Watkins Manufacturing Corporation

Itt Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.

Itt Corporation

Xylem IP Holdings, LLC

Glenair, Inc.

Chris Harold McDonald

Douglas Reid Gastineau

Richard K Kunkel

Larry Childerston

David L Phillips

Rene A Mosquera

Mehrdad Ghara

John J Fong

Peter Wright

Zachary Wade Taylor

Thang Quoc Dang

Gerard Keith Caldwell

Aaron Nathan Keep

Sohrab Safai

Carl Rodney Bunke

Daniel Gudalj

Erik A Fort

David Allen

A connector assembly comprises front and rear connector bodies, a wire grommet with wire passages, and a nut. Tightening the nut forces a rearward portion of the grommet into a tapered segment of a passage through the rear connector body, thereby radially compressing the grommet and sealing the wires passing therethrough.

Sealed electrical connector assembly

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for separating air from a fluid, such as syrup, as the fluid enters a first chamber of a system; passing the fluid from the first chamber to a second chamber via a first device; passing the air from the first chamber to the second chamber via a second device so as to reintroduce the air back into the fluid and form a new fluid mixture having more uniform air bubbles; and discharging the new fluid out of the system.

Beverage air management dispensing system

A laminar flow waterfall in the form of a single or multiple streams of water, each exiting from a nozzle in the top edge of a spa. The laminar water stream is created by a venturi nozzle located in a plenum chamber. The inlet side of the nozzle has a cover with a plurality of small holes forcing the water flow to enter the nozzle as laminar flow. A flow divider inside the venturi nozzle, from the inlet to the restriction of the nozzle, maintains the flow laminar through the nozzle. Light is injected into the flow divider at the inlet and is carried by the flow divider to be injected into the water flow at the restriction of the nozzle.

Laminar flow lighted waterfall apparatus for spa

A two-stage fluid pressure control valve has five components. An inlet socket with separate fluid flow orifices sealably engages an outlet socket which also has separate fluid flow orifices. A pressure check piston having a fluid flow orifice along its longitudinal central axis slidably engages the inlet socket and the outlet socket. A spring located along the central axis of the outlet socket biases the pressure check piston in an open position, allowing fluid to flow through all orifices. Fluid flow through the control valve may impact the pressure check piston to overcome the spring force, moving the pressure check piston to a closed position, whereby fluid flows only through the orifice in the pressure check piston.

Flow control valve

A dry suction fitting assembly is provided for drawing water from a spa, whirlpool bathtub or other suitable water tub to a pump, featuring a suction body for arranging in relation to a wall of the spa, whirlpool bathtub or other suitable water tub. The suction body is arranged in relation to a wall of the spa, whirlpool bathtub or other suitable water tub, has a suction inlet for coupling to the pump, and has an internal surface with an equilibrium tube arranged therein with three openings, a first opening that acts as a water flow inlet, a second opening that is open to the atmosphere via a connection hose or other suitable connection device and that is filled with water during normal operation, and a third opening that is a safety orifice coupled to the suction inlet. During normal operation water flows from the first opening, through the equilibrium tube, and out the third opening. During a blockage when water stops flowing through the suction body to the suction inlet and water pressure decreases, water in the equilibrium tube evacuates out the third opening, and air is drawn from the atmosphere through the second opening and out the third opening, causing the pump to cavitate so the blockage may be removed.

Dry suction fitting assembly

A connector includes sheet metal contacts () with termination ends () for terminating to wires and with mating ends () for mating to other contact devices such as circuit board pads. Each terminating end includes a wide groove part () with a groove bottom () that receives the wire insulation and with a pair of wide groove part wings () that are crimped around the insulation. Each termination end also includes a narrow groove part () for receiving a bared conductor of the wire, the narrow groove part having a bottom () that is offset from the wide groove part bottom (), and the narrow groove part having a pair of narrow groove part wings () that are crimped around the wire conductor.

Modular high density connector

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Yorba Linda, CA, United States of America

Chris Harold McDonald