Gas Flows Tangentially To Liquid Surface Patents (Class 96/347)
  • Patent number: 8728222
    Abstract: A wet type dust collecting apparatus of a vacuum cleaner is provided. The wet type dust collecting apparatus of a vacuum cleaner includes a first separating unit configured to filter out and discharge dust by rotating air which is inlet via a first air inlet, and a plurality of a second centrifugal separating units configured to filter out dust from the air which is discharged from the first separating unit, and configured to eliminate dust from the inlet air via water which is filled inside of the second centrifugal separating units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Ha Kim, Joung-Soo Park, Heung-Jun Park, Sung-Tae Joo, Dong-Houn Yang
  • Patent number: 5922093
    Abstract: An ultra-filtration vacuum system with a first liquid stage filter and that has structure to direct particle laden air into a vortex in a circular cyclone chamber over a surface of a first liquid filter medium to direct particulates in the air to a wall of the cyclone chamber for collection by the first liquid filter medium. An open-pore labyrinth filter is provided for further filtering air from the first liquid stage. A second liquid stage is provided to filter for filtering air from the labyrinth filter and has a dispersion chamber with an inlet that directs the particle laden air from the labyrinth filter directly into a second liquid filter medium to transfer momentum of the air directly to the second liquid filter medium, the dispersion chamber constructed with surfaces against which medium is propelled by the energy of the injected air to disperse the medium in the air, the dispersion chamber shaped such that a cascading and undulating liquid surface is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Miracle Marketing Corporation
    Inventors: Randy Bruce James, Michael John Edgington, Guy Merideth Hatch
  • Patent number: 5908493
    Abstract: The present invention is a three stage water-from-air-filter system which can be used in combination with substantially any household vacuum cleaner. The system includes a main cylindrically shaped body and a hollow cylinder within the main body. The main body and cylinder form a ring-shaped chamber. The chamber has a spherical bottom partially filled with water. The hollow cylinder is made of a large pipe and a small pipe. The large pipe has an areohydrodynamic separator. An entrance nozzle may be located on either the main body or on the small pipe. Regardless of where the nozzle is located, polluted air enters the ring-shaped chamber through the nozzle. In the chamber the air mixes with the water. The air and water mixture is centrifugally separated several times through the concentric cylinders within the filter system to ensure a high quality of cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Inventor: Mark D. Krymsky