General Electric Company

Christopher Omalley

Alexander Boris Leibman

Paul Owen Davis

Jerrod Aaron Kappler

Agoston Boroczki

Alaknanda Acharya

Istvan Csanyi

Attila Agod

Shanmugam Venkatachalam Ravi

Guy Henry Turner

Venkata Subbaiah Chennamshetty

An apparatus for delivering additive into a clothes basket and cleaning remaining additive from an additive container are provided. The apparatus includes a clothes basket rotatable about an axis, a motor coupled to the clothes basket, a Venturi component, an additive container connected to a vacuum area of the Venturi component through a U-tube, a water inlet connected to the Venturi component through an inlet hose, an outlet hose connecting the Venturi component to the clothes basket, a valve controlling flow of water into the inlet hose, a valve controlling flow of water into the additive container, and a processor coupled to the motor and the valves, the processor being operative to manipulate the valve controlling flow of water into the inlet hose and the valve controlling flow of water into the additive container to deliver additive into the clothes basket and to clean remaining additive from the additive container.

Apparatus and method for utilizing a venturi effect in a dispenser

A High Intensity Discharge lamp and method of making same having an arc tube defining a discharge chamber with opposite ends of the tube each receiving an electrode extending into the discharge chamber and define an axial gap therebetween. A thermal shield extends from each opposite end of the arc tube and defines a radial gap with the tube. The thermal shields in some embodiments extend from end plugs in the arc tube; and, in another embodiment use formed, integrally with one arc tube sections and the tube sections joined.

Ceramic arc tube for a discharge lamp and method of making same

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

Christopher Omalley