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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7992805 | Feed nozzle assembly A feed nozzle assembly for introducing a mixture of a gas and a liquid hydrocarbon droplets into a vessel in the form of a substantially sheet-like spray, which feed nozzle assembly comprises a nozzle body provided at its upstream part with means to supply the gas a... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7621466 | Nozzle for cold spray and cold spray apparatus using same Disclosed is a nozzle for cold spray and a cold spray apparatus using the same. The nozzle for cold spray includes a hollow-type nozzle section. The nozzle section includes a convergence inlet section in which the cross-sectional area is converging, a throat area co... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7427039 | Siphon drying gun A siphon type of drying gun includes an arc diverter disposed between an inner end surface in an accommodation space in a body of the gun and a flared hole. A rear cover having a flange is screwed into the body. An exhaustion gap is defined between the flange of the... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7353657 | Control of liquid droplet stream with flow nebulizer A controlled stream of droplets, including liquid droplets contained within an atomized or nebulized stream, are directed toward or onto a target. The target may be a measuring instrument, a gas or mixture of gases, or a solid, liquid, or slush surface. A particular... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7306171 | Plural component spray gun for fast setting materials A plural component spray gun (10) is designed for spraying quick setting materials such as foams and the like. A mix module (14) plastic material provides at least twice the life with ½ the wear of currently marketed mix modules and is made of poly et... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7303388 | Staged combustion system with ignition-assisted fuel lances Combustion system comprising a furnace having a thermal load and a combustion atmosphere disposed therein; one or more fuel lances adapted to inject fuel into the combustion atmosphere; and one or more igniters associated with the one or more fuel lances and adapted... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7300039 | Environmental remediation method and apparatus This invention relates to remediation systems, and more particularly to remediation systems for water, soil, and sediment bodies using thin-layer coated microbubbles. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7264179 | Method and apparatus for MEMS device nebulizer lubrication system A nebulization system, which creates a uniform fog of tiny suspended liquid droplets, to lubricate the surfaces of MEMS devices. These droplets fall over the edge of a baffle and are then mixed with an umbrella-like sheet of N2 turbulation gas to generate... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7238235 | Adhesion promoter application system and process A system and method for applying a material for improving the adhesion between the surface of thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO) elements and a coating applied thereto is disclosed. The system comprises the mixing of an adhesion promoter with de-ionized water and applyi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7143967 | Method and system for cold gas spraying A cold gas spraying method and device, whereby the sprayed particles are accelerated in a gas flow. A powder tube and an outer nozzle body together form a Laval nozzle that produces high gas flow velocities. The injection of the sprayed particles occurs in the diver... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7114663 | Thermally protected lance for repairing high temperature process vessel walls with pumpable fibrous refractory material and systems employing the same Systems and methods are provided whereby pumpable viscous fibrous material may be applied onto surfaces of high temperature process vessels while hot (i.e., while at or near such vessels' high operational temperatures of several hundreds up to several thousands of d... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7059543 | Liquid sprayers A liquid sprayer includes a casing (1) having a flow-through channel composed of sequentially joined inlet portion (2) formed as a converging tube, a cylindrical portion (3) and an outlet portion (4) formed as a conical diffuser. A length... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7045022 | Removal of adherent molten metal from surfaces The present invention provides a method and process for removing adherent molten metal from a surface by applying a non-wetting agent for the metal to the surface or to the adherent molten metal. The non-wetting agent may be a pressurized fluid or applied by a press... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6997401 | Fuel injector nozzle adapter A fuel injector adapter for providing nitrous oxide to an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The nozzle has a fuel injector passage, having a central axis and terminating at an injector outlet, for passing fuel from a fuel injector to an engine. The nozzle als... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6994276 | Device for mixing fluids A device for mixing fluids, in particular a gas injection valve, nozzle valve, mixing nozzle or jet compressor, is proposed. To that end, a first fluid-carrying device (12) for carrying a first fluid and a second fluid-carrying device (13) for carrying... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6936227 | Feed-dispersion system for fluid catalytic cracking units A feed-dispersion system for hydrocarbon feeds of fluid catalytic cracking units is described, which comprises: a feed-injection system made up of two concentric conduits, where the atomization fluid flows through the inner conduit... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6899289 | Atomizing nozzle for fine spray and misting applications The invention relates to a nozzle (10) for mixing a gaseous fluid such as air and a liquid such as water and for ejecting an atomized mist of liquid droplets. The nozzle includes a nozzle body defining first (60), second (44) and third (52 | 05/31/2005 |
| 6840463 | Quick color change system A quick color change system for powder coating spray systems includes a powder pump having a powder inlet and a powder outlet, and a powder flow path extending straight from the powder inlet to the powder outlet on a single longitudinal axis, a pump frame on which t... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6729561 | Cleaning nozzle and substrate cleaning apparatus A cleaning nozzle includes a mixing portion with inner walls thereof formed of quartz given smoothing treatment. As a result, the inner walls of the mixing portion have smooth surfaces. This construction effectively suppresses abrasion of the inner walls of the mixi... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6626158 | Mixing device to mix gas fuel with air for internal combustion engines A MIXING DEVICE OF GAS FUEL WITH AIR FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES, apt to be inserted in an air supply conduit towards the carburetor, in coaxial arrangement and in direct communication with the air inlet opening of the same carburetor, of the type tha... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6595163 | High pressure steam water injector comprising an axial drain The steam injector is characteristic in its high pressure and improved start-up. It uses an axial drain (10) positioned in the centre of the neck (5) downstream from the mixing chamber (4) and inserted in the diffuser (7) for the purpose of narrowing the ... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6338444 | Spray nozzle A spray nozzle has a pre-chamber and a mixing region. A first inlet defines a first fluid flow path for admittance of a first fluid to the pre-chamber. A second inlet defines a second fluid flow path which is crossed by the first fluid flow path for admit... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6322000 | Convergent spray nozzle shut-down system A shut-off system that is semi-automatic or fully automatic shuts off the mechanism for flowing resin, air and filler to a miniaturized convergent spray gun so as to stop the flow of the ingredients of being sprayed and purging the spray gun so that the r... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6283386 | Kinetic spray coating apparatus An apparatus is disclosed for kinetic spray coating of substrate surfaces by impingement of air or gas entrained powders of small particles in a range up to at least 106 microns accelerated to supersonic velocity in a spray nozzle. Preferably powders of m... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6174161 | Method and apparatus for partial oxidation of black liquor, liquid fuels and slurries Method and apparatus for combusting and/or gasifying a generally viscous liquid or a slurry wherein the liquid or slurry are atomized in a central atomization device within a burner housing the central atomization device using a portion of a gaseous oxida... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6164567 | Gas and fluid jet apparatus The present invention relates to the field of jet technology. According to the invention the ration between the surface area of the minimal cross-section of the mixing chamber and the surface area of the minimal cross-section of the active liquid nozzle is mor... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5992763 | Nozzle and method for enhancing fluid entrainment A nozzle 10 and method for enhancing entrainment of a fluid near a face 18 of the nozzle 10, where the nozzle 10 includes a nozzle body 18 defining a nozzle opening 14 for ejecting a fluid therethrough. At least one indentation 20 is formed in the nozzle ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5934566 | Washing apparatus and washing method The present invention is directed to providing an apparatus which is improved so as to remove a contamination on a substrate efficiently. This apparatus includes a jet nozzle jetting out droplets toward a substrate. A liquid supply device and a gas supply... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5918817 | Two-fluid cleaning jet nozzle and cleaning apparatus, and method utilizing the same A two-fluid cleaning jet nozzle has an atomizing unit provided with an atomizing tube in which a liquid is atomized by a pressurized gas into liquid droplets, and an accelerating unit provided with an accelerating tube which accelerates and jets the liqui... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5813610 | Air drying system with paint coating apparatus Paint coating apparatus exposes paint only to treated dried air. Air taken from a local source is preferably dried to a dew point temperature which removes any potentially damaging moisture that would otherwise be in the air. The thus dried air is provide... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5814121 | Oxygen-gas fuel burner and glass forehearth containing the oxygen-gas fuel burner An oxygen-gas fuel burner (12) for use in a refractory burner block (20) of glass distribution and conditioning channels (14) for thermally treating glass (18). The oxygen-gas fuel burner (12) includes a gas fuel conduit (26) extending to a central fuel o... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5580237 | Oxidant lancing nozzle An oxidant lancing nozzle and lancing method wherein first and second oxidant streams are injected into a combustion zone under defined conditions enabling the lancing of oxygen to augment a main combustion reaction with improved flame stability and uncha... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5520331 | Liquid atomizing nozzle A convergent/divergent gas nozzle atomizes a liquid provided through a lid delivery tube having an aperture which is centered within a central gas conduit of an upstream mixing block connected to the nozzle. The aperture of the liquid delivery tube is lo... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5511725 | Method and nozzle for supplying paste fuel to a fluidized bed The nozzle contains a conduit for supply of paste fuel. A tapering end of the conduit is located towards an outlet for the nozzle. A spout for supplying splitting air is directed towards the outlet for the nozzle. The jet of splitting air is imparted by t... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5509849 | Blast nozzle for water injection and method of using same for blast cleaning solid surfaces To reduce dust and improve the productivity of wet blasting, a blast nozzle and a method of using same are provided for directing a stream of abrasive particles entrained in compressed air to a targeted surface and for injecting a pressurized water stream... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5467928 | Oxy-fuel cutting tip having gas outlet passages A multi-part oxy-fuel cutting tip has mixture outlet passages formed in the tip skirt to form grooves. The grooves then cooperate with the tip core to form the outlet passages when the skirt is placed over the tip core. Oppositely directed circumferential... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5462229 | Steam injector A steam injector includes a casing having a water supply port and a steam intake port, the casing being generally composed of two halves fastened integrally, a water nozzle and a steam nozzle both disposed in the casing and communicated with the water sup... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5456415 | Atomizing nozzle for liquids A nozzle body defines a first passage for receiving liquid from an ejector pump, and a first orifice extends from the liquid passage to a flat wall surface. The body also defines a second passage for receiving low pressure air which flows radially inwardl... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5393220 | Combustion apparatus and process Processes and apparatus for combusting fluid fuel, e.g., liquid fuel, in at least two combustion zones, wherein the fluid fuel is partially combusted with a fluid fuel atomizing or dispersing fluid containing oxygen in an initial combustion zone and is co... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5253374 | Method and apparatus for maintaining level of water in above-ground swimming pools The water level of an above-ground swimming pool is maintained at a predetermined level by a small tank attached to the edge of the pool. The conduit is comprised of a Y-connection fitting having a stem and two arm portions. An eye is attached to the fitt... | 10/19/1993 |
