Abstract: The geared feed pump has a housing, in which a pump chamber is formed between a housing part and a cap part, and a pair of gear wheels, driven to rotate and meshing with one another on their outer circumference, are disposed in the pump chamber and pump a feed medium into a pressure chamber along feed conduits formed between the outer circumference of the gear wheels and circumferential walls of the pump chamber. On its inside toward the face ends of the gear wheels, the cap part has an indentation with a cross section that is at least as large as the cross section of the face ends of the gear wheels. Between the cap part and the face ends of the gear wheels, a platelike cover element covering the indentation is disposed; at least when the geared feed pump is not in operation, the cover element rests with initial tension on the face ends of the gear wheels and can be deflected into the indentation, away from the face ends of the gear wheels.

Abstract: The geared feed pump has a housing, in which a pump chamber is formed between a housing part and a cap part, and a pair of gear wheels, driven to rotate and meshing with one another on their outer circumference, are disposed in the pump chamber and pump a feed medium into a pressure chamber along feed conduits formed between the outer circumference of the gear wheels and circumferential walls of the pump chamber. On its inside toward the face ends of the gear wheels, the cap part has an indentation with a cross section that is at least as large as the cross section of the face ends of the gear wheels. Between the cap part and the face ends of the gear wheels, a platelike cover element covering the indentation is disposed; at least when the geared feed pump is not in operation, the cover element rests with initial tension on the face ends of the gear wheels and can be deflected into the indentation, away from the face ends of the gear wheels.