Liquid Inlet Port To Submerged Gas Tube Patents (Class 239/339)
  • Patent number: 8740111
    Abstract: A sprayer for spraying a fluid can include a sprayer body, a trigger assembly, a flow adjustment mechanism and a fluid reservoir. The sprayer body can include a handle portion and a nozzle portion, the nozzle portion defining a fluid outlet and including a fluid conduit in communication with the fluid outlet. The trigger assembly can be coupled to the nozzle portion and be configured to open the fluid outlet. The flow adjustment mechanism can be coupled to the trigger assembly and be configured to adjust a flow rate of the sprayer. The fluid reservoir can be coupled to the sprayer body and be in communication with the fluid outlet and fluid conduit. The fluid reservoir can include a cap and first and second necks, the first neck being coupled to the sprayer body and the cap being removably coupled to the second neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Jamie S. Munn, James D. Marshall, Stacey Black, David A. Miller, Steven R. Wiezorek, SuHu Zhou, GenZhang Ye
  • Patent number: 8628029
    Abstract: A sprayer for spraying a fluid can include a sprayer body, a trigger assembly, a flow adjustment mechanism and a fluid reservoir. The sprayer body can include a handle portion and a nozzle portion, the nozzle portion defining a fluid outlet and including a fluid conduit in communication with the fluid outlet. The trigger assembly can be coupled to the nozzle portion and be configured to open the fluid outlet. The flow adjustment mechanism can be coupled to the trigger assembly and be configured to adjust a flow rate of the sprayer. The fluid reservoir can be coupled to the sprayer body and be in communication with the fluid outlet and fluid conduit. The fluid reservoir can include a cap and first and second necks, the first neck being coupled to the sprayer body and the cap being removably coupled to the second neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Jamie S. Munn, James D. Marshall, Stacey Black, David A. Miller, Steven R. Wiezorek, SuHu Zhou, GenZhang Ye
  • Patent number: 8590811
    Abstract: A device enables fluid pumps not specific to producing foam to be modified to be foam pumps by adding several elements to the pumps. The added elements include a supply conduit extending from an inlet of the pump to an elbow below the level of foaming liquid and hence rising above the level of the liquid to terminate in air. The supply conduit has a suction hole through which the liquid is sucked when air circulates in front of the hole. A foam discharge conduit connected to the pump outlet has a filtering grate. The foaming liquid includes water to produce foam without additional water. Additional grates and a removable extension grate are added optionally. Dimensions of the elements and dilution level of the foaming liquid are a function of the nature of the foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Inventor: Francis Poizot
  • Patent number: 8550376
    Abstract: A sprayer for spraying a fluid can include a sprayer body, a fluid reservoir, a trigger assembly, a flow adjustment mechanism and an air horn assembly. The sprayer body can include a nozzle assembly that defines a fluid outlet and includes a needle arranged within a fluid conduit. The fluid reservoir can be coupled to the sprayer body and be in communication with the fluid outlet and fluid conduit. The trigger assembly can be coupled to the nozzle assembly and be configured to move the needle as the trigger assembly is depressed. The flow adjustment mechanism can be configured to adjust a flow rate of the sprayer. The air horn can include at least one air horn projection that limits rotation of the air horn between a first position corresponding to a vertical spray pattern and a second position corresponding to a horizontal spray pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Jamie S. Munn, Steven R. Wiezorek, SuHu Zhou, GenZhang Ye
  • Patent number: 8201757
    Abstract: A flow rate regulator of a unit structure, in which the mechanism keeps constant the amount of injection of the contents in an aerosol container independent of a variation in pressure of gas for content ejection. The flow rate regulator unit has an outer sheath member (15), an inner sheath member (16), piston members (17, 18), a coil spring (25), and an ejection piece (19). The contents are ejected in substantially the following route: “hole (15a)—annular space region (21) for outer path—hole (16a)—annular space region (22) for inner path—holes (17b, 18b)—inside path (18c)—valve action region (20)—penetration section (16d)—groove-like sections (16f, 19a)—ejection hole (19c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Mitani Valve Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masato Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7913933
    Abstract: An oil atomizer apparatus for essential and fragrant oils includes at least one atomizer that engages with a container of essential and fragrant oils, and a body with a generally hollow interior and having a mixer housing associated with one surface of the body. An oil feeder tube extends from the mixer housing and through a surface of the body to the container of essential and fragrant oils. The mixer housing includes a compressed air inlet of a first diameter which is larger than a second diameter of the inlet, which passes to a diffusion chamber in the mixer housing having a passage to the body of the container. The application of compressed air to the inlet of the mixer housing causes the essential and fragrant oils to be dispersed to air in a fine droplet form through at least one aperture in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Air Aroma Research Pty. Limited
    Inventor: John Van Roemburg
  • Patent number: 7861895
    Abstract: A foam pump including a pump housing with a liquid chamber in fluid communication with a foamable liquid filled container and an air chamber in fluid communication with a high pressure air source through an air inlet. The foam pump also includes a dispensing tube having a wiper seal post with a closed distal end positioned within the pump housing, and an outlet tube with an open distal end positioned outside the pump housing. The wiper seal post includes at least one inlet hole in fluid communication with the liquid chamber, and a check valve near the second open end. The foam pump further includes at least one foam screen in the open end of the outlet tube, a wiper seal slidably positioned around the wiper seal post and in sealing contact with the pump housing and the wiper seal post, and a spring bias to bias the wiper seal in an unactuated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: GOJO Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Eugene W. Ray
  • Patent number: 7094135
    Abstract: An abrasivejet cutting head is disclosed that includes a valve assembly for preventing back-flow to the abrasive hopper of abrasive-laden fluid from the cutting head when the discharge path for the abrasivejet becomes clogged or otherwise blocked. The valve assembly is positioned within the abrasive line to conduct abrasive from the hopper towards the abrasivejet nozzle. The valve assembly further includes a discharge path which is sealed off from the abrasivejet nozzle during normal operation in response to the relatively lower pressure in the abrasive jet nozzle that results from the flowing fluid therein. If the jet path is blocked or competed in a manner that causes a backflow of the abrasive-laden slurry therein, the cessation of low pressure permits the backflowing slurry to exit via the discharge path and bypass the hopper, substantially avoiding the downtime previously required to clean the hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: International Waterjet Parts, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Chisum, Stanley Swenson
  • Patent number: 6536685
    Abstract: A foam dispenser utilizes a deformable reservoir, a foamable fluid and air or other gas; a discharge device and an arrangement for producing foam that includes a plurality of mesh screens. When the dispenser is operated, air from inside the dispenser is mixed with the fluid to produce foam. The dispenser employs a shaped and resilient deformable seal for use in quickly recharging the container with air used in the creation of foam. The dispenser also advantageously employs an integrally molded swirl manifold to create a foam of excellent quality and consistency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Alfred Bennett
  • Patent number: 6453671
    Abstract: Service life is improved in a swirler assembly including a primary swirler and a secondary swirler having a venturi formed thereon and being disposed in engagement with the primary swirler. First and second rails are formed on the secondary swirler and are positioned to engage the primary swirler and thereby prevent relative rotation of the primary and secondary swirlers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas A. Leen, Robert B. Walmsley, Hubert S. Robert, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6237815
    Abstract: A dispensing device for pourable, especially powdery material, has a charging chute, a vertical filling pipe adjoining the lower end of the charging chute, and a closing cone arranged at the lower end of the filling pipe. The closing cone is displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the filling pipe by a shaft. The closing cone, in its open position, provides an annular gap at the lower end of the filling pipe. In its closed position, the closing cone rests against an annular face or annular edge at the lower end of the filling pipe. The closing cone, on an upwardly pointing conical face, includes blades with a desired slope. The closing cone is rotatingly drivable to convey material through the annular gap by the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Chronos Richardson GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Schlösser
  • Patent number: 6200387
    Abstract: Invented is a method and system for wet processing substrates (especially for semiconductor wafers and flat panel displays) using nebulized chemicals created and carried by heated chemical gases. Different heated nebulized process chemicals are sequentially pressurized into a process chamber based on various process recipes. The micro nebulized chemicals would penetrate the intricate topologies on the substrates with heated and pressurized energy, and form a process effective thin film on each substrate. The process chamber is made of a material that is well compatible to all process chemicals and gases. It is designed to have the capability of circulating the flow of nebulized chemicals and gases to uniformly treat the inside substrates. The chamber is also designed having minimum open space to save process chemicals and deionized (DI) water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Inventor: Dangsheng P. E. Ni
  • Patent number: 5000624
    Abstract: Fluidized powder in a powder preparation container is treated to impart to it a desired moisture content through the feeding into the fluidized powder of a stream of compressed air whose moisture content and temperature have been carefully regulated. Powder in the preparation container which has attained the desired moisture content is then transferred to a powder holding container and from there to a spraying device by which spraying device the powder is electrostatically charged and sprayed on articles. Further, the powder preparation container is heated along several distinct heating zones which are arranged one above the other along the axis, i.e. height, of the container. The powder in the powder preparation container is stratified with the powder at the bottom of the container being affected only negligibly by the continuous introduction of fresh powder through the top of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Ransburg-Gema AG
    Inventor: Peter Steiger
  • Patent number: 4971669
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the vaporization of volatile active compounds and mixtures of active compounds according to which the active compound or the mixture of active compounds is conveyed from its storage vessel by the use of an electrolytically produced gas stream into the room which is to be supplied with a vaporizing mixture of active compounds, and is there caused to vaporize directly or by the use of inert vaporizers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Haarmann & Reimer GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Wrede, Norbert Rohde
  • Patent number: 4877158
    Abstract: The fluid dispensing apparatus includes a body portion supporting a pump assembly and a valve assembly. A fastening ring has an internal screw-thread for screw-threadedly engaging the neck of a container. A fastening ring retaining member allows the ring to rotate freely with respect to the body portion but also has a central opening for accommodating a fastening member which acts both to lock the member to the body portion and to couple with an outlet duct in the body portion leading to the valve assembly. In addition the member defines a separate passage which provides communication between the pump assembly and the interior of the container. The fastening member has a central opening for receiving a pipe which is arranged to extend to the bottom of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Inventor: Tilmann L. Kohler