Modular chemical dispensing assembly
AssigneeHydra-Flex, Inc.
InventorsJaime L. Harris, Karl J. Fritze
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Abstract
A chemical dispensing system including a rack based system that can hold a plurality of chemical dispensing containers. The chemical dispensing containers can make use of concentrates or hyper concentrates of chemicals allowing smaller capacity containers. The rack based system can include a modular rack that is configurable to hold a desired number of containers. Using the modular rack, the containers can be easily ganged together to increase capacity or build in redundancy for one or more of the chemicals through the configuration of a rack manifold constructed of individual manifold segments. Within the manifold, various flow paths can be linked or terminated between adjacent manifold segments and chemical containers.
Claims10
A chemical dispensing system, comprising:
- a manifold member formed of at least two manifold segments, wherein each manifold segment defines a high pressure water channel and a chemical flow channel;
- at least two trays, each tray comprising a support surface configured to support at least two chemical containers containing chemicals thereon;
- at least two injector assemblies, each assembly attached to one of the manifold segments such that the injector assemblies are fluidly coupled to the high pressure water channel, each injector assembly including an injector valve;
- at least two spud assemblies, each spud assembly mounted to the corresponding manifold segment and fluidly coupled to the corresponding injector assembly and configured to be fluidly coupled to a corresponding chemical container;
- wherein selective actuation of the injector valves allows high pressure water to flow into the injector assembly from the high pressure water channel, the high pressure water creating a vacuum condition in the corresponding injector assembly such that chemical is drawn from the corresponding chemical container through the corresponding spud assembly and into a chemical flow channel, whereby the chemical enters the injector assembly and mixes with the high pressure water such that a mixed solution of chemical and water is dispensed from the injector assembly.
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