Abstract: The invention provides apparatus for separating particles from a fluid flow having a cyclonic separator (10) and a fan (12) for causing the fluid to flow through the cyclonic separator (10), the cyclonic separator (10) having an inlet (16) and an interior wall having a frusto-conical portion (18) tapering away from the inlet (16), wherein the fan (12) is positioned in the inlet (16) to the cyclonic separator (10) such that fluid passing through the fan (12) is accelerated towards the interior wall (18) and thereby given sufficient tangential velocity to cause cyclonic separation of particles from the fluid flow within the cyclonic separator (10).

Abstract: A fan filter unit for clean rooms has baffle structures sized and placed to limit the paths of entry of air flow from the unit motorized fan to the outlet ports, the baffle structures extending for a vertical height sufficient to avoid reversal of air flow within the enclosure for lower energy requirements in the unit while controlling noise levels and keeping BTU output low.

Abstract: The pressure drop through a passageway that flows a compressible fluid that flows axially with a vortex component is reduced by dividing the passageway into smaller parallel passageways. The vortex separator is combined with a deoiler that includes a rotatable inducer and porous media disk(s) in a lubrication system for removing the oil from the air where the oil is contaminated in the bearing compartments and gear boxes of a gas turbine engine.

Abstract: A device for centrifugal purification of combustion air in an internal combustion engine, especially for a motor saw, wherein the engine has an air cooling system including a fan wheel (19) provided in a helical fan housing (18). The device includes an air nozzle which defines an air passage for conducting combustion air from the fan housing to the engine. The air nozzle (10) is located adjacent to the fan wheel. The nozzle has an inlet (12) including a baffle wall (14) located close to the periphery of the fan wheel and conducting air to the inlet. The baffle wall has a part-elliptical shape as seen in the direction of air flow.

Abstract: An air precleaner and method for centrifugally ejecting heavier-than-air particulate debris from an air stream utilizes a circular separator chamber formed with a toroidal dome for smooth airflow transition of the vortex airflow moving through the separator chamber in a cyclonic pattern upwardly from an inlet in a base of the precleaner past a debris ejection duct where it is folded over by the toroidal dome for whirlpooling down to an outlet in the base radially inwardly of and through the upwardly moving vortex airflow. The area for the airflow in the separator chamber progressively decreases linearly to increase the speed of the airflow in the chamber. A particle accelerator assembly includes a plurality of appendages that arc back from a central hub in a swept-back attitude relative to a direction of the vortex airflow.

Abstract: An improved centrifugal air cleaning system including a fan, a fan volute defined, in part, by a curved outer wall and a base wall, and a deflector wall projecting from the base wall intermediate the fan and the outer wall. An air inlet port is formed in the base wall and is located between the deflector wall and the outer wall. The deflector wall includes a first wall portion and a second wall portion. The first wall portion has a curvature generally matching a curvature of the fan while the second wall portion diverges from the fan toward the outer wall. The first wall portion prevents radially projected particles from reaching the air inlet port while the second wall portion cooperates with the outer wall to define a restricted flow path downstream of the air inlet port that creates a relatively high pressure condition at the inlet port and injects substantially particle-free air into the carburetor.

Abstract: A cyclone separator has with a separation chamber in a spiral housing fitted with an inlet for the material to be separated in parallel to a tangent to the separator housing, a separate tangential inlet for a separator gas, and a longitudinal outlet arranged concentrically about the separator axis to allow the gas and fine particulate matter to pass out of the separation chamber. The separator further has a ring of vanes located in the spiral housing between the separation chamber, which is arranged coaxially to the outlet, and an outer annular space, the material inlet feeding into the separation chamber and the gas inlet feeding into the outer annular space.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to an air separator with a stationary housing, which forms a helix when viewed in the axial direction, with a blade ring arranged stationarily in the housing with adjustable blades, and with a bladed separation wheel, which is arranged coaxially within the blade ring and rotatable around the axis of the housing. A raw material inlet opens tangentially into the annular space between the separation wheel and the blade ring, and the separation gas inlet, which is directed in parallel to the crude gas inlet, opens into the annular space between the blade ring and the helical housing. Finally, a raw material outlet is provided in the end zone of the flow in the annular space between the blade ring and the separation wheel. A coarse material outlet is arranged offset in relation to the separation gas outlet in the axial direction of the helical housing, as a result of which the helical housing has the three-dimensional shape of a worm with at least one revolution.

Abstract: Compact blower and filter assemblies for providing clean air to work place and other enclosed environments wherein the blower cooperates with an intermediate baffle to direct incoming air radially outwardly toward opposite endwalls of the assembly housing after which the air flows downwardly across and through a filter element which closes the discharge end of the housing. The intermediate baffle is generally rectangular in configuration having four corners adjacent which are disposed angled deflectors which direct air inwardly with respect to the corners of the housing as the air passes toward the filter and which incorporates a plate which reflects blower noise.

Abstract: A method and a device is provided for the discharge of a foam, in particular of a high-expansion and/or medium-expansion foam useful in connection with fire-extinguishing and the like. The foam is furnished with an antifoaming agent water mixture, is suctioned in by a fan blower and is disintegrated. The resultant solution is collected via a separator in a subsequently disposed collection container, and is further transported with a pump.

Abstract: An air cooled internal combustion engine for a hand-held power tool has a flywheel fan that is rotated within a fan housing. The bottom of the fan housing, which is perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the fan, includes an opening for an air duct. Ramps axe formed around the leading edges of the duct opening, either on a plate (metal or plastic) attached to the housing or integrally with the bottom wall, for deflecting solid particles entrained in the air away from the outlet. A relatively particle-free stream of pressurized air stream is diverted into the duct and delivered to an air intake box containing an air filter and carburetor.

Abstract: An apparatus for roasting coffee beans or the like includes a controlled spinning bed or fluid bed roaster in combination with a cyclone separator for removing chaff from the heating medium. The cyclone separator is disposed above and in coaxial and abutting relationship with the roaster. The separator has a generally cylindrical shape with a plate having a plurality of louvers in the base thereof. The louvers impart rotational movement as the heating medium passes therethrough so that the chaff can be removed therefrom. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, a second centrifugal separator which is relatively small with respect to the first separator is disposed adjacent the first separator for making a final separation and returning the heated medium to the roaster.

Abstract: An apparatus for reducing high vibration and pulsation levels generated by he discharge of gas-liquid mixtures from compressors. A tuyere is positioned within the compressor housing to separate the gas from the liquid.

Abstract: The invention comprises a method and an apparatus for the waste disposal of light and/or medium and/or heavy foams employed in connection with fire extinguishing or the like. The foam is sucked in by a blower or the like, is disintegrated and in the following, is concentrated in a following container. The larger part of the air is thereby separated from the foam and the foam is reduced in a further-following separating stage to the volume of the initially employed foaming agent water mixture. The separating stage can be a centrifuge or a cyclone. Upon waste disposal of a low foamed heavy foam, this heavy foam is sucked up with a pump and in the following the pump is separated. In both cases following, the mixture is fed to a further waste disposal stage.

Abstract: A deoiler for a jet engine which separates oil droplets from an air/oil mixture in three stages, the first stage employing external radial extending vanes having a curved inducer, the second stage employing vanes which are laid over in the direction of rotation of the deoiler, the windows through which the air/oil mixture flows from the second stage to the third stage being contoured to provide a maximum path for oil droplets to the second stage bleed holes.

Abstract: An improved gas liquid separator assembly is provided having a housing block with an interior gas liquid separating chamber. A sample gas introducing conduit and a sample gas discharging conduit can extend from the exterior of the housing block to one upper surface of the separating chamber. An opening can extend through the lower end of the housing block from the other side of the separating chamber to the exterior of the housing block. This opening is of a configuration complementary to a detachable mounted motor block for supporting a centrifugal separator. The centrifugal separator can be easily detached for maintenance of the gas liquid separating chamber.

Abstract: An oil-air separator having feed blades secured for rotation with a hollow rotor mounted for rotation in a stator housing with the formation of an annular space therebetween. The stator housing has an inlet for an oil-air mixture and an outlet for oil which is separated from the mixture. The feed blades are adapted to suit the contour of the annular space and ensure good separation of the air from the oil while achieving a high outlet oil pressure. The air which is separated from the oil-air mixture flows through a porous layer on the hollow rotor into the hollow rotor for external discharge therefrom.

Abstract: A classifier has a rotor, driven by a motor, mounted between two opposed walls of a housing. The housing also has a curved wall which extends between the walls and around the rotor to define therewith an annular zone. A fluid and finer particles outlet opening is provided in one of the walls. The curved wall has an inlet opening for at least fluid and a fluid and coarser particles outlet opening which is registered with the inlet opening of a receptacle from which the coarser particles can be removed. A plate is located immediately upstream of the outlet opening to divert particles adjacent to the curved wall away therefrom. Similar diverting means can be located remote from the plate such as plate or secondary air inlet openings. Baffle rings are provided concentrically with the rotor to restrain particles forced to the outer peripheries of the annular zone from moving inwardly towards the rotor.

Abstract: A pump having a pump body (1), a push-rod (7), a diaphragm (8) with an aperture (17) and a plate valve (9). The push-rod (7) is driven by a motor (10) and is guided centrally in an elastic filter disk (13) mounted in a pump casing (3). A lower end of the push-rod (7) is provided with a dome (12) member by which the diaphragm (8) is pressed into a correspondingly shaped recess (15).

Abstract: Single and multiple porous media impingement type air filter elements are disposed in filter housings which provide access to the filter elements from top opening doors or plenums in the housing for service or repair of the elements. Housing sections defining the plenums are provided with mechanism to lift and swing the housing sections clear of the filter opening, and the housing sections are movable to relieve excess working pressure differentials across the filter element. In two embodiments the filter elements are each in sealing engagement with a shield which is also sealingly engaged with a top wall or door of the filter housing to minimize contamination of personnel servicing or replacing the filter elements.

Abstract: An oil separator for separating oil from exhausted gas containing refrigerant gas and fine particles of oil incorporated in the refrigerant gas including grooved plates each formed with a multiplicity of grooves on opposite surfaces to allow the exhausted gas to flow in a direction substantially at right angles to the grooves, whereby the fine particles of oil can be trapped by the grooved plates. The oil separator can achieve increased oil separation efficiency.

Abstract: A separator for a flooded liquid/gas compressor comprising a pressure vessel having an inlet for compressed liquid/gas mixture, a lower outlet for liquid and an upper outlet for clean gas, a filter element interposed between the liquid/gas mixture inlet and the clean gas outlet through which the gas flows to said outlet, and a shield member at least partially surrounding the filter element whereby liquid from the separator pressure vessel is prevented from contacting the filter element during periods of operation when the liquid volume in the pressure vessel may rapidly expand.

Abstract: A protective spark eliminating system for removing burning particulates from flue gases prior to introducing the gases into a filter baghouse. The protective system includes a housing enclosing a separating chamber having a gas inlet in the side of the housing for directing a stream of flue gases into the housing, and a gas outlet in the top of the housing for conducting the flue gas stream out of the chamber. To effect separation and removal of the burning particulates from the gas stream, the housing is provided with a secondary gas system which is adapted to maintain a downwardly flowing curtain of gas across the width of the flue gas inlet to direct the burning particulates in the flue gases downwardly into a hopper at the base of the housing as the flue gases enter the chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for separating entrained particulate matter from a fluid wherein particulate matter is collected in an overlying porous layer on an upstream side of a rotatable, fluid-permeable filter in a first chamber, and rotatably conveyed into a second chamber and used as an additional filtering medium. The filter comprises a cylindrical drum having a filter surface thereon and is rotatably mounted in an enclosed housing having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. Fluid pumping means operatively communicate with the housing for inducing a flow of fluid into the housing through the inlet and out of the housing through the outlet. Chamber means are disposed within the housing and sealingly cooperate therewith and with the cylindrical drum and define a first chamber fluidly communicating with the inlet and a predetermined portion of the cylindrical drum on the upstream and downstream sides thereof.

Abstract: This disclosure describes a device to extract useful energy and fresh water from moist air, with an associated removal of pollutant particles entrained in the extracted water. The device comprises an enclosure with a tall stack and an extended base which has means for the creation and utilization of a contained tornado which is powered by the energy release associated with the rapid condensation of water from the incoming moist air.