Fluid handling – Systems – Multiple inlet with multiple outlet
Patent
1977-11-25
1980-07-29
Nilson, Robert G.
Fluid handling
Systems
Multiple inlet with multiple outlet
60226B, 137599, F02K 306
Patent
active
042146100
ABSTRACT:
A flow control system selectively operable to either invert the relative position of first and second coaxially flowing fluid streams or to combine the two fluid streams for discharge as a single annular fluid stream is disclosed. The system includes a longitudinally extending input transition section which is partitioned into separate flow passages that receive sectorial regions of the first and second annular fluid streams and redirect the fluid streams into a segmented annular flow pattern in which portions of the first and second fluid streams form circumferentially extending annular sectors that are interspersed in circumferential alternation. Fluid exiting the input transition section flows into a longitudinally extending valve section having entrance and exit openings of geometry substantially identical to the segmented annular exit opening of the input transition section. The valve section is operable to exit the fluid streams in the same flow pattern provided by the input transition section or to cause those portions of the fluid flow corresponding with one of the original fluid streams to combine with the fluid flow corresponding to the other original fluid stream such that flow exits the valve section through alternate ones of the circumferentially extending annular sectors. An output transition section, having an entrance opening corresponding to the segmented annular geometry of the valve section, receives the flow provided by the valve section and redirects the flow for discharge as concentric annular flow streams wherein the outermost of the two original fluid streams is discharged as the innermost fluid stream. When the valve is operated to mix the two fluid streams, the combined fluid flow exits either the inner or outer discharge opening of the output transition section, depending on the configuration of the valve section.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3779282 (1973-12-01), Klees
patent: 3792584 (1974-02-01), Klees
patent: 3841091 (1974-10-01), Sargisson
Evelyn George B.
James Varnell L.
Nilson Robert G.
The Boeing Company
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