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US 2022/0282723 A1Published application
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.
Claims19
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.
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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 the generated liquid jet accelerates material in at least a downstream tube section partly into an opening upstream tube section which then holds the material part.
A tube section comprising:
- a pump driven nozzle in the tube section positioned under and in operation directed at material to be held therein and to be accelerated out, and/or
- a flexible inner tube fixed in the tube section and having a pressure space between the tube section and the flexible inner tube which can be pressurised or depressurized by a liquid pump to close or open multifunctional as a valve, and which flexible inner tube when closing is arranged as a pump, to propel a liquid out of the flexible inner tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.