Abstract: An air conditioning refrigerant compressor assembly includes a swash plate disposed on a drive shaft centrally within a housing. Three double-ended pistons are reciprocally supported on the swash plate within respective front and rear compression chambers. A pulley is freely rotatably supported concentrically about the drive shaft and connected by a flexible endless driving belt to a power take-off of an engine. A hub is fixedly retained on the end of a drive shaft. An annular torque cushion made of an elastomeric material is bonded to the hub and extends radially outwardly therefrom to support an outer ring concentrically about the drive shaft. An armature plate is fastened to the outer ring. An electromagnetic solenoid creates a field of magnetic flux when energized which draws the armature plate into frictional engagement with the pulley causing the rotary motion of the pulley to be transferred to the drive shaft which rotates the swash plate within the housing.

Abstract: A rotary vane pump has a hollow rotor and a stationary liquid distributor member within the hollow rotor center, within which member plural supply and discharge fluid paths are provided. An elliptical housing allows for any one pumping chamber defined between adjacent slidable vanes to undergo plural pumping cycles. The novel pump is suited to operate under conditions of low inlet pressure and high discharge pressure, and is usable with incompressible liquids. The elliptical housing is formed by a boundary ring located within a pump casing, the boundary ring having an elliptical inner surface and a cylindrical outer surface. The pump may selectively include structure for enabling separation of particulate material from pumped liquids by the use of centrifugal force. The particulate material enters an opening in the boundary ring, the opening being connected by a passageway in the pump casing to a removable particulate collection chamber connected to the pump casing.

Abstract: A two-stage liquid ring gas pump has a rotatable liner supported on a liquid bearing in the first stage housing. The liquid for the liner bearing is withdrawn from the second stage liquid ring and is therefore at a pressure which is high enough to support the liner for rotation without the need for any other component such as a liquid pump to pressurize it for that purpose.

Abstract: A handy vacuum pump and heat sealer combination device drawing off air from a thermoplastic bag and sealing food inside the thermoplastic bag. The device includes a cylindrical casing to hold a heat sealer, a battery power supply and a vacuum pump. The vacuum pump includes a piston reciprocated by a transmission rod and a flywheel through a motor to draw off air from a thermoplastic bag for making it into a vacuum status. The heat sealer includes a head having a sealing tip extended out of the cylindrical casing and electrically connected to the battery power supply to produce heat for sealing thermoplastic bags.

Abstract: This invention relates to a mini-type air compressor and in particular to one which includes a motor having a driving axle connected with a driving gear, a fixed seat on which is fixedly mounted the motor, a transmission gear having an enlarged threaded portion and meshed with the driving gear of the motor, a cylinder mounted on the fixed seat, an eccentric member provided with a shaft extending through the transmission gear to engage with the fixed seat so that one side of the eccentric member is spaced apart from the enlarged threaded portion of the transmission gear and the transmission gear must rotate through a certain distance before that side contacts and pushes the eccentric member to rotate, and a spring mounted between the transmission gear and the eccentric member for pushing the eccentric gear to contact another side of the enlarged threaded portion of the transmission gear.

Abstract: In liquid ring gas pumps of the type having a rotor rotatably mounted in a stationary housing for forming a quantity of pumping liquid into a recirculating ring inside the housing, fluid friction loss between the liquid and the housing is reduced by shaping the surface of the housing which is in contact with the liquid ring radially outside the rotor so as to minimize or at least substantially reduce the area of that surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates a liquid-ring pump, in which the impeller (5) of the pump is rotatably arranged in the pump chamber formed by the pump housing (2), and the pump chamber is closed off by a disk cam 6 which has at least one inlet slit (8) and several output ports (10). Arranged between the disk cam (6) and a side shield (1) covering this disk cam is a suction chamber (7), connected to the inlet slit (8), and a pressure chamber (9), connected to the output ports. At least one of the output ports (10) is covered by a valve plate which may be moved away from this output port and be supported on a collector plate (12) affixed to the housing. The assembly of the valve plate is facilitated in that the collector plate (12) is connected to the side shield (1), and the valve plate (11) is guided by guide elements (14) penetrating through corresponding openings (15) in the valve plate (11), which openings are arranged between the collector plate (12) and the disk cam (6).

Abstract: A modular motor assembly (11) is provided for use with a forward bearing package (13), the assembly including an endcap (15), a valve plate (17), a gerotor gear set (19), and a flange member (21), all of which are held together by a plurality of bolts (23). The bolts are located radially inward of O-ring seals (81,83,85), such that the bolts (23) comprise "wet bolts". Any leakage or weepage past the heads (27) of the bolts (23) flows into a sealed cavity (79) defined by the forward bearing package (13). The modular arrangement permits service and repair of the forward package without disassembly of the modular motor, and the smaller bolt circle diameter of the bolts (23) results in greater stiffness of the endcap (15) and flange member (21), thereby reducing deflection of those members, and increasing volumetric efficiency of the modular motor.

Abstract: The pump (10) with integral sump (100) comprises a pump body (12) having therein a bore (18) in which is disposed a resiliently biased and reciprocating pump piston (30). One end of the pump piston (30) is received within an end opening (22) of the bore (18) and a central opening (42) of an outlet member (40). The outlet member (40) includes outlet valve openings (45) each housing a coil spring (41) or elastomeric member (41A) biasing a valve member (43) against a valve seat (49). The valve openings (45) communicate with an interior opening or pumping chamber (44) of the outlet member (40) wherein a spring member (46) biases an inlet valve (60) against an inlet seat plate (70). The inlet seat plate (70) has a central opening (72) communicating on one side with a sump chamber (110). A sump sleeve (90) is located sealingly within the bore (18) and abuts the inlet seat plate (70), contains therein a slidable sump piston (98) biased by a sump spring (96), and has a plurality of inlet openings (92).

Abstract: Revolving piston compressor, which consists of two hollow rings when joined, form a tunnel or "sleeve" within which a curved piston circulates. A transversely disposed disc turns in synchronized fashion with the piston to form a wall which prevents the gas acted upon by the piston from travelling around through the sleeve. As the piston approaches the disc, the disc presents a "window", which allows the piston to pass. Once the piston has passed, the disc again forms a wall, closing the compression cycle. Because the piston cannot be physically engaged from the outside, it is moved via a moving magnet.

Abstract: The compressed air radial motor includes a supporting disc, supporting a plurality of fluid cells, which is pneumatically controlled by a control head disposed rotatably fixed in the motor housing and which is rotatably connected to a conical supporting disc supported on the motor shaft via the fluid cells, a diaphragm being disposed at the outer front side of the control head which, on the inner side, is under the flow pressure of the pressure medium flowing through the driving-side of the control head, and, on the other side, supports the control head against the supporting disc via a counter surface in the motor housing.

Abstract: Method of achieving with at least two compressed air operated ejectors a desired subpressure in the shortest possible time and with the least use of energy, this method including connection of the ejectors such that they work one at a time in response to which of them is supplied with compressed air. In turn, compressed air supply is controlled in respons to the subpressure in a subpressure collection chamber common for all ejectors. An ejector array (1) for the method includes at least two compressed air operated ejectors (2, 3) each having its own optimum efficiency at the same values of the supplied compressed air. A sensor is disposed for sensing the subpressure in the chamber (23), compressed air being supplied to one ejector (2, 3) at a time, in response to the sensed pressure in the chamber (23). Compressed air is first supplied to the ejector (2) evacuating the greatest amount of air per time unit, and last to the ejector (3) generating the lowest subpressure.

Abstract: Suction and/or discharge valves are provided in a metering and spray pump for liquid or low-viscosity, especially pasty substances, in which two housing parts, which are telescopingly movable relative to one another and are made of a dimensionally stable plastic, have a pump chamber, whose volume can be cyclically altered by a pump member. To provide a valve which can be used both as a suction valve and as a discharge valve and consists of the simplest possible functional parts that can easily be assembled and operate reliably even in the case of relatively wide dimensional tolerances, and which especially has a good quality of closing at low opening force, which can be tested even in the dry state, e.g.

Abstract: The compressor or similar machine has a first housing component which cooperates with two end members to form a first hollow space as well as a second housing component which cooperates with two end members to form a second hollow space. In addition, a one-piece rocking piston member extends through the two housing components. The piston member carries radially directed wings at one end which are received in the first hollow space while a cylindrical portion is received in the second hollow space for coupling with a crank arm mechanism. The hollow spaces are sealed off relative to each other by a sealing ring which is arranged on the piston member. The piston member is secured in place by a cover member which is bolted to one end member associated with the second housing component. Similar bolt secure the end members associated with the second housing component together.

Abstract: A pump and metering apparatus includes a frame supporting a liquid container with a movable plunger therein for discharging respectively liquid which is drawn therein. A plunger is connected to a runner member, connected by a nut portion thereof which threadedly engages a screw rotatably mounted in the frame and coupled to a driving motor. According to the invention the nut portion of the runner member is movable in relation to the remaining structure of the runner member in the radial direction of the screw, such that the nut portion will be self-centering on the center axis of the screw.

Abstract: An electrical downhole centrifugal pump for pumping fluids from a deep well includes a relatively small diameter pump housing which is suspended from a tubing string and including a series of impellers and diffusers. The impellers are mounted on a vertical shaft connected to a motor for driving the impellers relative to the diffusers on the housing. Upper and lower shrouds enclose the top and bottom surfaces of impeller blades rotating with the shaft. A first group of impellers are arranged to move freely longitudinally on the shaft while a second group are fixed to the shaft to prevent relative longitudinal motion. A lifting vane is formed on the outer surface of the upper shroud on the impellers which are fixed to the shaft. A net lifting force is thus applied to the shaft by those impellers of the second group having upthrust impellers to diminish the load carried by a pump shaft thrust bearing.

Abstract: To permit at least partial disassembly of a drive motor (2) from a coupled pump system (3) to provide high hydraulic pressure, and separate portability of the motor element and the pump element, a cart, with wheels (4), is provided with a horizontally transversely extending mounting plate (28) on which the motor (22) can seat, with its motor shaft (27) extending vertically. The pump unit (3), which can be formed of two or more high-pressure hydraulic pumps and include a cooling water circulating pump (14), has a vertically extending pump shaft (56). The motor shaft and the pump shaft extend through the mounting plate, and a transmission, preferably a belt transmission, is located below the mounting plate. The belt transmission may include a drive pulley which is hollow in the middle, and formed with an internal gear (33) which engages an external, axially curved gear (14') on the motor drive shaft, to form a separable coupling. The motor can be lifted off the cart, and transported separately.

Abstract: A device for providing auxiliary pumping capabilities for a sump pump system and other low volume pumping systems. The in-line pumping device includes a tubular element with threaded ends to be mounted in the discharge pipe line of a sump pump system. A piston in the tubular element may be reciprocated by manually moving a drive shaft extending laterally from the piston through a threaded boss in the tubular element. A valve means permits the unidirectional flow of fluid through a center bore in the piston. If the electric pump is inoperable, the manual pump of the present invention may be used to pump liquid from the sump through the discharge pipe line.

Abstract: A balloon inflator utilizes a bypass motor such that the inflation or working air is separate from the motor cooling air. The intake for the motor cooling and inflation air is separated from exhaust vents to limit any recirculation of the air, assuring that the inflation air be maintained as cool as possible. An impaler is maintained in an involute to achieve the requisiting inflation pressure. A free floating inflation nozzle is maintained within a collar and is adapted for engagement with an output of the involute when inflation activity is desired; otherwise the nozzle is disengaged from the involute allowing the air from the involute to otherwise be exhausted. The motor driving the impaler is selectively interconnected with a half wave rectifier for speed selectability.

Abstract: A compressor is provided with a housing having a boss portion forming a central bore through which a drive shaft is passed, and a clutch has a rotor rotatably supported by the boss portion through a ball bearing. An armature thereof has a frictional surface facing, with a small gap therebetween, a frictional surface of the rotor, and a holder plate is connected to a surface of the armature opposite that frictional surface by rivets. The holder plate has a tubular portion connected to a hub via an annular cushion rubber, and the hub is in spline engagement with the drive shaft of the compressor. An oil sleeve is oil-tightly fitted to the boss portion and axially passed through a central opening of a cover located on the surface of the armature, opposite the frictional surface thereof. The oil sleeve has at its free end an annular flange shaped oil cut portion radially faced with the cover.