Hydraulically opened cone vertical tube diffuser with slanted anti-siphon hole

Rendall, Joseph D.; Gluesenkamp, Kyle R.; Gehl, Anthony C.; Atchley, Jerald A.

Title: Hydraulically opened cone vertical tube diffuser with slanted anti-siphon hole

Patent · Tue Sep 26 00:00:00 EDT 2023

OSTI ID:2222364

Rendall, Joseph D.; Gluesenkamp, Kyle R.; Gehl, Anthony C.; Atchley, Jerald A.

A diffuser for a water heater fill tubes having a tube wall with an outside diameter. The diffuser includes an elongated flexible diffuser body for positioning at the outlet end of the fill tube. The diffuser body has a sealing end for sealing with an outside surface of the fill tube wall closest to the inlet end of the fill tube, and an open end for positioning at an end closest to the outlet end of the fill tube. The open end has a diameter larger than an outside diameter of the tube wall, thereby creating an diffuser water outlet opening between the diffuser body and the tube wall for redirecting radial water flow emanating from the fill tube water outlet opening(s) toward the diffuser outlet opening. A fill tube assembly for a water heater, a water heater, and a method for heating water are also disclosed.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Assignee:: UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, TN)

Patent Number(s):: 11,768,012

Application Number:: 17/193,344

OSTI ID:: 2222364

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 03/05/2021

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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