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Adjustable flow vectoring splitter

  • US 6,811,358 B2
  • Filed: 02/27/2002
  • Issued: 11/02/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for influencing the travel properties of a material moving between a material supply source and a delivery location, the apparatus comprising:

  • means forming a feed path along which material travels as the material is enroute from the material supply source to the delivery location, the feed path passing through an upstream passage bounded by an upstream passage periphery formed of a closed loop of points each of which is at a predetermined radial spacing from a reference axis and the feed path including one branch having a branch entry downstream of the upstream passage and another branch having a branch entry downstream of the upstream passage, the stream of material traveling through the upstream passage thereafter separating into at least two portions with one portion of the material entering the one branch through its branch entry and thereafter traveling along the one branch and another portion of the material entering the another branch through its branch entry and thereafter traveling along the another branch in a manner in which the another portion of the material and the one portion of the material are segregated from one another during their respective travel along the one branch and the another branch; and

    means for moving the upstream passage periphery relative to the reference axis such that the one portion of the material and the another portion of the material, prior to their respective segregated travel along the one branch and the another branch, are comprised in unseparated manner in the stream of material as it travels through the upstream passage and the portions of the material thereafter travel in segregated manner in their respective branches with the travel properties of the one portion of the material in the one branch being different than its travel properties before the movement of the upstream passage periphery relative to the reference axis, the means for relatively moving includes means for axially moving the upstream passage periphery relatively toward and away from the two branch entries.

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