Nozzle assembly for air abrasion system
AssigneeAir Techniques, Inc.
InventorsHenry Hubner, Eddy Paultre
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Abstract
A nozzle assembly for a hand piece in an air abrasion system for delivering an abrasive laden air stream to a surface, the nozzle assembly having a connecting member having a channel and being removably mountable to said hand piece, an arcuate conduit member having a channel, the conduit member secured to the connecting member and a nozzle member formed with the channel, the nozzle member mounted within the channel of the conduit member, the nozzle member defined by a tapered channel portion in fluid communication with the channel of the conduit member and a cylindrically-shaped channel portion in communication with said tapered channel portion for directing the abrasive laden air stream in a substantially cylindrically-shaped cross section to the surface to be abraded.
Claims13
A nozzle assembly for a hand piece in an air abrasion system for delivering an abrasive laden air stream to a surface to be abraded which comprises:
- a connecting member having a channel and removably mountable to said hand piece;
- an arcuate conduit member having a channel in communication with said channel of said connecting member, said arcuate conduit member secured to said connecting member, said arcuate conduit member having an arcuate portion having an arc of from between 10 to 105 degrees;
- a nozzle member formed with a delivery channel, said nozzle member mounted within said channel of said arcuate conduit member, said delivery channel of said nozzle member defined by a tapered channel portion in communication with said channel of said arcuate conduit member and a cylindrically-shaped channel discharge portion for directing said abrasive-laden air stream in substantially cylindrically-shaped in cross-section to said surface to be abraded.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.