Abstract: A suction controlled gear ring pump effects a continuous decrease of the vacuum occurring in the feed cells of the pump at higher rotational speeds due to the long movement path of the feed cells from the end of the suction region to the beginning of the discharge opening and the thereby occurring diminution of the feed cells. In order to prevent squeeze oil when working at a lower rotating speed, the feed cells positioned successively in the feed direction are connected between the teeth respectively with the neighboring feed cells by overflow channels extending through the gear teeth, check valves in said overflow channels preventing a flow against the feed direction.

Abstract: A rotor pair for a high-pressure screw compressor having main and secondary rotors, the main rotor having essentially convex teeth arranged outside its reference circle and the secondary rotor having essentially concave teeth arranged inside its reference circle. The distance between the axes of the rotors, which limits the size of the possible bearings, is enlarged only by increasing the number of teeth and the diameter of the secondary rotor so that it is larger than the main rotor.

Abstract: This invention relates to a porting system for a hydraulic device comprising a housing having a chamber communicating with an intake port and an exhaust port; a pair of rotary gears disposed internally of said chamber adjacent said ports and defining expanding and contracting pockets as said gears rotate over said intake and exhaust ports; said ports having a cross-sectional area in the direction perpendicular to the rotation which varies in relation to the rate of change of the expanding and contracting pockets.

Abstract: The invention provides a peristaltic metering pump for dosing metered quantitites of fluids along a plurality of flow lines. The pump comprises a set of rollers and a plurality of flexible liquid transfer tubes, the tubes being mounted on a tube mounting against which they are simultaneously compressed by the rollers. The rollers are drivingly connected to a motor, the rollers being mounted on a roller support. The motor is operable to drive the rollers so that they roll successively along the tubes and compress the tubes simultaneously against the tube mounting as they roll along the tubes. The roller support is biassed against a stop with the roller support being movable away from the stop against the bias by force exerted on at least one roller by the tubes.

Abstract: The invented split gear mechanism replaces a standard single spur gear used within metering pumps and operates in conjunction with a similar driven split gear mechanism. The invention includes two or more layered gear pairs, each layer being re-indexed at a slightly altered fixed orientation relative to a given index point. The invention is typically used within "precision metering pumps" used, for example, in the textile industry. The invention facilitates uniformity by reducing pulsations generated by existing pumps. A method for reducing pulsations in pumping tasks is also included.

Abstract: A fuel supply assembly for feeding fuel to an internal combustion engine and comprising a gear pump that includes a ring gear having inner teeth, and a pinion arranged eccentrically with respect to said ring gear and having outer teeth meshing with the inner teeth of the ring gear and defining therewith expanding and contracting chambers during operation of the pump, the pump further including an outer support element for movably supporting the ring gear and including a supporting surface which engages a portion of the outer surface of the ring gear and is located radially outside of a discharge opening of the pump.

Abstract: A variable-displacement vane-pump has a rotor which is rotatably supported by a pump housing in coaxial relationship therewith, and a cam ring interposed between the rotor and the pump housing in eccentric relationship with the pump housing. The rotor has radially outwardly slidable vanes on its outer peripheral surface in contact with an inner surface of the cam ring. Two side plates are disposed on both sides of the vanes, thereby defining pump chambers between every adjacent vanes. An arc-shaped intake port and an arc-shaped exhaust port are formed in one of two side plates, and respectively open into the pump chambers along one side face of the cam ring. In the other side face of the cam ring, a groove is formed except for the region corresponding to the exhaust port, and a partially cut off annular friction ring is disposed within the groove while urged by a seal ring into close contact with the other side plate.

Abstract: Described herein are a couple of female and male screw rotors suitable for use in an oil cooled compressor or the like, the female rotor having a tooth of a profile containing on the trailing side thereof a first tooth surface expressed by a function f(x), generated by a tip end portion located on the trailing side of the opposing male rotor tooth and expressed by an arbitrary function F(x), and a second tooth surface expressed by a function G(x) and extending from the first tooth surface of the function f(x) to the addendum circle of the female rotor tooth, the second tooth surface being profiled in a different shape from the first tooth portion f(x) and having the center of curvature in part thereof located outward of the addendum circle of the female rotor tooth on the anterior side thereof.

Abstract: A motor-operated pump of the in-tank type including a motor for driving the pump, the motor having a commutator; a bracket covering one end of the motor disposed adjacent to the commutator; a brush held against the commutator through a through hole formed in the bracket; and a bearing for supporting a shaft of the motor. An annular projection is formed on a central portion of a surface of bracket disposed in opposed relation to the commutator, and the annular projection is formed integrally with the bracket. Alternatively, an annular projection is formed on a central portion of the commutator disposed in opposed relation to the bearing, and the annular projection is made of an electrically insulating material constituting the commutator, and is formed integrally with the commutator.

Abstract: A machine for the compression or expansion of a fluid comprising a multi-thread screw having opposite low and high pressure ends, the screw being mountable for rotation about an axis to cooperate in substantially fluid-tight manner in a cylindrical bore of a stationary casing, at least one pinion having teeth disposed for meshing engagement with the screw threads and rotatable about an axis transverse with respect to the axis of screw rotation. The screw is carried by a shaft supported by two sets of bearings respectively disposed on each end of the screw. The casing bore is open at both ends and the high pressure end of the casing includes a hoop having an internal bore diameter substantially smaller than the diameter of the bore. The low pressure end of the casing bore is of a diameter at least equal to the diameter of the screw for introduction of the screw into the casing bore during assembly of the screw and casing.

Abstract: A fluid powered vane motor for operation with a minimum of externally supplied lubrication has a motor chamber made up of a cylinder with an eccentric cylindrical bore and end plates abutting the ends of the cylinder. A rotor with a plurality of axially oriented radial slots on its circumferential surface is supported on bearing means within the chamber. Radially slidable vanes are disposed in the radial slots of the rotor so that they form a moving seal between the rotor surface and the cylinder wall. Pressurized fluid introduced to the motor chamber acts upon the vanes of the rotor and imparts rotary motion thereto. Operation with a limited amount of externally supplied lubrication is accomplished by making end plates of inherently lubricious material such as fiber-reinforced polymeric material, and by coating the innner bore of the cylinder with a soft coating having lubricious properties in contact with the selected vane material.

Abstract: A fluid displacement machine of the vane type utilizing a cylindrical rotor equipped with one or more tethered sliding vanes wherein the rotor and vane set is rotatably located eccentrically inside an internal conforming casing profile between opposing endplates which combination thereof defines enclosed variable volume compartments. Each vane is fitted on opposite sides with tethers which are pivotally-mounted remotely from the vane tips. The tethers engage, through anti-friction means, circular annuli located within the endplates which are concentric with the hollow casing profile. Two anti-friction tether-to-annuli means are revealed, one in the form of freely-rotating caged roller bearings interposed between the tethers and the respective internal annuli, and the other in the form of tethers equipped with trunnioned bearings which directly engage these internal annular surfaces. Combinations of these anti-friction vane tethering means are also revealed.

Abstract: A sliding structure such as a compressor and etc. comprising a member made of an iron base material and another member having a porous ceramic layer slidably contacted with the iron base member, wherein the surface portion of the iron base member has both a porous oxide film containing tri-iron tetroxide as a main constituent, and an oxynitride layer formed under the oxide film.

Abstract: Air and oil from an oil flooded screw compressor is directed through an air-oil separator. The air is cooled to extract moisture therefrom. Then the cooled air is fed to a drying tower and from the tower the air, together with hot oil from the air-oil separator, is fed to a heat exchanger which heats the air to a desired temperature for use and cools the oil to a desired temperature for re-use by the compressor. The regenerating portion of the tower communicates with the outlet of the heat exchanger for supplying dry heated air as purge air for efficient regeneration.

Abstract: A dual capacity pump having at least two gear pump stages with a common fluid inlet passage, each pump stage having a discharge port, the discharge port for one stage communicating with a fluid pressure load through a flow delivery passage and the discharge port for the other stage communicating with the flow delivery passage through a one-way flow valve, and flow control valve means responsive to an operating variable for connecting the discharge side of the other stage to the common fluid inlet passage during operation in a first operating range of low driving speeds for the pump and to said flow delivery passage through the one-way flow valve during operation in a calibrated range of values for the operating variable.

Abstract: The miniature peristaltic pump (1) of this invention includes a pump module (2) comprising a gear (11) arranged to drive a rotor bearing rollers, said rollers crushing locally at least one tube into which a medicinal preparation may be sucked in at the input (13) and expelled at the output (14) thereof. The gear (11) meshes with a pinion (12) forming part of a motor module (3) adapted to be mounted with or dismounted from the pump module. The motor module comprises a timepiece movement of the type currently employed in a wrist watch, such movement including a stepping motor, an integrated circuit, a quartz resonator and down gearing by means of toothed wheels. An energy cell renders the pump self contained. The pump is intended to be carried on the human body and thus renders unnecessary that the patient recline on a bed.

Abstract: A vane type hydraulic energy translating device for pumping filtered seawater and which uses seawater as a lubricating fluid. The pump is a compact, light weight design in which the bearings and certain other critical components are fabricated from corrosion resistant, low friction, high strength materials. The vanes as well as flexible side plate members are formed of these corrosion resistant materials. The pump body is formed of high corrosion resistant stainless steel. The side plates are flexible and act as wear surfaces for the ends of the vanes as well as sealing surfaces about the rotor thereby preventing leakage of seawater from high to low pressure areas. Each vane is spring biased radially outward from the rotor axis with four springs disposed within apertures located in the vane base. The vanes are generally rectangular in shape and have an outer end portion which serves as a sliding seal against a cam ring track.

Abstract: The positive displacement rotary machine to compress or expand a fluid between a high and a low pressure comprises a screw provided with at least one groove, rotatably mounted in a casing and meshingly cooperating with at least one gaterotor carrying teeth which protrude into the groove to define with the casing a volume for variation of pressure of the fluid. One side of the teeth is being exposed to the high pressure fluid. The high pressure side of the teeth is in sealing proximity with a lip of the casing. The center of the gaterotor is hollow and carries bearings supporting the gaterotor for rotation around a fixed shaft extending through the rotor. Said shaft is secured to the casing in a portion thereof facing the high pressure side of the teeth by a key which has an axis substantially perpendicular to the shaft axis and is pressed against a flat portion provided on the shaft.

Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a support member for supporting a revolution piston while preventing rotary movement thereof with respect to its axis, and at least two sliding blades provided in the revolution piston. Both blades are biased against a surrounding cylinder by a one-piece spring. The maximum volume of the chamber is larger than the conventional chamber due to reciprocal movement of the slidable blades. The blades are positioned or rest at almost the same position in the radial direction of the revolution piston. Therefore, any inertia which effects the spring due to the sliding blades is very small. Thus, the sliding blades press the cylinder with almost constant force which is predetermined by the spring, even if the revolution piston changes the rotational speed thereof.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine of the rotary type has a pair of connected pistons and provides increased power and fuel economy. The fuel combustion chamber includes a single-acting air inlet valve and a double-acting outlet valve. The oil cooling system delivers air through each of the pistons whereby the oil is recirculated after cooling.