General Electric Company

Randy S Brown

Robert A Thompson

A novel apparatus capable of measuring distribution of a shot stream is disclosed. More particularly, the apparatus comprises an elongated measurement window positioned within a partition plate. Said elongated measurement window being partitioned into smaller sub-windows, each of which is capable of collecting shot from an area of a shot stream to be measured. This measurement may then be used to determine the peening time needed to fully cover each element of a part's surface with impact dents during a shot peening operation.

Apparatus to measure particle distribution of a shot stream

This invention relates to an apparatus and method for measuring the particle number rate and the particle velocity distribution of a sprayed stream such as, a shot peening system. In particular, a double spinning disk apparatus modified with a stationary aperture and a scanning aperture is used to scan the spayed stream and observe the stream's local properties.

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Schenectady, NY, United States of America

Randy S Brown