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patent · US6488401

Agitators for wave-making or mixing as for tanks, and pumps and filters

3 December 2002

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This patent is cited by material in the archive, so it is indexed here by number, title and inventor. The archive holds no copy of its text.

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Abstract

A tank agitator connects to a low head feed and causes agitation by discharging through a port that might rotate, oscillate, or otherwise issue a pulsing stream. This agitator has a housing with a turbine plenum and an exhaust plenum. A turbine in the turbine plenum spins by the flowthrough of the feedwater and exhausts to the exhaust plenum. A hollow drive shaft is spun by the turbine and extends through the exhaust plenum and to terminate outside the housing. It has an aper...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2000-05-19
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2002-12-03
Inventors
Anthony E. Seaman