Abstract: A pump capable of shear mixing and supplying high density grout over long distances and through relatively narrow conduits. The pump includes a hopper, a series of agitators in the hopper and a coincident auger and rotor/stator disposed below the hopper. The pump is held together by a pair of side bars having quick release bear clamp clasps for expeditious disassembly.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine power unit (10) comprising a gas turbine engine hot gas generator (10a), the exhaust efflux of which drives a turbine (20) having a power output shaft (22). The exhaust efflux from the turbine (20) is directed into a chamber (23) having two outlets (24,25) to atmosphere. The outlets (24,25) are provided with valves (26,28) which are operable to ensure that only one outlet (24,25) is open at a given time. The first outlet (24) contains a heat exchanger (15) whereas the second outlet (25) contains a further turbine (30). The further turbine (30) drives an air compressor (32) the output of which is directed to an air inlet (36) of the gas turbine engine (10a) in order to facilitate a boost in its output power.

Abstract: A blood pump includes a housing an inlet and outlet communicating with a pump chamber. A rotor received in the pump chamber is rotated by a drive motor. A drive shaft extending between the motor and rotor passes through a seal which is purged from the non-blood side by fluid. The fluid side of the seal contains a pumping element to modulate the fluid pressure, thereby controlling the purge fluid flow.

Abstract: A pivot door type aircraft turbine engine thrust reverser which includes a pair of pivoting panels on the inner side of the door. The panels are positioned alongside the door actuation mechanism. The panels form a flush surface along the fan duct flow path when stowed during normal engine operation in flight. When the door is deployed in thrust reversing mode, one end of the door moves to at least partially block airflow through the duct and divert it out along the door through an opening uncovered by door deployment. During door deployment, a linkage moves the panels toward the outer surface of the door, exposing a door deflector plate to the airflow. Air flows along the door, then along the panel, out through the opening, then impacts the deflector plate which deflects the airflow in the reverse direction.

Abstract: An electrically actuated food and liquid fanning device (Z) that may be removably secured to a food or liquid holding utensil (F), container, or the like, which will generate a draft in a desired direction that is of material assistance in cooling the food or liquid held by the utensil (F), container, or other food or liquid holding device.

Abstract: A borescope sealing apparatus and plug includes semi-spherical sealing surfaces on the plug's sealing end and a conical hole sealing seat to receive the sealing end. The invention provides good sealing during engine operation wherein thermal growth causes misalignment of the borescope holes. The borescope plug further includes an axial shaft and a spring loaded end having a spring means which is operable to bias the sealing end into the sealing seat. The spring means suggested are crest to crest wave spring, coiled spring, and a pressurized bellows. The sealing apparatus and borescope plug is particularly useful for sealing borescope holes in double wall casings such as those found in gas turbine engines.

Abstract: Concrete-pumping device comprising a frame, a number of pump cylinders mounted on the frame which comprise a pump opening close to one end, sealed pump pistons which are guided slidably in the pump cylinders toward and away from the pumping device and which are each coupled to reciprocal driving to the plunger of a coaxially arranged hydraulic jack, hydraulic switching means for cyclically feeding to and discharging from the jack hydraulic oil under pressure such that the plunger causes the reciprocating movement of the pump piston and concrete switching means for alternately placing the pump opening in communication with a feed funnel and a pressure conduit for concrete synchronously with the movement of the pump piston in order to pump concrete out of the feed funnel into the pressure conduit.

Abstract: Electric motor cooling difficulties in a ducted axial flow electric fan construction are avoided through the use of a duct-like housing (10) having an interior wall (30) with axially spaced feet (34), (40) within the housing (10) and radially inward of the interior wall (30). A motor stator (88) is located within the housing (10) and is engaged by the feet (34) and (40) to be mounted in spaced relation to the interior wall (30) with its exterior surface (98) between the feet (34), (40) and facing and exposed to the interior wall (30). A rotor (84) is journalled within the stator (88) and mounts an impeller (52) which drives ambient gas through the housing (10) in contact with the exterior surface (98) of the stator to cool the same.

Abstract: With surface sections vaulted with respect to the valve centerline the valve mates with a stationary companion surface on an annular casing lip to optionally shut off or expose the engine by having vaulted surface sections which are arranged at an axial distance an angularly offset over the circumference by essentially 180.degree. with the valve centerline, forming its largest relative diameter; where the vaulted surface sections form a valve of axially and circumferentially three-dimensionally displaced drop or mushroom shape.

Abstract: A hydraulically actuated downhole pump assembly for producing a well is powered by a fluid that is pumped downhole to an engine end thereof. The pump assembly has a pump end which is connected to a source of formation fluid so that the engine end drives the pump end and the pump end lifts produced fluid to the surface of the ground. The pump end has a pump barrel and a pump piston is reciprocatingly received in sealed relationship within the pump barrel. The engine end has an outer engine barrel, and an annular valve element is reciprocatingly received in sealed relationship within the outer barrel. The valve element moves up and down between two positions of operation while an engine piston reciprocates within the annular valve element and in so doing aligns various flow passageways in a manner to alternately apply power fluid to appropriate sides of the piston and valve element to force the engine piston to reciprocate.

Abstract: A high-pressure pump with a plunger reciprocating in a cylinder has a cylindrical guide surface on the plunger chamber side of the inlet/outlet port and a cylindrical guide surface on the drive side of an axial chord of 0.05 to 0.5 times the plunger diameter. This provides an advantage in that under high pump pressure the plunger emerges from the guide surface so that the plunger surface areas exposed to unilateral side forces are reduced. This prevents the plunger from canting and possibly seizing on the cylinder wall.

Abstract: A variable capacity vane compressor has a first oil sump formed in a bottom of a discharge pressure chamber arranged at one side of a cylinder close to one side block, and a second oil sump formed in a bottom of a suction chamber arranged at another side of the cylinder close to the other side block. An oil passageway communicates between the first oil sump and the second oil sump. A control element is arranged in the other side block for rotation about its own axis in opposite directions to thereby vary the compression starting timing. A pressure chamber acts to apply control pressure created from discharge pressure from the cylinder to the control element for causing rotation of the control element. A seal member is fitted on the control element such that part of the seal member is located in the pressure chamber. A high pressure-introducing passageway is formed in the other side block and communicates with the second oil sump.

Abstract: A hydraulic pump or motor having a rotary cylinder barrel formed with a plurality of cylinders in which a corresponding number of plungers are axially slidably disposed for reciprocation and a valve plate in frictional engagement with an end face of the cylinder barrel and being formed with a suction slot and a discharge slot to be communicated with the cylinders of the barrel, wherein the cylinder barrel is contained within a cavity formed in a housing having an end wall formed with an inlet passage in open communication with the suction slot of the valve plate and an outlet passage in open communication with the discharge slot of the valve plate, and a fluid control valve assembly is disposed in the end wall of the housing to permit the flow of hydraulic fluid supplied therethrough into the cavity of the housing from the outlet passage when applied with the pressure of hydraulic fluid higher than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A swash plate type compressor having a compressor casing accommodating a swash plate operated compressing mechanism compressing a refrigerant gas supplied from a suction side of a refrigerant circulating circuit and discharging a compressed refrigerant gas into a discharge side of the circuit, and an internal lubricating system for lubricating movable elements of the swash plate operated compressing mechanism by using a lubricating oil reserved in a swash plate chamber and an oil sump provided in the bottom of the compressor casing, the compressor casing having a refrigerant and lubricant separating chamber for separating a lubricant component from a lubricant suspended refrigerant gas generated in the swash plate chamber by a high pressure blow-by refrigerant gas and a mist of the lubricant oil when the gas flows from the swash plate chamber toward the suction side of the refrigerant gas circulating circuit, and a refrigerant gas evacuation passageway extended from the refrigerant and lubricant separating ch

Abstract: A jet pump having a rotatable venturi cartridge to permit any of several different sized venturi tubes to be aligned with a nozzle in the pump casing. A knob is provided on the pump casing to permit convenient rotation of the venturi cartridge. Printed indicia on the knob align with an indicator arrow to visually indicate the setting of the knob.

Abstract: A gas-jet ejector has an inlet chamber designed to be connected to an evacuated space, a mixing chamber and a diffuser communicating with a vacuum pump which are all series-arranged in a direction coinciding with the direction of gas flow and in alignment with each other inside a housing. A Laval nozzle connected to the surroundings is contained inside the inlet chamber in alignment therewith. The geometry of the critical section of the Laval nozzle, its outflow section and the inlet and outlet sections of the mixing chamber is conducive to increasing the volumetric flow rate across the outlet section of the diffuser 1.35 to 1.80 times.

Abstract: A gas removable pump for liquid comprising a housing having an inlet for introducing the liquid thereinto and an outlet for feeding the liquid therefrom, a drive shaft extending into the housing and having formed therein an axial bore, a rotary pump disposed within the housing, and a discharging chamber defined within the housing and separated from the rotary pump in a liquid-tight manner. The rotary pump includes a rotor secured to the drive shaft for co-rotation therewith and a plurality of cells for feeding the liquid, each cell constituting a separator for gas-rich liquid upon rotation of the rotor. A stationary shaft extends in the axial bore between the rotary pump and the discharging chamber. A connecting arrangement is provided in the drive shaft and stationary shaft for selectively connecting each cell with the discharging chamber. Also provided is an injector for ejecting into the discharging chamber the gas-rich liquid separated in the cells through the connecting arrangement.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved gas-driven pump for pumping products, such as beverage syrups. A piston is mounted to a piston shaft for reciprocal movement within a housing. Cavities corresponding to the piston are alternately vented and pressurized to intake the product into a first chamber and to drive the piston to pump the product. A valve stem is included within the housing and is adapted such that the piston performing intake and exhaust strokes moves the valve stem between intake and exhaust positions. A valve body is disposed about the valve stem which is also movable between two positions for alternately venting and pressurizing a second chamber. The valve stem which is operable to move the valve body is biased toward the intake or exhaust position by an overcenter spring disposed within the second chamber.

Abstract: A peristaltic pump providing a mechanism for varying tubing occlusion in combination with a camming mechanism which facilitates opening and closing of the pump.

Abstract: A jet pump structure for a fuel tank having first and second chambers therein includes first, second and third fuel pipes all of which are connected to a vacuum chamber provided within the fuel tank. The first pipe returns oversupplied fuel into the vacuum chamber, the second pipe transfers fuel stored in the first chamber into the vacuum chamber, and the third pipe receives the fuel from the first and second pipes and discharge same into the second chamber. A flow guide member is provided within the first pipe, which receives the oversupplied fuel to form same into a swirl flow. The swirl flow is ejected from the first pipe as a jet flow into the vacuum chamber to provide a vacuum therearound within the vacuum chamber. The ejected swirl flow further works to seal the vacuum chamber against the third pipe so that the vacuum generated within the vacuum chamber is prevented from being released through the third pipe to effectively suck the fuel from the first chamber.