Abstract: A rotary displacement pump (2) according to the present invention is for pumping flowable viscous materials and comprises a liner (26, 36); a rotor (28) configured to be driven by a shaft (8); said rotor (28) including a shaft portion (30) and a radially protruding web (32) having a configuration of an undulatory disk type; a scraper gate (38) having an engagement slot of predetermined radial height and predetermined axial width, said engagement slot engaging said protruding web (32) of said rotor (28); said scraper gate (38) being supported by a scraper gate guide (40) so as to be retained in circumferential direction and to allow a reciprocating movement in a substantially axial direction; a pump housing (14) comprising a front end part (52) and a rear end part, said pump housing (14) enclosing said liner (26, 36), said rotor (28), said scraper gate (38) and said scraper gate guide (40), said shaft (8) extending through said rear end part of said pump housing (14); said liner (26, 36) including a first line

Abstract: The present invention recites a method of fabricating a stator for a downhole motor, the method comprising the steps of providing a stator tube having an interior surface and applying a bonding agent to the interior surface of the stator tube. Additionally, a mandrel is positioned within the stator tube, the mandrel having an outer geometry that is complimentary to a desired inner geometry for the stator. Furthermore, a reinforcing material is introduced into the stator tube to fill space between the mandrel and the interior surface of the stator tube and subsequently solidified to bond the reinforcing material to the interior surface of the stator tube, The mandrel is then removed from the bonded stator tube and reinforcing material such that a stator is fabricated.

Abstract: A reinforcing interface between the stator and its housing in a progressing cavity pump is created from ribs extending inwardly into the stator from the housing inner wall that can be longitudinally oriented or spirally oriented. Alternatively, the housing wall can have grooves into the inner wall that are made more bulbous further into the housing wall from the groove inlets so that when filled with stator material a long and continuous grip is obtained with either the wall groove embodiment or the internal rib embodiment.

Abstract: A progressing cavity pump assembly utilizes a reinforced upper section of the stator rubber helix. The pump stator is located at the end of a string of tubing. The reinforced upper section of the stator rubber helix is strong enough, whether reinforced by mechanical means or by strengthening the rubber matrix chemically, so as not to allow the passage of a stop located above or on the top of the pump rotor. The rotor is lowered on a string of rods until the stop above or on top of the rotor lands onto the reinforced upper section of the stator rubber helix. The rotor is then repositioned away from the stator helix a predetermined distance before pump operation begins with rod string rotation.

Abstract: A scroll compressor having a non-uniform generating radius for its scroll wraps is formed to have a flank relief which is greatest at locations having the highest generating radius. In scroll compressors having non-uniform generating radii, there is an increased likelihood of contact at the areas having the highest generating radius. Thus, flank relief is provided at the areas having the higher generating radii. In addition, the flank relief is preferably proportional to the generating radius. Further at areas having a generating radius below a predetermined minimum, no flank relief is necessary.

Abstract: A pump 1 comprises a chamber 2 having a inlet opening 22 and an outlet opening 21. The chamber 2 extends between a first main wall 30 and a second main wall 40. The first main wall 30 is a triangular bottom wall of a body 3. The second main wall 40 is a part of a triangular bottom wall of a tub 4. The body 3 is tiltable relative to the tub 4 so that the volume of the chamber 2 is variable. The pump 1 comprises an outlet valve for blocking the outlet opening 21 when the volume of the chamber 2 is increased and an inlet valve for blocking the inlet opening when the volume of the chamber 2 is reduced. The outlet valve is formed by a first portion 31 of the body 3. This first portion 31 of the body blocks the outlet opening when the body is urged against the outlet opening 21. The inlet valve is formed by a second portion 32 of the body 3. This second portion 32 of the body blocks the inlet opening when the body is urged against the outlet opening 21.

Abstract: A swash-plate machine includes a hollow-spherical work chamber which is divided by a partition into at least one high-pressure chamber and one low-pressure chamber, into which an operating medium can be carried through a conduit system. The partition extends up to a piston carrier and cooperates with a plate-like sealing strip. A circular piston is adapted to the diameter of the work chamber and communicates with the exterior through a supported drive shaft which effects a tumbling motion of the piston. The piston has at least one radial slit extending from the circumference to approximately the piston carrier. A guide journal which is inserted in the slit cooperates with the partition. The piston tapers outward toward the circumference. End surfaces of the piston are in contact with opposed lateral surfaces that extend at right angles to the axis of rotation of the drive shaft and laterally define the work chamber.

Abstract: A membrane pump has a housing which includes a pump head provided with an internal recess. The pump head is further provided with an inlet opening and an outlet opening which communicate with the recess and are disposed next to one another near an edge of the housing. A membrane extends across the recess and is clamped at its edges by the housing. The membrane and recess together define a pumping chamber. A segment of the membrane is held stationary against the pump head by a clamping finger and forms a seal with the pump head. The seal extends radially between the inlet and outlet openings from the periphery of the pumping chamber to its center. A drive successively urges circumferrentially successive segments of the unconfined part of the membrane into sealing engagement with the pump head to thus direct fluid from the inlet opening to the outlet opening.

Abstract: A peristaltic pump having a shaft mounted within a housing and coupled with a rotor to induce nutation in a wobble plate. A pump diaphragm is located and affixed to one side of the wobble plate and at its periphery to the housing. A backup diaphragm is employed on the other side of the wobble plate and provides a resilient coupling through a driven plate with the rotor. A pump casing associated with the diaphragm defines a pump cavity with the pump diaphragm. An inlet and an outlet having ball check valves or flapper valves control flow. An insert in the pump diaphragm has an oblong minor cross section and is employed to couple with the wobble plate. Mounting elements on the insert extend from one side of the diaphragm which may be formed in the relaxed state and biased inwardly toward one another for mounting to the wobble plate. A boss associated with the diaphragm and a cavity associated with the wobble plate help to further strengthen the diaphragm at the insert.

Abstract: A peristaltic pump having a shaft mounted within a housing and coupled with a rotor to induce nutation in a wobble plate. A pump diaphragm is located and affixed to one side of the wobble plate and at its periphery to the housing. A backup diaphragm is employed on the other side of the wobble plate and provides a resilient coupling through a driven plate with the rotor. A spherical mount supports the wobble plate and is spring biased such that the mount and the resilient coupling provide a resilient mounting for the nutating wobble plate. A pump casing associated with the diaphragm defines a pump cavity with the pump diaphragm. An inlet and an outlet having ball check valves or flapper valves control flow. The pump diaphragm includes a ridge selectively positioned at the intersection with the diaphragm frame plate and with the wobble plate to increase resistance to liquid pressures on the diaphragm.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor has a stationary scroll (1) and a movable scroll (2) rotating around the former in an orbital manner, while forming volume variable sealed spaces therebetween to compress a coolant gas. To reduce a wall thickness of the scroll, an outer wall curve (E.sub.1.sup.+) of the scroll (1,2) is defined by the modification of a basic involute curve (D.sup.+) by reducing a certain value B.theta..sup.n) from a length (L.sub.0) of the respective involute line of the basic involute curve, which value is increased as the involute angle (.theta.) is developed, and an inner wall curve (E.sub.1.sup.-) is generated from the outer wall curve (E.sub.1.sup.+) by first transferring the respective point (p.sub.3, 4) on the outer wall curve (E.sub.1.sup.+) in the normal direction to the outer wall curve (E.sub.1.sup.+) at the respective point (p.sub.3, 4) by a distance (r) equal to a radius of the orbital circle (R) to form an intermediate curve (E.sub.

Abstract: A rotary type fluid machine including a stationary spiral element and a revolving spiral element respectively having a substantially identical configuration and disposed therein 180 degrees apart from each other in mutually nested relationship, the revolving spiral element being adapted to revolve in solar motion relationship with respect to the stationary spiral element with a radius of revolutionary motion .rho.

Abstract: A nutating disc type fluid device in which in one embodiment nutating elements are mounting within a single chamber of a housing on a common shaft in a manner which is dynamically and pressure balanced. A divider plate is fitted through slots formed on one side of each nutating element so that relative rotation between the shaft and housing creates successive expanding and contracting volumes to draw fluid into the chamber through inlet ports and to exhaust fluid through outlet ports. The ports are sized and shaped to provide maximum and constant fluid flow. In another embodiment the nutating disc element is formed of an elastomeric material which permits unimpeded passage of solid objects that may be entrained in the fluid.

Abstract: A hose pump comprises a housing in which a drive shaft is mounted. The shaft is provided with an obliquely extending shaft piece on which a swash plate is mounted. The swash plate end face presses against a hose which lies in an annular groove located in the underside of the housing cover. The swash plate does not substantially rotate relative to the housing or to the hose and therefore exerts substantially no shear on the hose.

Abstract: In a fluid driven, nutating action apparatus, comprising a motor housing with a wobble plate mounted therein for universal tilting movement and movable by the driving fluid through progressively changing tilt angles for a nutating action cycle, a new and improved means for preventing rotation of the wobble plate is disclosed. In accordance with known construction of fluid driven, nutating action motors, a dividing wall is arranged in the motor housing and extends from the top wall of the housing to the bottom wall thereof. The wobble plate includes a slot arranged to straddle the dividing wall. In accordance with the present invention, at least a portion of the edges of the slot are placed in a close bearing relation to the dividing wall. The dividing wall is arranged and configured whereby the close bearing relationship between the slot and the dividing wall is maintained for the entire nutating action cycle of the motor, providing a superior working action of the wobble plate.