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Alpha Engineers, Inc.

Williams, Eddy Arnold

Eddy Arnold Williams

Charles Leroy Williams

Gary M Vezzoso

A hand-held massaging system includes a swivel coupling for removably attaching a massage tool to a reciprocating motor having a shaft having a stroke axis and a stroke length. The swivel coupling consists of a thrust journal and a cylindrical cup, an inner diameter of the cup providing a swivel bearing and bottom of the cup forming a thrust bearing. When the shaft reciprocates at a forced frequency, the thrust journal is retained within the cup by stick-slip friction that allows the thrust journal to swivel within the cup and to slip along the stroke axis. The thrust journal and cup attach between the massage tool and the shaft.

Stick-slip frictional swivel coupling for a massage tool reciprocated at forced frequency

A massage tool includes a rod having a proximal end and a distal end, and a body follower having a proximal side and a distal side. The proximal end is configured for attachment to a reciprocating shaft of a reciprocating motor. The reciprocating shaft has a stroke axis and a stroke length, and the distal end of the rod is configured to rotatably attach to the proximal side of the body follower by means of a rotating joint defining a center of rotation. The distal side of the body follower may include a body contact area having a maximum length at least three times greater than a minimum distance from the center of rotation of the rotating joint to the body contact area.

Massage tool rotatably attachable to a reciprocating motor

Disclosed is a contaminated waste steam heat recovery apparatus 10 and method therefore which includes a primary condensing unit 38, a low pressure water washing unit 26, a liquid to liquid heat exchanger 36 and a vent fan 31. Waste gas is ducted from fryer 11 to a de-super-heating chamber 14 wherein superheated steam is converted to saturated steam by spraying water into the steam using spray nozzles 15. The gas is then introduced into a vertically disposed air to liquid heat exchanger 16 and is drafted downward therethrough. As heat is removed from the waste gas, water vapor in the steam condenses and in the process, collects some of the oil and hydrocarbons present. A plurality of condensate trays 19 are disposed below the bottom end of heat exchanger 16 in a cascading fashion to collect hold the condensate in the airflow path such that it will absorb some of the heat still present in the remaining waste gas. An oil outlet 22 is provided at the top of collection basin 22 for drawing off concentrated oil 23. The waste gas is pulled into a low pressure water washer 26 where it is washed by a second set of spray nozzles 15. Waste gas and water are sucked downward through a set of turbulence inducing baffles 28. The remaining waste gas is sucked out though exhaust tube 30, using vent fan 31, and vented to the atmosphere.

Apparatus and method for extracting heat from contaminated waste steam

A steam system is disclosed having a steam boiler (14) designed to produce an adjustable supply of boiler steam and a steam accumulator (12) designed to supply all of the steam to steam load (66) as opposed to functioning as an auxiliary source to boiler (14). Steam accumulator (12) is a pressure vessel designed to function as a wet steam accumulator and sized to provide large quantities of steam in short bursts for a predetermined period of time to a sustained cyclic steam load (66) for a period of time sufficient to compensate for the time delays necessary to adjust the boiler steam produciton rate to equal changes in the average of the cyclic demand load. Accumulator (12) is formed of a pressurized vessel having a plurality of tubes (54) therein which are designed to have a sufficient heat transfer surface to transfer the majority of energy from boiler steam to the heated accumulator water (67) through conduction of heat through the tube heat transfer surfaces so that the majority of the boiler steam is actually condensed prior to being discharged into the heated accumulator water (67).

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Pocatello, ID, United States of America

Eddy Arnold Williams