Abstract:
The invention concerns a method and a device for the distribution of gas comprising transferring the gas into a swirl chamber through an inlet section positioned tangentially to the swirl chamber, swirling the gas in the swirl chamber by passage through a number of equally displaced bent vanes, the surface of the upstream part of the vanes lying in a plane perpendicular to the swirl chamber's axis, the downstream part of the vanes being parallel to the swirl chamber's axis, and the vanes extending radially outwards, and passing the gas through an outlet section positioned downstream the swirl chamber.
Abstract:
A filter, especially a filter for lubricating oil of an internal combustion engine, including an inlet for the raw liquid and an outlet for the clean liquid. A filter insert (12) is arranged inside the filter, as well as a valve, such as a pressure relief valve (23). Parts of the valve are provided with coatings, for example hydrophobic coatings of polytetrafluoroethylene or silicone. The filter can also contain a heating element (34) in the vicinity of the valve.
Abstract:
A spray nozzle for producing an asymmetrically distributed fluid discharge pattern such as for use in a container coating application is provided. The spray nozzles includes a body portion having an internal fluid passageway which terminates in a substantially hemispherical dome shaped end wall. A discharge orifice is provided in the end wall which is produced by superimposing on each other an approximately round opening and an elongated opening having opposed rounded ends. The elongated opening having a length greater than a diameter of the round opening and the round opening and the elongated opening defining respective edges of the discharge orifice which extend at different angles relative to a longitudinal axis of the fluid passageway. The resulting orifice produces a fluid discharge pattern wherein the amount of fluid discharged tapers in a continuous, non-linear manner from the location of maximum discharge to points of minimum flow at either end of the discharge pattern.
Abstract:
Apparatus for introducing a fluid into a process stream such as promoter into the feed stream of a reactor for manufacturing vinyl acetate comprises: (a) a process stream pipe having a bend and (b) a nozzle for introducing the fluid into the process stream downstream of the bend characterised in that the pipe has a flow-correction device downstream of the bend and the nozzle is mounted downstream of the flow-correction device to an end of a support arm which extends into the pipe in a direction substantially parallel to the direction of the pipe downstream of the bend.
Abstract:
In the present invention, various sizes of non-wetting droplets are inserted into microtube devices of various shapes having therein a gas or wetting fluid which causes the droplets to movement in response to fluid pressure. The droplets may translate within a void of the microtube device which is filled with the gas or wetting fluid or rotate in a fixed position. The nonwetting fluid may also be formed into rings within ring shaped channels. The microtube devices may operate to stop fluid flow, act as a check-valve, act as a flow restrictor, act as a flow regulator, act as a support for a turning axle, and act as a logic device, for example.
Abstract:
A regulating valve is provided in a fluid medium in a feed line and the valve comprises a stem coupled to an actuator and includes a head arranged in a flow chamber of the valve to control the fluid medium flow rate by varying a valve opening between the head and the seat of the valve. The method of eliminating mechanical vibrations of the regulating valve consists in: determination of the natural frequency of the mechanical vibration of the valve operating means during stem uplift corresponding to the mode of the valve vibration; determination of the natural frequency of the acoustical vibration of the fluid medium in the flow chamber of the valve during the uplift of the stem; and comparing the frequencies obtained and bringing out of coincidence the frequency of the acoustic vibration of the fluid medium and the natural frequency of the mechanical vibration of the valve operating means.
Abstract:
A pig or traveller for use in a pipeline contains a magnetic device having poles disposed close to, but out of contact with, the inside walls of the pipe so as to be capable of magnetically saturating the walls and creating a magnetic field outside the pipe which can readily be detected, e.g. by means of a sensitive magnetometer. Pole pieces in the form of radial flanges may be used with an axially extending magnet assembly. Alternatively, the magnetic device may be rotatably mounted in the pig and provided with an impeller which employs pipeline pressure to rotate the magnetic device, and so creates a rotating magnetic field, if the pig becomes stuck. By establishing detector stations at intervals along the pipeline, the progress of the pig can be monitored.
Abstract:
A power-driven screw propeller is operatively mounted in a conduit, a drain tile for example. An outboard motor is brought into play and is supportively installed at the bottom of an earth-embedded pit and is accessible by way of a covered manhole at the top of the pit. A boxlike well is built within the bottom part of the pit and the drain tile is passed through openings provided therefore in the pit and well. The usual self-contained transom brackets are hung from a horizontal brace. The conduit is provided with an entrance hole for the bladed propeller and a caplike plate covers the hole and is attached to and carried by the insertable and removable outboard motor.