公开(公告)号：US6029899A

公开(公告)日：2000-02-29

申请号：US223980

申请日：1999-01-04

Applicant: John M. Walker

Inventor： John M. Walker

IPC: B05B17/08

CPC classification number: B05B17/08

Abstract: A table top fountain (10, 60, 70, 80) is disclosed which provides for discharge of water in a fountain-like effect to spray on a series of rocks mounted within a container (12). An electric pump (34) is mounted in the interior of the container (12). A power cord (38) extends from the pump through a passage (32) in an upwardly extending column (28) extending upward from the bottom (14) of the container. A seal plug (40) sealingly engages the power cord (38) and is sealed to the column (28) to prevent water from leaking through the passage. With the power cord exiting the bottom of the fountain, a neater appearance is provided for the fountain.

Abstract translation: 公开了一种桌面喷泉（10,60,70,80），其提供以喷泉状喷射在安装在容器（12）内的一系列岩石上的水的排放。 电动泵（34）安装在容器（12）的内部。 电源线（38）从泵通过从容器的底部（14）向上延伸的向上延伸的柱（28）中的通道（32）延伸。 密封塞（40）密封地接合电源线（38）并且密封到柱（28）以防止水泄漏通过通道。 随着电源线离开喷泉底部，为喷泉提供了更加清新的外观。

公开(公告)号：US5737860A

公开(公告)日：1998-04-14

申请号：US896800

申请日：1997-07-18

Applicant: Roger Whigham ,  Lisa Wandrick ,  Thomas R. Boston

Inventor： Roger Whigham ,  Lisa Wandrick ,  Thomas R. Boston

IPC: B05B17/08 ,  B67D1/00 ,  G09F13/24

CPC classification number: B67D1/0872 ,  B05B17/08 ,  G09F13/24

Abstract: A device for forming a changeable sign from either gas bubbles rising within a body of liquid or from drops of liquid moving through the air. When using gas bubbles rising within a body of liquid, the gas bubbles are released sequentially such that a message of the sign is represented as a matrix of bubbles. When using drops of liquid moving through the air, the drops are released sequentially and controllably such that the message of the sign is represented as a matrix of drops of liquid. In one version, air bubbles are released near the bottom of a tank from controllable valves. The valves can be arranged in a single line or in a vertical matrix. As an alternative, a template having a message formed as a dot matrix is applied against a matrix of orifices from which gas escapes, to form the message. In another version, water drops are released from a row of controllable valves on a ballistic trajectory, e.g., a free-fall. As an alternative, the row of valves can be used normally to produce a continuous series of streams of water, but the streams can be interrupted while the message is produced from a dot matrix of drops.

Abstract translation: 用于从液体体内上升的气泡或通过空气移动的液滴形成可变符号的装置。 当使用在液体内部上升的气泡时，气泡被顺序地释放，使得符号的消息被表示为气泡矩阵。 当使用通过空气移动的液体滴时，液滴被顺序地和可控地释放，使得符号的消息被表示为液体滴的矩阵。 在一个版本中，气泡从罐的底部靠近可控制的阀门释放。 阀门可以排列成一条直线或垂直矩阵。 作为替代，将具有形成为点阵的消息的模板应用于气体逸出的孔的矩阵，以形成消息。 在另一个版本中，水滴从弹道轨迹上的一排可控阀释放，例如自由落体。 作为替代方案，该排阀可以被正常使用以产生连续的一系列水流，但是当从液滴的点阵产生消息时可以中断流。

公开(公告)号：US5637361A

公开(公告)日：1997-06-10

申请号：US289138

申请日：1994-08-11

Applicant: Ronald Scheurich

Inventor： Ronald Scheurich

IPC: B05B17/08 ,  F21P7/00

CPC classification number: B05B17/08

Abstract: A tabletop fountain includes a water reservoir. A recirculating pump is disposed in the water reservoir. An ascending water pipe is connected to the pump. A sheathing that is advantageously formed of rock or rock-like material, guides and at least partially covers or hides the water pipe. A plant dish is insertable into the water reservoir. A cover has holes formed therein. An upwardly oriented separating strip is disposed on the cover.

Abstract translation: 桌面喷泉包括一个水库。 循环泵设置在储水器中。 上升水管连接到泵。 有利地由岩石或岩石状材料形成的护套引导并且至少部分地覆盖或隐藏水管。 植物盘可插入水库。 盖中形成有孔。 向上定向的分离条设置在盖上。

公开(公告)号：US5600907A

公开(公告)日：1997-02-11

申请号：US094260

申请日：1993-07-19

Applicant: Helmut Eigenmann

Inventor： Helmut Eigenmann

IPC: B05B17/08 ,  G09F19/00 ,  B05B1/26

CPC classification number: G09F19/00 ,  B05B17/08

Abstract: A method to provide to a visual surface a visual pulsation effect with apparent randomness characteristics by means of the formation, and subsequent separation from a wetted supporting element, of drops of liquid, such drops possessing a high degree of constancy of size, shape and formation-separation speed. This is obtained by a determined flow of a liquid of determined characteristics over one or more supporting elements of given physical characteristics. The pulsation effect possesses a high degree of visual impact and can be used in combination with decorative patterns, messages, logotypes placed on the same visual surface as the pulsation effect.

Abstract translation: 一种向视觉表面提供视觉脉动效应的视觉脉动效应，具有明显的随机性特征，通过形成和随后与润湿支撑元件分离的液滴，这种液滴具有高度的尺寸，形状和形成的恒定性 分离速度。 这是通过确定的具有给定物理特性的一个或多个支撑元件的特定液体的流动获得的。 脉动效应具有高度的视觉冲击力，可与装饰图案，消息，放置在与视觉表面相同的视觉表面上的标志与脉动效果结合使用。

公开(公告)号：US5505380A

公开(公告)日：1996-04-09

申请号：US305360

申请日：1994-09-13

Applicant: Mei-Be Jun

Inventor： Mei-Be Jun

IPC: B05B1/14 ,  B05B17/08 ,  B05B3/06

CPC classification number: B05B17/08 ,  B05B1/14

Abstract: An animal-patterned sprinkling device includes a left and right animal-shaped housing halves, a water tube, several fitting washers, a fixing washer, upper and lower semispheric water discharging members and several sprinkling heads. At a top end and a bottom end of each of the animal-shaped housing halves are respectively formed two semicircular holes. Several posts and hollow cylindric columns are formed on inner faces of the left and right housing halves. The fitting washer and fixing washer are formed with rectangular teeth peripheries. The upper semispheric water discharging member has a central engaging tube which downwardly extends from a top end thereof. A lower end of the water discharging member is formed with four downward extending insertion plates. Four communicating tubes are disposed on a middle section of the engaging tube. Two eccentric stepped water discharging openings are formed at an upper end of the engaging tube. Two slanted water discharing passages are disposed on opposite inner walls of the water discharging openings. An eccentric stepped water discharging opening is formed at an outer end of each communicating tube. The lower water discharging member has four insertion recesses and an engaging tube which upwardly extends from a bottom end thereof for engaging with the engaging tube of the upper water discharging member.

Abstract translation: 动物图案喷洒装置包括左右动物形壳体，水管，多个安装垫圈，固定垫圈，上下半球排水构件和若干喷洒头。 每个动物形壳体的顶端和底端分别形成两个半圆孔。 在左右两壳体的内表面上形成有多个柱和中空的圆柱形柱。 配件垫圈和固定垫圈由矩形齿周边形成。 上半球排水构件具有从其顶端向下延伸的中心接合管。 排水构件的下端形成有四个向下延伸的插入板。 四个连通管设置在接合管的中间部分上。 在接合管的上端形成有两个偏心的阶梯式排水口。 两个倾斜的排水通道设置在排水口的相对的内壁上。 在每个连通管的外端形成偏心的步进式排水口。 下部排水构件具有四个插入凹部和从其底端向上延伸的接合管，用于与上部排水构件的接合管接合。

公开(公告)号：US5439170A

公开(公告)日：1995-08-08

申请号：US153067

申请日：1993-11-17

Applicant: Samuel Dach

Inventor： Samuel Dach

IPC: A63J17/00 ,  B05B17/08 ,  F21S8/00 ,  F21P7/00

CPC classification number: F21S8/00 ,  B05B17/08 ,  A63J17/00 ,  F21W2121/02 ,  F21W2131/401

Abstract: An illuminated water fountain includes an assembly of water lines each carrying a plurality of water discharge nozzles to produce a pattern of water discharges, and a control system for controlling water valves and an illumination system in accordance with musical sounds.

Abstract translation: 一个照明的喷泉包括一组水线，每条水线都带有多个排水喷嘴，以产生一个排水模式;以及一个控制系统，用于根据音乐声音控制水阀和一个照明系统。

公开(公告)号：US5249744A

公开(公告)日：1993-10-05

申请号：US924203

申请日：1992-08-03

Applicant: Douglas Ruthenberg

Inventor： Douglas Ruthenberg

IPC: B05B1/04 ,  B05B17/08 ,  E04H4/14 ,  B05B1/36

CPC classification number: E04H4/14 ,  B05B1/044 ,  B05B17/085

Abstract: A natural waterfall is simulated by introducing water into an inlet box that includes a spreader for dividing the incoming stream into two laterally flowing streams that are reflected off the sidewalls of the inlet box and which collide against each other to suppress the turbulence of the incoming stream in the absence of baffle walls. The inlet box has an outlet in open communication with an outlet box through which the water flows to create the waterfall. In a second embodiment, an open-faced structure includes a back wall, side walls, and a bottom wall, and the waterfall apparatus is positioned against the back wall so that its outlet faces the open front end of the structure. Rocks are then added to fill the structure. The walls of the structure constrain the water to flow down the face of the rocks. This enables a rock waterfall to be built by inexperienced personnel.

Abstract translation: 通过将水引入到入口箱中来模拟天然瀑布，所述入口箱包括用于将进入的流分成两个横向流动的扩散器，所述两个横向流动流从入口箱的侧壁反射并且彼此碰撞以抑制进入流的湍流 在没有障碍墙的情况下。 入口箱具有与出口箱开放连通的出口，水通过该出口箱流动以产生瀑布。 在第二实施例中，开放式结构包括后壁，侧壁和底壁，并且瀑布装置抵靠后壁定位，使得其出口面向结构的敞开的前端。 然后添加岩石以填充结构。 结构的墙壁约束水流向岩石的表面。 这使得岩石瀑布由无经验的人员建成。

公开(公告)号：US5213595A

公开(公告)日：1993-05-25

申请号：US916421

申请日：1992-07-21

Applicant: Nam-Sub Kim

Inventor： Nam-Sub Kim

IPC: A61L9/16 ,  B01D47/06 ,  B03C3/16 ,  B05B17/08

CPC classification number: B01D47/06 ,  B03C3/16

Abstract: A combined indoor fountain-air cleaner. The fountain-air cleaner comprises a lower base part including a base and a water reservoir, which is equipped with a water circulation pump and a nozzle head, a middle part for providing an inner space wherein the fountain is playing and the air is allowed to be circulated so as to cause the impurities floating in the air to be moisturized, an upper cap part covering the middle part and provided with a plurality of air inlet holes, a suction fan assembly for causing the indoor air to be sucked into and to be circulated in the fountain-air cleaner, a baffle board for causing the sucked air to be freely dispersed and to be guided to the inner space of the middle part, a plurality of impurity absorption plates which are adapted for absorbing the impurities in the air and are radially mounted on a lower inner surface of the middle part, and an insert assembly for filtering off the impurities and permitting the water to be silently recovered by the reservoir. This fountain-air cleaner efficiently filters off the impurities in the air and permits the closed inner space thereof, wherein the fountain is playing, to be viewed with admiration from the outside and, in this respect, decorates the interior of a room.

Abstract translation: 室内喷泉空气净化器。 喷泉空气净化器包括一个下基部，包括一个底座和一个储水器，它配备有一个水循环泵和一个喷嘴头，一个中间部分，用于提供一个内部空间，喷泉正在播放，空气被允许 循环使得浮在空气中的杂质被保湿，上盖部分覆盖中间部分并且设置有多个空气入口孔，用于使室内空气被吸入的吸风机组件和 在喷泉空气净化器中循环的挡板，用于使吸入的空气自由地分散并被引导到中间部分的内部空间;多个杂质吸收板，其适于吸收空气中的杂质;以及 径向地安装在中间部分的下内表面上，以及插入组件，用于过滤杂质并允许水被储存器静音地回收。 这种喷泉空气净化器有效地过滤掉空气中的杂质，并允许其中喷泉正在播放的封闭的内部空间从外部欣赏到，并且在这方面装饰房间的内部。

公开(公告)号：US5213260A

公开(公告)日：1993-05-25

申请号：US725547

申请日：1991-07-03

Applicant: Steven Tonkinson

Inventor： Steven Tonkinson

IPC: B05B1/10 ,  B05B17/08

CPC classification number: B05B1/10 ,  B05B17/08

Abstract: A nozzle which produces laminar fluid flow, which may be used in fountains and water displays, is disclosed. The nozzle disclosed reduces the turbulence of the fluid flowing through the nozzle by using a material which has randomly-arranged filaments for dividing the velocity components of the incoming fluid stream into smaller components. Some of the velocity components cancel each other thereby presenting a more uniform velocity profile, reducing the turbulence of the fluid, and allowing laminar flow at higher flow rates than would otherwise be possible.

Abstract translation: 公开了可用于喷泉和水显示器中的产生层流体流的喷嘴。 所公开的喷嘴通过使用具有随机排列的长丝以将进入的流体流的速度分量分成更小的部件的材料来减少流过喷嘴的流体的湍流。 一些速度分量彼此抵消，从而呈现更均匀的速度分布，减少流体的紊流，并允许以比其它方式更高流速的层流。

公开(公告)号：US5115973A

公开(公告)日：1992-05-26

申请号：US732135

申请日：1991-08-19

Applicant: Mark W. Fuller ,  Alan S. Robinson

Inventor： Mark W. Fuller ,  Alan S. Robinson

IPC: B05B1/10 ,  B05B1/26 ,  B05B17/08

CPC classification number: B05B1/26 ,  B05B1/10 ,  B05B17/08

Abstract: Water displays utilizing laminar flow streams to create dynamic arch-like displays are disclosed. The laminar flow nozzle is mounted on an assembly for changing the angle and repositioning the laminar flow nozzle so that the laminar flow stream appears to eminate from a fixed location at different angles, which allows varying the characteristics of the display in a dynamic manner. Simultaneous control of the nozzle position and angle with control of the pressure of water supplied thereto allows the stream to be varied to create a dynamic display with the stream returning to a sink region at a fixed position independent of the height of the water stream. Illuminating the laminar flow stream internally causes the same to glow like a fluorescent tube with the color being supplied thereto, changeable as desired. Intersecting laminar flow streams provide interesting water formations, with the intersections of two streams of different colors causing still a third color at the flared region of the intersection. Features of the invention are useable independently, all in the same apparatus, or in various combinations as desired.

Abstract translation: 公开了利用层流来制造动态拱形显示器的水显示器。 层流喷嘴安装在用于改变角度并重新定位层流喷嘴的组件上，使得层流流似乎以不同的角度从固定位置排出，这允许以动态方式改变显示器的特性。 通过控制供应的水的压力来同时控制喷嘴位置和角度允许流改变以产生动态显示，其中流返回到固定位置的水槽区域，而与水流的高度无关。 照亮层流流内部使得其像荧光管一样发光，其颜色被提供给其，根据需要是可变的。 相交层流流提供有趣的水层，两个不同颜色的流的交点在交叉点的扩张区域仍然产生第三种颜色。 本发明的特征可以独立使用，全部在相同的装置中，或根据需要以各种组合使用。