Means for protecting a water cooling tower

Claim 1

A SPRINKLER NOZZLE COMPRISING AN ELONGATED BODY HAVING A BORE OF CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTION THERETHROUGH WHICH TERMINATED AT THE ENDS THEREOF, A BUSHING OF CIRCULAR CROSSSECTION DISPOSED IN SID BORE IN FLUID TIGHT RELATIONSHIP THEREWITH, SAID BUSHING HAVING A FLOW PASSAGEWAY OF CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTION THERETHROUGH, SAID FLOW PASSAGEWAY HAVING AN OUTLET END TERMINATING IN AN OUTLET ORIFICE ADJACENT ONE END OF SAID BODY AND BEING DISPOSED IN SAID BUSHING WITH ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS AT AN ANGLE TO SAID LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID BODY WHEREBY A SUBSTANTIALLY SOLID STREAM OF LIQUID ISSUING FROM SAID OUTLET ORIFICE WILL BE AT LEAST INITIALLY DIRECTED ALONG THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID FLOW PASSAGEWAY, AND A PAIR OF YOKE ARMS ATTACHED TO OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID BODY ADJACENT SAID ONE END OF SAID BODY, SAID YOKE ARMS LYING IN A PLANE WHICH IS PARALLE TO AND COINCIDENT WITH SAID LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID BODY SAID YOKE AMRS CURVING INWARDLY TOWARD EACH OTHER AND INTERSECTING AT AN APEX, SAID YOKE ARMS FORMING A SPLITTER ELEMENT AT SAID APEX FOR SPLITTING SAID SOLID STREAM OF LIQUID INTO TWO SMALLER STREAMS OF UNEQUAL SIZE, SAID SPLITTER ELEMENT HAVING TWO OPPOSITELY FACING DIVERGENT SURFACES FORMING A SUBSTANTIALLY WEDGE-SHAPED MEMBER, THE ANGLE BETWEEN SAID LONGITUDINAL AXES BEING SUCH THAT THE NARROWER END OF SAID SPLITTER ELEMENT IS DISPOSED ADJACENT THE PERIPHERY OF SAID SOLID STREAM, THE SURFACE OF SAID SPLITTER ELEMENT FACING SAID LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID FLOW PASSAGEWAY BEING SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT AND SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO SAID LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID BODY THEREBY PERMITTING A MAJOR PORTION OF SAID SOLID STREAM TO PASS SAID SPLITTER ELEMENT SUBSTANTIALLY UNOBSTRUCTED, THE SURFACE REMOTE FROM SAID LONGITUDINALLY AXIS OF SAID FLOW PASSAGEWAY BEING ROUNDED FROM A POSITION SUBSTANTIALLY NORMAL TO SAID LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID BODY AT SAID NARROWER END TO A POSITION SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO SAID LONGITUDIAL AXIS OF SAID BODY AT SAID WIDER END THEREBY DEFLECTING A MINOR PORTION OF SAID SOLID STREAM AWAY FROM SAID SOLID STREAM IN A WIDE SPRAY PATTERN.