Bowles Fluidics Corporation

Steven Crockett

Keith Schloer

Aland Santamarina

Russell Hester

Alan Romack

Jerry Wayne Thurber, Jr

Jason Farber

Greg Russell

The present invention is directed to a microflush urinal that includes a piece of chinaware in fluid communication with a pre-existing water supply and a waste removal conduit. A valve means in electrical communication with each of a sensor means and a fluid manifold effects delivery of incoming fluid to a water delivery means. The water delivery means is desirably a nozzle means selected from one of a plurality of fluidic nozzles that delivers pressurized water through an ingress defined in a rear wall of the chinaware. The nozzle desirably oscillates water for full coverage of the urinal's rear and side walls. A tarp portion that aesthetically obstructs the ingress assumes a generally scalloped shape to optimize the water distribution along the urinal's rear and side walls. At least one trough is integrated into one or more urinal sidewalls to guide water from the nozzle toward the waste removal conduit.

Microflush urinal with oscillating nozzle

Methods of molding fluidic oscillator device having at least a power nozzle for projecting a jet of liquid into an interaction region with an upstream end, opposing side walls, opposing top and bottom walls, and a pair of control ports at the upstream end. The side walls diverge from the power nozzle. A mold cavity is provided in which the power nozzle, interaction region (IR) and control ports can be molded as a core without any seam lines. For a crossover type IR in which the upstream ends diverge and the downstream ends converge to a common throat area and coupled to an outlet aperture, a further mold cavity is provided in which the converging portion of the crossover type interaction region is formed as a second core having a joinder line to the first the core which is transverse to the direction of liquid flow in the fluidic.

Method of molding fluidic oscillator devices

There is disclosed a fluidic spa tub nozzle having a fluidic oscillator with diverging sidewalls and a cooperating mode-change member for changing the mode from an oscillatory swept jet mode to a straight jet mode and positions thereinbetween. The fluidic oscillator has an inertance loop formed by groove plates secured to the top and bottom walls of the fluidic oscillator.

Fluidic spa nozzle

A vehicle air outlet having an outlet bell, an upstream shutoff valve having an open and closed position, a directionality control member which is downstream of the shutoff valve. The upstream shutoff valve includes a flow straightener assembly rendered functional when the shutoff valve is in a fully opened position and non-functional when the shutoff valve is in a closed position. The shutoff valve is mounted on a rotary shaft in the air outlet, and the flow straightener is mounted on the same rotary shaft with the shutoff valve and is operated commonly on an operation of the rotary shaft.

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Hampstead, MD, United States of America

Steven Crockett