Abstract: A piston vacuum pump includes a housing (40) which is extruded from aluminum to form a bore (42) for movably receiving a piston (44). The piston is made from a plastic material to define a sealing interface with the aluminum housing in the absence of additional sealing rings and lubricants. The extruded housing is also provided with an opening (64) to receive an input member (90) and to provide for fluid communication through the pump.

Abstract: A base component for a fluid transfer device such as a hydraulic hand pump, cylinder or valve and a method of making the base component for such a device. The base component includes first and second base members having internal passages in communication with one another which subject the members to internal fluid pressure, and an encapsulating housing attaching the members together. In one form, the housing is composed of a moldable plastic material and surrounds both base members which are composed of extruded aluminum. In another form, the housing is integrally formed with one of the base members of a moldable plastic material and surrounds the other base member which is composed of extruded aluminum. In both forms structural members such as yoke members, which pivotally mount the piston and handle assemblies of a hand pump, may integrally be formed with the plastic housing.

Abstract: An electromagnetic pump comprising a housing having fluid receiving and pumping chambers in communication with an inlet and an outlet, respectively, an electromagnet carried by the housing external to the fluid chambers, and a barrier in the form of a thin diaphragm of fluid impermeable material which hermetically isolates the electromagnet from the fluid chamber. An armature in the housing is movable within a body of magnetically permeable material and has a pole portion located for magnetic attraction by the electromagnet and has a plunger portion in the pumping chamber for forcing fluid out of the chamber through the outlet. The armature is moved from a rest position through a forward pumping stroke when attracted by the electromagnet to force fluid out of the pumping chamber through the outlet, and the armature is moved by biasing spring in an opposite direction through a return stroke back to the rest position.

Abstract: A sealed type electrically operated compressor including a sealed container, and a pair of scroll members in the sealed container each having an end plate and a spiral wrap located in upright position thereon. The orbiting and the stationary scroll members are assembled with the respective wraps facing inwardly and meshing with each other, and the orbiting scroll member is rotated by an electric motor to move in orbiting movement to compress fluid in compression spaces defined by the two scroll members and discharge compressed fluid into a space in the container. A suction pipe defining a suction passage for the fluid to be led therethrough into the compression spaces extends at one end portion through the end plate of the stationary scroll member to open in a suction space defined by the two scroll members and extends at the other end portion through a wall of the sealed container axially to communicate with external equipment on the lower pressure side.

Abstract: A pump for pumping fluids which contain a high degree of suspended solid particles comprises a piston provided with a cylindrical sleeve of a hard ceramic material having a hardness of greater than nine on the Mho scale, preferably an aluminum oxide ceramic or a zirconium nitrate ceramic, and a cylinder provided with a cylindrical sleeve of like ceramic material.

Abstract: A centrifugal pump for circulating fluids at high pressure comprises an impeller having an axis of rotation, a casing defining a pumping chamber, a nonmagnetic canister sealed at one end and extending away from the pumping chamber surrounding an extension of the impeller axis, and an impeller shaft journaled in the nonmagnetic canister. The shaft has mounted thereto circumferentially magnetized rare earth cobalt magnets. A drive magnet assembly comprising a sleeve is journaled about the nonmagnetic canister with circumferentially magnetized rare earth cobalt magnets mounted therein. Rotation of the sleeve results in synchronous rotation of the impeller and impeller shaft.

Abstract: An air pump comprising a piston located inside a piston housing having a crown and an open end. The piston is provided with a pressure generating member in the form of a resilient membrane-like annular disc which is held centrally on one end of the piston, which is fitted in the piston housing with the annular disc and the piston plate pointed towards the crown of the piston housing whereby the rim of the membrane-like annular disc bears against the inner wall of the piston housing and the piston housing is guided on the piston in a manner enabling it to be moved axially.

Abstract: An assembly of rollers on pins disposed between and supported by a pair of brackets of sintered, powdered iron keyed to a drive shaft and retained by a spring washer.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump including a pump body formed with a plunger sliding bore, and a discharge valve mounted on one end portion of the plunger sliding bore corresponding to an upper end portion of a plunger so that said end portion of the plunger sliding bore functions as a guide for the discharge valve. This arrangement enables the plunger barrel and discharge valve guide member of a fuel injection pump of the prior art to be dispensed with and permits the number of the parts of the pump, the size of the pump, the weight of the pump and the production to be reduced.

Abstract: A high pressure fluid pump for use such as a fuel injection pump. The pump utilizes a diaphragm for cooperation with valve controlled passage structure leading to the pump chamber to provide the desired high pressure output. The diaphragm is defined by one portion of a diaphragm element, which portion is sealingly bonded peripherally to the wall of the valve body defining the valve chamber. A second portion of the diaphragm element formed unitarily integrally with the diaphragm portion is free to move in the valve chamber and includes a portion extending into a plunger bore for transmitting forces from a reciprocating plunger having an inner end extending into the bore to the diaphragm. The plunger further is provided with a synthetic resin tip. The plunger and tip are arranged to be lubricated during reciprocation of the plunger.

Abstract: An improved water ring rotary air compressor in which the rotor assembly has a cylindrical bore while the port head includes a cylindrical port sleeve, made from a high lubricity thermoplastic material, which fits within the bore. The use of a high lubricity thermoplastic port sleeve eliminates the need for shimming the port head following an overhaul of the compressor. The port sleeve includes a plurality of longitudinal slots which eliminate cavitation during start up under pressure. A needle valve built into the manifold allows bypass of a portion of the discharge air into the air inlet. Adjustment of the needle valve permits the maintenance of constant air flow as the compressor becomes worn.

Abstract: A radial piston pump has a housing, a shaft mounted for rotation in the housing and including an eccentric provided with a cam track, inlet and outlet ports in the housing, valve means installed in the ports, a plurality of radially reciprocable pistons spaced about the eccentric and each having a radially inner surface in sliding engagement with the cam track, and a layer of synthetic plastic material having a low coefficient of friction on each of the surfaces, so as to reduce friction between the same and the cam track.

Abstract: In a blade lattice structure for an axial fluid machine including circumferentially arranged stationary blades and upper and lower side walls having the stationary blades secured thereto for defining therebetween a flow path which is arranged annularly, the stationary blades each have a cross sectional shape such that the thickness of each stationary blade gradually increases in going toward the upper side wall from an arbitrarily selected position on the blade in its height, so that the area of a throat for each section of the stationary blade is varied along the height thereof to thereby increase stage efficiency.

Abstract: A peristaltic liquid pump in which a box-like housing encloses a rotatable head carrying a pair of rollers which engage a U-shaped portion of plastic tubing carrying liquid to be pumped. The housing has a light-transmissive cover member enabling the operator to view the tubing therein. A membrane is interposed between the rollers and the U-shaped portion of the plastic tubing, with the membrane having a relatively stiff surface for contacting the rollers and a relatively sticky surface for contacting the plastic tubing.

Abstract: A composite powder suitable for use in thermal spray applications as a wear and/or corrosion resistant coating comprising chromic oxide, magnesium oxide, iron oxide, titanium oxide, and aluminum oxide.

Abstract: A jet pump has a nozzle for a power fluid, a Venturi for the power fluid and a well fluid, and a passage for the well fluid radially outside the Venturi and into the discharge of the nozzle. The power fluid aspirates the well fluid and the combined stream enters the Venturi. The Venturi is ceramic for erosion control. A shell sheaths the ceramic throughout its length and loads the ceramic compressively to provide a compressive preload on it. This preload opposes radial, outward acting stress in the Venturi arising from a greater fluid pressure within the Venturi than the fluid pressure outside it. The preload also produces a friction lock to keep the Venturi from sliding out of the shell because of an axial pressure differential.