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US 5,341,991 AGranted
Method and apparatus for atomizing liquids
AssigneeMitab Montage & Industriteknik AB
InventorFolke C. G. Ericsson
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AssigneeMitab Montage & Industriteknik AB
InventorFolke C. G. Ericsson
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A drive gas flowing into a nozzle is allowed to suck with it, by ejector action, an extraneous gaseous medium such as ambient air, the sucked-up medium entraining from a container the liquid to be atomized. The liquid is atomized as the ambient air is mixed with the drive gas flow. An apparatus for carrying out this method includes a nozzle for supplying the drive gas, the container for supplying liquid which is to be atomized, and an inlet between the container and the nozzle for supplying ambient air, or another gaseous medium, to be sucked along with and mixed with the drive gas. A portion of the container in communication with the inlet provides an outlet through which the liquid is entrained by the inrushing ambient air as it is sucked into the drive gas flow path. The flow of ambient air past the container opening to the nozzle is adjustable.
A method of atomizing a liquid, comprising the steps of:
An apparatus for atomizing a liquid, comprising gaseous drive medium supply means for supplying a gaseous drive medium to a nozzle element, liquid supply means for supplying liquid which is to be atomized, inlet means for permitting a second gaseous medium to be sucked in by, and mixed with, the drive medium within a mixing portion of said nozzle element as a result of an ejector action caused when the drive medium passes through the nozzle element, said liquid supply means comprising a container means located outside of the mixing portion of said nozzle element, said container means including an at least partially opened upper part in communication with a flow path of said second gaseous medium for causing liquid in the container means to be caused by said ejector action to successively rise above the container means upper part and into said flow path and to be continuously entrained by said second gaseous medium and atomized in the mixture of gaseous media.
An apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein said first and second chambers are each defined by a common partition wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.