Method and apparatus for control of fluids

A fluid control device, comprising:

• (a) an axially-extending, unobstructed and unimpeded open and straight-through, fluid permeable, centrally, concentrically and co-axially disposed, smoothly and projectionlessly surfaced, substantially tubular main channel for fluid conduction, the said main channel having an unreducing and substantially constant diameter and having a plurality of individually streamlined, fluid-contact-leading-edge-rounded and unitary-flow-direction-angled fluid-permeable opening means for insuring a peripheral portion of fluid travelling within the said channel to non-turbulently escape and expand from the said channel, the said channel and opening means having proportions and diameters modifiable in manufacture to allow individualized application of the said device to fluid substances having varied physical properties, and the said channel having a portion of its axial length imperforate and extending through and from an intake end of the said device, forming an intake bushing for attachment to a source of fluid flow, the said bushing being modifiable in proportion with the said channel and for the same purpose;
• (b) a series of fluid conductor/deflector means, each having substantially truncated frusto-conical configuration and being posited successively downstream from one another so that a base of a frustum of one cone fits over an apex of a frustum of a next successively downstream cone, having transverse surfaces of compound reversing parabolic sine-wavelike curvature, being concavo-convex upon an outer transverse surface of one and convexo-concave upon an inner transverse surface, on a line taken from apex to base of any cone, the said conductor/deflector means being attached at their apexes to and diverging from the said main channel at a substantially downstream-angled pitch with respect to a longitudinal axis of the said main channel, whereby fluid escaping from the said main channel is directed against the convex surface of a cone, deflected and conducted to expand toward a radially outer periphery through sine-wavelike circumferentially expanding flow and discharged at the said periphery of each cone in a downstreamly axial direction, and proportions of each geometric spatial unit of the said conductor/deflector means, diameters of the apexes and bases of the said cones and angles of pitch with respect to the axis of the said main channel being variable in manufacture to fit varied applications and various fluid physical properties;
• (c) an imperforate, substantially cylindrical housing, enclosing the said main channel and conductor/deflector means, the said housing having an enlarged, elongate, tubular intermediate center section and having end-closure formed from and by two curvilinearly tapered and sections having compoundly curved walls narrowing from a diameter of the said center section through a reversing double-parabolic curvature to form end walls having a truncated substantially bottleneck configuration at each end of the said housing, the said end sections having each an opening centrally posited with respect to a cross-sectional diameter of the said housing and co-axially aligned with one another and with the longitudinal axes of the said main channel and the said housing, an inlet-end opening snugly fitting, affixing and sealing with an outside diameter of the said imperforate intake bushing portion of the said main channel, an an outlet-end section integrally forming a outlet channel from an outlet-end section end wall by extending on tubular portion of the outlet-end said bottleneck configuration, the said tubular portion having an integral surface curvilinearly integral with that of the said housing to insure non-turbulent exit-flow, an external surface of the said outlet-end tubular portion serving as an outlet-end bushing for connection to an indefinitely extending outlet means, such as an exhaust pipe, or the said tubular portion may remain without connections as an outlet conduction channel, and an inner surface of said housing being in sufficiently close approach with peripherally outermost curved surfaces and trailing edges of the said conductor/deflector means to form a series of curvilinearly narrowing restrictive annular openings between the said inner housing outer deflector surfaces and to force a marked acceleration of flow in fluid passing therethrough, and said openings so angled as to cause downstreamly axial directional discharge, whereby forming a closely limiting boundary-layer jetstream-space wherein the said housing defines the outermost course of the said expanding fluid;
• (d) the said device having no practical large or small size limitations and proportions remaining variable in manufacture according to fluid substance viscous resistance, shear stress and other characteristics of individual fluid substance dynamics and being variable in proportions with regard to the said restrictive openings, to accommodate varying physical properties of different flowing subdivided solid particles flowing through the said device and for varying types of applications of the said apparatus;
• (e) all internal fluid-substance-contacting surfaces, corners, porosities, perforations, edges and fluid conducting or deflecting means are formed, treated, angled and smoothed so as to have no scooping surfaces, forms or edges and no sufficiently blunted, sharp or projecting edges, shoulders, surface roughnesses or planes opposed to, at obstructively oblique angles or so angled as to obtrude into or intersect a unitary path of substantially axially directed, non-turbulent flow at any micro-stage of entire flow-process within the said device which could cause bluff-body effects, leading-edge shock-wavefronts, fluid cavitation, projective and surface-skin fluid-frictions or boundary-layering, and the said treatment being a means to eliminate turbulence and/or acoustical frequencies altering an intended free, smooth and noiseless flow of fluid substances upon encounter with the said surfaces of the said device at operant velocities and pressures of fluid flow, and all angles, proportions, openings and slopes are stream-liningly adjusted in manufacturing to optimum computations for specific applications and specific fluid properties and characteristics.