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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2001
Robert L. Kuykendal, High Ridge, MO (US);
Ronald S. Deichmann, House Springs, MO (US);
Other;
Abstract
In FIG. , turbulent water or other fluid enters the nozzle body, , at inlet port, , and encounters the convex surface of a porous filter which has been formed into the shape of a hollow hemisphere, , at the center of which is the exit orifice. As the fluid flows through the hollow hemispherical diffuser it has its Reynold's Number significantly reduced. The energy of any gross turbulences on the convex side of the diffuser tends to be converted to a very great number of micro-turbulences which tend to be self canceling. Since the diffuser, , also shown in FIG. , is shaped as a hollow hemisphere centered upon the exit orifice, , then all water flowing from the diffuser to the exit orifice has substantially the same distance to travel from all directions. With this low-turbulence fluid all having substantially the same straight-line distance to travel to the exit orifice, , there tends to be little new turbulence introduced and the fluid, , exiting the orifice, , tends to be highly laminar.