Fluid In Outer Of Concentrically Arranged Paths Is Whirled Patents (Class 239/405)
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Patent number: 5178331Abstract: A known device for the atomization of liquids for injection valves including upper and lower fluid entry levels by which a tangential entry of air is provided into a space located below the injection valve in the direction of flow by which the generally occurring unevenness of distribution of fuel to different cylinders of an internal combustion engine is to be improved. The entry of the fluid from the upper and lower levels are oppositely oriented at the individual levels and thus produce two opposing swirl flows. The device is particularly suitable for injection valves for internal combustion engines.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1991Date of Patent: January 12, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Willibald Schuerz
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Patent number: 5176324Abstract: Disclosed are a fuel spraying method in a liquid fuel combustion burner for spraying a liquid fuel together with an atomization-promoting fluid mixed in the fuel, and a liquid fuel combustion burner, in which the liquid fuel is mixed with the atomization-promoting fluid while turning the liquid fuel in flow passages of injection holes, and streams injected from the injection holes are caused to impinge against one another in the presence of combustion air in a combustion apparatus. According to this fuel spraying method and this liquid fuel combustion burner, the atomization of the liquid fuel is promoted and the flame is dispersed while promoting the contact with air, and it therefore becomes possible to simultaneously control generation of NO.sub.x and generation of soot.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1990Date of Patent: January 5, 1993Assignees: Nippon Oil Co., Ltd., E.P.S. Engineering Co., Ltd., Fuji Denki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Furuse, Naohito Yoshii, Tuneo Miyake
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Patent number: 5156307Abstract: The dispenser has a circular mixing chamber (8) which is arranged immediately in front of a mixing nozzle (7). A first channel (15) leads to the mixing chamber (8) which is connected with a rising pipe which is immersed in the filled material of a squeezable container. Simultaneously, a second channel (9) leads into the mixing chamber which is connected to the air space above the filled material. A sieve arranged in the outlet channel (19) at a distance after the mixing nozzle which completely covers the outlet channel under the effect of the pressure of the filled material flowing out when the container (1) is squeezed. With release of the container, the sieve partially releases the outlet channel under the suction effect of the air return flow. With that, the container is rapidly ready for a renewed press sequence.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1991Date of Patent: October 20, 1992Inventors: George E. Callahan, Harald Koch
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Patent number: 5145359Abstract: An improved burner (4) for fuel oil and fuel gas with low NOx production, wherein the combustion air is subdivided in three streams and with flow rate control swirlers in each air streams. The stream of primary air is intercepted by a swirler comprising an array of radially fixed tabs (15) mounted in correspondence to the outlet section in the combustion chamber (3), while the secondary and tertiary air swirlers comprise tabs (18, 19) turnable around axes disposed perpendicular and parallel to the central axis of the burner, respectively. The primary and secondary air inlets have a variable, continuously adjustable section. Furthermore, there are provided mass rate meters (24, 25) near the outlet section of the secondary and tertiary air streams in the combustion chamber (3) substantially unaffected by the vorticity induced by said swirlers.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1991Date of Patent: September 8, 1992Assignees: Ente Nazionale Per l'Energia Elettrica, Ansaldo Componenti s.r.l.Inventors: Giuseppe Ancona, Giancarlo Benelli, Gennaro De Michele, Sergio Ligasacchi, Gianni Mascalzi, Giancarlo Scavizzi, Giuliano Trebbi, Aldo Zennaro
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Patent number: 5131334Abstract: A flame stabilizer for a burner of solid fuel, such as pulverized coal or sander wood dust, is described whereby the swirl number is varied radially to enhance swirl inducement towards the periphery of the flame stabilizer while more axial flow occurs near the central conduit through which fuel is supplied. The amount of swirl and the amount of combustion air being selected so as to provide an integrated swirl number for the flame stabilizer in the range from about 0.6 to about 2.0. A pressure control ring is described with which the static pressure in the windbox is increased to a level where flame pulsations attributable to low static pressure in the windbox are reduced while the vortex is maintained. An enhanced axial combustion air flow around the discharge end of the fuel supply conduit is described to modify the position of the adverse pressure gradient boundary in a downstream direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1991Date of Patent: July 21, 1992Inventor: Richard J. Monro
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Patent number: 5115981Abstract: When the container is compressed, liquid flows via a riser (2) and an inflow channel (10) tangentially into a vortex chamber (9), where a rotary flow is induced. The liquid is accelerated by the conical cross-section of the inner wall (5) of the liquid nozzle (1) until it is discharged from the orifice (7) of the liquid nozzle (1). At the same time, air from the container flows via an inflow channel (11) into the annular chamber (3) which surrounds the liquid nozzle (1). Coaxial with the liquid nozzle there is a mixture nozzle (4) with a conical inner wall (5'). The orifice (7) of the liquid nozzle (1) is retracted relative to the orifice (8) of the mixture nozzle (4), so that the two media are jointly accelerated after mixing.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1990Date of Patent: May 26, 1992Inventors: George E. Callahan, Harald Koch
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Patent number: 5101633Abstract: This burner arrangement has a main feed channel (2) for a fuel-air mixture, which channel discharges into a combustion chamber (1). A swirler, which is provided with swirl vanes (5), is penetrated by a burner lance (3), and into which exit openings for the fuel feed discharge, is provided in this main feed channel (2). The aim is to create a burner arrangement in which it is impossible for undesired instances of ignition of the fuel-air mixture to occur outside the combustion chamber (1). This is achieved in that the exit openings are constructed as nozzles (9) which discharge into a region between the swirl vanes (5). In this regard, at least one nozzle is provided between two neighboring swirl vanes (5).Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1990Date of Patent: April 7, 1992Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri LimitedInventors: Jakob Keller, Thomas Sattelmayer
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Patent number: 5090897Abstract: A burner assembly for gaseous fuels having an outer housing, a blower and a unitized combustion cartridge. The combustion cartridge comprises an elongated cylinder having a flame holder at a downstream end thereof. The flame holder is provided with a plurality of spatially disposed diffusion plates attached to the cylindrical body of the combustion cartridge such that the center lines of the diffusion plates extend radially and perpendicularly from the cylindrical body. Each plate extends from the cylindrical body at an acute positive angle from the plane of their center lines. A plurality of orifices are disposed in the cylindrical body substantially adjacent the flame holder and a portion of the orifices communicate with orifice extender tubes so that gaseous fuel can be distributed over the upstream surface of the flame holder.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1990Date of Patent: February 25, 1992Assignee: Gordon-Piatt Energy Group, Inc.Inventor: Dan L. Christenson
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Patent number: 5062792Abstract: A burner for operation with gas and/or includes a central pilot burner system selectively operable with gas and/or oil as a diffusion burner or as a separate pre-mixing burner and an annular main burner system surrounding the pilot burner system and carrying a primary air flow. The main burner system includes a multiplicity of first nozzles admixing gas with the primary air flow for pre-mixing operation and second inlet nozzles pre-mixing oil into the primary air flow.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1989Date of Patent: November 5, 1991Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Helmut Maghon
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Patent number: 5035358Abstract: A fuel injector comprising a pair of air passages which are joined at the nozzle opening, whereby fuel injected from the fuel supply bore is joined with the airstreams flowing in the air passages. At this time, the fuel is carried by the airstreams and thus flows through the air passages at a high speed, and accordingly, the fuel is caused to impinge against the inner wall of the nozzle opening at a high speed.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1990Date of Patent: July 30, 1991Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyasu Katsuno, Satoshi Iguchi, Yoshiki Chujo
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Patent number: 5020723Abstract: A device and method for spraying hot melt glue in circular patterns of varying diameters is disclosed. The device uses a single jet of pressurized air caused to spin and forced into a series of passages to produce a conical curtain of air. The conical air curtain impinges upon a stream of hot adhesive to spin and guide it on a surface in a circular pattern. The relative positions of the air and glue emission orifices may be adjusted quickly and easily to provide fine control of the spray pattern diameter while achieving patterns having diameters ranging from approximately one-half to fifteen inches. Spiral glue patterns may be created merely by moving the nozzle of the device relative to a surface in a substantially straight line.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1989Date of Patent: June 4, 1991Inventor: Lawrence E. Crist
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Patent number: 5014914Abstract: The apparatus comprises at least one pesticide container (16), and a dosage pump (18) for the container or the containers, respectively, or for each container this pump or each of the existing pumps comprising a step motor controlled precision pump of the radial type which is connected via a pressure and check valve (21) to a mixing chamber (22) to be connected to one or more nozzle ramps (14) and having an inlet for water, to which the pesticide is to be added. The dose control apparatus also comprises a control unit (35) for adjusting the pump flow or the pump flows, respectively, in dependence on definite parameters, the driving speed being one.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1989Date of Patent: May 14, 1991Inventor: Anders Wallen.ang.s
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Patent number: 4992206Abstract: An aerosol fogging generator is disclosed having a prime mover and blower for delivering air through a duct system to a nozzle assembly. A fluid introduction system is provided to introduce fluids into the nozzle assembly for dispersal as a fog into the atmosphere. A passage provided between the fluid introduction system and the duct system provides for a cut off of the fog produced by the generator in a matter of seconds.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1988Date of Patent: February 12, 1991Assignee: Lowndes Engineering Co., Inc.Inventor: J. David Waldrop
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Patent number: 4943007Abstract: A spray generator for producing a spray of liquid droplets of a narrow size spectrum in which a substantially uniform cyclic disturbance is imposed on fluid energing at a nozzle. Such a disturbance can be produced by a fluidic bistable oscillator or by allowing the fluid to flow across a bluff body in the flow path. An opposed jet arrangement can be located within the vortex chamber of a fluidic diode and the liquid spray produced can meet swirling gas introduced at tangential inlets to the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1989Date of Patent: July 24, 1990Assignee: United Kingdom Atomic Energy AuthorityInventors: Michael J. Bowe, Stuart A. Clark
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Patent number: 4927352Abstract: A dual register for controlling the flow of combustion air to a burner including an outer register formed by a mounting frame having spaced apart support plates interconnected by circumferentially spaced fixed housing members. The frame defines a plurality of inlet openings for admitting a first stream of air substantially radially from a wind box. Each inlet opening includes at least one, non-planar, oblique parallelogram shaped curved damper door for controlling the admission of combustion air into an inner region of the outer register; each damper door is configured to impart a rotational component to the first stream of air while urging it axially towards a burner region. A connector for connecting the register to the combustion air region includes a plurality of apertures for communicating a second stream of air from the wind box to an outlet region of the register.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1988Date of Patent: May 22, 1990Inventor: Landy Chung
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Patent number: 4925101Abstract: A wax spray gun and spray nozzle for discharging an atomized stream of molten wax onto a vehicle body component or other substrate comprises a gun body having an atomizing chamber within which an internal wax spray nozzle and atomizing cap are located. A stream of atomizing air is tangentially directed into the atomizing chamber to form a rotating, swirling stream of atomizing air which is accelerated through a venturi inlet formed in the atomizing cap to impact and thoroughly atomize molten wax discharged from the internal spray nozzle. The atomized stream of molten wax is then discharged from the gun body into an external nozzle which preferably comprises a nozzle body having a wall formed with external threads which carry a coil spring. A flat is formed in the wall of the nozzle body with a discharge opening therein over which at least two spaced spring wires are positioned in the path of atomized molten wax emitted from the discharge opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1988Date of Patent: May 15, 1990Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventors: Ronald D. Konieczynski, Jo Pintelon, Robert J. Holland, C. Peter Barth, Jeff Gell
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Patent number: 4911365Abstract: A spray gun including a turbine mechanism for reducing the turbulence of fanning air to more effectively control the shaping of a conical spray pattern. A spiral flow of fanning air is created by the turbine mechanism. The amount of pressurized air flowing through the turbine mechanism is controlled by a valve mechanism to provide a greater or lesser amount of fanning air. The improved spray gun is particularly useful in paint spray systems wherein air having a flow rate in excess of 5 CFM and a delivery pressure of less than 15 psi over atmospheric is communicated to the spray head of the spray gun. In one embodiment, the turbine and valve mechanisms include first and second sets of circumferentially-spaced inclined vanes, respectively, which cooperate to create the spiral flow of air. The valve mechanism includes an annular valve member which supports the second set of vanes. The turbine mechanism includes a turbine member which supports the first set of vanes.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1989Date of Patent: March 27, 1990Assignee: James E. HyndsInventors: Leonard V. Thiel, James E. Hynds
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Patent number: 4869936Abstract: An attachment for supersonic thermal spray equipment by which inert shield gas is directed radially outwardly about the central core of a supersonic, particle-carrying flame to isolate the same from ambient atmosphere. The shield gas is injected tangentially against the inner surface of a constraining tube attached to and extending from the discharge end of the thermal spray gun nozzle, causing the shield gas to assume a helical flow path which persists until after it exits the tube and impacts the work piece. A process using the shielding apparatus with a high-velocity, thermal spray gun and employing oxygen and hydrogen as gases of combustion and inert gas to introduce metal powder, having a narrow particle size distribution and low oxygen content, into the high-velocity combustion gases, produces significantly improved, high-density, low-oxide metal coatings on a substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1987Date of Patent: September 26, 1989Assignee: Amoco CorporationInventors: Larry N. Moskowitz, Donald J. Lindley
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Patent number: 4867380Abstract: The invention relates to a pistol grip type compressed air blower having a andle (2) with a compressed air connection element and an air valve, on which a support body is placed with a turbulence tube (15). On one end section, the support body (26) is formed with a cold air nozzle (18) that has a passage (63) that is coaxial with the center axis of turbulence tube (15) and on an opposite end section, the support body is formed with a warm air nozzle with a hole that is coaxial to the center axis of turbulence tube (15). In some embodiments, the warm air nozzle is adjustable. A turbulence chamber with at least one hole directed tangentially into the interior space of the turbulence chamber is connected between the cold air nozzle (18) and the turbulence tube (15), and receives compressed air via a duct (14) of the handle that is connected to the compressed air connection element via the air valve. Turbulence chamber (40) is formed by a flanged disk that rests on the cold air nozzle (18).Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1988Date of Patent: September 19, 1989Assignee: Mar-Research Gesellschaft fuer Forschung und Entwicklung mbHInventor: Walter Sibbertsen
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Patent number: 4846404Abstract: An internal mixing chamber wherein a small amount of secondary fluid is introduced through a circumferential orifice having circumferential rotation and a large amount of primary fluid is introduced as an axial annulus to flow axially through the radially introduced secondary fluid to be mixed therein. The secondary fluid is introduced at lower pressure than the primary fluid and the system is self-balancing.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1988Date of Patent: July 11, 1989Assignee: Graves Spray Supply, Inc.Inventor: James E. Smith
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Patent number: 4834343Abstract: A method of improving the contacting of a gas and a liquid by injecting liquid, together with the gas in the form of substantially uniformly sized bubbles, into a vertical column of the liquid so as to introduce both a vertical downflow along the column axis and a rotational movement of the liquid-gas mixture about the axis. Preferably at least a major part of the liquid and a part of the gas is introduced tangentially near the top of the column, the remainder being introduced axially as a high velocity stream from the top of the column.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1988Date of Patent: May 30, 1989Inventor: Adrian P. Boyes
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Patent number: 4828181Abstract: Air-pressure-atomizers for liquids, whereby pressurized air and oil are first mixed in one chamber in the atomizer body of the atomizer and the mixture is discharged through an opening in the form of a spray jet. According to the invention, the spinner body (2, 3, 4, 7) of the atomizer (1) has a central dosing bore for oil (3, 4) and near the end of said bore (3) there is centrally symmetrically located a target impact disc or pin (6). The pin extends into a cavity (5) in the direction of the central bore (3). Air supply bores (slots) (7) tangentially open into the cavity (5) in the direction of the space between the dosing bore (3) and the target pin (6). At the other side of the cavity there is at least one outlet opening (8) present for discharging the mixture.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1987Date of Patent: May 9, 1989Assignee: Fluidics Instruments B.V.Inventor: Maria M. J. Singels-Craenen
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Patent number: 4773597Abstract: A nozzle for spraying liquids is provided, especially high viscosity liquid media used in the food and chemical industries. The nozzle finds particular use in fluidized bed spray granulators. A fine spray of high viscosity liquid media is attained. A nozzle head is arranged inside a nozzle housing. The nozzle head has a cylindrical portion terminating in a truncated, cone-shaped portion. A plurality of first flow ducts are arranged like the threads on a screw along the surface of the cylindrical portion for guiding a pressure medium such as air. A plurality of second ducts are arranged between the cylindrical portion and truncated, cone-shaped portion of the nozzle head and supply high viscosity liquid medium to the pressure medium exiting the downstream ends of the plurality of first ducts.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1987Date of Patent: September 27, 1988Assignee: VEB Institut fuer Getreideverarbeitung WTOEZ des VEB Kombinat Nahrungsmittel und Kaffee und der BackwarenindustireInventors: Wolfgang Dittrich, Ingomar Fischer, Rainer Lingner, Olaf Pagel, Heinrich Petzold, Uwe Rohland, Ulrich Walter
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Patent number: 4746068Abstract: A nebulizer assembly particularly well adapted as a liquid chromatograph/mass spectrometer interface including a pair of nebulizer plates, a base, and a cap for tightly holding the nebulizer plates against the base. A first nebulizer plate has a centrally located outlet orifice and a radially extending groove, and the second plate has a centrally located gas inlet orifice and a radially displaced liquid inlet orifice. The gas inlet orifice aligns with the outlet orifice and an aperture provided in the cap, and the liquid inlet orifice aligns with a section of the groove provided in the first nebulizer plate. When the gas inlet orifice is coupled to a pressurized gas source and the liquid inlet orifice is coupled to a pressurized liquid source, uniform droplets having a diameter of approximately 10 microns can be formed from an outlet orifice twice that diameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1986Date of Patent: May 24, 1988Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventors: Paul C. Goodley, Harvey D. Loucks, Jr.
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Patent number: 4726761Abstract: A burner especially adapted for use with pulverized fuel slurries, such as pulverized coal-water slurries. The burner has an atomizing nozzle which disperses the slurry in the form of multiple, diverging spray cones issuing from a corresponding number of atomizing orifices. Each orifice is formed by a central atomizing air flow. The slurry is brought into contact with the air flow and is atomized thereby. Before the atomized air flow is discharged, it is enveloped by a rotating auxiliary air flow and constricted to generate a venturi effect which facilitates the formation of the diverging, cone-shaped discharge pattern. A combustion air spinner surrounds the nozzle and is constructed of multiple vanes which have circularly arcuate shapes and a length, in the direction of the air flow, which is least proximate the nozzle and greatest at the periphery of the vanes. This assures an even combustion air flow rate over the entire radial extent of the spinner.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1987Date of Patent: February 23, 1988Assignee: Coen Company, Inc.Inventors: Chester S. Binasik, Londerville, Steve B.
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Patent number: 4684296Abstract: Uniform flow of gas flowing in a cylinder having inner diameter larger than that of a pipeline is introduced through a funnelform reducer into the inlet of the pipeline, where uniform flow of gas turned to a spiral gas stream by bringing to the mean gas stream velocity faster than 20 meter per second there. When solid particles are introduced into the spiral gas strem zone, they are transported to the outlet of the pipeline. A compressed gas layer is formed along the inside wall of the pipeline by the spiral motion of gas stream, and the layer prevents the direct contact of the solid particles to the inside wall of the pipeline which causes the erosion of the pipeline. As the center part of the cross section of the pipeline becomes very low pressure, especially along the axis of the pipeline, solid particles containing or accompanying volatile matters are desiccated or concentrated as a result of the evaporation of volatile matters while being transported in the pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1986Date of Patent: August 4, 1987Assignee: Kiyoshi HoriiInventors: Kiyoshi Horii, Toshiaki Murata
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Patent number: 4681532Abstract: An air register is provided for admitting to and regulating combustion air in industrial open flame heated boilers and furnaces. The register comprises an outer member to impart rotation, balancing and blending of opposed incoming air streams; an inner member to impart a spiral motion to a resultant single air stream in the direction of the boiler or furnace entrance; and a third member to form the air stream into a flame encompassing envelope.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1985Date of Patent: July 21, 1987Inventor: Landy Chung
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Patent number: 4676736Abstract: A combustion device for combustion of a gaseous fuel with air is provided with means for supplying gas automatically at a mass flow rate corresponding to a mass flow of air governed by the demand of heat. The gas is supplied at a pressure slightly above atmospheric pressure to an ejector using preheated primary air as a carrying medium. The ejector is mounted in a flow path in series with and after a blower, a recuperative preheater and a swirl device but prior to a system of heater tubes and the exhaust passages of the preheater.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1985Date of Patent: June 30, 1987Assignee: Gas Research InstituteInventor: Jan .ANG.. Alpqvist
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Patent number: 4668441Abstract: A phase contactor is provided with guide means along the path of flow of the vertically descending current of first gaseous phase established therein, but upstream of the zone of restricted flow passage, the guide means being adapted to adjust the flow of the first gaseous phase and to retard/prevent the deposition of objectionable encrusting solids within the phase contactor.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1982Date of Patent: May 26, 1987Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Specialites ChimiquesInventors: Raoul Hess, Bernard Mirabel
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Patent number: 4664315Abstract: An electrostatic nozzle assembly for coating row crops and other plants with electrostatically charged particles of pesticide including a nozzle body formed with passageways to receive air and a grounded stream of waterborne pesticide for delivery through a nozzle tip to an inductor ring mounted between the nozzle body and an air nozzle having a discharge orifice. As the stream of waterborne pesticide is projected from the nozzle tip, it is impacted with a swirling, spirally moving stream of air produced by a swirl plate having a plurality of tapered air channels oriented tangentially relative to the pesticide stream and communicating with the air passageway in the nozzle body. The inductor ring inductively charges the pesticide in the terminal end of the nozzle tip.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1986Date of Patent: May 12, 1987Assignee: Parker Hannifin CorporationInventors: William F. Parmentar, Gary E. Burls
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Patent number: 4659011Abstract: A method of and apparatus are disclosed for spraying powder, particularly for the coating of articles, by introducing a spray gas into the powder as the latter is expelled from a spray opening. An additional gas is injected into the stream of powder upstream of the point where the spray gas is introduced, in such a manner as to exert a cyclone effect on the stream of powder, force the powder radially outward and simultaneously drive it in the direction of flow of the powder.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1981Date of Patent: April 21, 1987Assignee: Ransburg-Gema AGInventor: Kurt Moos
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Patent number: 4644878Abstract: A carbonaceous material-water slurry burner includes a high pressure tip-emulsion atomizer for directing a carbonaceous material-water slurry into a combustion chamber for burning therein without requiring a support fuel or oxygen enrichment of the combustion air. Introduction of the carbonaceous material-water slurry under pressure forces it through a fixed atomizer wherein the slurry is reduced to small droplets by mixing with an atomizing air flow and directed into the combustion chamber. The atomizer includes a swirler located immediately adjacent to where the fuel slurry is introduced into the combustion chamber and which has a single center channel through which the carbonaceous material-water slurry flows into a plurality of diverging channels continuous with the center channel from which the slurry exits the swirler immediately adjacent to an aperture in the combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1985Date of Patent: February 24, 1987Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of EnergyInventors: Dennis G. Nodd, Richard J. Walker
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Patent number: 4643672Abstract: A flame retention head assembly for use in a fuel burner having a fuel nozzle mounted coaxially within an air pipe. This assembly comprises a continuously contoured, outwardly diverging flame retention head mounted concentrically within the air pipe in front of the fuel nozzle. This head successively defines, starting from its inlet end: an air-and-fuel mixture chamber; a first expansion chamber; a throttle and a second expansion chamber. A spinner plate is mounted transversely across the inlet end of the head. This plate comprises a central ring provided with a central hole having a diameter substantially identical to the one of the fuel nozzle, and a plurality of blades regularly distributed around the ring to cause air to enter and swirl into the mixture chamber. A round-shaped deflector is also mounted concentrically transversely within the retention head, to cause the air and fuel entering the head through its inlet end to stay longer within the first or second expansion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1985Date of Patent: February 17, 1987Assignee: Loudenco LtdInventor: Denis Lefebvre
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Patent number: 4634050Abstract: A concentric multiple tube assembly forms an axial eductor passage for educed ambient air flow unobstructed from the inlet end to the outlet end. Ambient air eduction occurs as a result of ejection of compressed air or compressed air and water via at least one set of compressed air and water ejection orifices oblique to the inner tube sidewall defining the eductor passage and at a skewed trajectory angle such that the compressed air streams attach to the inner tube side wall opposite the orifices ejecting the same via Coanda effect. By wall attachment, a water film on the tube inner wall enhances the cooling effect of the air stream passing therethrough by evaporation thereof. Compressed air and water are delivered to annular chambers within the tubular assembly. Preferably, water mixes with the compressed air in one of the chambers prior to ejection into the eductor passage.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 1986Date of Patent: January 6, 1987Inventor: James H. Shippee
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Patent number: 4600377Abstract: A liquid fuel burner head features an axially movable primary air assembly carrying a centrally disposed nozzle spraying fuel radially of the burner head. Primary air ports surround the nozzle and include means for progressively increasing swirl of the primary air as radial distance from the nozzle increases and for adjusting the location of flame origin. Metering of secondary air and adjustment of its direction of swirl are both accomplished rearward of the secondary air outlet, the primary air assembly moving rearwardly to increase the secondary air as firing rate rises. A simple metal, frusto-conical flame holder is secured to and spaced forwardly of the burner head.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1985Date of Patent: July 15, 1986Assignee: Cedarapids, Inc.Inventor: Joseph E. Musil
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Patent number: 4597529Abstract: A self-regulating spray nozzle is provided which includes a chamber for receiving both product to be sprayed and a driving fluid. A moveable component is provided for selectively varying the cross-sectional area of an opening provided in an output passage from the chamber in response to pressure developed within the interior of the chamber. A mechanical counter-force is exerted on the moveable component to tend to close the output passage opening of the chamber against the force of the pressure developed in the chamber, and which at least partially overcomes the force of the pressure developed within the interior of the chamber to thereby maintain the pressure drop through the output passage opening substantially constant.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1984Date of Patent: July 1, 1986Assignee: Charbonnages de FranceInventor: Jean-Louis Merry
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Patent number: 4586854Abstract: An improved powder pump for pumping air entrained solid particulate powder material comprising a pneumatic conveyor line within which there is located a low pressure venturi pumping chamber. This venturi pumping chamber is intersected by a powder supply passage through which powder is drawn into the conveyor line. Located within the powder supply passage is a rotatable tubular powder diffuser through which the powder passes in the course of passage through the powder supply passage. Rotation of the diffuser is effected by atomizing or metering air flow to the powder flow passage upstream of the venturi pumping chamber. This atomizing air flow, in addition to effecting rotation of the diffuser, also controls the rate of flow of powder through the powder supply passage and into the venturi pumping chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1985Date of Patent: May 6, 1986Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventors: Allen R. Newman, Kenneth Holley
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Patent number: 4583692Abstract: An actuator for a container that dispenses liquids containing a suspension of particulate material that keeps itself from clogging comprises a mechanical break-up chamber to emit a fine spray and includes a continuous emission from an orifice which keeps the chamber free from accumulation of solid particles.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1984Date of Patent: April 22, 1986Assignee: Revlon, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Sheffler, Michael E. Radice, John E. Jedzinak
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Patent number: 4579280Abstract: The invention relates to a process for heating the surface of a substrate and to a burner particularly as part of a spray gun suitable for carrying out the process of flame spraying. In order to improve flame stability and to increase the output, compressed air is supplied using annular guide plates arranged in cascade fashion, one above the other and one behind the other in various planes in the direction of the jet. As a result of this, kinetic energy is introduced into the flow of hot gases as the air volume increases, so that almost complete combustion of the hot gases can be achieved at relatively low end temperatures. The drop-off in temperature of the hot gases in the direction of flow starting from the mouth of the burner is relatively small. Consequently, it is also possible to heat substrates uniformly which, as a result of their particular shape, have a varying spacing from the mouth of the burner.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1985Date of Patent: April 1, 1986Assignee: Akzo N.V.Inventor: Felix von Ruhling
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Patent number: 4557637Abstract: Apparatus for transferring solid particles to a receptacle comprises a loading tube (2) surrounded at or near its base by a gas supply chamber (7) terminating in a Coanda surface (9). A slot (10) between the outlet from the loading tube (2) and the beginning of the Coanda surface (9) forms a Coanda nozzle. A throttle (3) is preferably fitted in the loading tube (2) to form an annulus (4) down which the particles flow to the slot (10). A gas supply line (8) preferably enters a gas supply (7) tangentially to supply gas to the Coanda nozzle. The apparatus is particularly suitable for loading catalyst into a reactor.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1983Date of Patent: December 10, 1985Assignee: The British Petroleum Company LimitedInventors: John L. Barclay, Geoffrey C. Stevens, Brian Stokes, Denis S. Ward
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Patent number: 4488869Abstract: A staged, high efficiency burner for gaseous, liquid or pulverized solid fuels (including fuels having a high nitrogen content) in which NOX emissions are minimized. The burner includes a burner basket having a base including a throat and a concentric, tubular, frustroconically shaped wall that defines a primary combustion space. The fuel and primary air of about 75% of stoichiometric air are introduced into the basket which has a length so that the fuel has a residence time therein of between about 0.1 to 0.5 second. Secondary air is introduced into the flame downstream of the basket in the form of a multiplicity of individual air streams which are oriented to penetrate the flame and spin it about its axis so as to maintain a substantially cylindrical flame periphery.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 1982Date of Patent: December 18, 1984Assignee: Coen Company, Inc.Inventor: Temple S. Voorheis
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Patent number: 4479773Abstract: A combustion method using an inventive combustion principle in which liquid fuel is atomized by the flow of gas jetted from the flow paths of a nozzle which are formed by flow lines extending to the sink point of dipole in potential motion. Thermodynamic principles are applied to the motion of the gas for the burning of the spirally rotating gas flow which is formed by the mixture of fuel and gas. The combustion efficiency and the heat exchanging efficiency are remarkably improved. The invention also relates to a device for practicing the method.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1980Date of Patent: October 30, 1984Inventor: Shigetake Tamai
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Patent number: 4473185Abstract: To produce microdroplets of fluid a liquid jet is injected centrally into an atomizer chamber with the formation of a spray cone and there it is acted upon by an outer spiral-shaped gas flow. To further reduce the size of the droplets, same are introduced into a transport or reaction chamber of short structural length and carried through same by a further spiral-shaped gas flow. Preferably, the transport or reaction chamber is lined by a pot-shaped container, the fluid droplets entering the transport or reaction chamber at the front side opposite an open end thereof. The method or the arrangement for applying the method is particularly suitable for a practically soot free combustion of combustible fluids, particularly oil.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1981Date of Patent: September 25, 1984Inventors: Folke K. Peterson, Kurt L. Skoog
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Patent number: 4453542Abstract: A nebulizer comprises an upright, cylindrical, tower-like chamber mounted on the lid of a liquid storage bottle and a vortex-generating transducer. The chamber has a closed upper end and an open lower end directed to the bottle. The transducer is mounted on the closed end with its outlet opening into the chamber. Windows are formed in the side of the chamber adjacent the outlet of the transducer. A nebulizer comprises a T-shaped chamber secured to the inside of a closed liquid storage bottle and a vortex-generating transducer. The chamber has inline legs with open ends and a transverse leg with a closed end. One open end faces downwardly into the bottle, the other open end is connected by an elbow to a spout leaving the bottle. The transducer is mounted on the closed end with its outlet facing into the chamber and its axis is pointed down at a small acute angle to the axis of the transverse leg.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1980Date of Patent: June 12, 1984Assignee: Vortran CorporationInventor: Nathaniel Hughes
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Patent number: 4434766Abstract: In an air assist device of a fuel injection type internal combustion engine, having an air assisted injector provided close to a nozzle thereof with an adapter constituting an assist air introducing portion, in which assist air introduced into the assist air introducing portion through assist air intake ports formed in the peripheral wall of the adapter is blown out of an assist air jet formed at the bottom of the adapter together with fuel so as to facilitate the atomization of fuel, the diameter of each opening of the assist air intake ports is made smaller than the diameter of an opening of the assist air jet, the assist air intake ports are provided in a plural number, so that the total opening area of the assist air intake ports can be made larger than the opening area of the assist air jet, and/or the assist air intake ports are penetrated in directions tangential to the inner wall surface of the adapter.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1982Date of Patent: March 6, 1984Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Matsuoka, Yuichi Kato, Minoru Iwata
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Patent number: 4431403Abstract: A multi-fuel industrial heating burner having an exhaust velocity of about 15,000 feet per minute. The fuel is first burned in a swirling toroidal recirculation zone and flows into the burner tile and shear mixes with a counter-swirling flow of combustion air flowing along the burner tile. As the flows shear mix, additional combustion air is provided to the central burning gases and the rotational momentum of the swirling flows is dissipated. The burner discharge gases flow axially without swirl.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1981Date of Patent: February 14, 1984Assignee: Hauck Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Leonard G. Nowak, Raymond J. Wojcieson
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Patent number: 4405087Abstract: One non-propelled fluid resident in a reservoir is sucked into the flow path of a further fluid in transit propelled by fluid pressure. This is achieved by means of inducing a spiral cyclone path flow pattern in the propelled fluid to create a converging vortex with a turbulent mixing zone into a linear output transit line. The pressure at the vortex zone is reduced significantly from atmospheric to thereby produce a strong suction propellant force bringing the stored fluid into the turbulence mixing zone. The stored fluid is introduced axially in line with the cyclone axis and linear output transit line which receives thoroughly mixed fluids in substantially constant proportions over significant changes in pressure of the propelled fluid. Thus, the mixer device is ideal for dispensing insectides with a garden hose, detergents into a dishwasher, chlorine into a swimming pool, etc.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1981Date of Patent: September 20, 1983Inventor: Antonio Mata-Garza
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Patent number: 4396152Abstract: An aerosol spray dispenser system for use with a container having both product and propellant under pressure and in vapor and liquid phases, including a valve unit in which there are separate product and propellant passages, preferably valved by a single gasket, leading from the container to an impact mixing chamber disposed within the valve unit. Here streams of liquid and propellant impact one another to form a fine dispersion of vapor in liquid which is then discharged. Preferably a venturi constriction is disposed in one of the passages just upstream of the mixing chamber. In certain embodiments the chamber and venturi are disposed in the valve housing or in the valve stem; in others they are disposed in the valve actuator contiguous to the discharge orifice; and in still other embodiments they or either of them may be in both locations.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1981Date of Patent: August 2, 1983Inventor: Robert H. Abplanalp
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Patent number: 4379689Abstract: In a burner mountable in a passageway leading into a furnace including a housing received by said passageway, having a discharge end opening into said furnace, a first conduit within said housing, a second conduit within said first conduit, said housing, said first conduit and said second conduit being annularly spaced, means for introducing respective fuels into space between said first and second conduits and into said second conduit, means for introducing air into space between said housing and said first conduit, fins for inducing swirling motion of air discharged from said housing into said furnace, means for discharging respective fuels from said first and second conduits into said furnace through said housing discharge end, the housing discharge end extending into the furnace interior, a sleeve receiving the first conduit therewithin and extending forwardly therefrom, a cap having an inwardly facing lip about a discharge end of the sleeve proximate the housing opening the lip defining a discharge throuType: GrantFiled: February 13, 1981Date of Patent: April 12, 1983Assignee: Selas Corporation of AmericaInventor: Charles W. Morck, Jr.
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Patent number: 4371378Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1980Date of Patent: February 1, 1983Assignee: Texaco Inc.Inventors: Albert Brent, Charles P. Marion, George N. Richter, William B. Crouch, Edward T. Child, Blake Reynolds