Interfacial surface generator

• US 3,195,865 A
• Filed: 09/09/1960
• Issued: 07/20/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard E. Harder
• Original Assignee: Richard E. Harder
• Inventors: Harder, Richard E.
• Application Number:
  US04/054,933
• Time in Patent Office: 1,775 Days
• US Class Current: 366/337
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 25/4321 the subflows consisting of at least two flat layers which are recombined, e.g. using means having restriction or expansion zones
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87265 Dividing into parallel flow paths with recombining

Claims

11. A DEVICE ADAPTED TO DIVIDE AND RECOMBINE A STREAM COMPRISING:

A CONDUIT HAVING MEANS THEREIN DEFINING AT LEAST ONE BAFFLE;

SAID BAFFLE COMPRISING A BODY HAVING A FIRST END AND A SECOND END;

SAID BODY DEFINING AT LEAST FOUR CHANNELS COMMUNICATING WITH SAID FIRST AND SECOND ENDS AND HAVING STREAM DIVIDING MEANS AT SAID ENDS;

EACH OF SAID CHANNELS HAVING A FIRST OPENING AND A SECOND OPENING;

EACH OF SAID OPENINGS HAVING A GENERALLY ELONGATED CROSS-SECTIONAL CONFIGURATION IN A PLANE NORMAL TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID CONDUIT;

THE MAJOR AXES OF SAID GENERALLY ELONGATED CROSS-SECTIONAL CONFIGURATIONS OF SAID