Abstract: A spray nozzle, which in some embodiments has a body and a deflector, the body having a fluid passageway and an outer wall including a plurality of fluid-flow orifices therethrough in fluid communication with the fluid passageway and spaced at least partly circumferentially around the outer wall, where the deflector is disposed at least partly circumferentially about and radially outwardly of the body in fluid communication with the plurality of fluid-flow orifices, and the body includes slots and fingers spaced at least partly circumferentially about the deflector. Some embodiments include a second deflector. In some embodiments, each finger and slot has a configuration that defines, at least in part, a flow trajectory, and the flow trajectory defined, at least in part, by one finger or slot is different from the flow trajectory defined by another finger or slot.

Abstract: A sprinkler includes a housing having a tubular axle, a control device including a base coupled at the housing, a bridge upwardly extended from the tubular axle, a first cover including a top platform and an assembling unit downwardly extended from the top platform, and a second cover, having a center through hole, coupled at a top rim of the base. The bridge has two or more bridge ribs and the assembly unit has two or more corresponding windows. The first cover is coupled at the second cover at a position that the assembling unit is downwardly extended through the center through hole until the in center through hole is covered by the top platform, such that the bridge ribs of the bridge are engaged with the windows of the assembling unit of the first cover to securely couple the control device with the housing in a screw-less manner.

Abstract: A revolvingly spraying device includes a sheath tube and a revolvingly spraying tube. The revolvingly spraying tube includes a transmitting tube and a curved tube connected with the transmitting tube. The transmitting tube is inserted within the sheath tube. A front bearing is provided in one end, near the curved tube, of the transmitting tube, and a rear bearing is provided in the other end of the transmitting tube. The revolvingly spraying tube has a front position limiting portion radially protruding therefrom to retain the front side of the front bearing, and a rear position limiting portion radially protruding therefrom to retain the rear side of the rear bearing. Thus, the revolvingly spraying device has fewer component parts and is convenient for assembly.

Abstract: A spray head for a powdered power washer designed to produce a wide diameter spray of water under both high and low water pressure conditions. The washer head includes a spinner tube mounted inside a cylindrical-shaped nozzle body. The upper segment of the spinner tube is held inside the nozzle body by a fixed cassette assembly. A middle and lower segments of the spinner tube extend below and are bent outward and axially offset from the upper segment and from each other. Mounted inside and over the upper end opening of the nozzle tube is an adapter with a threaded cavity formed on one end. The adapter includes a water orifice that delivers water from the handle or wand to the spinner tube. A flat washer with a narrow water orifice is used to deliver a narrow, high velocity stream of water to the spinner tube.

Abstract: An impingement sprinkler with adjustable outflow angle has a sprinkler main body, an impingement rotation guiding frame, a water source connecting portion and an adjustment rotating member, so that the main body can be rotated through the adjustment rotating member to adjust the water outflow angle. The adjustment rotating member has a vertical water flow guiding portion provided on top of the water source connecting portion. A rotating pivot joint portion is provided on one side of the vertical water flow guiding portion. A water outlet is opened on the outside of the rotating pivot joint portion. A rotation sleeving portion is provided on the coupling portion of the main body and can sleeve the rotating pivot joint portion. Inside the rotation sleeving portion, a water outflow pass is configured and is connected with the sprinkler main body head on one side of the main body.

Abstract: A rotating distributor for use in a rotary type sprinkler is conically shaped and includes a plurality of water channels provided on a bottom surface thereof to guide water from a center axis of the distributor radially outward to an outer circumference of the distributor. The grooves are provided to collect and guide the water with a minimum of spray and turbulence and to impart rotation on the distributor. The depth of the grooves may be used to control flow and range as desired. An elevation control ring may be provided to vary the elevation angle of water leaving the grooves to control range. A kick angle control element may be provided to modify a kick angle at an outer circumferential end of selected grooves to provide speed control, if desired.

Abstract: Providing a flush bowl capable of discharging a planar shower-like water discharge flow in a wide range while changing the water discharge trajectory is directed. The shower device according to an embodiment of the invention is a shower device including: a water discharger including a plurality of water discharge ports; a rotator including a channel at its center; a coupling section coupling the inside of the water discharger to the channel of the rotator; a receiving section receiving the rotator; a driving mechanism configured to rotate and revolve the rotator in the receiving section; and a decelerating section provided inside the water discharger.

Abstract: A propfan engine has a power-producing core, a plurality of nozzles for exhausting exhaust gas from the core, and a row of propeller blades rotatable about an axis. The blades are positioned downstream of the exhaust nozzles. The exhaust nozzles are rotatable about said axis. The nozzles can be aligned with the gaps between successive propeller blades in order to reduce noise during operation of the engine.

Abstract: Provided is a sprinkler configured for irrigation of a predetermined area, the sprinkler including a sprinkler body having a central axis. The body is formed with an irrigation inlet configured for receiving irrigation fluid, and a nozzle configured for discharging therethrough a directional jet of the irrigation fluid. The sprinkler further includes a reciprocal element configured for performing a reciprocal rotary motion about the central axis, and a deflecting member including an attachment mechanism for fixed attachment thereof to the reciprocal element. The deflecting member is formed with at least a first deflective surface, and is configured for performing a reciprocal rotary motion about the central axis together with the reciprocal element.

Abstract: A water passage for embedded rotary sprinkler includes upper and lower tubes and upper and lower covers so as to form first and second independent chambers, integral water path, and upper and lower independent chambers. The first and lower independent chambers has clockwise and counterclockwise water paths. An outer ring water path connecting the first independent chamber is formed to the lower tube. A transmission gear is arranged inside the second independent chamber. A driving shaft having an upward open is arranged between the second and the lower independent chambers. An upper end of the driving shaft is connected by a nozzle, and a plurality of lateral hole is formed to a middle of the driving shaft in the upper independent chamber. A lower end of the driving shaft having a gear engaging the transmission gear is inside the second independent chamber.

Abstract: A rotary sprinkler including a body member (A) having a water inlet nozzle (4) with a top end and a bottom end, a pressurized water connector (8) communicating with the bottom end of the water inlet nozzle, a ring (14) attached in spaced-apart relationship from the top end of the nozzle, and a rotor member (B) having at one end an opening (30) for receiving water from the inlet nozzle and directing it to a water distributing groove, and at its opposite end, an axle (36). The rotary sprinkler also includes a rotor axle seat member (c) engageable and disengageable with the rotor's axle and with the ring facilitating, upon disengagement of the seat member from the ring, axial retrieval of the rotor member through the ring.

Abstract: A rotating deflector for use with a rotary sprinkler in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a conical body, a plurality of channels formed on a bottom surface of the conical body and extending from a center of the conical body outward toward an outer edge of the conical body, and a deflector ring rotatably mounted on the conical body such that the deflector ring rotates from a first position in which the deflector ring provides additional rotational force for rotation of the deflector and a second position in which the deflector ring provides substantially no rotational force for rotation of the deflector.

Abstract: A sprinkler nozzle includes a nozzle plate having at least one orifice formed therein. A stream deflector is rotatably mounted adjacent the nozzle plate and has a plurality of flutes formed therein that face the nozzle plate. Each flute has an inner portion that can momentarily align with water flowing through the orifice in the nozzle plate during rotation of the stream deflector relative to the nozzle plate. Water flowing through the orifice will be channeled in a generally radial direction by the flute to form a stream of water that is ejected from the stream deflector. The flutes have a plurality of different tangential trajectories relative to the orifice in the nozzle plate so that in combination the streams of water successively ejected from the stream deflector establish a predetermined shape of coverage.

Abstract: An energy efficient water sprinkler has a housing with primary and secondary water chambers each with a turning wheel for translating the force of impacting water to rotational motion of a central shaft journal. Water is forced through a central channel in the rotating shaft and discharged from the housing. A portion of the discharged water is directed to deflection fins on the outer surface of the housing to further impart rotational or energy to the rotating shaft.

Abstract: A shower head designed to produce a consistent, wide diameter spray of water under both high and low water pressure conditions. The shower head includes a spinner tube mounted inside a cylindrical-shaped nozzle body. The upper segment of the spinner tube is held in a central location inside the nozzle body by a fixed cassette assembly. The middle and lower segments of the spinner tube extend below the cassette assembly and are bent outward and axially offset from the upper segment and from each other so that the spinner tube is able to spin freely inside the nozzle body. Mounted inside and over the upper end opening of the nozzle tube is an adapter with a longitudinally aligned threaded cavity formed on one end. The adapter includes a water orifice that delivers water from the shower head fixture tube to to the spinner tube. Disposed between the adapter and the upper end of the spinner tube is a flat washer with a narrow water orifice that delivers a narrow, high velocity stream of water to the spinner tube.

Abstract: An energy efficient water sprinkler has a housing with primary and secondary water chambers each with a turning wheel for translating the force of impacting water to rotational motion of a central shaft journal. Water is forced through a central channel in the rotating shaft and discharged from the housing. A portion of the discharged water is directed to deflection fins on the outer surface of the housing to further impart rotational or energy to the rotating shaft.

Abstract: A paint sprayer gun includes a gun body set, an air-floating member set, which includes a tubular shaft suspending inside the gun body set, a sleeve fixedly mounted inside the gun body set around the tubular shaft and having through holes for guiding in compressed air to float the tubular shaft, and a driving wheel connected to the tubular shaft and rotatable with the tubular shaft upon compressed air, and a feeder, which is inserted through the tubular shaft for guiding paint fluid to a nozzle head at the front side of the gun body set for spraying over the workpiece and has a stop ring with an through hole fixedly fastened to the periphery thereof and stopped outside the gun body set for guiding in compressed air to the space within the tubular shaft outside the feeder to accelerate spraying of paint fluid.

Abstract: A sprinkler device includes a sprinkler body having a longitudinal center axis, an inlet at one end and an outlet at an opposite end. A rotatable nozzle is supported within the body and defines a first flow path lying on the longitudinal center axis and a second flow path terminating at a discharge orifice offset from the longitudinal center axis. A rotor plate is supported on the nozzle for orbital motion about the longitudinal center axis and for rotation about a second axis offset from the longitudinal center axis. The rotor plate has a plurality of grooves formed therein, and arranged to cause the rotor plate to rotate about the second axis when a stream emitted from the nozzle impinges on the plate, such that the nozzle assembly is caused to rotate about the first axis.

Abstract: A sprinkler head includes a base; an elongated stem having an inlet supported within the base; a nozzle and a stream deflector supported within the stem, the nozzle and stream deflector cooperating to define an arcuate orifice; a water distribution plate supported on one end of a shaft extending upwardly from the base, the water distribution plate located in axially spaced relationship to the nozzle and adapted to be impinged by a stream emitted from the nozzle. An externally threaded sleeve is fixed to an opposite end of the shaft; and an elastomeric throttle control member constructed with a smooth through-bore is engaged over the externally threaded sleeve to self-tap along the previously smooth bore. The throttle member is prevented from rotating such that rotation of the shaft causes the throttle control member to move axially relative to a flow restriction portion in the inlet, to thereby adjust flow rate through the stem and the nozzle.

Abstract: A rotary sprinkler having a rotatable nozzle assembly for watering an arc of ground traversed or swept by the nozzle assembly as the nozzle assembly rotates is disclosed. Oscillating rotation is achieved via a drive train that includes a trip spring that is drivable between first and second positions for reversing the direction of nozzle rotation. The sprinkler also includes: a variable trajectory nozzle; secondary opening adjacent the variable trajectory nozzle; an automatic break up screw configuration; a substantially constant speed turbine assembly; a bypass stator; a reversing cluster gear planetary drive with a uni-directional turbine; an overcenter reversing mechanism; a nozzle base clutch; an adjustable arc mechanism, solid arc limit stops, a snap ring installation method and an adjustable pilot valve which uses visual indicia.

Abstract: A feed system for a rotary coating atomizer formed from two opposed coaxially mounted rotating atomizer assemblies consists of a cylindrical, hollow distributor mounted coaxially between the atomizer assemblies. The distributor contains one or more distributor feed holes formed in each opposing side in proximity to the adjacent atomizer assembly. A hollow axle passes coaxially through the distributor and the atomizer assemblies, and contains one or more axle feed holes beneath each distributor, so that when the coating is fed through the hollow axle it enters the distributor through the axle feed holes and exits the distributor through the distributor feed holes onto the atomizer assemblies.

Abstract: A rotary sprinkler (10) including a water inlet, a water outlet arranged for rotation about a rotation axis (14), a water director associated with the water outlet and a watering pattern determiner associated with at least one of the water outlets and the water director. The sprinkler (10) operates to cause the sprinkler (10) to have a substantially non-repeated watering pattern extending over more than 360 degrees about the rotation axis. The watering pattern is asymmetric with respect to the rotation axis (14) and is rotated for each successive rotation of the water outlet about the rotation axis (14) with respect to the watering pattern of the preceding rotation by a predetermined amount, whereby the successive rotations increase the angular uniformity of watering about the rotation axis.

Abstract: A sprinkler head includes a base adapted to be secured to a component supplying water under pressure; an arc adjustment ring rotatably mounted on the base; a nozzle and a stream deflector supported by an elongated stem carried by the base, the nozzle and the stream deflector cooperating to define an adjustable nozzle orifice; a water distribution plate secured to a shaft in the stem and located downstream of the nozzle; the stem and the nozzle axially movable relative to the base; and a drive train operatively connected between the arc adjustment ring and the nozzle to rotate the nozzle relative to the stream deflector to thereby adjust the nozzle orifice between a pair of limit positions. The stem is rotatable within the base upon over-rotation of the arc adjustment ring beyond either of the pair of limit positions.

Abstract: A sprinkler head includes a base adapted to be secured to a component supplying water under pressure; an arc adjustment ring rotatably mounted on the base; a nozzle and a stream deflector supported by an elongated stem carried by the base, the nozzle and the stream deflector cooperating to define an adjustable nozzle orifice; a water distribution plate secured to a shaft in the stem and located downstream of the nozzle; the stem and the nozzle axially movable relative to the base; and a drive train operatively connected between the arc adjustment ring and the nozzle to rotate the nozzle relative to the stream deflector to thereby adjust the nozzle orifice between a pair of limit positions. The stem is rotatable within the base upon over-rotation of the arc adjustment ring beyond either of the pair of limit positions.

Abstract: The specification discloses embodiments of a process and related apparatus for conditioning a fibrous web in order to improve the efficiency of drying and calendering thereof. In the process, a moving fibrous web is conditioned after the drier unit of a papermaking machine by applying a flow of moistened gas through one or more arrays of radial jet reattachment nozzles placed in close proximity to the web surface prior to a calendering unit or prior to a steaming unit placed between the nozzles and the calender unit to cool the web and/or increase its moisture content. Webs treated according to the invention exhibit improved properties including less moisture streaking, enhanced smoothness and avoidance of optical property loss.

Abstract: Droplets are formed from a liquid by supplying liquid to a feeding rotor and rotating the feeding rotor about an axis to discharge the liquid generally radially outwardly by centrifugal force. A distributor disposed radially outside of the feeding rotor is rotated relative to the feeding rotor about the axis to receive liquid discharged from the feeding rotor. A slinger disposed radially outside of the distributor is rotated relative to the distributor about the axis to receive liquid discharged from the distributor by centrifugal force. The slinger slings that received liquid is slung outwardly in the form of droplets from cusps distributed circumferentially around an outer periphery of the slinger.

Abstract: A fountain device with a rotating revolver consists of a reservoir, a water supply system, at least one bearing system, and at least one revolver. The water supply system is secured in the reservoir and pumps water to rotate the revolver and to spurt the water from a top of the revolver. The mounted revolver(s) are rotated by hydraulic power, and can selectively rotate the demanded revolver by setting a bifurcating box and the bearing system between a bottom board of the demanded revolver and a revolver below the demanded layer. The structure of this invention enables it to be used indoors, outdoors, or even on a table.