Abstract: A laminated fuel swirl element is employed, in which a strong swirl force flow is imparted to the fuel at a remote position relative to an injection hole, while on the other hand, at a position near the fuel injection hole, a weak swirl force is imparted to the fuel. A complex solid cone spray can be obtained in this way, which spray has a superior dispersion characteristic obtained by attracting small diameter droplets, which are generated at an outer peripheral portion of the spray, through a spray portion which is generated in the vicinity of a central area of the spray and has a large velocity.

Abstract: A burner utilizing a low pressure fan for atomizing fuel and supplying air for combustion. The burner includes an air-tube, an air-atomizing nozzle disposed in the air-tube, a conduit for supplying fuel to the nozzle, and a fan for supplying air to the air-tube. A back plate, a retention plate, and a side ring meter primary air to the nozzle and provide a chamber through which secondary air passes around the nozzle. The side ring is provided with a plurality of apertures for directing secondary air inwardly into a chamber desirably normal to the direction from which the secondary air is discharged therefrom. Also disclosed is a novel three-piece air-atomizing nozzle.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a high efficiency method for the remediation of large quantities of liquids, operating at low to moderate ambient pressures, in order to reduce environmental or health risks or to purify the liquid for use in industrial processing. Decontamination is achieved through the use of a swirl chamber in which a central vortex is formed which has a core pressure lower than the vapor pressure of the liquid thus inducing cavitation pockets in the vortex, which are then ejected from the nozzle through the exit orifice into a volume of liquid where the cavitation pockets collapse. These cavitation events drive chemical reactions, by generating strong oxidants and reductants, efficiently decomposing and destroying contaminating organic compounds, as well as some inorganics. These same cavitation events also physically disrupt or rupture the cell walls or outer membranes of microorganisms (such as E.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a high efficiency method for the remediation of large quantities of liquids, operating at low to moderate ambient pressures, in order to reduce environmental or health risks or to purify the liquid for use in industrial processing. Decontamination is achieved through the use of submerged liquid jets which trigger cavitation events. These cavitation events drive chemical reactions, by generating strong oxidants and reductants, efficiently decomposing and destroying contaminating organic compounds, as well as some inorganics. These same cavitation events also physically disrupt or rupture the cell walls or outer membranes of microorganisms (such as E. coli and salmonella) and larvae (such as Zebra mussel larvae), leaving the inner cellular components susceptible to oxidation.

Abstract: A method serving the purpose of spraying a crop with a plant protective liquid. The liquid is sent out in the shape of a number of clouds (10) of atomized liquid in the direction of the crop (11) via a number of liquid nozzles (9) placed on a sprayer boom (8) which, at the same time, is driven across the crop (11). The nozzles (9) are adjusted to put each atomized liquid cloud (10) into whirling movement. The whirls (10) created thereby are stiff and stable against drifting. The liquid whirls (10) can be supported by a curtain of air whirls (14). By means of the method and the sprayer boom according to the invention, a crop can be sprayed efficiently with a minimum use of crop spray.

Abstract: A double-barreled syringe is provided which includes a mixing tip which is detachable after the tip is locked to the syringe body, so that the tip may be replaced by a locking cap. Locking occurs when a neck extending from the body between two shoulders is inserted into a bore in the tip (or, alternatively, the cap) and the tip is rotated so that two symmetrically opposed tabs attached to the tip are each received within a recess determined by a shoulder and a locking rib attached to the shoulder, and two diametrically opposed detents extending from the neck are each received within a recess in the bore surface.

Abstract: A swirler 50 for a gas turbine engine combustor 10 has an outer wall 54, groupings 52 of vanes 42 attached to the outer wall, a centerbody 60 mechanically decoupled from the outer wall via the groupings of vanes so that the swirler can accommodate differential rates of thermal growth between the outer wall and the inner centerbody and vanes. Alternatively, the centerbody may be attached to one of the groupings of vanes to keep the centerbody from vibrating.

Abstract: A burner for an entrained bed gasifier is provided in which a stable ignition is accelerated in the vicinity of a fuel jetting port and a good combustion state is maintained. A fuel (1, 3), such as coal and char etc., and a portion of a gasifying agent (2, 4, 5) are premixed in a burner before they a charged into a gasifier. The burner includes a triple tubular member including an outer tubular portion, an intermediate tubular portion, and an inner tubular portion. A seal gas tube is positioned within the inner tubular portion. At the time when the fuel, such as coal and char etc., and a premixing gas (a portion of the gasifying agent) are charged into the burner, at least any one of the fuel, such as coal and char etc., and the premixing gas is charged in a tangential direction relative to the burner central axis so as to be given a swirling directional velocity component.

Abstract: A liquid fuel burner is provided with a central fuel outlet having a generally divergent conical inner surface, formed of two contiguous divergent conical surfaces of different angles of divergence, and a plurality of oxygen outlets shaped and positioned for creating a converging, rotating stream of oxygen which intersects with any liquid fuel issuing from the fuel outlet. Such oxygen/fuel interaction results in two zones of combustion and a recirculation effect which assists in the complete or substantially complete combustion of undesirable exhaust gas components. The oxygen and fuel are preferably supplied such that their velocities are approximately equal at the point at which the two zones of combustion meet.

Abstract: A burner utilizing a low pressure fan for atomizing oil and supplying air for combustion. The burner includes an air-tube, an air-atomizing nozzle disposed in the air-tube, a conduit for supplying oil to the nozzle, and a fan for supplying air to the air-tube. A back plate, a retention plate, and a side ring meter primary air to the nozzle and provide a chamber through which secondary air passes around the nozzle. The side ring is provided with a plurality of apertures for directing secondary air inwardly into a chamber desirably normal to the direction from which the secondary air is discharged therefrom. Also disclosed is a novel three-piece air-atomizing nozzle.

Abstract: A device for transforming internal combustion engines using liquid fuel into over-pressurized engines using gas. Liquid fuel is fed into an annular chamber surrounding a needle. The fuel and primary air is injected at a controlled flow and pressure into a choke chamber to form an air-fuel premixture made of very fine microdrops. During the downstroke of the piston, the premixture is aspirated, causing the projection of the premixture against the blades of a rotor which rotates at high speed. The gasification chamber is then over pressurized during the closing of the intake valve and the introduction of the mixture.

Abstract: A cap is disposed internally of a spray nozzle and effects active atomization of pressurized liquid flowing through the nozzle by mixing with compressed air and creating turbulence in the liquid during the flow. The nozzle includes an internal cap which cap which imparts significant turbulence on the flow through the nozzle serving to help atomize the liquid using a reduced amount of air energy. Different caps may be used to create various selected spray patterns.

Abstract: A double-barreled syringe is provided which includes a mixing tip which is detachable after the tip is locked to the syringe body, so that the tip may be replaced by a locking cap. Locking occurs when a neck extending from the body between two shoulders is inserted into a bore in the tip (or, alternatively, the cap) and the tip is rotated so that two symmetrically opposed tabs attached to the tip are each received within a recess determined by a shoulder and a locking rib attached to the shoulder, and two diametrically opposed detents extending from the neck are each received within a recess in the bore surface.

Abstract: A centerbody for a tangential entry nozzle having a longitudinal axis and a radially outer surface including a frustum portion defining the outer surface of a frustum that is coaxial with the longitudinal axis and flares toward the frustum base thereof, and a curved portion which is integral with the frustum portion and preferably defines a portion of the surface generated by rotating a circle which is tangent to the frustum portion and has a center which lies radially outward thereof about the longitudinal axis. The centerbody has a base which includes at least one air supply port extending therethrough, and an internal passageway. The frustum portion tapers towards a discharge orifice of the internal passageway, and terminates at the plane in which the discharge orifice is located. A fuel-lance that is coaxial with the axis and extends through the base and terminates within the internal passageway provides fuel to the air flow in the centerbody.

Abstract: The invention relates to a water heating apparatus which uses a submergible, pressurized combustion chamber having multiple external heating surfaces, a forced draft burner and a flue collector that collects and passively recirculates a portion of the flue gases back into the burner air intake region. An improved burner array more completely mixes the combustible gases in the combustion region and operates over a wide range of input demands.

Abstract: In the method and apparatus of the invention, plural materials, such as a liquid resin and curing agent, are delivered to a dispenser body including a mixing cavity and a mixing element carried in the mixing cavity of the body and carrying a dispenser outlet. The mixing element sealingly engages the mixing cavity and forms, within the mixing cavity, a central chamber into which the plural materials are delivered. The mixing element includes a first conduit extending longitudinally between a forwardmost opening and the central portion of the mixing element, and further includes a second conduit extending transversely between a sidewall opening to the central chamber and the first conduit and containing a static mixing insert. Plural materials delivered to the dispenser body are mixed in transit through the mixing cavity, the transverse second conduit and static mixer, and the first conduit and dispensed through the dispenser outlet.

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: Apparatus and methods for spraying fluids are disclosed. Multiple distinctive airflows are used sequentially to create eddy currents at and near the outer canopies of vegetation. Such currents promote uniform chemical coverage of fruit and foliage throughout the vegetation. Nozzles adapted for selective use and adjustment independently and in multiple directions and planes also enhance coverage, particularly when fruit and foliage is especially dense or sparse or close to or remote from the ground.

Abstract: A laminate is made by applying a plurality of parallel fine lines of adhesive to a first web, intermittently agitating the adhesive prior to deposition to intermingle the adhesive to form spaced apart bands extending across the fine lines, and then applying a second web over the adhesive to join the webs together. The intermittent cross bands prevent migration of particles and leakage along said fine lines. When diapers are made from the laminate, waistbands are formed in the areas of the cross bands. Apparatus is disclosed.

Abstract: A burner structure and a method of operating a burner to reduce the pollutant emissions produced thereby are disclosed. Air and gas are premixed in a manner such that a substantially homogeneous mixture containing excess combustion air results. The velocity of the substantially homogeneous mixture is increased as it passes through the burner causing the "residence time" associated with the formation of the flame to be decreased, i.e., the combustion gases are in the reaction zone of the flame for a significantly shorter period of time, reducing the production of NO.sub.x. In order to prevent the flame from "lifting-off" the burner because of the high velocity of the substantially homogeneous air/gas mixture, flame stabilizing devices and/or a burner structure which provides flame stabilization are utilized resulting in the production of a high heat flux and low pollutant emissions.

Abstract: A nozzle for atomizing a liquid includes at least one Venturi tube. A Venturi tube defines a liquid flow path and has an entrance cone, an intermediate throat of diameter d.sub.n, and an exit cone having a length along the flow path to an exit port of at least about 2d.sub.n. The exit cone also has an angle of divergence that varies from 0.degree. at the throat to about 6.degree. at the exit port. As liquid with an entrained gas, preferably constituting about 10.sup.-2 to about 10.sup.-3 fractions, passes through the throat in a Venturi tube with a Reynold's number greater than about 2300, the liquid static pressure reduces and the entrained gas forms cavities that grow as the liquid passes through the exit cone. The nozzle is substantially free of any structure that could disturb the flow in the nozzle sufficiently to allow the static pressure on the liquid to rise significantly in the nozzle.

Abstract: An improved multi-component mixing and dispensing apparatus having a replaceable nozzle associated therewith in which plural components are mixed before dispensing thereof. The apparatus includes improved component feed systems to maintain each component to be mixed and dispensed in a segregated condition until mixing is desired, such that the apparatus is especially suitable for the mixing and dispensing of chemically reactive components. The component feed systems include internal passages within the apparatus and is selectively actuated valve which is operable to allow flow of a component to an outlet port formed in the apparatus. A mixing and dispensing nozzle may be coupled into the apparatus so as to communicate with the outlet ports of the component feed systems, wherein improved mixing of the plural components is achieved within the nozzle assembly.

Abstract: A laminate is made by applying a plurality of parallel fine lines of adhesive to a first web, intermittently agitating the adhesive prior to deposition to intermingle the adhesive to form spaced apart bands extending across the fine lines, and then applying a second web over the adhesive to join the webs together. The intermittent cross bands prevent migration of particles and leakage along said fine lines. When diapers are made from the laminate, waistbands are formed in the areas of the cross bands. Apparatus is disclosed.

Abstract: An improved multi-component mixing and dispensing apparatus having a replaceable nozzle associated therewith in which plural components are mixed before dispensing thereof. The apparatus includes improved component feed systems to maintain each component to be mixed and dispensed in a segregated condition until mixing is desired, such that the apparatus is especially suitable for the mixing and dispensing of chemically reactive components. The component feed systems include internal passages within the apparatus and is selectively actuated valve which is operable to allow flow of a component to an outlet port formed in the apparatus. A mixing and dispensing nozzle may be coupled into the apparatus so as to communicate with the outlet ports of the component feed systems, wherein improved mixing of the plural components is achieved within the nozzle assembly.

Abstract: An industrial gas burner is disclosed which operates at low air/fuel ratios to avoid NO.sub.x formation without carbon sooting. The burner includes a refractory block having a cylindrically stepped throat passage extending therethrough, a housing adjacent the inlet end of the refractory block and a swirl plate inbetween the block and housing. Vane passages in the swirl plate provide fluid communication between the throat passage and an annular entrainment passage in the housing. A plurality of circumferentially spaced gas jet nozzles in the entrainment passage cause jet entrainment and mixing of fuel and combustion air which is ported to the entrainment chamber. The jet streams of mixed air/fuel impinge the swirl plate whereat the mixture undergoes a further mixing because of the pressure drop and swirling therein. The swirling air/fuel mixture is thus intimately and thoroughly mixed when it exits the swirl plate as a swirling mass at the entry end of the throat passage where it is ignited.

Abstract: A nozzle is provided for discharging a combustible air and fuel mixture into the combustion chamber of a cyclonic combustor. The nozzle includes a centrally located air plenum and a plurality of passageways for discharging air from the plenum into the combustion chamber. The nozzle also includes a fuel jet system for discharging fuel into each air discharge passageway to mix with the combustion air passing therethrough.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid distribution device in the form of a sprayer. A preferred embodiment of the sprayer uses a rotating fluid conduit which makes use of centrifugal force to break up fluid emerging from the conduit into fine droplets. Air flow though the preferred embodiment may shear the fluid droplets and assist in carrying them to the desired target. An apparatus for placing an electrostatic charge on the droplets may also be used.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid spraying method in a liquid combustion burner, in which a liquid fuel is sprayed together with an atomization-promoting fluid mixed into the liquid fuel, and also a liquid fuel combustion burner is disclosed. In this liquid fuel spraying method and this liquid fuel combustion burner, only the liquid fuel is turned while the atomization-promoting fluid is not turned, whereby the frictional energy between the atomization-promoting fluid and the liquid fuel is reduced and hence, formation of NO.sub.x is controlled.

Abstract: A burner for the combustion of fine-grained to dusty solid fuels incorporates a central internal tube for supplying the solid fuels and an annular gap surrounding the internal tube and delimited by a cooled external tube, for supplying oxygen or oxygen-containing gas. The annular gap ends externally by an exhaust port directed obliquely relative to the longitudinal axis of the burner and peripherally surrounding the end of the central internal tube, or by a plurality of exhaust ports annularly disposed about the longitudinal axis of the burner. In order to ensure the complete combustion of the fine-grained to dusty fuels at a long service life of the burner, the inclination of the exhaust port(s) relative to the longitudinal axis of the burner is below 20.degree.. The exhaust port(s) is/are arranged transverse to the longitudinal axis of the burner and in the radial direction relative to the same at a distance of between 5 and 30 mm from the inner wall of the internal tube.

Abstract: A nozzle assembly and method for delivering swirls of a thermoplastic melt to a substrate operate on the principle of contacting a thermoplastic spun filament with swirling air to impart a circular swirling expanding cone pattern to the filament. The swirling filament is deposited on a substrate or collector as circular beads.

Abstract: Method and device for forming a gellified polyrethane layer on a surface, notably of a mould, by spraying a liquid reaction mixture comprising polyol and isocyanates and which has a viscosity between 20 and 2000 centipoises. The mixture is sprayed in the form of a film of liquid and/or raindrops of which the main part has a mean diameter (Medium Volume Diameter; "M.V.D.") which, according to the standards ASTM E 779-81, is larger than 100 microns and preferably larger than 500 microns.

Abstract: In a method of moistening such articles as tools (drills, band saws, circular saws, thread cuttters and similar tools as well as stamping, drawing, and sectioning tools) or workpieces (metal or plastic articles being machined, pipes that are being sawn through, or sheet metal being rolled into structural piping for example) with a liquid (such as a lubricant or coolant for tools and workpieces or an adhesive for workpieces), wherein the liquid is removed from a reserve of liquid and supplied by way of a pipeline to a dispenser that is aimed at the area of the article to be moistened, the pipeline having flow controls and a blender for blending a gaseous medium into the liquid, the improvement wherein the liquid is mixed with the gaseous medium in a gyration chamber into a fluid that is supplied through tubing to a dispenser and sprayed onto the area to be moistened through the dispenser.

Abstract: A spray nozzle for spray gun for forming a polyurethane layer on a surface by spraying the reaction components for obtaining this polyurethane. A spray piece (21) with a funnel-shaped cavity (27) is connected to a supply channel (19) of the reaction components and flows out in a cylindrical channel (29) which connects this cavity (27) to a spray opening 22. A core (17) is detachably placed in the spray piece (21) and allows the reaction components and/or the already formed polyurethane to be fed according to a screw or whirling movement through the spray opening. The core has a conical part which rests against an inner conical wall of the cavity. Formed in the conical core part are spiraled grooves (23) which impart a screw or whirling motion to the reaction components and which are in communication with respective core borings (40) which open into the supply channel (19) at a common point.

Abstract: In a combustion device for burning a liquid atomized fuel with an oxygen containing gas and in which ejectors using oxygen as driving gas are sucking admixed exhaust gases into a space adjacent to a fuel supply nozzle, the inventive feature is to provide guide vanes of spiral shape in the space adjacent to the fuel supply.

Abstract: The invention is a burner for combustible gases such as a propane/air burner. It is concerned with an improvement to the flame stabilizer in such a burner. The flame stabilizer is unique in that it forms the gas flow into two similar paths and, then, reunites the paths so that they interface and form a vortex sheet at their interface that, in turn, forms a vortex downstream of the stabilizer. The vortex sheet formation protects the stabilizer from the heat of the burned gases and provides very efficient stabilization for the flame.

Abstract: An expansion control mixing and dispensing nozzle adapted for attachment to an associated two-component liquid dispensing gun for mixing and dispensing liquid foamable products. The nozzle includes a mixing chamber, a mixing chamber outlet tube and an outlet tube cover arranged in co-axial relation. The outlet tube cover including an outlet slot or passage in its outer end portion; its inner end surrounds a part of the mixing chamber outlet tube so as to define an annular auxiliary chamber therebetween. The mixing chamber has spaced apart inlet ports for receiving individual liquid components and a baffle or the like to impart a swirling action to the components as they expand in the mixing chamber, a pre-discharge chamber lies between the outlet slot and the end of the outlet cover.

Abstract: An aspirator structure to proportionately mix a pressurized motive liquid and non-pressurized additive liquid and to deliver the mixed liquids into a storage supply of mixed liquids. The aspirator structure includes an elongate aspirating chamber connected with the supplies of motive and additive liquids and has a discharge end from which the mixed liquids flow. The structure next includes an elongate, vertical delivery tube with a cylindrical inside surface, a closed upper end portion communicating with the discharge end of the chamber and an open lower end opening in the supply of mixed liquids. The cross-sectional extent of the tube is greater than the cross-sectional extent of the chamber and the liquids flowing from the chamber are directed substantially tangentially with respect to the inside surface of the tube so that those liquids establish a vortex flow with and are moved downwardly therethrough by the force of gravity.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for chemically treating textile goods. An applicator has a slot for discharge of the chemical. The slot communicates with a mixing chamber in which the treating chemical and a gas are swirled under the influence of the gas, admitted under pressure. The swirling creates a homogeneous mixture which is discharged at high velocity to pass into the textile goods. A surfactant may be added to the chemical so the homogeneous mixture will foam after the mixture is in the textile goods.

Abstract: An atomizer in which oil is atomized by steam and a hollow conical pattern of oil is emitted for combustion and applicable to boiler firing. Oil and steam flows pass through intersecting passages so that atomization occurs before the oil and steam mixture enters an annular chamber; or the flows intersect at or adjacent entry to the chamber. Further mixing occurs in the chamber from which the mixture is emitted.

Abstract: An improved apparatus is provided for burning hydrocarbon-containing matter as a result of, for example, testing operations on a subterranean well wherein the hydrocarbon-containing matter is atomized and sprayed outwardly from a ring of nozzles whose axes define an outwardly flaring cone. Preferably, the atomization of the hydrocarbon-containing matter in the nozzles is accomplished by introducing pressurized air and combustible gases at a shear angle of approximately 60.degree.. Pressurized water is issued as a conical spray from an orifice located within the ring of orifices for the hydrocarbon-containing matter so as to direct a conical spray of atomized water within the cone of flame resulting from the combustion of the atomized hydrocarbon-containing matter, thereby insuring a maximum conversion of smoke producing elements in the flame to relatively smoke abating hydrocarbons.

Abstract: A swirl burner and partial oxidation process for producing synthesis gas, fuel gas or reducing gas from slurries of solid carbonaceous fuel and/or liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon fuel. The swirl burner may have pre-mix and/or high turndown features. By means of the burner a first reactant stream is split into a plurality of swirling streams by being passed down through a central bundle of helical tubes. Simultaneously a second reactant stream is split into a plurality of swirling streams by being passed down through a plurality of related passages formed in the cylindrical space that surrounds said central bundle of helical tubes and/or the interstices between the helical tubes. When the two swirling reactant feed streams impinge, either upstream from the face of the burner in a pre-mix zone or downstream from the face of the burner, in the gas generator, they are intimately mixed together. The combustion efficiency of the burner is thereby improved.

Abstract: An air blast nozzle includes a ring of air swirler vanes therein for producing a first turbulent flow of air therethrough and a turbulence generator located within the air flow through said swirler vanes to produce an intensification of the turbulent flow of the air swirl produced by the swirler vanes. The intensified swirled air is immediately directed into mixed flow relationship with fuel from said air blast nozzle to maintain increased turbulence intensity at the fuel from said nozzle without attenuation of the air energy level prior to burning of the air/fuel mixture so as to improve combustor efficiency by evaporation rate control due to decreased fuel droplet size attributable to the turbulence intensification.

Abstract: The package for storing and spraying small amounts of liquid comprises a formed section and a flat sheet joined together such that together they provide a compressible container for storing liquid and a conterminous system of passageways for conveying and accelerating the liquid when pressure is applied to the container, said passageway system being constructed to keep the liquid within the container without any outside means of assistance. The passageway system terminates tangentially in a turbulence space provided with at least one central nozzle aperture. To intensify the spraying effect or atomization of the liquid, two passageways are provided between the container and the turbulence space which terminate tangentially in the turbulence space offset at an angle of 180.degree.. The means designed to keep the liquid within the container consists preferably of a ruptureable seal at a site between the container and the passageway system.

Abstract: A gaseous fuel burner for enhanced flame adherence to a tile surface in a furnace, comprising a gas burner tube having a nozzle at its end, including a plurality of radial orifices circumferentially spaced in a transverse plane. A cylindrical combustion air plenum is coaxial with said burner tube, and means are provided to supply combustion air to said plenum at a selected super-atmospheric pressure P1. There is a circular concentric opening in the wall of the plenum and a short length of air tube welded to the opening, which is inserted into an opening in the furnace tile. A plurality of curved vanes are provided, and means to lead air from the pressurized plenum through the vanes to provide a rapidly spinning air flow which moves helically along the air tube into the tile and into the furnace. The central opening of the tile is flared in an arcuate manner. There is sufficient pressure drop between the air plenum at P1 and inside of the air tube P2, after passage through the vanes, of the order of 0.8 W.C.

Abstract: An atomizing device for mixing or atomizing fluids without moving parts and comprising, in combination, a hollow tube which has a substantially cylindrical inner wall and a core member situated within the tube in substantial coaxial relationship with and spaced from the inner wall. The surface of the core member includes at least one non-intersecting helical channel which extends substantially continuously for the length of the channel. Also, channel-forming means is provided about the core member in close proximity with the surface thereof and with the inner wall of the tube, which comprises at least one layer of at least one non-intersecting helical winding. Each winding in any single layer is in the opposite direction to each winding in the next or adjacent layer and each winding in the layer nearest the core is in the opposite direction to the helical channel formed in the core member.

Abstract: A spray nozzle for producing a particularly fine spray of liquid and air comprises a mixing chamber for the liquid and the air, a liquid supply duct terminating within the mixing chamber in a minute, pinhole-like opening of sufficiently small dimensions to produce a fine stream of liquid at high pressure, an abutment placed in the path of the stream to cause the latter to disintegrate and to mix with the air flowing from an air supply pipe, and an outlet orifice disposed in a rotatable cap to receive the mixture from the mixing chamber. The air and liquid sources may be in a common container.

Abstract: A fuel-injection nozzle assembly particularly useful for gas turbines is provided with an additive supply arrangement which avoids mixture of the fuel additive with the fuel in the nozzle until the fuel reaches a swirl chamber within the nozzle. The nozzle includes a nozzle holder, a nozzle plunger extending generally centrally of the holder and fuel inlet passages which are defined between the holder and the plunger. The nozzle exhaust opening is located centrally of the plunger and the swirl chamber is defined to extend between the end of the nozzle plunger and the nozzle exhaust opening. The additive supply arrangement directs the additive through the nozzle to a discharge point within or adjacent the swirl chamber.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to an aerodynamic fuel combustor for generating hot gases, including means forming a mixing chamber and a combustion chamber, and a flameholder therebetween. Means are provided for admitting desired proportions of fuel gas and air to the mixing chamber to form a combustible gas under a controlled pressure; in one form, these means comprise a jet ejector. The flameholder is a vortex generator having one or more flow channels shaped to supply swirling gases to the combustion chamber. The flow channels form a substantial exit angle with respect to the axis of the combustion chamber, but not exceeding 60.degree., and are formed by airfoils terminating in bluff trailing edges of substantial area to cause eddying flow. The cooler gas molecules are centrifuged to the outside of the burning gas in the combustion chamber, thus cooling the chamber walls.

Abstract: An atomizing fuel oil nozzle having a plurality of oil and gas mixing chambers in which the entry of the gas creates a suction that enhances the atomization of the oil and a flow chamber downstream of the mixing chambers through which the atomized mixture passes before being discharged through an orifice.A method of mixing and atomizing fuel oil with a gas wherein the gas has a substantially higher pressure and velocity than the oil in the mixing chamber, the flow of the gas creating a substantial suction in the mixing chamber from which the gas and oil mixture pass through a flow chamber before being discharged through the nozzle orifice.

Abstract: Apparatus for admixing a deodorizing liquid with a bad smelling liquid, comprises a hollow body in the form of a Y lying on its side in a vertical plane, the lower leg of the Y discharging the admixed liquids and the upper leg of the Y supporting and housing conduits for supplying the deodorizing liquid lengthwise of the body to dispensers therefor located adjacent the lower end of the body. A fixed shaft within the body has partitions secured thereto that are comprised by a plurality of blades and are oppositely inclined for initially mixing the two liquids. Above these partitions, a rotary helicoidal turbine is rotated by a turbine shaft that extends through the upper leg of the Y.