Abstract: An intake system for preparing combustion air (1) is for an internal combustion engine of a portable handheld work apparatus. The intake system includes: a carburetor (2); an air filter (3) which is connected upstream of the carburetor (2); and, a filter case (4) which closes the air filter (3) from the outside. A combustion air channel (5) leads from a take-up opening (6) in a cooling air fan (7) of the engine to an inlet opening (24) in the filter case (4). The filter case (4) includes at least one defined ventilation opening (8) for connecting an inner space (9) of the filter case (4) to the ambient air. The flow cross section of the ventilation opening (8) is so designed that the airflows through the inlet opening (24), the intake opening (18) of the carburetor (2) and the ventilation opening (8) are compensated at the rated rpm of the engine and that a uniform pressure level adjusts in the inner space (9) of the filter case (4).

Abstract: The present invention aims at improving pool cleaners. The improved pool cleaners utilize toroidal vortex technology to provide efficient fluid flow in a sealed system. The sealed system prevents dirt from escaping into surrounding fluid and retains kinetic energy of the flowing fluid. The present invention is also quieter, lighter, and simpler than conventional designs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for drying compressed air comprising a substantially cylindrical, innerly hollow, container (19), provided, above, with an inlet hole (2) for the compressed air and with an outlet hole (24) for the compressed air, and at the bottom, with a chamber (21) for collecting condensed air and with means for extracting the same, at least an expansion chamber (3), communicating with said inlet hole (2), at least a laminating flange (4, 5), provided, downward said expansion chamber (3), with holes (6) for the passage of the compressed air, at least a spiral conical expander (10), provided with fins, and an inner canalization (23) for the rising of the compressed dehumidificated air toward the outlet hole.

Abstract: An air treatment appliance for treating surrounding air including a body. A spider-mount mounted to the body has a motor mounted thereto in cantilever fashion. A fan attached to the motor may be a radial fan, and is operable to draw in surrounding air and cause it to flow through the appliance. A grommet between the motor and the spider-mount dampens vibrations from the motor. A filtering mechanism in the path of the airflow helps filter out undesirable material from the surrounding air. A radial airflow guide downstream from the fan efficiently guides the airflow to be expelled in a predetermined direction. The motor is at least partially accommodated by the spider-mount and the fan. The apparatus results in reduced noise and vibration during operation of the appliance.

Abstract: A filtering system which essentially includes a generally cylindrical chamber with an inlet nozzle, having openings, located near the bottom of the chamber which extends into the chamber, an activator, a turbine with an axle, both the activator and turbine being located along the axle of the turbine, and an outlet nozzle located near the top of the chamber is disclosed. Air mixed with contaminants enters the chamber through the inlet nozzle via the openings and heads toward the outlet nozzle. Heavier particles fall to the bottom of the chamber. The air rotates the turbine which rotates the activator. As a result of this action, contaminants gather at the sides of the chamber and drop to the bottom of the chamber. A final separation between the contaminants and the air takes place as the air passes through the turbine where a non-penetrable air lock is created at the gap between the turbine and the lower edge of the outlet nozzle, further trapping particles.

Abstract: In a device for separating solid or liquid particles from a stream of gas, there is an aperture of a suction pipe which is substantially directed towards the axis of an impeller. The suction pipe is surrounded by a dust collecting container. To improve phase separation, especially in a vacuum cleaner in which the dust collecting container is fitted upstream of a dust bag, there is an axial aperture in the impeller and/or a straight aperture from the dust collecting container to the impeller. This generates an air vortex in the region of the opening of the suction pipe which carries the particles outwards where they are further transported into the dust collecting container by a secondary vortex induced therein.

Abstract: A portable air cleaner designed to remove particles and unwanted gases from a room to provide for a healthier and cleaner environment. The portable air cleaner includes a high air volume circulating design and operates quietly and efficiently. The air exhaust of the air cleaner includes a plurality of arcuate vanes radiating outwardly from the interior of the air cleaner. The vanes are disposed in the air exhaust to reduce pressure drop and to minimize operation noise.

Abstract: A system and method for recovering vapors in industrial washing equipment, wherein a solvent is used to wash various articles within a wash area of the equipment. The system includes a hood supported above the wash area, a motor driven fan mounted within the hood for creating an envelope of negative pressure between the wash area and the hood to draw rising vapors into the hood and to direct the vapors at high velocity against a surface to cause separation of pure solvent liquid droplets from the vapor through impaction, and a coalescer for gathering the separated droplets of pure solvent prior to directing the pure solvent to a holding tank for reuse in washing operations.

Abstract: A hand-held working tool has a housing and an air cooled internal combustion engine with cooling ribs positioned in the housing. A sealed carburetor box is connected to the internal combustion engine. A blower is positioned in the housing for supplying cooling air to the combustion engine. The blower sucks in cooling air in the axial direction of the blower and conveys it tangentially in the direction of rotation of the blower to the cooling ribs. The housing has a blower cover. A combustion air channel is positioned on a pressure side of the blower and connected to the blower cover and the carburetor box, and the internal combustion engine sucks in combustion air through the carburetor box. The channel has an inlet for branching off combustion air from the cooling air flow that is conveyed to the combustion engine. The inlet is in the form of at least one slot within the blower cover. The inlet has at least one deflecting element with a deflecting front surface for guiding the cooling air and a back side.

Abstract: A collection apparatus for collecting oil or other liquids forcibly removed from a dirty item by directed air pressure includes a generally cubical metal receptacle having a wooden cover. The dirty item is placed in a duct-like construction in a front side of the apparatus and a source of air pressure is used to remove oil or other liquids from the item, thereby producing mist. This mist is directed into the apparatus and travels to a far side of the apparatus, where it strikes a deflector. The deflector directs the mist to either of two sides of the apparatus. A suction unit, located in a bottom side of the apparatus, pulls the mist downward through a filter and finally into a collecting container.

Abstract: An air path is provided in the main body of a chain saw so as to connect an air inlet port provided on the main body and a carburetor chamber of the internal combustion engine and also connected to a cooling fan chamber. For use under normal conditions, combustion air is taken from the air inlet port into the carburetor chamber. In case of a rainy or snowy day, the air inlet port is closed and combustion air is taken from the cooling chamber into the carburetor chamber, air control means is provided between the air path and the cooling fan chamber. This air control means generates stagnation of air flow in the cooling chamber in order to supply air into the carburetor chamber and prevent dust and the like from being taken into the air path.

Abstract: A two-stroke internal combustion engine for a motor saw includes a crankcase (12), a fan housing (19) having an impeller (20), and a carburetor chamber (17) having a carburetor (16). An intake passage (15) connects the carburetor to the crankcase and the carburetor chamber is connected via an inlet passage (21) to the fan housing at the outlet side of the impeller for centrifugal purification of combustion air. The carburetor chamber (17) has an opening (22) connected to atmosphere or to a lowpressure zone of the fan housing (19).

Abstract: A module for the construction of a cleaning room ceiling has a housing wh can be fitted like a tile in the ceiling and which is divided internally into three chambers. A fan in an upper false floor draws air into the housing along an upper chamber which is aligned with a sound-damping lining. Sound-damping baffles are provided on the underside of the upper floor and the upper side and lower floor in the intermediate chamber and the bottom of the lower chamber is closed by high efficiency particle filters.

Abstract: To vacuum up a fluid using a vacuum cleaner, there is provided an attachment (1) to which a vacuum cleaner hose (31) is connected. The attachment comprises a separation chamber (3) in which the vacuumed up liquid is separated from the suction air through deposition on the wall surfaces (5, 6, 8, 11) of the separation chamber, with the liquid then dripping down into the collection chamber (21). The liquid is thus completely separated from the air using a common vacuum cleaner without the potential for vacuum cleaner damage. To insure that the suction through the attachment is cut off in the event that the liquid in the container reaches the vicinity of the suction channel, a valve element (18) and a float element (20) are provided which cut off the suction air and therewith the flow of liquid to the attachment when the maximum liquid level has been reached in the container. A finger operated valve can optionally cut off the suction through the attachment to regulate the vacuum.

Abstract: A cooling air blower for a combustion engine for a two-stroke engine of a hand-held working tool has a cooling air channel for supplying cooling air to a combustion engine and a blower fan for conveying air into the cooling air channel. A combustion air channel branches off the cooling air channel for guiding combustion air to an intake member of the combustion engine. The combustion air channel has a section extending adjacent to the cooling air channel. The combustion air channel has furthermore an air intake socket within that section, the air intake socket being narrower than the cooling air channel and extending transverse, when viewed in a plan view, to a main air flow direction of the cooling air channel into the cooling air channel. The air intake socket is positioned at a slant relative to the main air flow direction and has an inlet opening located on a side of the intake socket facing away from the blower fan.

Abstract: A portable work producing apparatus, such as a chain saw, has an engine cooled by air from a blower driven by the engine. The engine's carburetor is pressurized with clean air from the blower. The blower includes a centrifugal impeller mounted within a fan housing having a set of blades for creating a vacuum to draw air into the housing. The impeller has a second set of relatively low-profile blades underneath the impeller for creating a vacuum under the impeller that draws air in through holes defined through the hub of the impeller. The air drawn through the holes is supplied to the carburetor. A circular screen extends from the axis of the impeller over the holes. Small particles entrained in the air stream entering the housing tend to be carried by the predominant portion of the stream into the housing. The screen is positioned and of a size that the trajectories of more massive particles entering the housing that are not blown into the housing bounce off the screen.

Abstract: Gas purification systems presently use air bleed from an engine and further remove carbon dioxide therefrom. The present gas purification and thermal conditioning system also bleeds from the engine, however; the gas is further partially filtered to remove solids. The gas is heated to a preestablished level having a temperature of between 800 to 1000 degrees Fahrenheit by using a first heat exchanger or recuperator. The system further purifies the gas by using a reactor system including a thermal reactor and a catalytic reactor. The system further purifies the gas by using a polisher and an absorber. After the gas has been purified, the gas is thermally conditioned by a supersonic turbine so that the gas temperature is usable for its intended purpose.

Abstract: An engine air intake screen assembly having a rotating screen is provided. A blade is positioned directly under the screen to scrape accumulated debris off the inside surface of the rotating screen, and to also chop debris flowing through the screen. The screen covers an opening in a blower housing and rotates when the engine is running. In one form, a set screw allows the clearance distance between the blade and the inside surface of the rotating screen to be adjusted.

Abstract: A collection device (10) for gaseous emissions which comprises a collector body (20) having a hollow interior (33) and an inner wall (22) shaped to conform to a portion of the outer periphery of the open top (14) of a material supply container (12). The inner wall is formed with a number of inlet openings (40, 42) communicating with the collector body interior which are spaced from one another in a direction from one end of the collector body to the other. A deflector member or strake (46) is mounted to the inner wall of the collector body in the areas between adjacent inlet openings therein, and lips are mounted at the top (34) and bottom (35) of the collector body which extends outwardly therefrom substantially perpendicular to the inner wall of the collector body.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a portable handheld work apparatus including a motor-driven chain saw, cutoff machine and the like. The work apparatus includes a housing and an internal combustion engine mounted in the housing for driving a work tool. The housing defines a space from which said engine draws combustion air and a fan wheel is disposed in the housing for generating a cooling-air flow which leaves the fan wheel in a direction tangential to the periphery of the fan wheel for cooling the engine. The housing has a U-shaped channel for conducting the cooling-air flow. The U-shaped channel is disposed so as to face toward the fan wheel with the base wall thereof being disposed at a predetermined spacing from the periphery of the fan wheel. The U-shaped channel has a pass-through formed in the base wall at a pregiven spacing downstream from the fan wheel for passing a portion of the cooling-air flow to the space as combustion air for the engine.

Abstract: A compressor unit in which the oil separated by a plurality of oil separators to a gas suction side pipe of the previous stage oil separator which contains gas whose oil concentration is higher than that of the gas from which oil has been separated, with the separated oil being returned to a compressor. The plurality of separators enables a simplification of the arrangement of the oil returning pipe, a prevention in a reduction in the discharge flow rate of the compressor, and reduction in space required for the separators.

Abstract: A hermetic refrigeration compressor is disclosed which includes a baffle member secured to the inner surface of the outer shell in overlying relationship to a suction inlet port. The suction baffle includes a dome shaped portion centrally disposed with respect to the inlet port and provides axially upper and lower openings defined between the baffle member and the inner surface of the outer shell.

Abstract: An air-cooled internal combustion engine having a rotating screen and a blower housing surrounding the screen. A ring is attached to the housing and positioned circumjacent the screen to define a precisely gauged radial clearance gap between the ring and the rotating screen. The ring provides a tortuous entry path for foreign matter entering through the air intake port between the ring and the screen. The ring includes a downwardly extending groove into which extends an upwardly turned lip of the rotating screen to form the tortuous path for foreign matter entering through the clearance gap between the inner periphery of the ring and the outer periphery of the main portion of the screen. Large debris and foreign matter entering through the tortuous path is chopped up into small pieces, which may then pass through the cooling fins.

Abstract: A filtering device for removing liquid particles from air streams of air compressors comprising a housing with an open side of which the interior is partitioned into three successive compartments, a lid which seals the housing, two filter layers which are constituted by a perforated plate and a filter sheet made of suitable filtration material, and a vane-type impeller which is rotated by the pressurized air from an air compressor to help moving the air through the filter layers. Between any two successive compartments, an air passage is formed with one of the filter layers fixed therein to remove liquid particles, such as water and oil particles. The removed liquid will be stored in reservoirs and then drained off.

Abstract: An engine intake screen assembly is provided. A rotatable screen has a continuous peripheral skirt which telescopes with an upstanding housing ring-like flange so as to create a serpentine entry path for grass and other foreign matter trying to enter at the seam between the screen and the inlet. Entry can be further restricted through the use of a radially outwardly directed ring extension on the screen and/or a guard ring member. These parts can combine to form a trap pocket and/or to increase the serpentine nature of the entry path. In one version, the grass will form its own seal in the trap.

Abstract: Fluid-ring compressor unit having a horizontal shaft and a compressor housing in which, subsequent to the compressor stage, a pressure chamber is made in connection with a pressure connecting piece. The pressure chamber is divided up by a wall, which projects upward at least up to the level of the pressure opening of the compressor stage, into a first area and a second area which are connected to one another above the wall while forming a route for the delivered medium, the second area of which is connected to the pressure connecting piece. The necessity of a separate fluid separator is avoided according to the invention by the pressure chamber being designed as a fluid separator. For this purpose, the route for the delivered medium, in the upper area of the pressure chamber, is equipped with a plurality of deflection portions and/or baffle surfaces which also block off the pressure connecting piece arranged at the top from the pressure opening.

Abstract: A dry sump lubrication system for an internal combustion engine which includes a cam housing, a crankcase and an oil sump therein. The lubrication system includes an oil tank, a conduit connecting the oil tank to the engine and an oil pump for pumping oil from the sump. The pump may include a plurality of pumping stages. An air separator is directly connected to the pump to remove air from the oil. Oil is conducted from the air separator to the oil tank. Separated air is conducted from the air separator to a canister which is vented to the atmosphere. Oil particles will be condensed out of the air in the canister and will be conducted back to the engine through a conduit which is connected to the engine housing, which conduit includes a restrictor whereby engine pressure will not be equalized with the atmospheric pressure in the canister. A pressure relief is also provided for the oil tank by means of a one way check valve which connects the oil tank to the canister.

Abstract: A refrigeration compressor is provided with a combined sound dampening and centrifugal liquid separator chamber.

Abstract: A scroll type fluid displacement apparatus including a housing divided into a discharge chamber and a suction chamber is disclosed. A fixed scroll member is disposed within the housing and comprises a first end plate and a first wrap which extends from one end surface of the first end plate. The discharge chamber is formed adjacent the fixed scroll member on the side of the first end plate opposite the side thereof from which the first wrap extends. An annular shaped dividing wall is formed at the end surface of the first end plate and extends into the interior of the discharge chamber. The discharge chamber is partitioned into two chambers by the dividing wall. At least one hole is formed through the dividing wall to connect the two chambers of the discharge chamber. The dividing wall is provided with a deflecting member for bending the fluid flow of the discharging fluid. At least one oil separating member is disposed in a fluid passageway upstream of a fluid outlet port from the housing.

Abstract: An air compressor wherein oil mist lubricates a rotor stator in the compressor casing whereby an oil mist is produced in the compressed air provided with primary and secondary oil removal sections. The primary and secondary oil removal sections are connected by an oil separation manifold. The manifold and the secondary oil removal section are in a housing detachable from the main compressor housing. The main and detachable housings communicate with a tube which has apertures in its side wall at its inlet end which end communicates with the interior of the main housing and apertures in its side wall at its outlet end which end communicates with the manifold.

Abstract: An oil separator connected to a machine operating with pulsating compressed air for separating an oil mist which is otherwise expelled together with the air and is let out in the ambient atmosphere when the compressed air is drained from the machine, the oil separator consists essentially of a tube or hose open at each end and connected at one end to the air outlet of the machine operating with compressed air, a tubular scraper sleeve (3) coaxially mounted in said tube through the other end and spaced radially therefrom, said tubular scraper sleeve extending substantially inside said tube or hose and some distance outside said tube or hose thereby forming an annular space between the overlapping portions of said sleeve and said tube or hose thereby providing free flow areas in said tube or hose, said sleeve and the annular space between the tube or hose and the sleeve, said annular space being provided with a plurality of channels surrounding said scraper sleeve and opened at each end so as to permit free flo

Abstract: An air purifier which includes an air intake with electrically charged plates for ionizing particles of smoke, dust, and impurities entrained in the air, a fan or other air-moving device to move the polluted air through the intake and over the ionizing plates and to discharge the air against a collector which is spaced from the charged plates and is electrically grounded and upon which the ionized pollutants will deposit, and an air outlet through which the purified air can be discharged, leaving the pollutants behind on the collector element.

Abstract: A vacuum system includes a vacuum pump, means to provide a flow of lubricant oil to the vacuum pump, and an oil reclaimer and muffler assembly to remove oil that becomes entrained in the gas stream leaving the pump and to permit such oil to be resupplied to the means providing the flow of lubricant to the pump. The oil reclaimer and muffler assembly includes an outer casing having an inlet for the gas stream from the vacuum pump. Wall means are provided within the outer casing to form a passageway to circulate the gas stream adjacent the inner wall of the casing. Entrained oil and water from the gas pump are collected on the inner walls of the assembly and flow under the influence of gravity to a collection pipe at one end of the assembly. The inner wall means also forms a passageway from adjacent the bottom of the assembly to its top from which the cleaned gas passes.

Abstract: An air cleaner especially for use on small single cylinder internal combustion engines has a substantially annular air filter element of the dry paper type, removably mounted in a housing to divide the same into inner and outer compartments, the latter having an outlet for cleaned air that is connectable with the air intake port of the engine carburetor. An inlet passage for air to be cleaned which leads to the inner compartment, is so constructed that air flowing therethrough must undergo an abrupt change in direction in order to reach the inner compartment, and has an outlet so located that solid contaminants entrained in the air flowing to the inner compartment, by virtue of the tendency thereof to continue moving in the direction they were, leave the inlet passage through that outlet and hence are separated from the air before it enters the inner compartment.

Abstract: A process and apparatus is disclosed for the removal of pollutant material including solid or liquid particulate matter and gaseous pollutants from gas streams in which the gas is driven through a mixing tube by forming a jet of a compressible fluid such as steam or air or the whole or a part of the polluted gas itself. In some instances the jet acts as an ejector to induce flow of the polluted gas into the mixing tube but when all of the polluted gas is formed into a jet it is directed into the mixing tube without any ejector action. A mechanically atomized liquid is introduced into the outer region of the jet of compressible fluid emerging from the nozzle in which the jet is formed. The mechanically atomized liquid is further atomized by the shearing action of the jet to form high velocity droplets which are intimately and turbulently mixed with the pollutant-containing gas and retained in the mixing tube for a sufficient time so that the pollutants become entrained with the water droplets.

Abstract: A droplet separator for removing liquid droplets from a gas stream entraining same, comprises a stack of corrugated plates having a given crest-to-crest spacing which can be represented as a wavelength .lambda. and collecting pockets at each crest having inlet slots opening into the oncoming gas stream. Each plate consists of a plurality of plate members whose length, measured parallel to the wavelength measurement, is greater by the distance of the overlap of these plate members at each crest than n .lambda./2 where n is 1/2 or 1.

Abstract: The specification discloses a hot-water extraction unit of the type commonly referred to as a "steam cleaner". The vacuum tank of the unit is vertically divided into substantially separate first, second, third, and fourth volumes by a deflector divider. The vacuum wand communicates with the first volume, the first volume communicates with the second volume by an aperture at the bottom of the deflector divider, the second volume communicates with the third volume by an aperture at the bottom of the deflector divider, the third volume communicates with the fourth volume by an aperture in the deflector divider, and the riser pipe is located in the fourth volume.

Abstract: An improved multistage particle separator apparatus including a cyclone separator, a linear separator, a pair of vertical channels carrying exit airstreams from said linear separator, and a pair of air filter chambers on each side of said linear separator. A portable multistage separator including integral means for collecting the separated particulate material and for supporting the separator during movement.

Abstract: A pollution control device having a tank provided with an inlet and an outlet arranged for passing a gaseous medium to be cleaned into the tank and through a bath of washing solution held in the tank. A blower unit, mounted outside of the tank, forces the gaseous medium through the bath. A line connecting the blower unit to the bath passes a quantity of washing solution through the blower unit for cooling the unit. Baffles are arranged partially immersed in the bath in the tank for creating a large surface across the gaseous flow and facilitating separation of particulate matter from the medium being cleaned. The baffles are advantageously in the form of a plurality of cylinders each constructed from a mesh material and tiered in one or more substantially vertical channels arranged within the tank.

Abstract: A gaseous or liquid fluid to be centrifuged, for the purpose of purification or of separation of different phases, is conducted at high speed in a curved channel past a vortex chamber formed in one of the channel walls at the concave side thereof, this chamber being partly separated from the main fluid path by an overhanging sharp upstream edge and by a possibly rounded downstream edge which extend over the full width of the channel. A body of fluid whirling in this chamber develops a cylindrical core free from entrained solids, or from an accompanying heavier phase, which can be axially extracted from the chamber while the remaining fluid continues its flow through a reduced channel portion which may also be curved and provided with another vortex chamber to repeat the process. Entrained particles may be removed from the solid-enriched residual flow by way of end apertures along the periphery of the vortex chamber and/or at the convex side of the curved channel.