Patent number: 9050479
    Abstract: The present application concerns a module for a device generating at least one water curtain aimed at confining an area of space or for a cooling tower, including at least one water supply, at least one convergence zone mounted downstream of the holding zone, and at least one nozzle mounted downstream of the convergence zone and made of two parallel walls in equal length to the module and separated by a distance defining the thickness of the water curtain. The application also concerns a device generating at least one water curtain including a module previously defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Cyril Damet
  • Patent number: 8820665
    Abstract: A nozzle is provided for dispensing a liquid from a container in a desirable, nearly rectangular spray pattern. The nozzle includes an actuator having an inlet end adapted to receive liquid from the container and an outlet end, the actuator outlet end defining an outlet chamber. An insert is coupled to the actuator outlet end and defines an insert passage in fluid communication with the outlet chamber. The insert includes at least a first convex shoulder disposed downstream of the outlet chamber, and a nozzle outlet disposed downstream of the first convex shoulder. The convex shoulder may have a radius of curvature and side walls may be provided at an angle of convergence. The radius of curvature and the angle of convergence may be provided within certain ranges to obtain the desired spray pattern at the desired flow rate using typical aerosol can pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory J. Nelson, Nitin Sharma, Padma Prabodh Varanasi
  • Patent number: 8556195
    Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment for emitting water from a water source. The attachment comprises an inlet end, a transitional section connected to the inlet end an outlet end connected to the transitional section opposite from the inlet end, and a reinforcement member attached to the transitional sectional and the outlet end to support the transitional section. The inlet end includes an external cover and an internal sleeve disposed within and spaced from the external cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: InvisaFlow, LLC
    Inventor: Haynes Sloan, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8523091
    Abstract: In an ejector, a refrigerant passage of a nozzle for decompressing and expanding refrigerant includes a throat portion in which a refrigerant passage sectional area is most reduced, a first taper portion arranged downstream of the throat portion to gradually enlarge the refrigerant passage sectional area, a second taper portion arranged downstream of the first taper portion to gradually enlarge the refrigerant passage sectional area, and an end taper portion arranged in a range from an outlet side of the second taper portion to a refrigerant jet port to gradually enlarge the refrigerant passage sectional area. Furthermore, a second expanding angle at the outlet side of the second taper portion is larger than the first expanding angle at the outlet side of the first taper portion, and an end expanding angle at the outlet side of the end taper portion is smaller than the second expanding angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Gouta Ogata, Haruyuki Nishijima, Etsuhisa Yamada, Mika Gocho
  • Patent number: 8282025
    Abstract: In an ejector, a refrigerant passage of a nozzle for decompressing and expanding refrigerant includes a throat portion in which a refrigerant passage sectional area is most reduced, a first taper portion arranged downstream of the throat portion to gradually enlarge the refrigerant passage sectional area, a second taper portion arranged downstream of the first taper portion to gradually enlarge the refrigerant passage sectional area, and an end taper portion arranged in a range from an outlet side of the second taper portion to a refrigerant jet port to gradually enlarge the refrigerant passage sectional area. Furthermore, a second expanding angle at the outlet side of the second taper portion is larger than the first expanding angle at the outlet side of the first taper portion, and an end expanding angle at the outlet side of the end taper portion is smaller than the second expanding angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Gouta Ogata, Haruyuki Nishijima, Etsuhisa Yamada, Mika Gocho
  • Patent number: 8251302
    Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment for emitting water from a water source. The attachment comprises an inlet end, a transitional section connected to the inlet end an outlet end connected to the transitional section opposite from the inlet end, and a reinforcement member attached to the transitional sectional and the outlet end to support the transitional section. The inlet end includes an external cover and an internal sleeve disposed within and spaced from the external cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: InvisaFlow LLC
    Inventor: W. Haynes Sloan, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7748650
    Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment for emitting water from a water source. The attachment comprises an inlet end, a transitional section connected to the inlet end, an outlet end connected to the transitional section opposite from the inlet end, and a reinforcement member attached to the transitional sectional and the outlet end to support the transitional section. The inlet end includes an external cover and an internal sleeve disposed within and spaced from the external cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: InvisaFlow LLC
    Inventor: W. Haynes Sloan
  • Patent number: 7677480
    Abstract: For those spray applications that use a fluidic oscillator of the type that generates a spray by having a pressurized liquid flow through the oscillator and exhaust into a surrounding environment, and where such an oscillator has a boundary surface which has fabricated into it a channel in the form of what is referred to herein as fluidic circuit, an improved enclosure for this oscillator includes: a body having an interior and an exterior surface, wherein a portion of this interior surface is configured to attach to the oscillator boundary surface so as to form with the oscillator's channel an enclosed pathway through which the to-be-sprayed liquid may flow, and wherein a segment of this interior surface is configured so as to yield specified properties of the resulting spray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Bowles Fluidics Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Russell, Keith Berning, Russell D. Hester
  • Patent number: 7458532
    Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment for emitting water from a water source. The attachment comprises an inlet end, a transitional section connected to the inlet end, an outlet end connected to the transitional section opposite from the inlet end, and a reinforcement member attached to the transitional sectional and the outlet end to support the transitional section. The inlet end includes an external cover and an internal sleeve disposed within and spaced from the external cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Inventor: W. Haynes Sloan
  • Patent number: 7232082
    Abstract: A dispenser bottle comprising two receptacles for two (preferably different) fluid active substances wherein both receptacles have outlets arranged next to one another in such a way that both active fluids can be applied to a common application field. The receptacles are compressible and provided with discharge nozzles so that the active fluids are mixed with one another only after exiting from the discharge nozzles. The nozzle channels of the discharge nozzles taper towards each other and are preferably substantially parallel. The nozzle channels have an annular construction below the outlet on the inner periphery and have edged transitions with a chamfer forming a bevel on the influx side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Hans Georg Mühlhausen, Rainer Geberzahn, Paul-Otto Weltgen
  • Patent number: 7207502
    Abstract: A velocity-profile modifying device is located between a heat component and an air pouring apparatus. The air pouring apparatus pours the air into the heat component via an air moving track. The velocity-profile modifying device is set at the air moving track and is used for modifying a first velocity-profile of airflow by the air pouring apparatus to a second velocity-profile and further for making the air distribute evenly toward the heat component. By providing the velocity profile modifying device, a better distribution of the airflow toward the heat component and a stable temperature status of the heat component can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Benq Corporation
    Inventors: Bang-Ji Wang, Chang-Chien Li, Chun-Ming Shen
  • Patent number: 7201335
    Abstract: A nozzle system is provided comprising a nozzle tip supported in a nozzle body with an alignment member. The alignment member has a connection for engaging a corresponding connection located on the nozzle body. The alignment member also has an aperture concentric with the sleeve that has a tapered engagement surface for contacting a tapered engagement surface on the nozzle tip. A first melt channel is defined through the nozzle body and a second melt channel is defined through the nozzle tip. The melt channel in the nozzle tip has a first section that extends along a first axis from an inlet, a second section that extends from the first section at an incline and a third section that extends from the second section parallel to and eccentric with the first axis. The resulting melt channel defines a straight through channel parallel to said first axis from said inlet to said opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Mold-Masters Limited
    Inventors: Denis Babin, Helen Zhuang
  • Patent number: 7168637
    Abstract: A nozzle for a low pressure fuel injector that improves the control and size of the spray angle, as well as enhances the atomization of the fuel delivered to a cylinder of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lakhi N. Goenka, Jeffrey Paul Mara, David Lee Porter, David Ling-Shun Hung, John Stefanski
  • Patent number: 7124963
    Abstract: A nozzle for a low pressure fuel injector that improves the control and size of the spray angle, as well as enhances the atomization of the fuel delivered to a cylinder of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lakhi N. Goenka, Jeffrey Paul Mara, David Lee Porter, David Ling-Shun Hung, John Stefanski
  • Patent number: 7100906
    Abstract: A water distribution system for wetting an evaporative media pad includes a nozzle spraying a stream of water onto a water distributor that diverts the stream into at least two different portions. A plurality of fingers extend in at least two different directions to direct the two portions onto different locations of the media pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: AdobeAir, Inc.
    Inventor: John G. Kucera
  • Patent number: 6942168
    Abstract: A spray nozzle for spraying a fluid and suitable for use in hot corrosive environments is disclosed, comprising a single piece body comprising a top and a bottom disposed opposite the top where the bottom further comprises a connector; a channel disposed about an outer portion of the single piece body intermediate the bottom and the top, the channel extending from the outer portion of the single piece body and terminating at an interior wall; and a fluid passageway in fluid communication with the bottom and with the channel. The channel may disperse fluid at a predetermined angle defined by the outer portion of the single piece body and the interior wall of the channel with respect to an axis defined by the fluid passageway. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: WaferTech, LLC
    Inventors: Trent Rance, Chris Warberg
  • Patent number: 6935578
    Abstract: A fuel swirling means 15 for giving a swirling force at the upper stream of the valve sheet 7 to the fuel passing through the surrounding area of the valve body 13 and a nozzle 16 injecting a swirling fuel are provided. A fuel spray 47 injected out from the injection port 17 of the nozzle 16 is so formed that the orientation of the fuel spray is deflected in a definite direction on the basis of the longitudinal axis C of the fuel injection valve body, the reachable distance L1 of the fuel spray at the deflected side is longer and the reachable distance L2 of the fuel spray at another side opposite to the deflected side is shorter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Shibata, Yasuo Namaizawa, Atsushi Sekine, Yuichi Sasaki, Tohru Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20040195379
    Abstract: A spray nozzle for spraying a fluid and suitable for use in hot corrosive environments is disclosed, comprising a single piece body comprising a top and a bottom disposed opposite the top where the bottom further comprises a connector; a channel disposed about an outer portion of the single piece body intermediate the bottom and the top, the channel extending from the outer portion of the single piece body and terminating at an interior wall; and a fluid passageway in fluid communication with the bottom and with the channel. The channel may disperse fluid at a predetermined angle defined by the outer portion of the single piece body and the interior wall of the channel with respect to an axis defined by the fluid passageway. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Trent Rance, Chris Warberg
  • Patent number: 6729564
    Abstract: Spa nozzles having dual fluidic nozzles capable of submerged operation and of selectively providing straight, concentrated, non-oscillating jets with air entrainment or an oscillating jet or slugs of water in water to provide a soothing massaging effect with no moving parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Bowles Fluidics Corporation
    Inventors: Dharapuram N. Srinath, Ronald D. Stouffer
  • Patent number: 6676048
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injector having an orifice region in which an orifice passage extends along an injector axis and ends at an orifice edge. The fuel injector is characterized in that the orifice edge is rotationally asymmetrical about the injector axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Carsten Tiemann
  • Patent number: 6547168
    Abstract: The present invention is to improve the coating quality by restraining non-uniformity and fluctuation of the ejection amount. A coating head comprises a liquid pool part formed in a bottom part of the coating head, a liquid ejecting slit communicating with the liquid pool part, opened to the atmosphere, and a liquid supply path formed parallel with the liquid ejecting slit with an interval, with one end communicating with the liquid supply opening and the other end communicating with the liquid pool part, wherein the liquid supply path comprises a first chamber communicating with the liquid supply opening, tilted toward the longitudinal direction end part, a second chamber communicating with the first chamber, narrower than the first chamber, and a slit with one end communicating with the second chamber and the other end communicating with the liquid pool part, further narrower than the second chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuneaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6340123
    Abstract: Apparatus for directing the flow of material from a supply source to one or more shaping dies has a flow channel therein. A flow directing insert (34A) located in the downstream region of the flow channel spreads the material toward the outer walls and improves uniformity of flow in an exit zone (40). In the downstream region (11), the channel height is gradually decreased and levels off near the exit. The flow channel may be split into two or mom flow branches (15A, 15B), each flow branch having a flow directing insert (34A) therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Inventors: Ching-Chin Lee, Gary Robert Burg, Ernest Wilford Looman, Jr., Bruce Joseph Turner, Malcolm George Marshall
  • Patent number: 6092743
    Abstract: A fuel swirling means 15 for giving a swirling force at the upper stream of the valve sheet 7 to the fuel passing through the surrounding area of the valve body 13 and a nozzle 16 injecting a swirling fuel are provided. A fuel spray 47 injected out from the injection port 17 of the nozzle 16 is so formed that the orientation of the fuel spray is deflected in a definite direction on the basis of the longitudinal axis C of the fuel injection valve body, the reachable distance L1 of the fuel spray at the deflected side is longer and the reachable distance L2 of the fuel spray at another side opposite to the deflected side is shorter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Shibata, Yasuo Namaizawa, Atsushi Sekine, Yuichi Sasaki, Tohru Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 6012657
    Abstract: An improved apparatus for applying coating material includes a spray head having a housing which encloses a deflector. The deflector and housing cooperate to form a plurality of coating material flow channels which diverge in a direction of flow of coating material through the spray head. The deflector and housing cooperate to define a long thin outlet with relatively wide channel outlet sections at opposite ends of the outlet. An electrode assembly includes an electrode element having a long thin surface area which extends between opposite end portions of the long thin outlet and is exposed to the flow of coating material through the outlet. A wear tube encloses a portion of the electrode assembly and connects the deflector with the housing. The electrode element may be a plate which is molded into the deflector with a minor edge portion of the plate exposed to the flow of coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Alan J. Knobbe, Terrence M. Fulkerson, Hector L. Serrano, John C. A. Traylor, Frank DeAngelis
  • Patent number: 5642907
    Abstract: An end fitting for a water supply pipe of a sprinkler system is in the form of a hollow tubular body having an internal cavity which progressively decreases in cross-sectional area from an end of the body attached to the supply pipe to an opposite end of the body in the manner of a convergent nozzle, in order to enhance the pressure of water available to a sprinkler head attached to the fitting at a position remote from the pipe end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1997
    Assignee: Victaulic Company of America
    Inventor: Douglas R. Dole
  • Patent number: 5231920
    Abstract: A conveyor oven is described which is compact and suitable for smaller commercial establishments. The device uses mutually spaced nozzles which extend across the upper and lower portion of the cooking chamber which direct heated air currents respectively downwardly and upwardly onto food passing therethrough. Each nozzle is a duct which extends perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the conveyor and has a foraminous plate on the side adjacent the conveyor for dispensing heated air currents therethrough. The nozzles are fed from a common plenum with heated air under pressure. As the air enters each nozzle, it encounters an angled diverter plate which is disposed at about a 30 degree angle to the longitudinal axis of the nozzle and downstream of the plate a flat stabilizer plate which extends a substantial length of the nozzle terminating about two inches before the end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: G. S. Blodgett Corporation
    Inventors: Lorne B. Alden, James T. Cole
  • Patent number: 5031426
    Abstract: A water inlet nozzle is mounted to a clothes washer so that water exiting therefrom during the spray rinse cycle is directed onto a load of clothes which has circumferentially accumulated near the bottom of the wash basket during the drain and spin cycle. The water inlet nozzle has an upper member joined to a lower member which forms a dispersion chamber therebetween. The lower member includes an inclined bottom wall which tends to cause water flowing into the inlet nozzle to disperse laterally. The lower member also includes a cascade portion which is curved downwardly and has a transversely convex crown formed within its radius of curvature which induces some water to flow toward the lateral side walls of the lower member. The upper member has a curved forward wall and a front lip which is angled downwardly and rearwardly. A discharge orifice is formed between the terminal edges of the cascade portion and the front lip which is narrower near its center than it is at its edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1991
    Assignee: White Consolidated Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven R. Wilson
  • Patent number: 4915258
    Abstract: A seed meter for metering individual seeds at a controlled rate into a furrow in the ground over which the seed meter is traveling releases the individual seeds into a hollow, elongated seed tube. The seed tube is curved along the length thereof in a direction opposite the direction of travel of the seed meter over the ground to release the seeds with a horizontal velocity generally equal and compensate for the motion of the seed opposite that of the seed meter. This enables each seed to reach the ground with little or no velocity component in the horizontal direction, thereby minimizing lateral seed bounce on the ground. Seed bounce within the seed tube is controlled and minimized by the tube curvature which gradually increases in a downward direction along the length of the seed tube. The inner front wall of the tube has logarithmic curvature from a generally vertical upper end thereof along an upper portion of the tube and exponential curvature along a lower portion of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Jay H. Olson
  • Patent number: 4846969
    Abstract: An arrangement for the destruction of foam building up on a sewage surface in form of activated sludge, in which a reaction vessel holds the suspended foam. The reaction vessel has perforated plates which may be raised and lowered. The reaction vessel is furthermore provided with an inlet pipe connection for untreated sewage, and a discharge pipe for the treated suspension. The reaction vessel is closed off at its upper side by a plate member which has at least one flow-through opening. A nozzle located within an enclosure, is connected to this flow-through opening. The nozzle has a lower wall and an upper wall disposed at an acute angle relative to one another. The lower wall and the upper wall of nozzle, furthermore, have adjacent edges forming an outlet opening of the nozzles. One of the walls of the nozzle is pivotably movable relative to the other wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: Borsig GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Ordelheide, Hudai Turgay
  • Patent number: 4807663
    Abstract: A manifold for the application of agricultural ammonia includes an acceleraing chamber between an inlet and a plurality of discharge ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Inventor: James S. Jones
  • Patent number: 4718178
    Abstract: A gas nozzle for a dryer apparatus for use with moving webs includes a planar pressure plate with an upstream end portion and a downstream terminus portion and a gas discharge nozzle disposed at the upstream portion of the pressure plate to define a slot for gas flow parallel to the pressure plate. The nozzle includes a first jet forming plate which engages the upstream end portion of the pressure plate and at obtuse angle and which includes a vortex forming step. The nozzle also includes a second jet forming plate located a distance from the first jet forming plate. The two jet forming plates and the step define a passageway for gas flow parallel to the pressure plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1988
    Inventor: Rodger E. Whipple
  • Patent number: 4619404
    Abstract: In a gas distribution arrangement the processing gas is admitted from a helical inlet duct through an annular orificial slit into a space between two coaxial guide walls. Guide vanes are provided in the orificial slit to impart a change of direction to the flow of processing gas. Each guide vane is a spatial body with differently extending, vertical limitation surfaces, which between adjacent vanes delimit ducts whose sectional area as measured transversely of the flow direction of the processing gas through the individual duct is substantially of the same size over the extent of the duct. The vertical height of the guide vanes may decrease along their radial extent inwards in the orificial slit, and their vertical limitation surfaces may form an acute angle at the radially innermost ends of the guide vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Assignee: APX Anhydro A/S
    Inventor: Henning Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 4533571
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for coating a substrate such as glass with a powder such as a compound that an be decomposed by heat. The method comprises the steps of forming a sheet of powder suspended in a gas and moving toward the substrate to be coated, homogenizing the mixture of powder and gas by creating turbulences in it, surrounding the sheet with flowing gas having the same velocity as the sheet itself, and accelerating the sheet in the direction of the substrate. This method and the apparatus which implements it are particularly useful in the manufacture of glass coated with a film such as metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Assignee: Saint Gobain Vitrage
    Inventors: Carl Kramer, Hans-Werner Kuster
  • Patent number: 4497664
    Abstract: A solid surface is eroded by directing a liquid axially through a converging passage in a nozzle toward the surface, then deflecting the liquid in a lateral direction parallel to the surface while the liquid is subject to cavitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Assignee: Alsthom-Atlantique
    Inventor: Philippe Verry
  • Patent number: 4358334
    Abstract: An improved high speed cast process for fusing fasteners, with strips of film at their base, to separately extruded film or sheet stock for making containers with integral closure means. The process makes available multiple sets of male and female fastener elements, with variable spacing, in a single extrusion operation. The apparatus is configured so that adhesion between the fastener elements and the film or sheet occurs very closely to the die lips before significant cooling of the extrudate occurs. Containers with improved profiles are obtained because the base permits the profiles to remain relatively rigid during closing and opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1982
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Co.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Sutrina, R. Douglas Behr
  • Patent number: 4132363
    Abstract: A nozzle which produces a wide liquid jet includes a housing open on one side with two longitudinal edges, one of which forms one edge of the nozzle aperture with the other edge of the nozzle aperture formed by the free end of a wall connected to the other longitudinal edge of the housing. Bolts are distributed over the width of the nozzle aperture outside the nozzle aperture for adjusting the wall over the nozzle width to slightly deform the wall and change the thickness of the nozzle aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1979
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters
    Inventor: Max Kruger
  • Patent number: 3972479
    Abstract: A thruster nozzle for a vehicle control system having a circular cross section inlet and an enlongated slot shaped cross section outlet with a gradual transition from one to the other, coupled with a cant angle between the axis of the inlet and the axis of the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1976
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Richard A. Calabrese, Ellis G. Estes, Dean F. Hopkins, Walter W. Johnson