B05B 3/16
Driven or controlled by the liquid or other fluent material discharged
Official title: driven or controlled by the liquid or other fluent material discharged, e.g. the liquid actuating a motor before passing to the outlet {(comprising liquid driven rotors wherein the rotation of the outlet element is reversible B05B3/0432; the outlet elements being rotated by a deflecting element successively moved into the discharged jet by the action of a biasing means and out of the discharged jet by the discharged jet with the rotation of the outlet elements being reversible B05B3/0461)}
B05B3/16 (Driven or controlled by the liquid or other fluent material discharged) appears on 115 US grants and 81 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B05B- Granted patents
- 115
- Published applications
- 81
- Assignees
- 65
- Inventors
- 205
- Latest grant
- 23 Jun 2026
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| 2025 | 7 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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