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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7234537 | Sonic drill A sonic drilling apparatus having a work piston within a cylinder chamber to provide a vibratory force through the alternate application of fluid under pressure into the bore above and below the piston in a manner that the piston will be forced to reciprocate within... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7063748 | Methods for coating particles and particles produced thereby Methods of coating core materials by providing target materials and core materials; ablating the target materials to form ablated particulate target materials; and coating the core materials with said ablated particulate target materials; wherein the method is perfo... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6966751 | Turbine vibrator A turbine vibrator including a housing having a first end and a second end and a generally cylindrical internal surface forming a cylindrical central chamber. An end cap is attached to each end of the housing including one or more outlet ports in fluid communication... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6857773 | Compressed gas operated orbital rolling member vibrator having low noise properties A compressed air or gas operated vibrator that has a cylindrical housing with a raceway located and formed therein. The raceway is sized and shaped for guiding a rolling member along an orbital path. The vibrator also includes at least one removable end cap for clos... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6244815 | High efficiency terry turbine motor and vibrator A pneumatically-driven, turbine device comprises a Terry turbine rotor coaxially disposed within a rigid housing equipped with a reentry port bordering an exhaust port. The rotor comprises a plurality of radially spaced-apart air buckets. An air pathway i... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6053629 | Vibration generating device A vibration generating device is provided. Where a bucket link is replaced by the vibration generating device, the vibration generating device is connected to a main operating valve by conduits. Since both flow rate control valve and fluid motor are house... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5997172 | Air-driven vibrator The air-driven vibrator (10) includes a disc-shaped vibratory element (40) movably received in a disc-shaped working chamber (38). Upon injecting air jets into the chamber (38) through tangential injection ports (46), the element (40) is rotated and oscil... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5871277 | Industrial vibrator An industrial vibrator for imparting vibrations which cause the flow of bulk particulate matter. The industrial vibrator is comprised of a housing and a reciprocating piston vertically movable within the cylinder bore of the housing. The piston is driven ... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5836683 | Mixing apparatus using acoustic resonance A mixing apparatus is used in mixing two fluids, such as two liquids, a liquid and a solid, or a liquid and a gas, within beer fermenter, microorganism culture mediums, waste water disposal plants, and other chemical processes. It is high in efficiency an... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5788367 | Pneumatic vibrator A pneumatic vibrator having reduced noise levels is provided with an exhaust chamber in a baseplate thereof. The exhaust chamber is limited by walls of the baseplate, a bushing, and the outer surface of a hollow elastic element. The elastic element is a t... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5544683 | Sample filling device A method and an apparatus for the automatic quantitative filling of powdered or granulated samples for analytic measurement purposes as well as a shaking and holding device for sample substances utilized therefor with which precisely admeasured amounts of... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5531157 | Sterilization and homogenization of fluid substances by high frequecy vibration In a process for sterilization and homogenization of a liquid or fluid, these operations are carried out by subjecting the liquid or fluid to ultrasonic frequency vibrations for a predetermined period of time. In a device for carrying out the process, the... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5439290 | Fluid flow conduit vibrator and method Vibrations are created in a flow conduit by constraining a bluff object having a plurality of positions between which flow of fluid forces the bluff object. In a preferred embodiment, the vibration technique is utilized in a gravel packing tool. Gravel pa... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5433523 | Vibrators An improved pneumatic vibrator configuration is provided. Specifically, the vibrator is annular in configuration which enables functional elements of adjacent components in a multi-component system to be passed through the vibrator. The configuration of t... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5314305 | Compressed air vibrator with turbine drive The compressed air vibrator has a housing (1) with an inlet opening (8) for admitting compressed air to a chamber (14) and an outlet opening (9) for the exit of air from the chamber (14). Ball bearing assemblies (11, 15) are disposed with slight play on t... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5209564 | Vibrator A pneumatic vibrator is disclosed including a tubular housing having closed ends, an inlet port in the housing through which a fluid, such as air can flow into the housing, and a free-floating piston in the housing having two passageways through which the... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5129553 | Aeration device A flow cone aerator for assisting discharge of material from containers. The aerator includes an inverted cone shaped hollow support adapted to be affixed to a wall of the container with the small diameter end of the support adjacent the interior surface ... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5095809 | Piston vibrator having an asymmetric cylindrical bore The invention relates to a piston vibrator comprising a case with at least one cylindrical bore (5), at least one air connection (7) taken laterally to the bore (5), and a piston (2) longitudinally displaceable in the bore (5). As a means of making such a... | 03/17/1992 |
| 4885098 | Sonic method for facilitating the removal of solid particles from a slurry An elastic bar member is coupled to an orbiting mass oscillator and the entire assembly is suspended from a cable or the like such that the bar member has freedom of lateral motion and is nakedly immersed in a slurry having particulate material contained ... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4883532 | Sonic method for facilitating the extraction of minerals from ore in a leachant An elastic bar member is clamped to an orbiting mass oscillator and the entire assembly is suspended from a cable or the like such that the bar member has freedom of lateral motion and is nakedly immersed in a leachant having a material contained therein ... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4824258 | Fluid driven screw type (moyno) sonic oscillator system A screw shaped rotor is freely mounted for rolling rotation in a mating screw shaped stator which is mounted in a housing. The rotor is rotatably driven by means of a fluid stream to generate sonic energy in the housing with a lateral mode of vibration at... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4820056 | Fluidization apparatus A fluidization apparatus for powder coating devices is provided which comprises a housing that is subdivided by a porous horizontal wall into an upper housing portion and a lower housing portion. The lower housing portion is provided with a compressed air... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4818115 | Device to mechanically break apart a barrier A device to mechanically decompose a barrier which separates two or more mutually miscible ingredients and mixes the said ingredients, preferably a mixer for amalgam in capsules. The device 1 comprises first members to fixedly hold the said ingredients an... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4787751 | Bone cement mixing device A bone cement mixing device has a holding chamber mounted in a housing for vibration with its top extending through the top of said housing. A nitrogen operated vibrator vibrates said holding chamber and the interior of said chamber is connected to a vacu... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4604029 | Compressed-air vibrator with turbine drive A compressed-air vibrator with a turbine drive, which includes an unbalanced cylindrical rotor, an essentially closed housing having a cylindrical chamber in which the rotor is rotatably supported, with an inlet opening on the housing for the inlet of com... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4588300 | Vibrator assembly An impact vibrator for electrostatic precipitators and the like having a vibrator means interconnected in coaxial alignment with a mounting means adapted to receive a conventional rod member, the mounting means being interconnected to the vibrator whereby... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4585355 | Concrete mixer truck The invention relates to a concrete mixer truck having a rotatably driven mixer drum, particularly a drum provided with interior mixing elements, and a hydraulic system as a drive source for the mixing process. It is intended to enhance the effect of the mixin... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4483695 | Apparatus for vibration separation of oil and water An elongated casing is provided and is closed at one end. A fluid pressure actuated elongated internal vibrator of the type including an internal fluid pressure driven eccentric weight orbital about an axis extending centrally longitudinally through the v... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4435083 | Self-clamping rotary vibrator and mount therefor A rotary vibrator having a cylindrical shape and an outer cam strip running the length thereof is mounted in a housing which has a matching inner cam strip and is affixed to a structure to be vibrated. Vibrator migratory movement during operation causes t... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4428678 | Concrete vibrator A vibrator is provided which includes a free rolling rotor contained in a housing having a nose end portion. The rotor has a number of pockets for receiving ball pistons. Each pocket communicates with a valve port. Pressurized fluid sequentially passes th... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4427384 | Vibratory dental scaler A dental scaler in which a scaling tool is coupled to a relatively rigid inner tubular member supported within an outer housing for vibration in response to relatively high speed rotation of a thin-walled tubular element located within an inner chamber in... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4344859 | Homogenizing system for producing high polymer latices Combination of steps are disclosed which enable the preparation of stable latices of high solids content. The process is characterized, inter alia, by the establishment of a flow of steam as a continuous phase into which an emulsion of a cement of the pol... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4293231 | Bearingless vibrator A pneumatic vibrator is provided which operates without the use of bearings. The vibrator includes a generally cylindrically formed housing and a cylindrical shaped rotor contained within the housing. The housing includes an inlet for receiving pressurize... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4288165 | Vibratory actuator incorporating hydrodynamic journal bearing A vibratory actuator (22) includes a housing (62), a rotatable shaft, (78) extending through the housing, and an eccentric member (80) to which the shaft is secured. Vibration is effected upon rotation of the eccentric member (80) by the shaft (78). A hyd... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4271007 | Method and apparatus for the prevention of solids deposits in a tubular reactor by pulsed flow Deposit of solids on the walls of tubular continuous flow reactors is avoided by a process and apparatus in which an oscillating motion is superimposed on the linear flow of reactants in order to maintain turbulent flow throughout.... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4218221 | Production of fuels Apparatus and method for producing a fuel comprised of oil and water in which a mixture of oil and water is constituted as an emulsion by exposure to agitation effective to cause cavitation within the mixture.... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4168917 | Vibrator A vibrator, actuated by a pressure fluid to impart oscillations to a working platform carrying the material being handled, comprises a stationary base on which an elastic member is mounted on the side facing said working platform so as to adjoin the worki... | 09/25/1979 |
| 4147516 | Oscillatory mechanisms An oscillatory mechanism, designed particularly for use in a laboratory shaker, includes a member, or a system of members, arranged to perform oscillatory movements, the transmission of power to that member or system, whereby its oscillation is caused or ... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4129388 | Vibrator for flowing granular material A reciprocating pneumatic piston vibrator for flowing granular materials is cushioned at an impact and by an elastomer and at the other end by air for reducing the decibel level while transmitting sufficient impact force to begin and maintain granular mat... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4118796 | Device for producing acoustic vibration in flowing liquid or gaseous medium A device for producing acoustic vibration in a flowing liquid or gaseous medium, whereby a liquid or gaseous medium is continuously circulated and periodically subjected to local compression which is converted into mechanical oscillation and the medium pr... | 10/03/1978 |
