Exhaust driven atomizing and spreading device

Claim 1

AN ATOMIZING AND SPREADING DEVICE FOR LIQUID MATERIALS COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A FIRST PRESSURE CHAMBER HAVING ONE INLET FOR CONNECTION TO A SOURCE OF EXHAUST GASES, SAID CHAMBER HAVING A PAIR OF OUTLETS; AN ATOMIZING CHAMBER INTO WHICH ONE OF SAID OUTLETS OPENS AND HAVING MEANS FOR ATOMIZING A LIQUID MATERIAL UNDER THE ACTION OF THAT PART OF THE CARRIER GAS FORCED THROUGH SAID ONE OUTLET; A SECOND PRESSURE CHAMBER INCLUDING A FLARED RING PARTITIONING THE SAME INTO COMMUNICATING COMPARTMENTS, THE SECOND PRESSURE CHAMBER HAVING AN INLET IN ONE COMPARTMENT, AT ONE SIDE OF THE RING, AN AN OUTLET IN THE OTHER COMPARTMENT AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RING; A TUBE LEADING THE ATOMIZED MATERIAL THROUGH THE RING FOR DISCHARGE INTO SAID OTHER COMPARTMENT AND SUBSEQUENT PASSAGE OUT OF THE SECOND PRESSURE CHAMBER OUTLET; A BYPASS EXTENDING FROM THE OTHER OUTLET OF THE FIRST PRESSURE CHAMBER TO THE SECOND PRESSURE CHAMBER INLET, FOR DISCHARGE OF THE REMAINING PART OF THE CARRIER GAS INTO THE FIRST NAMED COMPARTMENT, SAID RING AND TUBE BEING RELATIVELY ARRANGED TO DEFINE THEREBETWEEN A PASSAGE PROVIDING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE COMPARTMENTS AND ARRANGED FOR FLOW OF SAID SECOND NAMED PART OF THE CARRIER GAS THERETHROUGH IN AN ANNULAR COLUMN ALONG LINES GENERALLY PARALLELING THE PATH OF THE ATOMIZED MATERIAL DISCHARGED FROM THE TUBES; AND A CONICAL SPREADER IN THE PATH OF MATERIAL FLOWING OUT OF SAID TUBE, THE TUBE HAVING A BELLED END PROPORTIONED RELATIVE TO SAID SPREADER TO FORM THE MATERIAL INTO AN ANNULAR COLUMN EXTENDING INTO CONVERGENCE IN SAID OTHER COMPARTMENT WITH THE FIRST NAMED COLUMN.