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US 12,253,073 B2Granted
Cyclic operating pumping method and system
AssigneeAltop Patents III B.V.
InventorSam Speijers
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Abstract
A method of transporting a material includes at least one series of interconnected tube sections that can be opened or closed. At least one downstream tube section holds the material to be transported. A liquid jet is generated which accelerates the held material upstream out of at least the first downstream tube section into at least one opening upstream tube section which then holds a material part waiting for a next liquid jet to propagate that part to the next upstream tube section.
Claims16
A method of transporting a material comprises:
- using at least one series of interconnected tube sections that can be opened or closed, the interconnected tube sections including a first downstream tube section and at least one opening upstream tube section;
- holding the material to be transported in the first downstream tube section;
- and
- generating a liquid jet which accelerates the held material upstream wherein at least a part of the material is forced out of at least the first downstream tube section and into the at least one opening upstream tube section which then holds the part of the material waiting for a next liquid jet to propagate at least a further part of material to a next upstream tube section in that by opening and closing the interconnected tube sections selectively, successive parts of the material confined between closed tube sections are stepwise transported through the series of interconnected tube sections.
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A method of transporting a material comprises:
- using at least one series of interconnected tube sections that can be opened or closed, the interconnected tube sections including a first downstream tube section and at least one opening upstream tube section, wherein the interconnected tube sections have a flexible inner tube fixed therein;
- holding the material to be transported in the first downstream tube section;
- generating a liquid jet which accelerates the held material upstream wherein at least a part of the material is forced out of at least the first downstream tube section and into the at least one opening upstream tube section which then holds the part of the material waiting for a next liquid jet to propagate at least a further part of material to a next upstream tube section;
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- pressurising or depressurising a pressure space between the interconnected tube sections and the flexible inner tube a resulting in inward or outward flexing of the flexible inner tube that closes or opens the respective tube sections.
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A system for transporting material comprising:
- at least one series of interconnected tube sections configured to be opened or closed, whereby in operation tube sections of said series hold the material to be transported, and
- a liquid jet generator arranged in or embodied by respective tube sections whereby a generated liquid jet accelerates material in at least a downstream tube section partly into an opening upstream tube section which then holds the material, wherein the liquid jet generator comprises a pump driven nozzle in the downstream tube section positioned under the material to be accelerated.
A method of transporting a material comprises:
- using at least one series of interconnected tube sections that can be opened or closed, the interconnected tube sections including a first downstream tube section and at least one opening upstream tube section;
- holding the material to be transported in the first downstream tube section;
- and
- generating a liquid jet which accelerates the held material upstream wherein at least a part of the material is forced out of at least the first downstream tube section and into the at least one opening upstream tube section which then holds the part of the material waiting for a next liquid jet to propagate at least a further part of material to a next upstream tube section, wherein generating the liquid jet directed at the held material to be transported is generated by a tube section downstream relative to the held material, which tube section has an inward flexing inner tube configured to create a pressure space that is pump driven.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.