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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 18, 1995
Chwan-Kong King, Edison, NJ (US);
Chee-Teck Tan, Middletown, NJ (US);
Lewis G Scharpf, Jr, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
David P O'Chat, Morgan, NJ (US);
Marvin Schulman, Howell, NJ (US);
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A toroidal manifold sparger having a hollow toroid member with an upper portion and a lower portion and having a plurality of first openings substantially evenly spaced along the lower portion thereof and all oriented perpendicular to the upper portion in a first and vertically downward direction, a plurality of second openings substantially evenly spaced along the lower portion of the toroid member and all oriented in a second direction, the first openings and the second openings being spaced apart from each other, each of the openings having a trajectory such that the trajectory of all of the first openings is parallel to each other and in a downward direction, and the second openings having a trajectory that radially inwardly converges in a downward direction, the first and second openings being the only openings in the lower portion, the toroid member being suspended from the upper portion.