Abstract:
A pump dispenser has a nozzle body on which is rotatably disposed a nozzle cap having two orifices which selectively align with a swirl chamber formed in the front end of the body. One orifice is formed with a surrounding cup-like structure to retain the last drop of liquid after discharge. The other is formed with a pair of diagonal parallel ribs on opposite sides of the orifice to effect an elongated narrow landing pattern for the spray.
Abstract:
A spray gun uses hot, high volume, low pressure (HVLP) air to atomize a coating material at a spray head of the gun. The coating material may be water-based adhesive or paint which may include a relatively small amount of solvent. The coating material may also be a high viscosity, solvent-based paint such as a polyester or urethane. The spray gun includes a plunger mechanism and a trigger which generate an air pressure control signal which opens a valve to allow the hot HVLP air to come to the front of the spray gun. Thermally insulated hot air hoses couple the spray gun to a source of hot air such as a heater conversion unit. Teflon tubes thermally insulate the coating material from the hot air as the coating material is received by the spray gun. A plastic shroud thermally insulates and concentrates a hot air coating material mixture during atomization of the coating material at a spray head of the spray gun. The hot air has a temperature in the range of 250.degree. F. to 350.degree. F. at the spray head so that a substantial portion of the base of the coating material is evaporated from the atomized coating material before coating an article. When the coating material is a water-based adhesive, the water-based adhesive dries in about the same amount of time that it takes for a solvent-based adhesive to dry in a conventional spray coating system.
Abstract:
A protective cover for a spraying apparatus which sprays a liquid through a nozzle. The protective cover is capable of surrounding the high-pressure region of a ject of the liquid sprayed through the nozzle, and is provided in the inner circumference near the open end thereof with a drip preventing wall for preventing the drip of the liquid caused to adhere to the inner circumference of the protective cover. The liquid caused to adhere to the inner circumference of the protective cover flows along the inner circumference of the protective cover and is stopped by the drip preventing wall, and thereby the drip of the liquid is prevented satisfactorily.
Abstract:
Apparatus for supplying a coherent curtain of cooling liquid comprises a generally rectangular nozzle with an inlet and an outlet, the nozzle being divided into a multiplicity of individual passages extending in the direction between the inlet and the outlet, a header for introducing liquid coolant to the inlet of the nozzle and a slider displaceable beneath the passages to close off those above the slider and a body carried at the inwards end of the slider providing further passages constituting extensions to those above them and the outer ones of the further passages are inclined outwardly to cause the curtain to diverge as it leaves the nozzle.
Abstract:
A drip retainer for preventing residual fluid in a spout from dripping includes a tubular resilient member which is flattened at one end so that opposite walls are biased together. An opposite end of the tubular member is connected in a liquid-tight manner to the spout. A cylindrical clamp is mounted on the flattened portion of the tubular member. A hollow area inside the cylindrical clamp is filled with resilient biasing material. The biasing material, on either side of the flattened portion, urges the tubular member to a flat closed position. When liquid is pumped through the spout under pressure, the liquid urges the flattened portion of the tubular member to an open position. When pressure subsides, the biasing material urges the flattened portion back to its closed position, so that residual fluid clinging to inside walls of the spout cannot escape.
Abstract:
A water-saving shower head of the aerating type providing water in air-borne atomized form in a normal, continuously expanding pattern substantially homogeneous in cross-section as to water concentration or "wetness" with means for adjusting the rate of flare of the pattern to increase the concentration of water or "wetness" for rinsing purposes, especially for better removal of shampoo from the hair. The adjustment is accomplished by manually adjusting the position of the transverse orificed nozzle plate along the axis of the outlet passageway of the shower head, the longer the passageway, within limits, the more concentrated the shower pattern.
Abstract:
A safety airless spray tip is disclosed having an integral guard extending from the forward end thereof to prevent accidental human injection by the liquid being sprayed. The guard comprises U-shaped wire members located on opposite sides of the spray opening to cooperatively define a protected three-dimensional space through which the emitted spray fan passes, the protected space being of sufficient dimension to prevent the injection of human skin pressed against the guard.
Abstract:
A rotor assembly, including a circular spatter shield carrying a cylindrical brush element, is rotatably carried proximate one end of a hollow handle, the other end of which is connectable to a source of pressurized fluid. Delivery tubes extending from the handle direct the liquid against a row of inwardly directed impeller blades carried by the shield to force rotation of the rotor assembly. A fluid impervious flexible skirt coaxially encircles the brush element. A second brush element is stationarily secured to the handle coaxially within the rotor actuated brush element.
Abstract:
A liquid distributor apparatus for use on a vehicle including a liquid product supply tank and a pump for pumping liquid from the tank to a spray bar system for spraying liquid product in a preselected width of the spread along a path traversed by the vehicle. The rate of flow of liquid product through the nozzles on the spray bar system varies as a function of the square root of the pressure drop across the nozzle and a control system is provided to sense the pressure in the spray bar system and the vehicle speed and to control flow of product to the spray bar system to vary the pressure on the product in the spray bar system as a function of the square of the speed of the vehicle to thereby maintain a preset spread density independent of variations in the speed of the vehicle.