374 results about "Tornado" patented technology

The present invention is for a system that delivers to owners of real and personal property a service to photographically inventory assets for a variety of purposes, including specifically to document the property for insurance claim purposes following damage or destruction or other loss resulting from hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, theft and/or fire. Other purposes include to document the condition of property after a catastrophic event, to show before and after comparisons regarding such events, to facilitate architect and homeowner communications on various issues, to allow an absentee owner to monitor reconstruction after damage or loss has occurred, to allow an absentee owner to make design or remodeling changes during repair, to view landscaping to make similar decisions, for a contractor to document building stages completion for draws, for use by governmental agencies such as local building and zoning departments or FEMA showing compliance with building codes or flood insurance restrictions, to show security measures, and the like.

The large-scale green power, pure chilled, heated water and/or conditioned directed air are produced using wind, heat and vapor of the free humid air in the structured multi-unit space-saving vortex tower providing direct three-phase voltage induction with alternating magnetic whirl formed by pole radial self-orienting magnetic concentrators swirled via all-weather multi-step tornado-like flow supplementary energized, enhanced and controlled by a spatial system of fast directing and accelerating low-temperature steam jets injected through fleshing of recycled, separated and stored condensate slightly heated with any renewable, waste, secondary, or prime source of low-temperature heat, partly via combining with solar pond and heaters or/and geothermal media, or/and waste, secondary or initial heat of large thermal, atomic power plant or intensively energy consuming industry, reducing specific investment, energy and pure water costs, quality requirements, specific pollution and waste heat atmospheric injection, with possibilities of partial local weather corrections through conditioned directed waste tower air; a new sector with various directions can be widened, based on applying of the same principles of energizing, enhancement, control and usage of any kind of fast gaseous confined vortex flow via any kind of supplementary low-temperature steam

An emergency storm shelter providing save haven for occupants during tornados and windstorms. The shelter features an elongated cylinder with sealed ends forming a center cavity for occupants during a storm. Emergency access is provided by at least one access tube formed having an interior passage therethrough communicating with the interior passage of the cylinder. The access tube is of a length to extend above the surface of the ground in which the elongated cylinder is buried, and can also be made long enough to communicate through the walls or floor of an adjacent house or mobile home to allow occupants to enter the storm shelter quickly and without leaving the safety of their home interior during high winds and tornados. In the best mode the access tube communicates between the living area of the home and the center cavity of the elongated cylinder at an angle such that the interior wall surface of the access tube forms a slide to allow users to quickly enter the shelter during an emergency. Ladder rungs in the one access tube or a secondary access tube provide for exit from the shelter when safety dictates it prudent to exit. An optional anchor device helps secure the shelter underground in high water table areas.

The invention discloses a handheld dust collector, which is characterized in that a body of the dust collector is internally provided with the spiral two-level tornado dust-air separation structure and a one-level dust cylinder, wherein the spiral two-level tornado dust-air separation structure comprises a first-level cyclone cylinder, a second-level cyclone cylinder, a spiral gas-air separation device arranged at the upper end of the second-level cyclone cylinder and a cyclone cover. The first-level cyclone cylinder and the cyclone cover carry out first-level gas-air separation on primary dust-air getting into the spiral two-level tornado dust-air separation structure, and separated two-level dust-air gets into the second-level cyclone cylinder to receive second-level dust-air separation. The dust collector disclosed by the invention is small in number of components, simple in assembling procedure and high in comprehensive performance of the complete machine. Meanwhile, the spiral two-level tornado dust-air separation structure is small in size, can effectively reduce the space of the machine body, and realizes the maximum dust storage volume.

A method for stopping replay tornadoes in a processor. The method of one embodiment comprises scheduling an instruction for execution speculatively. A determination is made whether the instruction executed correctly. The instruction is routed to a replay mechanism if the instruction did not execute correctly. A determination is made whether a replay tornado exists. The instruction is routed for re-execution if the instruction executed incorrectly and no replay tornado exists. Breaking the replay tornado if the replay tornado exists. Replay safe instructions in the pipeline are retired. Non-replay safe instructions in the pipeline are marked for re-execution. The non-replay safe instructions are rescheduled for re-execution.

A tornado detector comprising a sensor (30) for sensing the presence of sound having a frequency of about one hertz and for providing a sound sense signal in response thereto, a filter (50) to attenuate said sound sense signal wave components having frequencies greater than those which correspond to sound having a frequency of about one hertz, and an alarm (101) for generating an alarm signal in response to said filtered sound sense signal.

An ignition system having improved reliability for a gas turbine combustor is disclosed. The ignition system comprises an outer housing having at least one fuel passage and an electrode extending therethrough forming a generally annular passage for cooling air to pass to a mixing chamber. Fuel and air mix in the mixing chamber to form a combustible mixture that is ignited by the electrode. The outer housing further comprises a plurality of air swirl holes to effectively cool the walls of the mixing chamber as well as to provide improved flame stability.

The invention relates to a sucking means (10, 20, 30, 40, 50), preferably vortex generator or tornado suction means, preferably for a suction hood, a) which pulls the air into a suction hood (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) by generating an at least substantially circular, cyclone, vortex or helix movement, b) wherein the sucking means (10, 20, 30, 40, 50) comprises a, preferably ring shaped, area (17, 27, 37, 47, 57) with at least substantially tangential channels (172, 272, 372, 472) and/or channels (172, 272, 372, 472) with a tangential component which are separated from each other by separating elements (171), preferably blades, for generating the at least substantially circular, cyclone, vortex or helix movement, a suction hood and a method for generating an air suction by means of a suction hood.

A suite of hardened high security steel & concrete modules for protection of people, pets and valuables during a tornado, hurricane, home intrusion or other emergency. A Modular Security Suite [MSS™] is an above ground set of two or more rooms whose steel plate walls extend deep down into a building's concrete or other material foundation and are primarily anchored by the foundation's steel reinforcement rods and the weight of building's concrete foundation. After construction and interior decoration a MSS unit disappears into the home or office floorplan. A MSS unit could include a full bathroom, kitchenette or panty and a hallway module with built-in bunk beds. Its steel plate walls are filled with concrete and rerod to greatly increase its resistance to serve weather and debris. The design's hallway module and its two steel and concrete pocket doors protect its interior doorways from damage and provides two exits.

The invention relates to a novel rotational flow atomization apparatus and an application technology. The structure characteristics of a core unit, namely a novel rotary sprayer is that the upper part, connected with fluid, of the rotary sprayer is fixed, the lower part of the rotary sprayer is connected with the upper part through one or a plurality of nozzles by virtue of bearings, the lower part of the sprayer is pushed to rotate at high speed by reactive force formed when a part of kinetic energy of the fluid under pressure is ejected from the nozzles, and meanwhile, most of kinetic energy can be effectively converted into surface energy which can facilitate water flow atomization when impacting the bevel or oblique seam of the sprayer or passing through a hole. The novel sprayer has the advantages that the use pressure is low, the rotating speed is rapid, fogdrops are small and uniform, and the fog spraying coverage area is large. The novel rotational flow atomization apparatus can be applied to extinguishment, black smoke can be instantaneously eliminated, fire head is suppressed in seconds, and big fire can be extinguished within ten seconds; when the novel rotational flow atomization apparatus is applied to flue gas purification, rotational flow like tornado can be produced in a tower, and high-efficient desulfurization dust removal is realized; the novel rotational flow atomization apparatus can be widely applied to city purification, park green space watering, landscape decoration, and crop watering, fertilization, pesticide application and industrial mixing, separating, mass transfer and heat transfer processes, and the circumjacent PM 2.5 and other gaseous pollutant can be effectively removed.

A building roof tie for attaching roof trusses and rafters to wood top plates in building structures, said roof tie having a sheet metal body with risers and a bridge for overlapping a rafter and flaps for wrapping on the sides of the top plate. The flaps may be configured to penetrate into the top plate for additional stability. Turnbuckles attached to the bridge provide additional hold-down strength against increased uplift forces. Such turnbuckles may include a hinge and pin assembly that can adjust up and down, forward and backwards. The roof ties are pitched to conform to a variety of framing applications. A plurality of apertures is formed in the roof tie to provide openings for fasteners for connecting the tie to the wood top plate and rafter.

The present application relates to a dual polarization radar based disaster weather identification and early-warning system and method. The dual polarization radar based disaster weather identification and early-warning system comprises: a hail automatic identification module, a middle cyclone automatic identification module, a squall line identification module and a disaster weather comprehensivedisplay early warning module. This application applies dual polarization radar data to establish different disaster weather identification models, studies the meteorological discrimination conditionsof severe convective weather of different disaster types, develops a strong convective weather automatic identification service system for different disaster types, realizes the monitoring and tracking of strong convective weather of different disaster types, and can form various meteorological service products timely according to the disaster weather identification results so as to meet the needs of the society for refined and intelligent meteorological services. The application can realize automatic identification of disaster weather such as thunderstorms, short-term strong winds, hail, tornadoes, has high accuracy, fast recognition efficiency and fast warning speed; and the early warning time for hail and other disaster weather is advanced by from 0 to 10 minutes.

Abstract of the Disclosure A building roof tie for attaching roof trusses and rafters to wood top plates in building structures, such roof tie having a sheet metal body with risers and a bridge for overlapping a rafter and flaps for wrapping on the sides of the top plate. Generally triangular shaped reinforcing wings provide strength and stability, allowing the roof tie to be manufactured from different weights of steel. The roof ties are pitched to conform to a variety of framing applications. A plurality of apertures is formed in the roof tie to provide openings for fasteners for connecting the tie to the wood top plate and rafter.

A plurality of sail assemblies rotating on their axes rotate about the axis of the windmill hub to rotate a drive shaft. The drive shaft powers a generator, machine, pump, grind-stone or other load the mill is designed to operate. Fabric, metal, or plastic sails are fitted to the frame arms of the sail assembly such that they are releasable under upset conditions such as hurricane or tornado wind velocities or other catastrophic inclusion. In the preferred embodiment of the invention drive shafts housed in tubular metal, plastic, or fiberglass connect the gears of the hub to helical or bevel type right angle gearboxes that rotate the sails at a rate of one time for each two times the hub rotates. A second embodiment of the mill has sprockets at the sail assemblies which drive a sprocket at the hub of the mill. The sprockets are rotated one time for each revolution of the hub sprocket via a roller chain. And the sail assemblies rotate in the same direction as the rotation of the hub sprocket. Other embodiments of the construction of the Burrell pattern Compound Windmill are contemplated. One such embodiment of the mill is mounted in a stream or river, and power is transmitted upward to a platform where a generator or other equipment perform work. Another variation of construction substantially uses parts commonly found in scrapped automobiles—permitting inexpensive windmills in villages in third-world countries where commercial electrical power is either too expensive or not available. Constant Velocity (CV) joints, wheels, alternators, power steering pumps, etc. can be salvaged, and a mill can be designed by a technician trained in that discipline.

The invention discloses a tornado type range hood which comprises blowers, a machine body, a chimney flue and fume sucking holes, wherein the chimney flue is fixed in the middle of the top of the machine body; the fume sucking holes are formed in the middle of the bottom of the machine body; the tornado type range hood is characterized in that the blowers are arranged on the two sides of the chimney flue; a undulator is arranged in the positions of the fume sucking holes; the undulato is sleeved with an inner trumpet-shaped body fixed on the chimney flue; an outer trumpet-shaped body is arranged between the inner trumpet-shaped body and the chimney flue. The tornado type range hood has the characteristics that the structure is compact, the cleaning is convenient, and sanitation during use is achieved. The indirect fume sucking method is adopted, and the blowers are not arranged in the positions of the chimney flue and the fume sucking holes, so that troubles in dismounting the blowers for washing are eliminated.

A construction modification and associated method used in pre-stressed building structures is designed to enhance resistance to extreme high wind environments, such as hurricanes and tornadoes, and in earthquake prone regions is most useful for structures built of lightweight materials such as wood or aluminum but is also applicable to structures built of heavy materials such as brick, stone, concrete, reinforced concrete and steel. Modifications include increased spacing of the wall frame elements, namely wall studs or columns, symmetrical sheeting at both sides of the frame when wood is used to build wall panels or symmetrical building of walls inside the frame when heavy material as brick, concrete block, stone, cast concrete etc. are used to build panels, a new incorporated into structures is complement system of strings and balance beams and modification of the effective weight or gravity of the structure. The strings of the complement system are placed in channels running through the wood studs of wood wall panels (or columns of the frame system or massive walls if other heavy materials herein mentioned are used) and a balance beam is placed at the top of the walls of each story. A pre-stressing forces are supplied to the strings at the top of each story by a hydraulic devices or other mechanical means in direction coinciding with the direction of the structure's natural gravity. The balance beam distributes applied forces uniformly on the walls. The additional energy in the wall structure, called relative gravity, eliminates problems associated and caused by wind loads and seismic loads including intense vibration of walls, tension and uplift forces in structure, structure's instability and the other modifications eliminates the presence of anemic connectors and fasteners as the means in prior art for load transfer throughout the structure.