Abstract: A centrifugal pump includes an electric motor, an impeller driven by the motor and a pump housing having an impeller chamber, an inlet in communication with the impeller chamber via an opening, and first and second outlets in communication with the impeller chamber. The impeller chamber has an interference structure which forms first and second flow channels in communication with the first and second outlets. The interference structure directs the fluid in the impeller chamber to flow through the first outlet via the first flow channel when the impeller rotates in a first direction or to flow through the second outlet via the second flow channel when the impeller rotates in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A bidirectional centrifugal fan having a self-adjusting vane. In one embodiment, the fan includes a driving disc having a pivot pin extending therefrom; a vane pivotably attached to the pivot pin, the vane including an aperture extending at least partially therethrough; and a trailing disc including a guide arm for receiving the aperture of the vane.

Abstract: A bi-directional flow impulse type turbine arrangement (120) for use with a bi-directional reversing flow (F, F1, F2), and in particular for use with an oscillating water column power plant (110). The turbine arrangement (120) has a rotor (120), and first and second sets of guide vanes (140, 142) located on an opposite axial sides of the rotor (132) for directing the bi-directional reversing flow (F, F1, F2) to and from the rotor (132). The guide vanes (140, 142) are disposed at a greater radius and radially offset from the rotor blades (136). The turbine arrangement further comprises first and second annular ducts disposed respectively between the first and second sets of guide vanes (140, 142) and the rotor (132) for directing fluid from the guide vanes (140, 142) to the rotor blades (136).

Abstract: An impeller arrangement comprises an impeller 10 having at least one first vane surface 26 orientated such that the application of fluid under pressure thereto applies a torque to the impeller 10 in a first rotary direction, at least one second vane surface 28 orientated such that the application of fluid under pressure thereto applies a torque to the impeller 10 in a second, opposite rotary direction, and a valve 34 operable to control the supply of fluid to the first and second vane surfaces 26, 28.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for supplying liquids comprising heating elements (3) heating up said liquids and an electric drive pumping group (101). The characteristic is that the pumping group (101) comprises an intake (102) and at least a first and second intake duct (8a-8b, 8c-8d, 8e-8f), and is further equipped with an impeller (11a, . . . , 11c), said first and second intake duct (8a-8b, 8c-8d, 8e-8f) being selectively activated according to the direction of rotation of said impeller (11a, . . . , 11c) of the pumping group (4a, . . . , 4c).

Abstract: A dishwasher includes a number of spray arms, a circulation pump with a pump housing, an impeller, a suction port, and a number of discharge ports on the pump housing. The discharge ports are associated with the spray arms. A water diverter is located on a delivery side of the pump and generates a flow leading from the suction port selectably to one or more of the discharge ports. The water diverter includes a blocking element having a number of diaphragm openings positionable to one or more outlet positions by a drive via a rotation of the blocking element in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: The forced air cooling fan comprises a flat disk surface having a series of circumferentially spaced apertures each including a V-shaped fan blade connected across the aperture perpendicular to the periphery of the disk-shaped surface. The V-shaped fan blade includes a pivoting device having a first blade member of one side and a second blade member of the opposing side of the pivoting device. In one position of the V-shaped fan blade, the first blade member covers a first portion of the aperture and the second blade members directs the flow of air downwardly through a second portion of the aperture. V-shaped fan blades allow the direction of the forced air to remain relatively constant when the rotational direction of the drive mechanism is reversed.

Abstract: A reversible nozzle (10), removably attached to a fluid emitting base, such as a half turbine casing (22). The reversible nozzle (10) has a nozzle body (16) and a nozzle tube (12), with the nozzle body (16) preferably forming a plurality of fastener receiving slots (18, 18a). The nozzle tube (12) is angled with respect to the nozzle body (16). An installed reversible nozzle (10) is reversed by removing fasteners (34) connecting the nozzle body (16) to the fluid emitting base (22), rotating the nozzle body (16) about a normal nozzle body axis X, and resecuring the reversible nozzle (10) to the fluid emitting base (22) with fasteners (34). To aid in the alignment of the reversible nozzle (10), one fastener receiving slot (18a) is preferably elongated.

Abstract: The present invention provides a drain pump for a washing appliance. The pump includes a motor having a drive shaft, a drain pump impeller mounted on the shaft, and a pump casing having a side wall which is co-axial with the motor and the impeller, which is adapted to receive water from a wash chamber. The impeller pumps water from the casing when the motor is rotated in a first direction. The pump includes a disc, the periphery of which is adjacent to the wall of the casing to form a seal against fluid flow up a side of the casing. The disc has a hub portion and blades formed on a surface thereof with a root of each blade radially spaced from a periphery of the hub portion over the full height of the blade to form an unimpeded annular fluid passage between the hub portion and the blades.

Abstract: A centrifugal pump, includes a pump volute having a substantially axial inlet port and a substantially radial outlet port and is substantially symmetrical about the axis of the outlet port, with the outlet port being flanked by a first and second side wall, an impeller rotably mounted inside the pump volute, a drive motor coupled to the impeller for imparting rotational movement to the impeller, and a gate mounted between the impeller and the outlet port. The gate is in the form of a resilient flap having a fixed end and a free end. The flap free end is movable between a first operating position where the free end is biased against one of the first and second walls during operation of the pump and a second non-operating position in which the gate is disposed in a normal unbiased position spaced between the first and second walls when the pump is not in operation.

Abstract: A washer pump, which adapted to selectively supply wash fluid to one of front and rear windows of an automobile, comprises a valve mechanism. The valve mechanism has two wash fluid conduction pipes communicating with two wash fluid feed pipes in a pump body, two wash fluid delivery pipes, two valve seats provided on respective ends of two wash fluid conduction pipes and facing each other, and a valve body arranged between two valve seats and capable of closing one wash fluid passage at one valve seat on a low pressure side while opening the other wash fluid passage at the other valve seat on a high pressure side. The valve body has two diaphragms including elastically-deforming portions respectively, whereby the center area of one of two elastically-deforming portions acts as one side seal portion engageable with one valve seat and the center area of the other of two elastically-deforming portions acts as the other side seal portion engageable the other valve seat.

Abstract: A directional changeover pump in accordance with the present invention is capable of changing the direction of a fluid flow depending upon the rotational direction of an impeller. The directional changeover pump employs a reciprocable member for opening one discharge port and closing the other discharge port. As a result, the directional changeover pump has an extended service life and a simplified structure, since the wear of the discharge ports is automatically compensated by a spherical configuration of a reciprocating member and the sealing member between the operating components is eliminated.

Abstract: A double diaphragm leakproof sealing device for electric windscreen washer pumps has a directing chamber housing two very resilient diaphragms which may be provided with compensating elements for loss of resilience. When there is no leaning liquid pressure, the two diaphragms permanently block, by way of their own resilient action and, as the case may be, by the action of the resilience loss compensating elements, the corresponding discharge ports of the chamber. Depending on the direction of rotation of the pump impeller, the cleaning liquid will cause the resilient deformation of the corresponding diaphragm, allowing the cleaning liquid to flow through the associated discharge passage. When the impeller stops rotating, the diaphragm reestablishes the sealing action on the discharge port.

Abstract: A double feed pump has two outlet channels to be selectively acted upon with liquid in accordance with the direction of rotation of a feed element and two movable sealing membranes one each being assigned to an outlet channel and separating a valve chamber into a front compartment with valve seat and into a rear compartment, whereby one front compartment each of one valve chamber and one rear compartment of the other valve chamber are connected by a pressure channel. In order to facilitate the manufacture of the parts the sealing membranes are arranged one beside the other in a parting plane of a two-part housing and in each housing half are positioned, assigned to one sealing membrane, an outlet channel and a front compartment with valve seat, and, assigned to the other sealing membrane, a rear compartment and a pressure channel between the front and rear compartments.

Abstract: A rotating fluid machine for reversible operation from turbine to pump and from pump to turbine having a simple structure which allows for easy manipulation when reversing operation, and having a low change in efficiency when the machine operates in reverse. The fluid machine includes a bladed rotor containing a rotor spindle, a rotor disk, at least one radial groove, a carrying pin integral to the rotor disk, and at least one rotor blade. The blade, which controls the fluid flow, possesses two identical tongues that extend symmetrically with respect to the axis of the carrying pin and protrude with respect to the rotor disk. The machine possesses an external duct for input of the fluid to the fluid duct. The blade of the carrying pin then rotates in accordance with the toroidal structure of the bladed rotor, allowing the fluid to pass through three passages and to exit by way of a second external duct.

Abstract: A reversible turbine pump includes a pair of end walls and a side wall defining an annular pumping chamber. A turbine impeller mounted for reversible rotation in the chamber includes a rigid input shaft. One end of the shaft extends through one end wall and is sealed from the chamber. A spring biases the other end of the shaft toward the other end wall. Cooperating thrust bearing members, mounted to the other end of the shaft and the other end wall, provide a large planar area of low friction engagement therebetween. The pumping chamber has a pair of inlets, a pair of outlets and a dam. The first inlet and second outlet are on one side of the dam while the second inlet and first outlet are on the other side of the dam so that reverse rotation of the impeller pumps fluid in opposite directions through a different set of inlet and outlet. Valves associated with the inlets and outlets permit fluid flow in the desired direction and prevent fluid flow in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A washer pump for an automobile includes a substantially circular pump chamber receiving concentrically therein an impeller and having an inlet aligned with the center of the impeller and first and second outlets defined in a sidewall of the pump chamber and extending tangentially to the sidewall, and a directional control valve including a valve chamber connected in fluid communication with the pump chamber through the first outlet and also through the second outlet, and a valve element movably disposed in the valve chamber for selectively connecting the first and second outlets, respectively, to first and second washer nozzles of the automobile. The washer pump further includes a projection disposed between the first and second outlets and projecting inwardly from the sidewall of the pump chamber toward the impeller for substantially blocking the flow of a cleaning fluid between the first and second outlets, thereby increasing the pressure difference between the first and second outlets.

Abstract: The double delivery pump comprises an impeller with double direction of rotation contained in a body connected to an axial intake conduit and defining a cylindrical seat connected to two tangential rectilinear ducts leading into a distribution seat containing a distribution element. The distribution element can slide in the distribution seat and defines shutters which can cutoff one or the other of two delivery conduits connected to the opposite ends of the distribution seat.

Abstract: An ice making machine comprises an ice forming member, a water tank for storing ice forming water to be supplied to the ice forming member, a water distribution pipe for supplying ice forming water onto the ice forming member, a first pipe having one end connected to the water distribution pipe, and a circulating pump having an intake port communicated to the water tank. The circulating pump is of a reversible rotation type and includes a first discharge port connected to the other end of the first pipe for delivering ice forming water to the ice forming member during an ice production cycle, and a second discharge port connected to a second pipe for discharging water from the water tank to a location other than the water distribution pipe during a deicing cycle. The location at which the second pipe discharge water can be a defreezing water distribution pipe for supplying defreezing water for removal of ice or a drain conduit in fluid communication with the exterior of the ice making machine.