Snow making method
OwnerAlden W. Hansoninventor
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Abstract
The invention is an improved snow-making machine and method of making snow by effecting crystallization of a water spray in a moving, high volume, unidirectional mechanical movement of air wherein the discharge end of the snow-making apparatus is regularly redirected during operation such that the area of snow particle deposition obtained by the moving discharge end is at least three times greater than the actual area covered by the snow pattern formed by the particles issuing from the discharge end and the movement of the discharge end is at a rate and defines a pattern such that the resultant snow particles are directed to a different portion of the atmosphere and subsequently deposited at a different location than the immediately previously generated particles.
Claims5
In a method for producing artificial snow in a snow making machine which operates by introducing a water spray into a fan-generated large volume unidirectional mechanical movement of air at substantially atmospheric pressure and at a temperature of below 32.degree. F., thereby to effect at least partial crystallization of the droplets of water in the spray, the improvement which comprises regularly redirecting the position and direction of the resultant snow particle laden air stream in a predetermined moving pattern such that the snow particles in the air stream are directed towards a portion of the atmosphere different from that contacted by immediately previously generated snow particles and are deposited onto a different area than such immediately previously generated particles and the cross-sectional area covered by the regularly directed moving pattern of said snow particles is at least three times greater than that covered by the pattern of particles generated by the discharge end of said snow making machine.
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