Fluid sprinkling – spraying – and diffusing – With fixed support for or ground installed supply means – Embedded or buried sprinkler
Patent
1993-08-05
1995-03-28
Kashnikow, Andres
Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing
With fixed support for or ground installed supply means
Embedded or buried sprinkler
239 142, F25C 304
Patent
active
054009669
ABSTRACT:
An improved tower mounted snow making machine (10) that provides for covering a ski slope (48) with artificial snow (50) is described. The snow making machine comprises a housing (12) having a frusto-conical section (84) that provides for maintaining the generated velocity of a high-volume air flow out through a discharge outlet (12A) and with a nucleator (16) disposed inside the housing to generate a wide angle round spray pattern of ice crystal nuclei (21) that diverge towards the discharge outlet without impinging on the inside of the housing. A spray nozzle manifold (22) is mounted annularly around the discharge outlet and supports a plurality of water nozzles comprising primary water nozzles (116A to 116F) that are automatically actuated when the machine is turned on to inject a primary water shower into the air flow, which water shower commingles with the ice crystal nuclei to thereby form ice granules as the two travel through the cold ambient air, and secondary water nozzles (118A to 118K) that are selectively actuatable to augment the primary water shower. The snow making machine can be mounted on a tower like support structure that provides for adjusting the discharge direction and tilt angle of the discharge outlet from a ground level elevation.
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Cutler Donald
Riley David B.
Smith, Jr. William B.
Weaver Timothy J.
Holimont Inc.
Kashnikow Andres
Morris Lesley D.
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