Device for liquid atomization and fluid blending

Claim 1

A device for liquid atomization and fluid blending comprising a liquid reservoir with means for supplying liquid as required to maintain a near constant free surface level, a fluid dispersion nozzle means comprising a relatively large elongated fluid feed conduit and a smaller elongated discharge orifice portion fluidly communicating with the interior of said conduit including an elongated wall portion having a semicylindrical internal curvature substantially semicircular in cross section forming a corona orifice cavity slitted transversely to provide at least one discharge orifice or aperture for fan-shaped fluid dispersion, said orifice cavity being unslitted on either side of said orifice for a distance greater than its diameter, said dispersion nozzle being disposed generally horizontally, with said orifice disposed above said free surface, means for supplying a fluid, at a pressure greater than the ambient pressure above the said orifice, into said fluid dispersion nozzle whereby said fluid discharges from said orifice in a fan-shaped pattern, at least two distinct wettable surface means extending from below the free surface means and the exterior side surfaces of said nozzle means for initial capillary rise of liquid through said gaps which further rises by adhesion forces to the vicinity of said aperture whereby, when said fluid is discharged from said aperture, the liquid, at least partially due to pressure differential, adhesion, cohesion, surface tension and capillarity, rises continuously in said gap to surround said aperture and is dispersed divergently by said fan-shaped fluid discharge into finely atomized particles blended uniformly with said fluid.