Fluid Pressure In Carrier Supply Line Is Vented Patents (Class 239/348)
  • Patent number: 10167641
    Abstract: A handheld sprayer comprises a housing, a turbine, a spray tip, a hopper and a trigger. An air flow passage extends through the housing. The turbine is configured to generate an airflow within the air flow passage. The spray tip is positioned to receive airflow from the air flow passage. The hopper is connected to the housing and is configured to discharge a fluid into the air flow passage. The trigger is mounted to the housing to control discharge of the hopper into the flow passage and airflow form the turbine. In different embodiments, the trigger controls airflow from the turbine to the spray tip or the hopper or both. Additionally, a method for spraying a fluid from a handheld sprayer comprises controlling airflow from a turbine and discharge from a hopper into a passage using a combined actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. Kinne, Bret A. Deneson, Eric J. Finstad, Jeromy D. Horning
  • Patent number: 8820424
    Abstract: A fire fighting nozzle includes a nozzle body with an inlet, an outlet, and a passageway extending from the inlet to the outlet. A stem is located in the passageway about which fluid flows when fluid is flowing through the passageway. And, a projecting body projects outwardly from the nozzle body away from the stem, which at least partially fills the space beyond the nozzle outlet where water exits the nozzle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Elkhart Brass Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Brian Lozier, Donald E. Sjolin
  • Patent number: 7559441
    Abstract: A leakproof perfume spray head structure comprises a spray head, a locking shell, an inner sleeve, a rotation shaft, a water guide pipe, and an outer cover, wherein the spray head has gaps for better communicating the gas with the perfume liquid so as to spray out more uniform perfume mists. When the spray head is opened, but not in use, the spray head can be rotated by a certain angle so as to close the inner spray tunnel of the spray head completely to prevent the perfume liquid from leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Ing Wen Precision Ent. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuan-Wen Yu
  • Patent number: 7389948
    Abstract: An airbrush spraying device particularly adapted for the application of beauty products includes a tubular main body that is attached to a pressurized air supply. A control switch is situated on a top side of the airbrush. The control switch is connected to a mechanism that controls an air valve and a position of a makeup flow control mechanism. The air valve is an on/off mechanism, but the makeup flow control mechanism includes adjusting means so that the flow rate of makeup through the airbrush can be controlled by the user. The makeup is supplied to the airbrush from one of a plurality of makeup collars that are affixed to the main body of the airbrush. In order to enable the user to accurately apply the makeup, a mirror and a standoff marker are affixed to a forward end of the airbrush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Inventor: George Robert Lampman
  • Publication number: 20080128533
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid reservoir for a paint spray gun with a container (1) and a cover (2) that is attachable on this container and has a connection part (3) to enable attaching the fluid reservoir on the paint spray gun or on an adapter, wherein the container (1) has a ventilation opening (6) that can be closed by means of a valve (5). In a fluid reservoir known from the state of the art, the valve is constructed in the form of a sliding valve. Here, there is the risk that the ventilation opening is not completely closed if the slide of the sliding valve has not been pushed completely into the valve housing. In order to provide a fluid reservoir with a valve that can be easily actuated manually and that can be closed reliably, it is provided for the fluid reservoir according to the invention that the valve (5) has a closing element (8) that can pivot like a rocker about a pivot axis (7) for closing the ventilation opening (6) in a fluid-tight way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventor: Ralf GEHRUNG
  • Patent number: 7246755
    Abstract: The present invention is a dispenser adapted to be coupled to a fluid container. The dispenser comprises a dispensing head, an energy source, and a fluid pathway. The dispensing head includes a fluid pump, a motor adapted to power the pump, a trigger adapted to control the motor, and a nozzle orifice in fluid communication with a discharge end of the pump. The fluid pathway has one portion in fluid communication with an intake end of the pump and another portion inside the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Cepia, LLC
    Inventors: James Russell Hornsby, Marcellus Rambo Benson, James Augustus Keefe, III, Joseph Lee McGowan
  • Patent number: 7152813
    Abstract: A cap with a suction type spray head includes an air guiding chamber, an intake passage, an outgoing passage, a liquid sucking mouth and an air pressure balancing aperture for a container with a sprayer. The liquid in the container can be sucked out due to air pressure difference between the sucking mouth and the interior of the container. The outgoing passage at the outer end thereof is a spraying outlet, which face the liquid sucking mouth so that the liquid out of the liquid sucking mouth is atomized with the air sprayed from the spraying outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Ding Hwa Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang-Tsan Chen
  • Patent number: 7143763
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for washing the nasal cavities with a nebulized treatment liquid. It comprises a base body, a atomizer chamber containing a washing liquid, means for nebulizing the liquid in said chamber and dispensing the atomized liquid to the nasal cavities for washing and a chamber for collecting the return liquid and catarrhal matter from the nasal cavities. The atomizer chamber (12) and collection chamber (13) are positioned side by side above the base body, and the collection chamber communicates with a dispensing exit of the atomized liquid to the nasal cavities. The two chambers may be defined each by a respective element or by a single piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Flaem Nuova S.p.A.
    Inventor: Riccardo Abate
  • Patent number: 7118049
    Abstract: A hose-end sprayer has a selectively rotatable rotary valve received within the transverse bore of a housing which includes a carrier liquid inlet passage, a chemical liquid inlet passage and a discharge passage. The valve has a carrier liquid duct and a chemical liquid duct opening into the carrier duct for interconnecting the inlet passage in a first rotative position of the valve, and the valve is capable of closing the inlet passages in a second rotative position of the valve. The rotary valve is selectively rotatable in a third position for interconnecting the liquid passage only with the discharge passage in a rinse position of the valve. Container venting is isolated from a valve chamber in which the rotary valve operates to avoid entry of carrier liquid into the container through the open vent in the ON position of the valve upon its selective rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: MeadWestvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph K. Dodd
  • Patent number: 6663017
    Abstract: A device for generating a pressurized stream of treating media including a vessel (4) containing the treating media (6), a pressurized fluid delivery assembly (16) for delivering a pressurized fluid to the vessel (4) and a conduit (14) for transporting the treating media (6) out of the vessel (4) which has been pressurized through the pressurized fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Endres, Rudy Publ
  • Patent number: 6651908
    Abstract: The foam marking device of the present invention includes a solution tank with a tube extending upwardly therein. An air line extends from an air pump and into the tank so as to provide air into the tube. The air passes through a porous element so as to create air bubbles. The tube includes an elongated slot that allows foam solution within the tank to enter the tube. The air bubbles generate foam within the upper end of the tube. The foam passes through a homogenizer at the upper end of the tube and then into a foam line for discharge onto the ground. The slot serves dual functions, by allowing solution in the tank to enter the tube and by allowing foam within the tube to enter the tank when the pressure in the foam discharge line exceeds the pressure within the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Richway Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard P. Borglum, Anthony R. Borglum, Kevin M. Kraus
  • Patent number: 6511850
    Abstract: A self-adjusting, free-flowing pneumatic nebulizer interface is described for coupling fluid phase separation apparatus such as capillary electrophoresis apparatus or fluid-phase analyte delivery apparatus such as flow-injection analysis apparatus to gas phase, post-separation detection apparatus such as mass spectrometers, chemiluminescence detectors, or other similar gas phase detection apparatus. The interface combines the analytes with only the needed amount of sheath fluid to produce a combined flow whose magnitude automatically matches the self-aspiration rate of the pneumatic nebulizer interface, and which is combined with a gas flow to produce an aerosol. The resulting aerosol can then be either deposited directly on a surface, forwarded directly to a detection system or forwarded first to a conversion apparatus such as an oxidizer and the oxidized sample components are then forwarded to a detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: Gyula Vigh, Alex D. Sokolowski
  • Patent number: 6135358
    Abstract: A nasal atomized shower apparatus has a body defining an atomizing chamber, a pressurized air injector arranged at the region of feed of washing liquid to be atomized and facing the atomizing chamber and a conduit for discharging the washing liquid. The apparatus further includes a valve associated with the body, and adapted to control the pressure of the pressurized air for releasing the excessive pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Mefar S.p.A.
    Inventor: Fausto Ballini
  • Patent number: 6036114
    Abstract: A pressure controlling device of a paint container for use in conjunction with a paint spray gun is composed of a pressure stabilizing plug capable of regulating the air discharge in accordance with the magnitude of the air pressure that is admitted to the paint container. The device is further composed of an air valve piece capable of displacing to control the entry of an appropriate amount of air into the paint container so as to keep the air pressure of the paint container constant. The device is provided with an adjustment nut for adjusting the elastic force of the pressure stabilizing plug in accordance with the desired thickness of a coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Ding Rong Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsien Chun Shih
  • Patent number: 4961537
    Abstract: A manually operated spray applicator to deposit plaster or the like against a wall surface in a spray pattern. There is a forward containing chamber for the plaster, a rear pressurizing chamber to supply the pressurized air through a discharge stem, and an intermediate positioning chamber having a moveable piston which moves the discharge stem between its open and closed positions. There is a control valve which is operable by a trigger which selectively vents a bypass passageway that pressurizes the positioning chamber to move the discharge stem between its open and closed positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Assignee: DJS & T Limited Partnership
    Inventor: Donald J. Stern
  • Patent number: 4828180
    Abstract: An automobile cleaning system comprises a source of cleaning fluid and control apparatus connected to the source and responsive to a control input for pressurized output of the cleaning fluid. The system has also a source of pressurized medium, such as positively or negatively (vacuum) pressurized air. A portable unit for issuance of the pressurized cleaning fluid has a first channel with an input port connected to the control apparatus for receipt of the pressurized cleaning fluid and an output port for fluid issuance and has a second channel with an input port connected to the pressurized air source and an output port at a surface of the portable unit for closure upon blockage by a user of the system. A conduit is provided to conduct indication of second channel blockage to the control apparatus as the control input thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1989
    Inventor: Henning Kristensen
  • Patent number: 4685622
    Abstract: A piece gun for spraying includes a base body. A trunk portion is provided with a storage area for containing a coating liquid. The trunk portion is positioned within the base body. A head portion is connected to the trunk portion. The head portion is provided with a writing member for discharging the coating liquid. A first air passage surrounds at least the head portion of the trunk portion. A second air passage is operatively connected to a source of high pressure fluid. A switching valve includes an operational member for manual actuation and a working member operatively connected to the operational member. The working member initially operates the switching valve to connect the second air passage to the atmosphere during an early stage of operation of the operational member. The working chamber communicates the second air passage with the first air passage during a latter stage of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1987
    Assignee: Meiji Kikai Seisakusyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Shimohira, Yasuyuki Kimoto, Kazuo Hirota
  • Patent number: 4222525
    Abstract: An arrangement for spraying liquid from a bottle comprises an air pump and a member which actuates the pump when a spraying action is desirable. The air flow is transmitted into the interior of the bottle to pressurize the liquid and urge the latter into a liquid outlet conduit which has a lower end extending into the liquid in the bottle and a discharge end outside the bottle. The arrangement is further provided with an element for spraying the liquid when the latter under the pressure supplied into the bottle enters the discharge end of the outlet conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1980
    Assignee: Wella Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Bodo Hildebrandt
  • Patent number: 4218013
    Abstract: Fluid mixing and dispensing shower head and suspendible supply reservoir for portable connection to a conventional shower head. The valve block is constructed for quick, intermediate securement between the shower head and supply pipe and is adapted to be operated in conjunction with the shower fixture for selectively dispensing one of a plurality of select liquids into the water stream discharged by the shower nozzle. A plurality of separately accessible containers are provided in a storage bracket suspended beneath the shower head to store distinct quantities of fluids to be dispensed. A suitable selector valve is provided adjacent the storage reservoir to channel the select fluid into the shower head. The containers are housed in a transparent bracket, suspended from the shower head, to permit the user to determine the amount of liquid remaining in each container and the type of liquid selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1980
    Inventor: Charles A. Davison
  • Patent number: 4174071
    Abstract: An improved paint spray gun assembly of the syphon type having a vented paint supply container, is characterized by a conduit connectable either between the container vent and a compressed air inlet to the gun, or between the vent and a fitting remote therefrom and open to atmosphere. With either connection, the conduit prevents dripping of paint from the vent upon manipulation of the gun by an operator, and with the connection of the vent with the compressed air a positive pressure is generated within the container to increase the paint flow rate from the gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1979
    Assignee: Binks Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: George W. Lau, Edward J. Bujnowski