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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Vernon W Keller, Huntsville, AL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E01H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
239-21 ; 239 141 ;
Abstract
To accomplish the removal of warm fog about an area such as an airport runway (11) shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of nozzles (17) along a line (15) adjacent the area propelled water jets (19) through the fog to heights of approximately twenty-five meters. Each water jet (19) breaks up forming a water drop size distribution that falls through the fog overtaking, colliding, and coalescing with individual fog droplets and thereby removes the fog. A water retrieval system (15) is used to collect the water and return it to reservoirs (21) for pumping it to the nozzles (17) once again.