Shell nozzle

An outlet nozzle for minimizing the pressure drop in the fluid flowing out of a pressurized fluid handling device having a continuously curved wall portion, comprising:

• pipe means penetrating said continuously curved wall portion of said fluid handling device and extending therethrough into the interior of said device, said pipe means being in sealing engagement with said continuously curved wall portion;
• a bell-shaped orifice body having a mouth end, the end of said orifice body opposite said mouth end being attached to said pipe means within the interior of fluid handling device so that fluid flowing into said mouth end of said orifice body is gathered and directed through said body into said pipe means;
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• mounting plate means disposed about the periphery of said mouth end of said orifice body and extending therefrom into contact with said continuously curved wall portion of said fluid handling device, for eliminating flow behind and directing fluid flow into said bell-shaped orifice body, said mounting plate means having a rectangular flat portion, a first end plate and a second end plate, said first and said second end plates each having a curved edge and being attached to said rectangular portion at opposite edges of said rectangular portion, said rectangular portion being attached to the periphery of said mouth end of said orifice body and extending therefrom so that the opposite edges of said rectangular portion other than said opposite edges to which said first and said second end plates are attached extend to the curved sidewall of said fluid handling device, said end plates being angled from said rectangular portion so that said curved edges of said end plates extend to said curved sidewall along the entire length of said curved edges.