Methods and apparatus for dispersing a conductive fluent material

摘要

An apparatus for dispersing a fluent material has an initial disperser for breaking a stream of fluent material into discontinuous parts. The apparatus has an electrode supply device that provides free electrons that impart a net charge on the discontinuous parts to disperse the discontinuous parts. A method is also disclosed in which electrons are directed at a flow of droplets of fluent material to disperse the fluent material.