Multiple Nozzle System for Customizable Water Spray Patterns
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current devices for creating multiple spray patterns are limited in design flexibility and quality, as they rely on drilling holes and blocking them to achieve a few patterns, making it difficult to produce high-quality streams and excluding other creative designs.
Innovation Solution
A multiple nozzle system comprising a nozzle base, flare, elbows, and twister attachment, allowing for various directional angles and combinations to create an unlimited number of fountain or spray patterns by controlling water flow and direction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If multiple holes are drilled and blocked to create spray patterns, then the device structure is simple, but the number of possible patterns is limited and stream quality is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into multiple independent nozzle units, each capable of being independently controlled. This segmentation allows each nozzle to be directed at different angles and positions, enabling a wide variety of spray patterns while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through standardized modular components
Solution Approach 2:
The nozzles are designed with adjustable mounting mechanisms that allow dynamic repositioning and reorientation. This dynamic capability enables the same physical nozzle to create multiple different spray patterns by changing its angle and position, significantly increasing pattern versatility without adding more nozzles
2Ease of manufacture
If multiple holes are drilled and blocked to create spray patterns, then the device structure is simple, but stream quality is poor
Solution Approach 1:
Each nozzle is treated as a separate, precision-manufactured component with dedicated flow channels and spray outlets. This segmentation allows each nozzle to be optimized for high-quality stream production while the overall device structure remains simple through modular assembly of these pre-engineered units
Solution Approach 2:
Each nozzle is designed with specific local features including precisely engineered orifices, flow control elements, and directional outlets tailored to produce high-quality streams. This local optimization of quality in each nozzle component compensates for the simplicity of the overall device structure
3Device complexity
If fixed nozzle configurations are used, then the device structure is simple, but design flexibility is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The nozzle mounting system incorporates adjustable mechanisms that allow each nozzle to be repositioned to different angles and positions. This dynamic adjustability provides extensive design flexibility while maintaining relatively simple device structure through standardized adjustment mechanisms rather than complex fixed configurations
Solution Approach 2:
The standardized nozzle design with universal mounting interfaces allows the same nozzle component to serve multiple functions and positions. This universality enables a single nozzle type to create various spray patterns through different orientations and positions, reducing the need for multiple specialized components
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AI summary
A multiple nozzle system and device that provides flow control, a nozzle base, the inclusion of a flare or a reversible flare, or a twister attachment, along with various desired directional arm(s) formed from nozzles or the combination of nozzles and elbows, for creating any desired directional angle(s) for each of the directional arm(s). Based on this invention, the water (or angled streams) exiting from the combination of the various directional arm(s) creates an unlimited number of possible resulting fountains or other visual water displays, spray patterns, or designs.