Abstract: A quick reacting air spreader apparatus for transporting particulate solids includes an improved vertical auger assembly disposed within a cylindrical auger housing. The auger assembly includes a substantially continuous auger flighting rotatably coupled to a circular shaft and further includes at least one baffle assembly pivotally coupled to either a bottom surface of the flighting or to the circular shaft at predetermined locations selected to provide a desired or required loading on the vertical auger. Upward vertical movement of the particulate solids through the vertical auger open baffle assembly baffles and downward vertical movement of the particulate solids through the vertical auger close baffle assembly baffles thereby blocking further downward vertical movement of any particulate solids remaining above the baffle assemblies.

Abstract: A spray painting nozzle designed as a spindle supporting a gas bearing and incorporating a stationary part and a part rotatably supported in relation thereto, which latter carries a rotatable spray painting cup and being adapted to be driven by a drive unit, whereby the spray painting cup is equipped with a supporting system comprising mutually plane-parallel bearing surfaces formed in the stationary and in the rotatable parts, and with a supply of a gaseous medium for causing a slot generated as an axial gas bearing therebetween, the rotatable part being radially guided by a magnetic force for centering the rotatable part in relation to the stationary part, the supporting system further being equipped with symmetrically provided holder magnets for limitation of the size of the slot, and where for supply of spray medium to the spray painting cup, there is provided a supply path extending through the plane of the gas bearing.

Abstract: A tube nozzle having a thermal insulative barrier in it to prevent thermal fatigue cracks due to thermal transients in tube nozzles for all kinds of pipe joints that carry fluids with temperatures that change rapidly. This is particularly useful in mixing tees, where two different temperature fluids meet. The use of this invention could increase safety and reliability of processing streams in processing plants involving fluids maintained at various constant or fluctuating temperatures.

Abstract: A fluid dispenser for simultaneously dispensing disparate fluids separately stored in separate fluid compartments of a container includes a single pump cylinder defining together with a dual seal piston a pair of in-line pump chambers for separately and simultaneously pumping the disparate fluids along separate discharge paths.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve is provided which produces good atomization of fuel and increases the accuracy of the distribution rate of the fuel to a pair of diverging injection holes, even when the amount of assist air is decreased. The fuel injection valve includes a valve housing having a pair of diverging injection holes which diverge from each other in the forward direction with respect to a junction disposed in front of a fuel injection hole. The valve housing is provided with air supply passages for supplying assist air to a fuel flow injected from the fuel injection hole. A pintle inserted through the fuel injection hole has a tip end portion reduced in diameter in the forward direction and is coaxially connected to a valve member. The diameter D of the fuel injection hole, the width W of the junction in a plane intersecting axes of the diverging injection holes and the distance L from the fuel injection hole to the junction are determined to satisfy relations, 0.04<W/D<0.4 and 0.5<L/D<10.

Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle has a valve member engageable with a seating to prevent fuel flow through an outlet orifice. The valve member is engaged by the narrower end of a stepped piston member the surface of which remote from the valve member is subjected to fuel under pressure to bias the valve member into engagement with the seating. A tubular valve element the interior of which is connected to a drain, is engageable with the surface but can be moved away from the surface to lower the pressure applied to the surface. The valve member lifts away from the seating when the pressure applied to the surface is reduced by fuel pressure acting on a further surface defined on the valve member. The valve element is connected to the armature of a solenoid.

Abstract: An arrangement for cooling rolled strips, particularly for laminar cooling when rolling aluminum strips, includes cooling segments whose outer sides are closed with a cover, wherein each cooling segment has a media gap extending over the entire length of the cooling segment, and wherein several cooling segments can be arranged next to each other in such a way that a media gap is obtained which extends without interruption from cooling segment to cooling segment.

Abstract: A standard jerk type fuel injector can be converted to an accumulator type fuel injector by modifying internal flow configurations of the injector from ones which lead to injection whenever fluid pressure in a fuel supply passage thereof exceeds a first designated level to ones which present an accumulator and a control cavity and which lead (1) to injector charging when the fluid pressure in the supply passage exceeds a second designated level and (2) to initiation of injection only upon subsequent pressure decay in the supply passage below a third designated level. The conversion can advantageously be performed by replacing a first spacer having a first set of flow configurations with a second spacer having a second set of flow configurations including a non-return element. The resulting injector has (1) an accumulator volume located fluidically downstream of the non-return element and (2) a control cavity above the nozzle needle.

Abstract: An improved spray head for a nozzle for atomizing a liquid with a gas has an open inner end to receive the gas and liquid, a cylindrical medial portion defining a mixing chamber for creating a liquid-gas mixture, and an outer end wall that has a plurality of orifices arranged in a spaced circular orientation about the longitudinal axis of the mixing chamber. Each orifice defines a flow axis which is directed toward a linear target located a predetermined distance from the spray head for atomizing and directing a respective portion of the liquid-gas mixture onto the linear target in an approximately planar, flat fan spray pattern. A liquid atomizer is coupled in fluid communication between an inlet conduit for the liquid and the mixing chamber for atomizing the liquid discharged into the mixing chamber and creating the liquid-gas mixture.

Abstract: A nozzle suitable for use with a device for removal of deposits from contaminated surfaces, such as a sootblower in a heat recovery boiler, is designed to avoid normal shock wave formation, and hence energy dissipation, by achieving a condition whereby, the emergent steam pressure (p.sub.e) is related to the ambient pressure (p.sub.oo) by the relationship p.sub.e /p.sub.oo <about 2, preferably about 1. A compact design achieving this result and able to function over a wide range of flow rates comprises a cylindrical body with a downstream convergent outlet and a rounded-head conical insert located axially in the body with its maximum dimension generally coinciding with the commencement of convergence of the outlet and extending through the outlet.

Abstract: A combination lawn feeder and sprinkler device includes a fluid container formed in a generally cylindrical configuration. The fluid container functions to hold water soluble fertilizer. The fluid container includes a cover with an aperture extending therethrough which is releasably coupled to the container. The apparatus also includes a propeller having a central shaft and a plurality of blades extending therefrom. The propeller functions to evenly distribute the water and fertilizer on a lawn. The shaft and blades have hollow interiors. The shaft is coupled within the aperture in the cover. The central shaft permits the flow of fluid from the container to the blades in the operative orientation. The free ends of each blade having an aperture to permit the dispersion of fluid through it. The shaft also includes a radially positioned hole. An associated water control device is also a feature of the apparatus. The water control device has two free ends. A first free end is positioned in the hole in the shaft.

Abstract: The construction of a nozzle head for a trigger sprayer apparatus and the constructions of several variant embodiments of fluid spinners that are assembled into the nozzle head facilitate the assembly of the spinners into the nozzle head with fluid swirl chambers of the spinners centered relative to a fluid discharge orifice of the nozzle head. The swirl chamber of each spinner assembly is surrounded by an annular wall and the end face of the annular wall engages against a flat orifice wall surrounding the sprayer discharge orifice thereby sealing the swirl chamber around the orifice. Tangential grooves through the annular wall provide the only path of fluid flow into the swirl chamber.

Abstract: A dispensing device which includes a container for liquid to be dispensed, an outlet nozzle including a device to break-up a flow of liquid under pressure into a spray, a piston for forcing liquid out of the container under pressure and through the nozzle, and a drive device for moving the piston a predetermined distance to dispense a predetermined quantity of liquid from the container. The drive device includes a dose selector for selecting the predetermined amount of liquid and a plunger for moving the piston, movement of the dose selector determining subsequent movement of the plunger. The device is particularly suited to nasal administration of liquid.

Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle has a valve member engageable with a seating to prevent fuel flow through an outlet orifice. The valve member is engaged by the narrower end of a stepped piston member the surface of which remote from the valve member is subjected to fuel under pressure to bias the valve member into engagement with the seating. A tubular valve element the interior of which is connected to a drain, is engageable with the surface but can be moved away from the surface to lower the pressure applied to the surface. The valve member lifts away from the seating when the pressure applied to the surface is reduced by fuel pressure acting on a further surface defined on the valve member. The valve element is connected to the armature of a solenoid.

Abstract: A gas detonation sprayer includes a barrel with a three-part combustion chamber and a gas distributor which is fluidly coupled to the first part of the combustion chamber. The gas distributor includes passages through which fuel gas and oxygen pass and are mixed. The first part of the combustion chamber is annular and includes a spark plug. The second part is cylindrical and has a plurality of peripheral channels which fluidly communicate with the first part. The third part is cylindrical and is fluidly coupled to the second part, and to the proximal end of the main barrel. The combustion chamber and the main barrel are housed in a casing which includes water cooling passages. A powder feeding tube passes axially through the first and second parts of the combustion chamber and terminates inside the third part. A first embodiment of the gas distributor includes two narrow annular passageways which are fluidly coupled to each other by an axial opening and to an axial outlet.

Abstract: A drinking fountain having a spout, a human actuatable valve for controlling the flow of water from the spout, a basin for collecting the water and a drain pipe. An audio system includes a speaker wherein the speaker is mounted to the drain pipe in such a manner as to direct soundwaves into the drain pipe. The audio system is responsive to actuation of the valves such that it plays an audible sound from the speaker in response to the actuation. The audio system may include a sequential sound source having a plurality of sound clips that are playable in response to respective actuations of the valve.

Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle with integral solenoid valve for internal combustion engines, with an injection nozzle body having a nozzle needle movably disposed therein and being spring-biased to a normally closed position comprises a multipart solenoid valve housing including a first housing part receiving an annular magnetic coil and a second housing part disposed between the first housing part and the fuel nozzle body and having a disc-shaped magnetic armature mounted on an armature shaft movably supported therein, wherein the armature shaft is slightly shorter than the second housing part and has valve seating surfaces at its opposite ends for closing, in its upper end position, an opening of a pressurized fuel passage in the first housing part and, in its lower end position, an opening of a pressure relief channel in the nozzle body, the openings being formed in the planar faces of the first housing part and the nozzle body between which the second housing part, which includes the armature shaft, is sandwiche

Abstract: An ultrasonic spray coating system includes a converter which converts high frequency electrical energy into high frequency mechanical energy thereby producing vibrations. The converter has a resonant frequency. A spray head is coupled to the converter and is resonant at the resonant frequency of the converter. The spray head has an atomizing surface and a feed blade to the atomizing surface and concentrates the vibrations of the converter at the atomizing surface. A source of high frequency alternating voltage is electrically connected to the converter and produces a controlled level of electrical energy at the resonant frequency of the spray head and converter whereby the atomizing surface is vibrated ultrasonically. A fluid supply applicator is in close proximity with the feed blade to the atomizing surface and spaced therefrom.

Abstract: The present invention is an air operated fluid handling apparatus for cleaning lithographic presses. It provides a printing press operator with a device for both dispensing ink solvents and removing spent fluids used in the printing process. Compressed air is regulated and directed to a T-section connector. One conduit extends from the connector to provide pressure in an ink-solvent container. Another conduit extends from the connector to a venturi which is used to create a vacuum in a used-fluid container. A conduit extends from each container and connects to a light weight flexible hose. Connected to the opposite end of the flexible hose is a valve and nozzle assembly that allows the press operator to alternate between dispensing ink solvent and remove spent fluid. With this apparatus the press operator can effectively move from printing head to printing head dispensing ink solvent and removing used fluids as necessary for ink train and dampening system cleanup.

Abstract: A device has a jet divider with a convex divider surface facing the perforated spray disc. The convex jet divider acts as a flow resistance, thereby causing stagnation region flow. The stagnation-region flow is responsible for the fact that, despite the gas containing, separation of the jets is maintained even downstream of the jet divider (86) and for the good preparation effect of the gas containing by virtue of improved mixing of the gas and fuel. The device for injecting a fuel/gas mixture is suitable particularly for injection into the intake pipe of a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine having externally supplied ignition.