Robert Hyram Samples

US Patent:

56698062, Sep 23, 1997

Filed:

May 16, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/645796

Inventors:

Robert H. Samples - Jacksonville FL

International Classification:

B24C 900

US Classification:

451 89

Abstract:

A shielding device for shot blasting or shot peening chambers comprising a shot retention chamber, preferably with multiple interior compartments formed by divider walls, which retains a protective layer of shot to absorb the high energy impact of high velocity shot particles, the shot layer being retained by magnetic or electrically enhanced magnetic means such that the shot retention chamber can be mounted at any angle up to 90 degrees above or below horizontal.