System for supplying blasting media to a media blasting system

Patent · Tue Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6523617

Van Kuiken, Jr, L L

This patent describes a pressure pot system for supplying blasting media under pressure to a pressurized blasting conduit for feeding blasting media to one or more blasting guns, the system including a media storage means and a first and second pressure chambers with means for pressurizing and exhausting the first and second chambers, the media storage means being stacked above the pressure chambers with the first pressure chamber stacked above the second pressure chamber; first and second media valve means for providing communication between the storage means and the first pressure chamber and between the pressure chambers, respectively; air valve means for controlling the air pressurizing and exhausting of the first and second pressure chambers, the improvement comprising: means for opening and closing the first and second media valve means and the air valve means, the first, second and air valve means being offset from each other in both vertical and horizontal dimensions; push rods extending vertically upward from the valve means and spaced one from the other for actuating the valve means to open and close the same; an overhead cam shaft means mounted above the push rods and having a plurality of spaced cams, each of the cams being aligned and operatively associated with one of the push rods for actuating the push rods and thereby the valve means to control the opening and closing of the first and second media valve means and the air valve means; and actuating means for actuating the cam shaft means.

• Assignee: Progressive Blasting Systems, Inc., Kentwood, MI
• Patent Number(s): US 478027
• OSTI ID: 6523617
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 10 Dec 1986
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
CHEMICAL EXPLOSIVES
MATERIALS HANDLING
CHEMICAL REACTORS
DETONATORS
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
COMPRESSIBLE FLOW
DESIGN
DETONATIONS
EXPLOSIONS
EXPLOSIVE FRACTURING
MINING
OPERATION
PRESSURE DEPENDENCE
PRESSURIZING
VALVES
COMMINUTION
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT
EXPLOSIVES
FLOW REGULATORS
FLUID FLOW
FRACTURING
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