Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing from two different liquid input streams which are at different temperatures, a single output stream with a selectable, low-thermal-noise, regulated temperature which is intermediate the input streams' temperatures. The invention operates with successive, recurrent, fixed-length operating cycles, during each of which a variable-length pulse of liquid from each stream, exclusively, is permitted to flow. Temperature monitoring of the resulting blended output stream effects continuous adjustment of the respective pulse-lengths (or duty cycles) of such alternate differing-temperature pulses to maintain the desired regulated temperature.

Abstract: An anti-hammer device for use in a two-line liquid-mixing system, where liquids from the two lines are pulse-blended and merged into a single output stream. The device includes a housing divided by a flexible diaphragm into two liquid-receiving plenums, each of which communicates with a different one of the two lines.