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US 2003/0071077 A1Published application
Fluid slug launcher
OwnerJames Samuel Panzarellainventor
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Abstract
Apparatus for projecting a slug of liquid through the air. The invention provides means to accelerate liquid molecules to substantially equal velocity, and then to release them with minimal turbulence.
Claims14
A fluid slug launcher, comprising:
- a fluid container having a first end and an opposing end, with side walls substantially parallel to a straight axis, a substantially unrestricted exit opening at said first end of said container through which contained fluid can exit said container, and a second opening at the opposing end of said container;
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- a moveable piston positioned inside the side walls of said container having means to travel inside said container in a direction parallel to said axis of said container, having an external cross section of like shape but smaller than the internal cross section of said side walls of said container, and having means to form a seal restricting said contained fluid from leaking from said second opening of said container.
A fluid slug launcher, comprising:
- a container for fluid having side walls which are substantially parallel to a straight axis, and having a substantially unrestricted exit opening at one end through which contained fluid can exit said container, and having a second opening at the opposing end of said container;
- and a sixth means for substantially restricting said contained fluid from passing though said second opening while said container is moving at constant velocity or accelerating in a direction from said second opening toward said exit opening;
- but capable, when said container is decelerated in said direction, of releasing the seal formed by said means for restricting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.