NV ZEMLYAKOV DESIGNED LABORATORY BENCH FOR DEMONSTRATING AND INVESTIGATING DUCT SEPARATION, DRYING AND GRANULATION OF COUNTER SWIRL AIR FLOW Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC G09B25/02 B01D45/12 F26B3/10 B01J2/00 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: laboratory bench designed as standalone installation includes air-ejector mounted inside of rectangular box with counter swirl air flow apparatus attached on its cover plate. Downflow swirler in body cavity is provided with plain washer attached below tangential branch pipe. Upflow swirler is made of identical thin-walled bent tubes with lower ends rigidly clamped in line to each other through inside perimeter of half-length telescopic pipe moving over external diameter of coaxial branch pipe. Upper ends of the bent tubes protruding from the telescopic pipe are deflected from its axis and are bent towards clockwise rotation at the same time. Along the telescopic pipe axis, there is a moving axial pipe provided with injection nozzle from the side of working chamber. The pipe is provided in the axial bore between lower ends of the bent tubes, while its lower end is moving within bottom-most portion of the coaxial branch pipe and supplied with the fluid valve at its end by. External surface of the telescopic tube close to its upper end face contains removable plain washer radially split to petals with angular edges bent towards storage hopper cavity. Slide gates with in-built internal cavity provided with square-sectioned channel and casing external surface provided with linear metric scales are attached to inlet end faces of downflow and upflow branch pipes. Linear metric scales relate to moving flat latching plates with datum planes relative to linear scales.

EFFECT: higher level position stability and stable rotation of toroidal product blanket, reduced back leakage of dust from under the dividing washer, ensured lower hydrodynamic resistance in upflow swirler and in apparatus as a whole, prevented dust adhering in stagnant air within acute angle between bottom-most portion of storage hopper and upflow branch pipe.

16 cl, 17 dwg