Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
  • G10K—SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES; METHODS OR DEVICES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST, OR FOR DAMPING, NOISE OR OTHER ACOUSTIC WAVES IN GENERAL; ACOUSTICS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • G10K7/00—Sirens
  • G10K7/02—Sirens in which the sound-producing member is rotated manually or by a motor

Definitions

• This invention refers to a positively controlled sound generator for regulated delivery of pressure gas pulses from a pressure gas line to a resonator, said sound generator comprising a valve device which is connected to a prime mover for being operated thereby so as to regulate the delivery of the pressure gas pulses from the pressure gas line.
• a sound generator of this type being connected to a resonance tube or some other resonator sound is generated with a high level of intensity, wherein the frequency range of the sound may be varied by speed control so that the highest sound intensity is generated in different frequency ranges in contrast to the case with a so-called feedback system of known type which operates with a predetermined frequency, wherein the pressure gas pulses are supplied to the resonator by the valve device which controls the delivery of the pressure gas pulses from the pressure gas line being controlled by a diaphragm disposed in the resonator.
• the field of utilization of the sound generator may vary, but said generator is primarily intended for the clean-keeping of boilers or other spaces through which dust-carrying gas flows.
• the open end of the resonance tube being connected for example to a boiler it becomes possible to keep dust from being deposited on pipes, walls and channels and in pockets.
• Different types of dust and different spaces as well as different pressures (positive pressures or negative pressures) in the spaces can require different frequency ranges in order for the best results to be achieved, and an appropriate frequency for any relevant dust or any relevant space may be selected by the sound generator being made adjustable for different frequencies.
• Figure 1 shows a side view of a sound generator, comprising the sound generator in accordance with the invention, connected to a resonance tube, said sound generator being disposed for keeping a space clean and being shown with a compressed air system connected to the sound generator
• Figure 2 is an axial sectional view of one end of the sound generator with the sound producer connected thereto
• Figures 3 and 4 are sectional views taken along the line A-A in Figure 2 showing two different variants of the sound producer.
• the sound generator consists of a resonance tube 1 having an open end 2 and a closed end 3 and a sound producer 4 for positively controlled delivery of pressure gas to the closed end of the resonance tube.
• the length of the resonance tube corresponds approximately to one quarter of a wavelength of the sound which is to be generated in the sound generator.
• the sound generator is connected to pressur gas, for example compressed air, through a connector 5, and pressure gas is urged out into the resonance tube in pulses in response to a mechanically controlled valve arrangement in the sound producer, whereby the resonance tube is alternately opened and closed to the pressure gas.
• the mechanical controlled valve arrangement is driven by means of a drive device 6 which may be electric, hydraulic or pneumatic and which in this particular case is shown in the form of an electric motor.
• the valve arrangement comprises an inlet sleeve 7 connected to the pipe connector 5, said inlet sleeve extending into the closed cylindrical housing 8 of the sound producer 4.
• the cylindrical housing 8 communicates with the resonance tube 1 and forms the closed end 3 thereof, with the interior of the housing comprising a portion of the interior of the resonance tube.
• the inlet sleeve 7 extends diametrically through the housing 8 and is disposed at an axial distance from the closed end 3.
• a valve sleeve 9 is rotatably mounted on the inlet sleeve by means of ball bearings 10, with a small gap of the magnitude of a few tenths of millimetres existing between the outside of the inlet sleeve 7 and the inside of the valve sleeve 9. In consequence of the mounting being carried out by means of ball bearings necessary lubrication can be provided without oil or grease contacting the air space.
• the valve sleeve is closed at one end by means of a screwed-on cover 11 and is at its other end connected to the drive flange 12 of the motor 6 by means of pins 13.
• the valve sleeve 9 has two diametrically opposite openings in the form of axial slits 14 for cooperation with an opening having the form of an axial slit 15 in the inlet sleeve, as is shown in Figure 3, but the valve sleeve can also have one single opening 14' for cooperation with the slit 15, as is shown in Figure 4.
• the sound producer has an unlimited frequency range as the latter can be selected on one hand by the slits 14 and the slit 14', respectively, in the valve sleeve and the slit 15 in the inlet sleeve being matched with an appropriate resonator and on the other hand by the speed of the valve sleeve 9 being regulated.
• Practical tests have shown that for example boilers can be kept clean by means of frequencies up towards 400 Hz but perhaps still better with frequencies down towards 20 Hz, With a correctly matched resonator infra sound far below 20 Hz may be generated. No sound having high intensity can be generated without a resonator but the invention permits the generation in the sound generator of sounds of high intensity and of different frequencies in the same resonator.
• the slit 15 should have an area of at least 400 square millimetres, that the width (extension in the circumferential direction of the inlet sleeve 7) of the slit should be not more than 8 millimetres, and that the length (extension in the axial direction of the inlet sleeve 7) of the slit should be between 6 and 25 times the width of the slit.
• the slit 15 in the inlet sleeve 7 will be alternately opened and closed by means of the valve slee ⁇ e 9 when the latter is rotated by means of the motor 6 for delivering tiirusts of compressed air to the resonance tube 1, towards the interior of which tube the slit 15 is directed.
• an air layer is located between the closed portion of the valve sleeve 9 and the inlet sleeve 7 , said air layer serving as protection against friction and preventing wear as a result of the materials of the sleeves not touching each other.
• the layer of air also achieves cooling of the material.
• air or cooling water can be supplied to the interior of the resonance tube through a conduit 16 if desired.
• the sound generator is illustrated suspended in a ceiling beam 17 by means of chains cr wires 18 which preferably are provided with vibraticn-da ⁇ rping members, said resonance tube 1 extending through a wall 19 to a space located outside of said wall to be kept clean by the emission of sound of low frequency (infra sound) in the space.
• the resonance tube should not project further into this space than that the distance to an opposite surface in front of the open end 2 of the resonance tube is at least 0,5 metres such surface being marked out by means of a dot-dash line 20.
• the tube connector 5 is connected to a compressed air line 21 which at least adjacent to the sound generator consists of flexible tubing connecting the sound producer to an appropriate source of compressed air (a compressor).
• the compressed air line 21 is provided with a cut-off valve 22, a conventional filter 23, and a magnetic valve 24, across which a narrow shunt line 25 is disposed.
• the magnetic valve 24 is connected to the power mains over automatic equipment 27 including a timer for opening the magnetic valve 24 at predetermined intervals which are of controllable magnitude and another timer for determining the period during which the magnetic valve is to be kept open on each occasion when it is opened. The magnitude of the last-mentioned period is also controllable. Regardless of whether the magnetic valve is open or not compressed air will pass to the sound generator through the shunt line 25, of course under the presuppo sition that the cut-off valve 22 is open, which it should be except when the sound generator is being serviced or it is relieved of operation for some other reason, but the flow of air through the shunt line is only a small fraction of the flow through the magnetic valve 24 when the latter is open.
• the motor 6 is connected to the power mains over an adjustable regulator 27 which permits the speed of the motor to be set at a desired rate so that the frequency of the sound generated in the sound generator is governed thereby. If desired this regulator may be connected to a sensor which senses the frequency of the generated sound and adjusts the setting of the regulator for retaining the frequency of the sound at a substantially constant level.

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