Fluid distributor

Claim 1

A fluid distributor comprising: a fluid housing comprising: a tubular inner side wall region, a top wall enclosing the top of said fluid housing and having an inlet opening concentric with said tubular side wall region, and a bottom wall having a plurality of circumferentially spaced exit openings, said openings being in the radially measured outer peripheral region of said bottom; a plurality of walls extending radially outward from the center of said housing to said side wall and forming with said tubular side wall a plurality of discrete compartments in a lower region of said housing, each said compartment being formed over one of said openings; rotary coupling means for coupling fluid from said inlet opening sequentially into said compartments including a rotor rotatably supported by said housing above said compartments, said rotor generally closing over said compartments and including a passageway having an entrance positioned adjacent to and adapted to receive fluid from said inlet opening and having a lower exit opening radially positioned between a tubular center of said housing and said tubular side wall above an outer region of said compartments, and said passageway having an exit end region extending along a line which has a directional component downward and a directional component tangential with a circle through which said exit opening would traverse by the rotational of said rotor and by which flow is directed in an off-normal path with respect to said side wall region; and wherein said exit openings have a cross section of no less than 400% of the cross section of said inlet opening; whereby, upon there being supplied a fluid material through said inlet opening, the fluid would pass through said passageway, and upon exiting, would create a reaction which would rotate said rotor, and thereby fluid would be sequentially distributed to said compartments and exit unrestricted through said exit openings in said fluid housing.