U.S. patent number 3,896,996 [Application Number 05/462,539] was granted by the patent office on 1975-07-29 for injector with holder for an air mixer or the like.
This patent grant is currently assigned to Airprocess A.G.. Invention is credited to Robert Jacques Roest, Pieter van Ruitenberg.
United States Patent |
3,896,996 |
Roest , et al. |
July 29, 1975 |
Injector with holder for an air mixer or the like
Abstract
An injector with a holder for detachably disposing the injector
in the bottom of the vessel of an apparatus for blowing a gas from
below into said vessel, said injector consisting of an injector
tube and an injector casing situated at some distance about the
injector tube, the adjoining portion of the injector casing and the
holder respectively, having identical conically slanting surfaces
one contacting the other at least at one location.
Inventors: |
Roest; Robert Jacques
(Bloemendaal, NL), Ruitenberg; Pieter van (Hithoorn,
NL) |
Assignee: |
Airprocess A.G. (Altdorf,
CH)
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Family
ID: |
19818716 |
Appl.
No.: |
05/462,539 |
Filed: |
April 19, 1974 |
Foreign Application Priority Data
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Apr 25, 1973 [NL] |
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7305793 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
239/424;
239/600 |
Current CPC
Class: |
B01F
5/0413 (20130101); B01J 8/1827 (20130101); B01F
13/0283 (20130101); B01J 8/44 (20130101); B01F
2015/00084 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
B01J
8/24 (20060101); B01J 8/44 (20060101); B01F
13/02 (20060101); B01F 5/04 (20060101); B01F
15/00 (20060101); B01F 13/00 (20060101); B05b
007/00 () |
Field of
Search: |
;239/420,424,434.5,600,398 ;202/121 ;201/31 ;118/DIG.5
;34/57A,DIG.13 |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
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3708887 |
January 1973 |
Erisman |
3717306 |
February 1973 |
Hushon et al. |
3756922 |
September 1973 |
Schmalfeld et al. |
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Foreign Patent Documents
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666,708 |
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Feb 1952 |
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GB |
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1,191,939 |
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May 1970 |
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GB |
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694,721 |
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Sep 1965 |
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Primary Examiner: Wood, Jr.; M. Henson
Assistant Examiner: Love; John J.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Haseltine, Lake & Waters
Claims
What we claim is:
1. Injector with a holder for detachably disposing the injector in
the bottom of a vessel receiving material to be treated by being
introduced into the vessel and fluidified by blowing a gas from
below into said vessel, the injector comprising an injector tube
and an injector casing situated at some distance about the injector
tube, said casing having at its upper end a closure with an opening
corresponding to the outlet of said injector tube situated under
said opening, the end portion of the wall of said casing turned
away from the closure being outwardly thickened, the face of the
thicker wall part turned towards the closure having a conically
extending slant, the thicker wall part having at least one
transverse channel connecting the outer peripheral surface of the
injector casing with the space between injector tube and injector
casing, said holder being hollow and comprising further a
circumferential wall and on one side a transverse wall with a
central opening having a cross-section smaller than the
cross-section of the hollow space in the holder, the edge of the
transverse wall encircling said central opening and turned towards
said hollow space having a conically extending slant so that after
fitting the injector in the holder the conically extending faces of
the injector casing and of the transverse wall of the holder,
respectively, contacting each other at least at one location.
2. Injector with a holder as claim 1, wherein the thicker wall part
of said injector casing is limited between the channels arranged in
said wall part on one side, on the other side the free lower edge
of said wall part has an outwardly protruding flange, the
circumferential wall of said holder having inwardly directed flange
underneath the channels in said wall so that, after fitting the
injector into the holder the two flanges together with a sealing
disposed thereinbetween contact each other forming a gastight
closure for a portion of the hollow space in the holder, all
channels in the injector casing communicating with said portion of
said hollow space.
3. Injector as claim 2, wherein said hollow holder forms a portion
of a circular channel-shaped elevated part of the bottom of said
vessel, the gastight closed portion of said hollow space in the
holder forming a portion of said circumferential channel in the
elevated part of the bottom of the vessel.
4. Injector with a holder as claim 1, including a plurality of
channels in the circumferential wall of said holder and
corresponding to the number of channels in said thicker wall part
of said injector casing, each of said channels in said holder
corresponding to a channel in said injector casing and in alignment
with the first-mentioned channel.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to an injector with a holder for detachably
disposing the injector in the bottom of the vessel of an apparatus;
the material to be treated is introduced into the vessel and
fluidified by blowing a gas, e.g., air, from below into the vessel,
the injector substantially consisting if an injector tube and an
injector casing situated at some distance about the injector tube,
the casing at its upper end having a closure provided with an
opening, corresponding to the outlet of the injector tube situated
under said opening.
Such injectors are known in the art. One of the important features
of this construction has to be appreciated therein that it should
be easily to fit and to detach the injector, the detachability
should not impair the fluidification of the matter to be
treated.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention aims to provide an injector with holder of a kind
satisfying almost ideally the aforementioned conditions. This is
achieved such that the end part of the wall of the casing turned
away from the closure, is outwardly thickened and -- generally
speaking -- the face of the thicker wall part turned towards the
closure has a conically extending slant, while in the thicker wall
part one or more transverse channels are provided each of them
connecting the outer peripheral surface of the injector casing with
the space between injector tube and injector casing, while the
hollow holder further consists of a circumferential wall and on one
side a transverse wall in which is provided a central opening
having a cross-section inferior to the cross-section of the hollow
room in the holder, the edge of the transverse wall surrounding
said central opening and turned towards said hollow room showing a
conically extending slant so that after fitting the injector in the
holder the conically extending faces of the injector casing and of
the transverse wall of the holder, respectively, contact each other
at least at one location.
Preferably the thicker wall part of the injector casing limited by
the channels arranged in said wall part on one side and on the
other side its free lower edge has an outwardly protruding flange,
whereas the circumferential wall of the holder has an inwardly
directed flange underneath the channels in said wall so that after
fitting the injector into the holder, the two flanges together with
a sealing disposed thereinbetween contact each other forming a
gas-tight closure for a portion of the hollow room in the holder,
all channels in the injector casing communicating with said portion
of the hollow room.
According to the invention the hollow holder forms a portion of a
circumferential channel-shaped elevated part of the bottom of the
vessel of the apparatus so that the closed portion of the hollow
room in the holder forms a portion of said circumferential channel
in the elevated part of the bottom of the vessel.
The invention further aims to provide in the circumferential wall
of the holder a plurality of channels corresponding to the number
of channels in the thicker wall part of the injector casing each of
said channels in the holder corresponding to an aligned channel in
the injector casing, whereas each channel in the circumferential
wall of the holder the end of a feed tube is secured
gastightly.
SURVEY OF THE DRAWINGS
FIGS. 1 and 2 show respectively, a longitudinal axial section of
two different embodiments of the injector together with its holder
according to the invention.
DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
First of all for simplicity's sake the closing bottom 1 and the
porous intermediate bottom 2 of the vessel of the apparatus in
which the injector should be detachably fitted are shown only
partly.
A gas, for instance air, is introduced under pressure into the room
enclosed by the lateral wall of the vessel (not shown), the closing
bottom 1 and the porous intermediate bottom 2, whereafter said gas
is blown through the porous bottom into the room inside the vessel
above said porous bottom where it fluidifies the matter to be
treated.
In an opening of the bottom 1 is arranged a holder 3 which by means
of a protruding marginal part 4 of its circumferential wall 5 bears
on the bottom 1 the connection of said marginal part 4 to said
bottom 1 being airtight. The holder 3 is open on its underside and
closed at its top side by means of a transverse wall 6 provided
with a central opening 7, having a cross-section smaller than the
cross-section of the hollow room in the holder 3. The edge of the
transverse wall 6 encircling the central opening 7 has a conical
bevelled edge 8 turned to the hollow room. The circumferential wall
5 has an inwardly directed flange 9. The circumferential wall 5 is
at its inside under the flange 9 provided with a screw thread
10.
The injector 11 comprises an injector tube 12 and, at some distance
about the tube, an injector casing 13 provided at its top with a
detachable closure 14 screwed on the casing and showing a central
opening 15. The end portion 16 of the injector casing 13 turned
away from the closure 14 is thickened outwards forming a conical
bevelled part 17 shaped so that said part 17 corresponds to the
conical bevelled part 8 of the holder 3. The end portion 16 of the
injector casing 13 is provided at a portion of its inside with a
screw thread 18, whereas the thinner lower portion 19 of the
thickened part 16 is provided with a screw thread 20.
The injector tube 12 has a thicker foot 21 provided at its outside
with a screw thread corresponding to the screw thread 18. Therefor
the injector tube 12 can be screwed into the injector casing 13,
the height of the injector tube 12 adjustable in respect of the
injector casing 13 and consequently also the distance of the mouth
22 of the injector tube 12 underneath the closure 14 is adjustable
in respect of the opening 15 in the closure 14. The adjusted
position can be ultimately secured by means of an adjusting screw
23 arranged in the injector casing 13.
The injector 11 can be introduced slidably into the holder 3 until
the conically extending slants 8 and 17 adjoin each other,
whereupon the injector 11 is secured in said position by means of
an adjusting ring 24 which has an outside screw thread that
corresponds to the screw thread 10 inside the holder 3. A sealing
25 is clamped between the flange 9 of the holder 3 and an outwardly
directed flange 26 of the end portion 16 of the injector casing 13.
Thus a room 27 is formed within the holder 3 closed gastightly
except for the transverse channels 28 and 28a, respectively,
arranged in the thicker part 16 of the injector casing 13, said
channels 28 and 28a connecting the room 27 to the room 29 between
the injector tube 12 and the injector casing 13. Furthermore feed
tubes 30 and 30a, respectively, secured in a gastight manner in the
circumferential wall 5 of the holder 3 and provided at their
outward ends with a screw thread 31 and 31a respectively, debouch
into the room 27.
The feed tubes 30 and 30a, respectively, are connected to supply
tubes (not shown) for supplying a gas for instance air under
pressure.
A nipple 32 screwed into the lower portion of the wall part 16 of
the injector casing 13 is provided at one end with an outer screw
thread corresponding to the screw thread 20 of the wall part 16 and
at the opposed end with outside screw thread 33 for connecting a
piping (not shown) for feeding a material which has to be blown in
a finely distributed condition into the vessel of this
apparatus.
In a second embodiment of the apparatus (see FIG. 2) more injectors
11 one from the other in spaced relationship are arranged in an
annular elevated part 34 of the bottom 1 of the vessel, said
elevated part 34 extending about the vertical axis of the vessel
and corresponding to an annular wall 35 arranged at the underside
of the bottom 1. Thus, the room 36 inside the elevated part 34
forms a channel extending about the vertical axis of the vessel,
and closed gastightly by means of sealings 37 each of them clamped
between a part of the bottom 1, protruding into the room inside the
elevated part 34 and the flange 26 of each injector 11 with the
exception of the transverse channels 28 and 28a, respectively,
debouching into the room 36. Further each injector 11 is shaped as
already described hereinbefore with the exception that in this
embodiment the closure is secured fixedly to the injector tube.
Apart from the fact that in both embodiments the injectors 11 can
easily be mounted and detached it is extremely advantageous that
the slants 8 and 17 need not to adjoin each other gastightly. The
gas supplied through the feed tubes 30 and 30a respectively, or as
the case may be via the room 35, for instance compressed air, may
leak away into the room under the porous bottom 2, because said gas
is introduced already into said room for fluidizing the material to
be treated. The pressure of the gas supplied for atomising the
material supplied through the injector tube, exceeds the pressure
of the gas for fluidizing the material in the vessel so that a
leakage in opposite direction is not possible.
The faces 8 and 17 need not be flat-conical. In particular cases it
may even be advantageous to construct the face 8 and/or the face 17
slightly spherical.
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