Three Or More Dissimilar Outlets Patents (Class 239/561)
  • Patent number: 5704778
    Abstract: A gas burner includes an L-shaped inner gas delivery pipe disposed between a burner base and an inner gas outlet member. The inner gas delivery pipe is provided with a first regulating tube for adjusting the length of a horizontal section of the inner gas delivery pipe. The gas burner further includes at least one L-shaped outer gas delivery pipe disposed between the burner base and an annular outer gas outlet member that is disposed around the inner gas outlet member. The outer gas delivery pipe is provided with a second regulating tube for adjusting the length of a horizontal section of the outer gas delivery pipe located on one side of the inner gas delivery pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Tri Square Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mei-Chang Hsieh
  • Patent number: 5653391
    Abstract: A fire extinguishing head includes a pair of medium range nozzles having a shooting distance shorter than that of a long range nozzle and disposed on opposite sides of the long range nozzle in such a manner as to sandwich the long range nozzle. A short range nozzle having a shooting distance shorter than that of the medium range nozzle is disposed below the long range nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Nohmi Bosai Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumasa Inamura, Seiji Chiba
  • Patent number: 5590836
    Abstract: A toy nozzle for securing to a flexible container to facilitate spraying of water therefrom. The inventive device includes a manifold having a plurality of disparate nozzles coupled thereto. Each of the nozzles can be coupled to a flexible container filled with fluid, whereby a collapsing of the container will expel fluid through the nozzle in a desired spray pattern and direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Inventor: Dave Thielbar
  • Patent number: 5575852
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a manifold which includes a foam generating zone having means for receiving a foamable solution and air therethrough to produce a foam, a streaming discharge zone wherein the streaming discharge zone includes a first plurality of aperture surfaces of a first diameter and a second plurality of aperture surfaces of a second diameter larger than said first diameter and a buffer zone operably communicably associated with the foam generating zone and streaming discharge zone with means for impeding flow of the foam therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Inventor: Steven A. Chase
  • Patent number: 5518577
    Abstract: A paste supply tube in a molding compound manufacturing apparatus includes first and second paste supply tubes extending parallel or substantially parallel to each other and in a direction widthwise of a pair of carrier films, each of the first and second paste supply tubes having upstream and downstream ends opposite to each other with respect to the direction of supply of a resinous paste material thereinto. While the downstream ends of the respective first and second paste supply tubes are closed, the first and second paste supply tubes are supported with the upstream and downstream ends of the first paste supply tube neighboring the downstream and upstream ends of the second paste supply tube, respectively, with respect to a direction perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of each paste supply tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Jinbo, Mituo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5421517
    Abstract: A rotating and translating waterjet nozzle uniformly strips the surface coatings from objects within the nozzle's swath through an array of orifices, each office having a sized hole diameter and a surface location on the nozzle which, collectively with the remaining orifices, provide a uniform stripping energy incident on the object surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Knudson, Thomas H. Bunch
  • Patent number: 5401164
    Abstract: A gas burner includes several length-adjustable outer gas delivery pipes interposed between an annular outer gas outlet member and a head seat, and a length-adjustable inner gas delivery pipe interposed between an inner gas outlet member and the head seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Tri Square Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chia-Hsi Yen
  • Patent number: 5277576
    Abstract: A gas burner for cookers, having an outer burner ring which encloses an inner chamber and whose external periphery is formed with gas outlet openings producing the main flame, an ignition plug and a thermal element which extend into the inner chamber; an inner burner spaced radially inwardly from the outer burner ring and coaxial with the outer ring forming with chamber bottom and limited by the outer ring and to which air for the inner burner is supplied via openings disposed below the burner ring and above the chamber bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Paul Isphording Metallwerke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Hartung, Heinz Somer
  • Patent number: 5139417
    Abstract: An improvement to conventional atmospheric gas burners particularly advantageously applied to the type used as surface heating units in gas cooking appliances such as ranges and cooktops, which typically comprise a burner head having a plurality of primary burner ports formed at port locations equally spaced about the periphery of the burner head. Improvement is realized by not forming primary burner ports at selected ones of the equally spaced port locations. The unused port locations are selected so as to separate the primary ports into groups. The reduction in the number of ports reduces the total port area thereby reducing the amount of primary air entrained in the air/gas mixture delivered to the burner. In addition the resulting spacing of the groups of ports has the effect of reducing the amount of secondary air per port relative to that which would be entrained by the same number of ports, if equally distributed about the periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Reza Ghassemzadeh
  • Patent number: 5062550
    Abstract: An apparatus including a deformable memory retentent container, including a cap member, wherein the cap member includes a series of conduits mounted thereon in fluid communication with contents of the container. Each conduit is defined in a spaced relationship relative to an adjacent conduit, with each conduit including a respective first, second, and third opening of an increasing geometric configuration to accommodate selectively varying flow rates through each of the conduits to permit selective volumetric dispensing of contents within the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1991
    Inventor: Bharat H. Singh
  • Patent number: 5050800
    Abstract: A full range nozzle assembly comprises a nozzle member having a base at one end with an inlet for connection to a water supply via a riser tube, and a head at the opposite end with a plurality of spaced spray orifices arranged in a ring around the periphery of the head member, with internal passageways connecting each spray orifice to the inlet. The orifices are of varying dimensions and are arranged to produce sprays having at least two different arc widths. Removable plugs in the passageways control the connection of each outlet to the inlet, and a flow control device is adjustable mounted in the spray head for controlling the flow rate of water from the supply into the inlet. Precipitation rate control or adjustment is provided by varying the effective cross-section of the respective passageways according to the arc width of the orifice with which they are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Inventor: John W. Lamar
  • Patent number: 4950353
    Abstract: An apparatus for continuously manufacturing a sheet of molded compound includes a first conveying unit for continuously conveying a lower film. First and second impregnation rollers are provided above the lower film for impregnating a viscous material and a solid material to obtain a compound mixture to be dropped onto the lower film. First and second scraping rollers are provided below the first and second impregnation rollers to scrape the compound mixture from the impregnation rollers. A scattering roller is provided below the first impregnation roller upstream from the first scraping roller relative the feed direction of the lower film. The scattering roller is positioned to act upon rotation to prevent scattering of portions of the composite mixture caused at least in part by the first scraping roller. A second conveying unit is provided for conveying an upper film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tsujimoto, Masayuki Kurita, Masaru Aoki
  • Patent number: 4927083
    Abstract: An improved shower head comprising a length of hollow tubing in the shape of a vertically disposed loop having spaced apart, vertically supported side sections and a horizontally supported bottom section joining respective lower ends of the side sections in which a preferred embodiment of the loop is annular in shape to include a horizontally supported top portion joining respective upper ends of the side sections, the outer wall portions of the tubing forming the outer face of the loop facing the bather containing spaced apart orifices producing a vertically disposed spray pattern. The orifices are located along the tubing wall region of the interior portion of the loop outer face an offset distance from the center line of the outer tubing wall that forms the face of the loop generating a spray pattern having an inwardly directed component around the periphery of the loop or annulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Inventor: N. Charles Daunt
  • Patent number: 4565082
    Abstract: A multipiece spray assembly is disclosed which provides an annular axially and radially inwardly inclined nozzle passage operative to rapidly and efficiently apply a substantially complete and uniform coating to the inner surfaces of a forming cavity. Additional nozzle means may also be provided to simultaneously coat an overlying forming tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1986
    Assignee: Acheson Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan B. Heath, Richard C. Gossman
  • Patent number: 4519544
    Abstract: A sprinkler system characterized by a tubular, substantially square base assembly, and two tubular arm assemblies pivotally coupled to the base assembly. The base assembly is provided with a female coupling receptive to the end of a garden hose such that the base assembly can be pressurized with water. The tubular arm assemblies receive water from the base assembly and are provided with a plurality of sprinkler heads for directing the water as desired by the user. Preferably, the arm assemblies telescope so that their lengths can be varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Inventor: Laszlo Szabo
  • Patent number: 4452578
    Abstract: A new spray ring apparatus for use in forming apparatus of the type used in metal forming and glassware forming which include a forming cavity into which a fluid lubricant material is sprayed. In one embodiment, the spray ring includes a plurality of nozzles through which the fluid lubricant material is sprayed into the cavity in a tangential helical flow pattern to thereby uniformly coat the interior surfaces of the cavity prior to the forming of the metal or glassware parts therein. In another embodiment, an annular nozzle flowpath is provided with the helical flow pattern being imparted to the lubricant material via a tangentially disposed inlet opening into an annular manifold chamber. A plurality of nozzle openings may be provided in the outer surface of the spray ring which may operate to uniformly coat the outer surfaces of a punch or similar type of associated overlying forming tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Acheson Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter E. Levine, Allan B. Heath, Richard C. Gossman
  • Patent number: 4419301
    Abstract: A process for heating fluids to a relatively high temperature, such as sterilization temperature, in which the fluid, such as a liquid, is heated by direct contact with steam while it is in the form of a very thin, free-falling film or a continuous falling stream so that heating of the fluid is accomplished without the fluid coming into contact with any surface and particularly metal surfaces which are hotter than the fluid product being heated and with minimum agitation and turbulence of the fluid product. This procedure enables maximum and uniform heat penetration in a minimum time interval with the film or stream being maintained as thin as possible and unbroken by introducing steam at a relatively low velocity in a large volume vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1983
    Assignee: Dasi Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: John E. Nahra, Walter Woods
  • Patent number: 4310476
    Abstract: An apparatus for heating fluids to a relatively high temperature, such as sterilization temperature, in which the fluid, such as a liquid, is heated by direct contact with steam while it is in the form of a very thin, free-falling film or a continuous falling stream so that heating of the fluid is accomplished without the fluid coming into contact with any surface and particularly metal surfaces which are hotter than the fluid product being heated and with minimum agitation and turbulence of the fluid product. This procedure enables maximum and uniform heat penetration in a minimum time interval with the film or stream being maintained as thin as possible and unbroken by introducing steam at a relatively low velocity in a large volume vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1982
    Assignee: Dasi Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: John E. Nahra, Walter Woods
  • Patent number: 4271602
    Abstract: An air nozzle for a jet drier has a nozzle slot extending transverse to a moving material web during use and has an elongated nozzle lip which together with the material web forms the boundary of a channel for drying air. The elongated nozzle lip has a planar portion and at least one stabilizing zone for the drying air which extends over the entire width of the nozzle and which interrupts the planarity of the planar portion of the nozzle lip. Each stabilizing zone includes equalizing openings, so spaced from the nozzle slot that stabilization of the flow is assured with widely varying drying air velocities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1981
    Assignee: Jagenberg Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Friedbert Grolms
  • Patent number: 4218001
    Abstract: A blow box for suspended guidance and/or conveyance of strip material or sheets in which the blow means is blown with the effect of a blow jet issuing from a slot nozzle at an incline against the strips or sheets to be guided and/or conveyed. The blow box includes a barrier wall provided with blast openings which are arranged therein facing the strips or sheets so as to be close to one another in a row and have blowing directions which are substantially the same or which slightly diverge towards the ends of the blow box. Each blast opening is formed by a tongue positioned in the barrier wall, the tip of the tongue being sunk into the blow box, and an inclined guide surface which is arranged with its edges around the tongue and which is sunk into the blow box, together with the edges of the guide surface which overlap into the barrier wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1980
    Assignee: Vits-Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Hilmar Vits
  • Patent number: 4187986
    Abstract: A sprayer has a hollow housing with an inlet port and an outlet opening. A cap assembly closes the outlet opening and includes a plurality of sets of discharge orifices with each set exhibiting an individually different characteristic of orifice flow of fluid from the housing interior. The orifice sets are selectively opened to the passage of flow out of the housing and that flow is valved. Different sets of the orifices provide for a fine-spray cone, larger streams and a swirling jet. A porting seal cooperates with a selector plate to enable fluid communication to different sets of orifices and an overall valving assembly also is included. Still further is a stand for the sprayer which supports it, when desired, above a holder or in a manner which enables convenient storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1980
    Assignee: Teledyne Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: John E. Petrovic
  • Patent number: 4147595
    Abstract: A sprinkler for a vent section or part of an ascension pipe of a coke oven which is disposed in the vent pipe of a horizontal coke oven chamber ascension pipe and comprises a sprinkler nozzle body which is a substantially straight pipe and is disconnectably fitted to a hole formed in the vent pipe through a male screw which is formed on an outer wall of the sprinkler nozzle body being screwed to a female screw formed around the hole in the vent pipe. One or more spray holes for spraying water in the radial direction of the axis of the nozzle body are formed at the end of the nozzle body extending into the vent pipe. A male screw, formed at the rear of the nozzle body extending outside of the vent pipe, and a branch pipe, which is branched from the main feed pipe supported on another member equipped on an oven roof, are disconnectably connected by a pipe joint member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1979
    Assignees: Kansai Netsukagaku Kabushiki Kaisha, Ikio Tekkosho
    Inventors: Yukio Masuda, Hiroshi Naoi
  • Patent number: 4119275
    Abstract: An improved fluid spray head for sprinkler apparatus is disclosed adjustable both as to the flow rate of fluid to the discharge orifices and the precipation rate over the ground area sprayed, and particularly adapted to spray a specifically shaped non-circular area. The spray head has a plurality of circumferentially-spaced discharge orifices having cross-sectional areas equally proportional to the square of the distance that their respective spray streams are desired to travel whereby the perimeter of the ground area sprayed defines the preselected shape and receives a substantially uniform coverage of fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1978
    Assignee: The Toro Company
    Inventor: Edwin J. Hunter
  • Patent number: 3980232
    Abstract: For spraying orchards or other agricultural products, apparatus is made up of modular components including a discharge head unit, a tank unit and a draw bar unit. In one mode of use, the discharge head unit is supported by the three-point-hitch of a tractor, and the draw bar unit is mounted on the tank unit for coupling the tank unit to a hitch mounted on the head unit. In another mode, the tank unit, discharge head unit and draw bar unit are assembled in a unitary trailer assembly to be towed by a towing tractor. In each case power is supplied by the tractor power takeoff. The discharge head unit includes a centrifugal blower including a generally cylindrical housing and a generally concentric blower rotor, with high velocity discharge nozzles projecting generally radially from a generally cylindrical housing wall portion. The housing is constructed so that the nozzle wall portion is readily removable and replaced with a substitute nozzle wall portion containing a different nozzle arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1976
    Inventor: Welker W. Funk
  • Patent number: RE32695
    Abstract: A process for heating fluids to a relatively high temperature, such as sterilization temperature, in which the fluid, such as a liquid, is heated by direct contact with steam while it is in the form of a very thin, free-falling film or a continuous falling stream so that heating of the fluid is accomplished without the fluid coming into contact with any surface and particularly metal surfaces which are hotter than the fluid product being heated and with minimum agitation and turbulence of the fluid product. This procedure enables maximum and uniform heat penetration in a minimum time interval with the film or stream being maintained as thin as possible and unbroken by introducing steam at a relatively low velocity in a large volume vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Assignee: DASI Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: John E. Nahra, Walter Woods