Royston Group
Company Profile

     The Royston Family has been involved with the rotary positive blower industry since 1954.  It was at this time that Mark Royston started as a sales engineer for the Sutorbilt Corporation.  In 1959 he started a company called Pacific Pneumatics which began as representative for Sutorbilt in Southern California and grew to be a packager of blowers and supplier of products allied with the positive displacement blower industry.  His wife, Doris, learned the intricacies of the industry as she did the background work of phone answering, preparing the quotes, doing the follow up and all the other necessities of running a business.

    Along the way knowledge was gained that helped in the analysis of blower applications and the selection of the best blower for the job, albeit, at the time limited to the blower that was being represented.  Knowledge of competitor’s products led to knowledge of the overall industry.

    The Royston family grew with the addition of five children and as they aged, each learned  about the business through early activities, which in most cases started with cleaning the offices and bathrooms on the weekends.  Each went their way to a career in the world of blowers, and computers.  (See what makes up the Royston Group.)

    Certainly the single largest application for a positive displacement blower over a long period of time is pneumatic conveying.  As this industry grew, the Royston individuals involved, through trouble shooting problems in many cases, gained a knowledge of that industry until a formula was developed that would help size a system if the parameters were known.  The first step toward a computer program was the putting of this formula onto a HP-300 engineering calculator in the early 1970’s.  In the late 1970’s a patent was obtained by Mark Royston for a scaling device that would sense the pressure in the system and after calibration, report out the conveying rate.  This formula had its limitations as it was devolved from empirical data and required conveying  a sample amount through the system and adjusting the formula constant to equate the output reading to agree with the amount conveyed.  This system, while a step forward, needed the advent of modern computers and the accompanying software, to make it a practical product.  The new scaling system (See IDPI, Industrial Data Processing for details) uses sophisticated mathematics  and eliminates the need for a sample amount of product to be conveyed.

    The Royston family members were forward thinking and were on the leading edge of computerized programs for the sizing of positive blowers and the comparison of the results with more than one blower manufacturer.

Who Makes Up the Royston Group?

 The Royston Group at the moment is comprised of the individuals listed below.  All are family members.  Each bring to the company integrity and purposefulness that will show in our relations with our clients and customers.  While you might see a disclaimer or two as you use the programs, it is not to avoid responsibility, but to provide protection in this modern world.

Personnel

Mark W. Royston, graduate of US Naval Academy.  Founder of Pacific Pneumatics.  Holder of a patent for the scaling of material being conveyed in a pneumatic conveying line.  A part of the positive displacement blower industry from 1954 to present.

Virginia  Royston Apke, graduate of California State University at Fullerton with a degree in Communications.  President, Apke Web Services.

James W. Royston. Graduate of California State University at Fullerton  with a degree in business.  Alternated as President of Pacific Pneumatics in the mid 1990’s and acted as their production manager for 10 years. Developed the “Silencer Plus” package which was very successful in reducing blower package noises.

Joseph P. Royston, Graduate of California State University at Fullerton with a degree in Electrical Engineering.  Alternated as President of Pacific Pneumatics in the mid 1990’s to 2000.  Involved with all the engineering and design of all packages and systems produced by the company.  Knowledgeable in all aspects of layout, drawings, component selection of positive displacement blowers packages and systems.

Peter L. Royston, Graduate of California State University at Fullerton with majors in Computer Science and English with a minor in Mathematics.  Independent and contract programmer Royston Development.  Wrote a number of blower sizing, pricing and pneumatic conveying programs.

Mary S. Royston, Ph.D., Graduate California State University at Fullerton with a degree in Applied Mathematics, Masters Degree in Mathematics from Claremont Graduate University,  Doctorate in Applied Mathematics from Claremont Graduate University.  Wrote modern formula for the pneumatic conveying sizing and for the accompanying scaling system.  President of Myriad Innovations, a “problem solving though mathematics” company.