Flodesign, Inc.

Flodesign Wind Turbine Corporation

Jason Gawencki

Walter M Presz, Jr

Michael J Werle

Stanley J Kowalski, Iii

Thomas J Kennedy, Iii

Bart Lipkens

Jason Dionne

Robert H Dold

William Scott Keeley

Jason Barnes

Timothy Hickey

Fyodor Grechka

John Urbanowicz

A sound suppressor is disclosed. The suppressor includes a housing that contains at least one stepped baffle. Each stepped baffle contains multiple stepped diameters and slots located at the base of each step to allow flow from one side of the baffle to the other. The baffle also includes a central passageway through which the projectile/bullet passes.

Sound suppressor

Systems for protecting a wind turbine in high wind conditions are disclosed. A shrouded turbine may have an ejector shroud disposed adjacent and downstream of a turbine shroud. In one version, the ejector shroud can move to surround the turbine shroud. In another version, the turbine can be pivoted on a support tower to cover the intake end of the turbine and rotate the turbine about an axis at a right angle to the tower axis. In another version, the turbine is supported by a telescoping tower which may be retracted to lower the turbine in high winds. In another version, the tower sections may be connected by a pivotable connection and supported by guy wire(s) which may be lengthened to lower the upper tower section pivotally.

Systems and methods for protecting a wind turbine in high wind conditions

A Controlled Unaided Surge and Purge Suppressor for firearms uses the blast and plume characteristics inherent to the ballistic discharge process to develop a new two-step controlled surge and purge system centered around advanced mixer-ejector concepts. The blast surge noise is reduced by controlling the flow expansion, and the flash effects are reduced by controlling inflow and outflow gas purges. This is a C-I-P application. In the preferred C-I-P embodiment, the blast surge is mitigated via a slotted mixer nozzle; a first expansion chamber; a generally 'wagon-wheel' shaped blast baffle with a vent hole; a series of alternating baffles, with vent holes, strategically located along the suppressor's inner wall surface; a second expansion chamber; and an exit opening. This preferred C-I-P embodiment contains no 'outside' vent holes (i.e., throughbores) which extend through the suppressor's outer or longitudinal wall. Instead of ingesting ambient air through such throughbores and mixing that air with the muzzle gases, as shown in the parent application, the preferred C-I-P embodiment ingests and mixes chamber gases and contaminants with the muzzle gases while allowing fluid flow through and out the suppressor. It too though can control or eliminate the Mach disk.

Controlled-unaided surge and purge suppressors for firearm muzzles

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Jason Gawencki