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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6955526 | Vacuum generator with flow switching means for varying suction capacity through a plurality of nozzles The vacuum generator is capable of quickly and securely holding and releasing a work piece and capable of reducing amount of consuming compressed air. In the vacuum generator, a first nozzle and a second nozzle jet compressed air toward a diffuser nozzle. The second... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6779985 | Vacuum generating device A vacuum generating device designed to generate negative pressure in an absorption means, such as an absorption pad, of a vacuum system, is disclosed. The vacuum generating device accomplishes the recent trend of compactness and smallness of such devices, effectivel... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6572258 | Apparatus for mixing at least two flowing media The invention features an apparatus for mixing water and a beverage concentrate that includes a first passage channel passing through a housing from an inlet to an outlet, a second passage channel ending downstream in a smaller passage cross-section of th... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6270321 | Suction jet pump A sucking jet pump has a tubular casing 1, in which two flow channels 10, 24 are formed. The first flow channel 10 is the sucking jet pump and the second flow channel 24 is a bypass. The first flow channel 10 is formed by a tube 9 which is integrally form... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6168386 | Device for injecting a liquid in a compressed gas A device for injecting a liquid in a compressed gas contains a reservoir for the liquid, sealed by means of a cover which is provided with a passage for the gas in which opens a liquid channel which is connected to the reservoir. The passage is arranged w... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6162021 | System for pumping liquids using a jet pump and a phase separator A device for co-mingling fluids from separate sources comprises a jet pump having high and low pressure fluid inlets, and a main outlet for discharging a mixture of the two fluids. A phase separator, receiving fluid from another source of fluid, has a flu... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6155796 | Ejector for generating negative pressure The present invention relates to an ejector for generating negative pressure having a pressure connection discharging into a propellant nozzle, and having a suction connection which discharges via a suction conduit into a receiver nozzle. The propellant n... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6152114 | Control valve for a jet pump The invention relates to a overflow valve for a device (1) for pumping fuel, in which the device (1) has a supply container for fuel for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, a catchment (6) disposed in the supply container, a fuel pumping ass... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5730585 | Apparatus for vacuum absorption with retracting reverse flow protection device An apparatus for vacuum absorption is provided which is quiet and simplified with maintaining an absorption power. The apparatus comprises: a tank for accumulating circulating water; a waterway for circulating the circulating water by a pump disposed at a... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5667366 | Jet pump including flexible venturi A jet pump for use in a fuel tank wherein the jet pump includes a flexible venturi. The flexible venturi provides a variable area orifice to accommodate a large range of flow rates while providing a venturi effect throughout the range of flow rates. In ad... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5647210 | Driving device A driving device comprises a source of hydraulic fluid under pressure, a working arrangement (6) having a working chamber (7) intended for receiving hydraulic fluid and a working member (8) adapted to be put in motion on respective fluid supply to and flu... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5320497 | Vacuum feeding apparatus Disclosed herein is a vacuum feeding apparatus for causing a working device such as a suction pad to communicate with a vacuum port so as to enable the working device to attract and hold a work or feed it to a desired position. In the vacuum feeding appar... | 06/14/1994 |
| 4818389 | Skimmer with flow enhancer A skimmer for skimming water from a swimming pool or spa is provided with entraining means for entraining additional water from the pool or spa to thereby increase the flow of water into and out of the skimmer. The entraining means includes two nozzle mem... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4714092 | Ball valve and flowing fluid pressure amplifier A ball valve with a venturi chamber internal thereto as an integral part of the ball itself. The ball valve of the present invention includes a housing with a ball valve rotatably mountable therewithin. The ball is rotatably about an axis about which any ... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4697610 | Faucet proportioner In a preferred embodiment an improved faucet proportioner includes a plate for defining a first stream of water together with additional curtain streams of water adjacent the first stream. The first stream is directed into a venturi for pulling a second l... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4422833 | Pneumatic transfer system and a fluid flow control device therefor A fluid flow control device includes a first fluid flow passageway, a fluid inlet into the first passageway, a fluid outlet from the first passageway, a second fluid flow passageway in flow communication with the first passageway, and a fluid flow-through... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4396356 | Aspirator and aspirating system In an aspirator having convergent and divergent passage sections interconnected by an intermediate passage, the intermediate passage is characterized by an upstream portion having a constant first diameter, a downstream portion having a constant second di... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4395201 | Injector pump There is provided an in-line, two-stage, variable-bypass injector pump for controllably admixing a secondary fluid to a main fluid. The pump comprises a housing connectable into a pipe line carrying the main fluid and a main venturi extending along the ce... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4246922 | Fluid flow control apparatus A plurality of aspirating ejector nozzles are fed with primary fluid which is admitted successively past a modulating valve and throttling orifice to the inlet ports of the nozzles with a portion of the primary fluid being arranged for bypassing the nozzl... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4033706 | Fluid delivery system with a jet pump booster and means to maintain a constant rate of flow through the jet nozzle A fluid delivery system and, more particularly, a system for delivering fuel to an aircraft engine. A positive displacement pump delivers fuel to the engine and is supplied by an ejector boost pump connected to a fuel tank and having a nozzle supplied wit... | 07/05/1977 |
