Injector Directs Material Onto Deflector Patents (Class 366/175.2)
  • Patent number: 6422735
    Abstract: A hydraulic jet flash mixer injects chemicals in the form of liquids, or slurries, or gases, into a fluid stream. The mixing system withdraws a side stream of fluid from a main fluid stream. The side stream is pressurized and directed through a convergent nozzle, producing a high-velocity jet. This jet is directed onto a deflector plate located on the center line of the conduit that carries the main fluid stream and is thereby diverted in the radial directions normal to the flow direction of the main fluid stream. The deflector is provided with an open port for injecting the chemicals that are to be mixed into the main stream. The even distribution of the injected chemicals is ensured by the hydrodynamic forces generated by the flow of the high-velocity jet over the deflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Inventor: John Stewart Lang
  • Patent number: 6412709
    Abstract: A fluid mixing-jetting apparatus includes an apparatus body provided at its upstream end with an inlet arrangement for introducing plural kinds of fluids into a flow passage formed in the apparatus body. The apparatus further includes an end plate closing a downstream end of the flow passage of the apparatus body. The end plate is formed with at least one jet opening at a position offset from a center axis of the flow passage of the apparatus body. The end plate may be further formed with a plurality of concave portions on an upstream surface thereof so that the upstream surface of the end plate is formed as a non-planar surface. The jet opening may be non-circular and continuous with an inner circumference of the apparatus body defining the flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Shinyou Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Hikoroku Sugiura
  • Patent number: 6279611
    Abstract: A unitary, self-contained apparatus for generating microbubbles using a pipe section with a constriction device for producing a venturi effect to cause a mainstream liquid flowing under pressure in the pipe section to draw a column of additive fluid into the mainstream liquid from an aspiration tube for mixing with the liquid and a turbulence part of the pipe section immediately downstream from the constriction device. Protrusions from the inside surface of the turbulence part of the pipe section protrude to at least the theoretical interface between the column of additive fluid and the surrounding mainstream liquid and preferably beyond, where the theoretical interface is a circumference of the column of additive fluid having a radius equal to the radius of the inside surface of the aspiration tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Inventors: Hideto Uematsu, Nicholas Eckelberry
  • Patent number: 6257754
    Abstract: Mixing device for mixing of a first and second gas stream comprising within a housing at least one deflection body causing the gas streams to be radially deflected within the housing; and a nozzle device for introduction of the second gas stream, arranged rotational symmetric to axis of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventor: Kristian Søndergaard
  • Publication number: 20010003291
    Abstract: A unitary, self-contained apparatus for generating microbubbles using a pipe section with a constriction device for producing a venturi effect to cause a mainstream liquid flowing under pressure in the pipe section to draw a column of additive fluid into the mainstream liquid from an aspiration tube for mixing with the liquid and a turbulence part of the pipe section immediately downstream from the constriction device. Protrusions from the inside surface of the turbulence part of the pipe section protrude to at least the theoretical interface between the column of additive fluid and the surrounding mainstream liquid and preferably beyond, where the theoretical interface is a circumference of the column of additive fluid having a radius equal to the radius of the inside surface of the aspiration tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 1999
    Publication date: June 14, 2001
    Inventors: HIDETO UEMATSU, NICHOLAS ECKELBERRY
  • Patent number: 6200417
    Abstract: Process and device for the mixing of suspensions with possibly different natures and/or compositions in the stable section of a paper machine. In the process, a suspension, particularly of the backwater of the paper machine, is piped in a mixing tube with the main flow direction in the longitudinal direction of the tube, and additional suspensions, with possibly different solid content, are injected. In the device, a mixing device and piping carry the suspension in the stable section of a paper or cardboard machine and blend suspensions with a higher solid content into a first suspension with little or no solid content. The mixing device and piping include a tube, at least one inlet for the first suspension, a plurality of feeds for the higher solid content suspensions to be admixed, and one outlet for the blended suspension, with a new solid content, arranged downstream from a bend in the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Binder, Karl-Heinz Beuermann
  • Patent number: 6200014
    Abstract: Skin friction reduction on a surface moving relative to a fluid can be obtained by conditioning (i.e., unwinding, lengthening, or stretching) and ejecting a drag-reducing material, such as a polymer or other high molecular weight material, into the boundary layer. The efficacy of the ejected material is closely related to the hydration and shear stretching of the drag-reducing molecules immediately before ejection. The invention is a method and apparatus for creating a mixture/solution with optimal drag reduction characteristics. The device mixes a drag-reducing substance such as polymer powder, paste, solution or emulsion with a water flow, stretches the polymer molecules to improve hydration, and provides uniform vorticity to the mixture/solution before it is passed into an ejection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Cortana Corporation
    Inventor: Victor V. Babenko