Abstract:
There is disclosed a spray steel making process wherein streams of molten pig iron are subjected to a constant frequency vibration. This vibration causes the streams to break up into uniformly sized and regularly spaced drops which then are refined in the presence of oxygen and a shower of lime particles. A fast and yet precisely controlled refining reaction is produced because of the small but uniform drops which fall through the reaction chamber. Apparatus is also disclosed for automatic adjustment of the stimulation frequency and for electrical charging of the drops so formed.
Abstract:
In a noncontacting printing system in which drops of coating material are projected toward a receiving member and their trajectories controlled to provide a desired coating pattern, as in printing, the drops formed are much smaller in diameter than usual and are arranged in discrete packets of drops with each packet forming a single dot when it impinges on the receiving member.
Abstract:
Arrays of laterally spaced orifices, all communicating with a liquid pressure supply, all subjected to vibration at the same frequency to separate the liquid jets into streams of individual drops, provide a system for locating all of the drops with a predetermined space-time correlation by irradiating the drops in space at a predetermined time to make them visible, thus creating variable three dimensional visible shapes for study.