Patent ID: 8028936

Claim:
A fluid delivery nozzle, comprising an elongated nozzle body having a fluid delivery bore with a first passageway section extending longitudinally therein and having a fluid entranceway for receipt of a fluid to be sprayed, and a connected transverse nozzle bore section through a sidewall of the nozzle body terminating in a reduced diameter spray bore through the sidewall, and a swirler mounted in the nozzle bore section, the swirler having a head section with a plurality of passageways formed between swirl vanes arranged about a periphery of the head section to pass the fluid to the spray bore and an adjacent neck section of a reduced diameter forming an annulus between the neck section and the nozzle body in fluid-passing contact with the first passageway section and head section to direct the fluid from the first passageway section through the nozzle bore section for exit through the spray bore, the neck section of the swirler further having a bore extending transversely therethrough in fluid-passing contact with the first passageway section.