Anti-hammer device for pulsed liquid-merging system
AssigneeQuadratec Associates
InventorsM. Dee Lynch, James W. Bernklau
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Abstract
An anti-hammer device for use in a two-line liquid-mixing system, where liquids from the two lines are pulse-blended and merged into a single output stream. The device includes a housing divided by a flexible diaphragm into two liquid-receiving plenums, each of which communicates with a different one of the two lines.
Claims1
In combination with a liquid-supply system, wherein liquids from two different input conduits are alternately pulse-blended and merged into a single output conduit, with liquid from substantially one-only of such two input conduits flowing at a given time into the output conduit, a shared anti-hammer device for minimizing liquid hammer in both of the input conduits comprising
- a housing defining an inside void space,
- a flexible diaphragm secured to said housing and spanning said void space so as to divide the same into two liquid-receiving through-flow plenums, and
- for each plenum, a pair of fittings connecting the plenum for through-flow liquid communication with a different one of such two input conduits.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.