Including Rotary Nonexpansible Chamber Type Patents (Class 417/201)
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Patent number: 5750023Abstract: The pumping device comprises a pump driven by a motor having a stator and a permanent-magnet rotor located between polar expansions and connected to an impeller. A liquid suction duct and a liquid delivery duct are connected to the pump to define a hydraulic circuit. A reciprocating vacuum pump, for creating a negative pressure at the suction duct of the pump, has a resilient cylindrical element connected to a rigid cylindrical box-like element and defines therewith a chamber. The chamber has inlet and outlet valves connected to the hydraulic circuit through a poppet valve, and an arm-like member connected to the resilient element. An opposite end of the arm-like member supports a magnet located between poles of the stator of the motor, whereby to cause movement of the arm-like member and the resilient element for circulating fluid through the chamber via the inlet and outlet valves for priming the pump upon actuating the poppet valve.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1996Date of Patent: May 12, 1998Assignee: Sicce S.p.A.Inventor: Paolo Pettenon
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Patent number: 5655891Abstract: The pump includes two pistons 10 each sliding in a cylinder 11. These are fed by a screw 21 through ports 12. Upon delivery, a rotary valve 6 turning in a bearing 1A2 in succession closes off and uncovers the passages 1A1 from the cylinders. This rotary valve 6 includes an axial bore 61 and a slot 62 through which the material collected from the cylinders passes in the direction of the outlet orifice of the pump.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: August 12, 1997Assignee: SedeproInventors: Michel Deal, Henri Hinc
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Patent number: 5564907Abstract: An evacuating apparatus includes a first pump section disposed on a suction opening side, a second pump section for exhausting a smaller amount of gas than the first pump section, the second pump being disposed in an exhaust opening side, a plurality of rotors accommodated in a housing, bearings for supporting rotation of the rotors, a suction opening for drawing fluid and a first exhaust opening thereof both formed on the housing, and a plurality of motors for driving the rotors. In the apparatus, the first pump section is a pump of positive displacement type formed by utilizing a volume change of a space defined by the rotors and the housing, and the second pump section is a viscous-type pump formed by utilizing a relatively moving surface formed in a small gap defined between the rotors and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1993Date of Patent: October 15, 1996Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Akira Takara, Yoshikazu Abe, Yoshihiro Ikemoto
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Patent number: 5545013Abstract: The invention relates to a hydrostatic machine, in particular axial piston machine, having a machine housing the internal housing chamber of which accommodates a drive mechanism rotatably mounted by means of at least one bearing and has a leakage oil chamber opening to the outside via at least one leakage oil connection. To avoid splash losses of the hydrostatic machine, in accordance with the invention a pump device (29; 50; 60; 70) is arranged in the internal housing chamber in driving connection with the drive mechanism (3, 4, 7), which device is provided to pump leakage oil out of the leakage oil chamber (28) through the leakage oil connection (8, 37; 72) to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1995Date of Patent: August 13, 1996Assignee: Brueninghaus Hydromatik GmbHInventors: Jochen Beck, Werner Hormann
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Patent number: 5542828Abstract: Close tolerance, oil free scroll type vacuum pumps, when run at RPM speeds in excess of 1800 RPM, prevent pump exhaust outlet to pump vacuum inlet back diffusion (backwards migration) of light atmospheric gases from a process vacuum is useful in a number of vacuum applications. The light gas isolation capability of the invention scroll type vacuum pumps is due to the close tolerance pumping mechanism that these pumps employ, the RPM speed that the mechanism is operated at, and the absence of light gas absorbing materials inside the pump such as oil.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Inventors: Charles A. Grenci, R. Dallas Clayton
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Patent number: 5509790Abstract: A compressor/motor combination device for use in refrigerant recovery and/or recycling apparatus wherein the motor employed is of the disc armature type and the drive shaft thereof also acts as the crank shaft of the compressor for reciprocating the piston therein and extends in a direction opposite the compressor to drive a fan.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1994Date of Patent: April 23, 1996Assignee: Engineering & Sales Associates, Inc.Inventors: Carmelo J. Schuderi, James V. Masi, Stephen P. Scuderi
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Patent number: 5494425Abstract: Apparatus and process for handling thermoplastic liquified material is disclosed. A system including an extruder feeding into a degasifying chamber is disposed upstream of a gear pump for pressurizing the material. The extruder gravity delivering, by way of a multiple-billet die, billets to the gears outside of the gear meshing area.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1993Date of Patent: February 27, 1996Assignee: Maag Pump Systems AGInventor: Roger Stehr
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Patent number: 5395514Abstract: A portable ultrafiltration device is disclosed comprising a centrifugal pump, membrane filter and an eductor means, arranged at or before the inlet of the centrifugal pump in a recycle loop from the ultrafiltration system and functioning to replenish filterable fluids and increase the efficiency of the centrifugal pump, coupled with means for controlling the device. Provision is also made for an improved feed mixture pick-up assembly comprising a screening means and a reverse fluid flow arrangement which continuously cleans the screen means to prevent fouling of the pick-up assembly, and the combination thereof with an ultrafiltration device.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1993Date of Patent: March 7, 1995Assignee: Infinitex CorporationInventor: Thomas W. Siegler
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Patent number: 5326229Abstract: An assembly is disclosed for supplying compressed air to both an engine and an air suspension of a motor vehicle. The assembly comprises a direct current electric motor, a centrifugal air pump, and a piston pump. The motor has a shaft extending outwardly from opposite sides of the motor, with the centrifugal pump being driven by one end of the shaft and the piston pump being driven by the other end of the shaft. The centrifugal pump produces high volumes of air at low pressure required by the engine, while the piston pump produces low volumes of air at high pressure required by the air suspension. Bypass valves are provided to selectively divert the air provided by the pumps to the atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1993Date of Patent: July 5, 1994Assignee: Ford Motor CompanyInventor: Ronald J. Collins
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Patent number: 5324173Abstract: A hydraulic pressure amplifier has a hydraulic motor for driving a single cam and follower in a piston chamber. A number of conduits and chambers with automatically actuated valves controlling the flow between them are provided, such that, in operation, low pressure fluid introduced into the device to drive the motor will be automatically increased in pressure for discharge-.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1993Date of Patent: June 28, 1994Inventor: John R. Wick, Sr.
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Patent number: 5284424Abstract: The invention relates to a pump arrangement, especially for the operation of an osmotic water purifier comprising a filter housing (10) having a raw water inlet (11), a filtrate outlet (15), a reject outlet (16), and a flush valve (18) adapted to be opened for flushing raw water through the filter housing. The pump arrangement comprises a high pressure pump (12) for supplying raw water at the required pressure, and a circulation pump (13) for recirculating a relatively large flow through the filter housing. The high pressure pump (12) consists of a sliding vane pump of the type in which the vanes (24) are caused to sealingly engage the surrounding wall of the pump chamber by a hycraulic pressure supplied from the pressure side of the high pressure pump.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1992Date of Patent: February 8, 1994Assignee: Aktiebolaget ElectroluxInventors: Fredrik Dellby, Per A. Fonser, Peter H. Hagqvist
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Patent number: 5244352Abstract: A multi-stage vacuum pump installation having an oil-lubricated or dry-running mechanical displacement pump located in the atmospheric stage. The oil-lubricated or dry-running pump is preceded on the vacuum side by at least one additional pump which is a side channel compressor pump (or gas ring pump). A side channel compressor pump located upstream of the oil-lubricated or dry-running pump reduces oil consumption and at the same time improves efficiency of the installation.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1990Date of Patent: September 14, 1993Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Kurt-Willy Mugele
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Patent number: 5188516Abstract: A hydraulic/pneumatic pump for an aquarium includes a motor having an upper output shaft enclosed by an upper casing and a lower output shaft enclosed by a lower casing, a hydraulic pump assembly driven by the lower output shaft, and a pneumatic pump assembly driven by the upper output shaft. The hydraulic pump assembly pumps water from the aquarium to be filtered via an inlet pipe thereof and outputs water to a filter unit via an outlet pipe thereof. The pneumatic pump assembly includes a ring mounted on the upper output shaft, an impinging member securely mounted on an upper surface of the ring, an actuating pin, a return spring, an air bag, a lower chamber, an upper chamber, and a variable chamber defined by the air bag. Air is sucked into the variable chamber via an inlet opening in the body and the lower chamber when the impinging member disengages with the actuating pin to release the air bag by the return spring.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1991Date of Patent: February 23, 1993Inventor: Yuh T. Huang
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Patent number: 5096389Abstract: The invented foam discharging apparatus includes an engine that uses a drive shaft to drive two fluid pumps. One of the two fluid pumps is directly engaged by the drive shaft. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, one of the fluid pumps is a centrifugal fluid pump that pumps water from a reservoir. The other fluid pump is a rotary screw air compressor.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1991Date of Patent: March 17, 1992Assignee: Dean Pihlstrom, Inc.Inventor: Clarence A. Grady
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Patent number: 5092740Abstract: A composite vacuum pump system having first and second vacuum pumps each having its own rotor and drive motor in which the exhaust of the first vacuum pump is removably coupled to the inlet of the second vacuum pump and the first vacuum pump rotor is driven at a constant torque and in which the second vacuum pump has an inlet for permitting the introduction into the pump of a heavy gas for increasing the efficiency of the pumping system.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1989Date of Patent: March 3, 1992Assignee: Nippon Ferrofluidics CorporationInventor: Akira Yamamura
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Patent number: 5062771Abstract: This invention concerns a production method and a processing apparatus for semiconductor devices, as well as an evacuating apparatus used for the processing apparatus. According to this invention, since the evacuation system of pressure-reduction processing apparatus for conducting various wafer processings during production steps of semiconductor devices is constituted only with oil-free vacuum pump, deleterious oil contaminations or carbonation products of oils produced from oils upon heating are not present in the pressure-reducing processing chamber as compared with conventional pressure-reducing processing apparatus using a vacuum oil pump as an evacuation pump and the production method of semiconductor devices using such apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1989Date of Patent: November 5, 1991Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Tokyo Electronics Co. Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Satou, Tadao Kusaka, Shigeo Tomiyama, Kouzi Aoki, Ichiro Gyobu, Kimio Muramatsu, Hiroaki Sakamoto, Shinjiroo Ueda, Masahiro Mase, Takashi Nagaoka
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Patent number: 5051065Abstract: A rotary hydraulic vane pump includes a rotor mounted within a housing, with a plurality of vanes individually slidably disposed in corresponding slots in the rotor periphery. A cam ring surrounds the rotor within the housing and has a radially inwardly facing vane track defining as least one arcuate fuel pressure cavity between the rotor and the cam ring. A fuel inlet in the housing includes a primary inlet port opening into the cavity at the leading circumferential edge of the cavity with respect to the direction of rotation of the rotor within the housing. A pump outlet includes an outlet port that opens into the cavity adjacent to the trailing circumferential edge of the cavity. A secondary inlet port opens into the cavity circumferentially between the primary inlet port and the outlet port, and is directly connected to the pump outlet port such that fluid, at outlet pressure is available at the secondary inlet port.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1990Date of Patent: September 24, 1991Assignee: Vickers, IncorporatedInventor: Lowell D. Hansen
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Patent number: 4971525Abstract: A hydraulic motor for driving a hydraulically driven fan system in a combustion engine includes both an oil pump and water pump in combination. The pump body and a pump cover together define a hollow chamber within which a shaft is rotatably mounted, the shaft supporting an oil pump rotor. A thrust plate in the hollow chamber coaxially aligns the pump body and pump cover and supports a first bearing for the shaft. The water pump is mounted in the pump cover and includes an impeller mounted on the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 1989Date of Patent: November 20, 1990Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideki Nakayoshi, Yoshinari Takakura
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Patent number: 4946349Abstract: A pumping system comprising a liquid ring vacuum pump including a casing and a rotatable runner. A Pitot pump including a casing, a Pitot tube, an impeller and a drum, the impeller and the drum being rotatably mounted in the casing, and the Pitot tube being mounted within the casing adjacent the outer periphery thereof. A gas passage leads into the vacuum pump, from the vacuum pump into the Pitot pump, and out of said Pitot pump, and a liquid passage leads from the Pitot tube to the vacuum pump. The system further includes a cooler connected to the liquid passage for cooling liquid therein, and a drive motor coupled to rotate the runner, the impeller and the drum.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1989Date of Patent: August 7, 1990Assignees: National Space Development Agency of Japan, Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kyoichi Manabe, Hideo Yamashiro
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Patent number: 4900232Abstract: A surge control system (16) is provided for a compressor (14) which anticipates the actual surge condition and initiates anti-surge protection in proportion to the magnitude of the anticipated surge condition. This is done by providing a feed forward signal (20) to a summing station (48) along with a normally generated surge control line point (44) to offset this point (44) by an amount determined by the feed forward signal (20). This offset point (50) is used as an input to a controller for controlling the bypass valve (28) in a bypass loop (30) around the compressor (14).Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1989Date of Patent: February 13, 1990Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox CompanyInventors: Donald J. Dziubakowski, Marion A. Keyes, IV, Jeremiah J. Shaffer
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Patent number: 4892464Abstract: A pump apparatus for supplying water and air via suitable respective feeding apparatus to a swimming pool or similar facility, with an electric motor for driving the pump apparatus comprising channel sections surrounding, at least partially, the electric motor by forming an annular gap, the air being feedable through the channel sections to a collecting chamber which is connected to a supply member for delivering air to said water feeding apparatus and/or to said swimming pool.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1988Date of Patent: January 9, 1990Inventor: Martin T. Schydlo
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Patent number: 4861233Abstract: A surge control system (16) is provided for a compressor (14) which anticipates the actual surge condition and initiates anti-surge protection in proportion to the magnitude of the anticipated surge condition. This is done by providing a feed foward signal (20) to a summing station (48) along with a normally generated surge control line point (44) to offset this point (44) by an amount determined by the feed forward signal (20). This offset point (50) is used as an input to a controller for controlling the bypass valve (28) in a bypass loop (30) around the compressor (14).Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1988Date of Patent: August 29, 1989Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox CompanyInventors: Donald J. Dziubakowski, Marion A. Keyes, IV, Jeremiah J. Shaffer
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Patent number: 4859073Abstract: A fluid agitator and pump assembly for thoroughly mixing fluids with heavier materials that settle to the bottom of the chamber. The chamber is tubular and stands vertical with two motors on the top surface; one motor rotates an axial tube having radial mixing blades at the chamber bottom, the second motor drives a coaxial shaft running through the tube to a pump. In one embodiment, the pump is a piston pump and the second motor reciprocates a piston on the bottom of the coaxial shaft. In a second embodiment, the second motor rotates the drive shaft for driving a rotary pump.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1988Date of Patent: August 22, 1989Inventors: William E. Howseman, Jr., Harold J. Engel
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Patent number: 4818188Abstract: A water and air pumping apparatus for a fish-raising pool includes a shaded-pole motor, a centrifugal water-pumping mechanism and an air-pumping drum device, and is characterized in that on the suitable side surface of the laminated core of the motor, there are provided with two longitudinal grooves, and the apparatus further includes a magnet connected to the air-pumping drum device and so disposed as to face the grooves and to be capable of transversely reciprocating so that a strong variant magnetic field resulted by the provision of grooves will reciprocate the magnet and thus the air-pumping drum device is activated, when the motor drives the water-pumping mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1987Date of Patent: April 4, 1989Inventor: Kuan-Der Chan
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Patent number: 4797068Abstract: A vacuum evacuation system comprising a non-positive displacement type vacuum pump called molecular pump which obtains high pumping speed in a high vacuum range, and an oil-free, positive displacement type vacuum pump called screw vacuum pump. The non-positive displacement type vacuum pump and the positive displacement type vacuum pump are connected to each other such that the non-positive displacement type vacuum pump is located on a high vacuum side and the positive displacement type vacuum pump is located on a low pressure or atmospheric side, to thereby prevent oil from being penetrated into a system to be evacuated.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1987Date of Patent: January 10, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Hayakawa, Kazuaki Shiinoki, Sinji Mitsuhashi, Kotaro Naya
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Patent number: 4734008Abstract: An open-vane regenerative impeller for a fuel pump. The impeller has a ring-like body portion from which a plurality of open-vane impeller vanes extend radially out and a plurality of fan blades extend radially in. The impeller is disposed in a closed cavity between two pump bodies with the vanes in an annular pumping chamber and the fan blades in a cylindrical vapor collection chamber radially inboard of the pumping chamber. The fan blades operate to blow vapor out of the vapor collection chamber through a vapor discharge slot in one of the pump bodies when rotation of the impeller commences thereby to enhance the initial vacuum at the inlet port to the pumping chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1986Date of Patent: March 29, 1988Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventor: Robert A. Roth
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Patent number: 4656687Abstract: This invention concerns a car cleaner and air pump shaped like an elephant. It can be used as a vacuum cleaner, e.g. sucking in dirt, and at the same time as an air pump, e.g. pumping pressurized air into a tire. This elephant-shaped car cleaner and air pump consists of an elephant-shaped cover, a dirt sucking device, an air pumping device, a lighting signaling device and an electric power system. The characteristic of the dirt sucking device is that dirt is sucked through the trunk and collected in the dirt bag set in the body by means of a blowing wheel turned by a motor. The characteristic of the air pumping device lies in pumping air by means of a cylinder and a piston that is moved by a set of worm-gear wheel and rod turned by the same motor that is used in the dirt sucking device.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1986Date of Patent: April 14, 1987Inventor: Yung-Kuan Wei
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Patent number: 4629033Abstract: Discloses a backup lube oil pump system for a steam turbine lube oil system. The primary and secondary pump system of the prior art lube oil system normally includes a primary centrifugal pump affixed to the turbine shaft and ac and dc motor-driven pumps to supply lubrication during start-up and shutdown when the primary pump cannot maintain flow due to low rotational speed. If the turbine is coasting down due to an ac power failure, the ac motor-driven backup pump is inoperative. The dc (battery) driven backup pump becomes the only backup left and the failure of batteries if not charged regularly can render it as a poor backup system. In the invention a backup lube oil system having high reliability utilizes a positive displacement lube oil pump driven by a rotor-driven permanent magnet generator. The pump is in parallel with a primary check valve in the lube oil feed line, so that the positive displacement backup lube oil pump is supplying oil at all times to the shaft bearing.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1984Date of Patent: December 16, 1986Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: James H. Moore, Sidney J. Woodcock, Charles R. Dumas
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Patent number: 4629399Abstract: An aggregate for delivering fuel from a fuel supply tank to an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle comprises an electric drive motor, on the output shaft of which an inner rotor, having teeth on the peripheral surface, is positioned, and a ring-shaped outer rotor surrounding the inner rotor and having inner teeth meshing with the teeth of the inner rotor to form a gear pump. Fuel-conveying vanes are provided on at least one rotor to form a regenerative-type pump. The regenerative-type pump is connected in series to the gear pump as seen in the direction of the fuel supply.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 1985Date of Patent: December 16, 1986Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Karl-Heinz Friebe
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Patent number: 4627788Abstract: An adaptive gain surge control system (18) is disclosed for a centrifugal compressor (14) which reacts to both normal and emergency surge conditions by controlling a bypass valve (48) across the compressor (14) inlet and outlet in response to a variable gain (G) determined by the offset (d) of the surge control line from the surge line of the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1984Date of Patent: December 9, 1986Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox CompanyInventors: Marion A. Keyes, IV, Jeremiah J. Shaffer
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Patent number: 4624627Abstract: A self-priming pump comprises a casing enclosing first and second impellers rotating on a common shaft. The first impeller in an associated impeller cavity pumps a liquid from an inlet to a first output port. The second impeller in an associated impeller cavity pumps the liquid from the inlet via an intake port to a second output port, the second impeller having a positive displacement for evacuating gas from the first impeller cavity. The first and second output ports are connected to an outlet with means provided for preventing reverse fluid flow into the first output port.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1985Date of Patent: November 25, 1986Inventor: Larry M. Tunks
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Patent number: 4621982Abstract: A main pump (rotary vane pump 1) and a secondary pump (radial piston pump 2) are driven by way of a common shaft (3), a cam ring (30) being used to drive the secondary pump. The cam ring is coupled to the shaft (3) by way of a shear pin (33). If the auxiliary pump locks, the shear pin fractures and the cam ring (30) can rotate relative to the shaft (3). In that case, the fracture portions of the shear pin (33) are driven into their respective bores (34, 35), thereby avoiding excessive friction and overheating. Therefore, the main pump can continue to operate in spite of the failure of the auxiliary pump.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1985Date of Patent: November 11, 1986Assignees: Vickers System GmbH, Daimler-Benz AktiegesellschaftInventors: Rene Schulz, Heinrich J. Braum, Kurt Nadolny, Van-Trung Nguyen
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Patent number: 4154681Abstract: A combined aerating and filtering device includes a filter box to be mounted on the side wall of an aquarium for carrying filter material through which water from the aquarium will pass to be filtered. A combined filter pump and air pump assembly is supported by the filter box and includes a housing, a motor carried within the housing, an air pump carried in the housing and driven by the motor and a filter pump driven by the motor. An air outlet is carried by the housing and connected with the air pump to thus provide means for aerating the aquarium. The filter pump extends into the filter box to draw water from the aquarium through the filter material within the filter box, and to return the filtered water to the aquarium.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1977Date of Patent: May 15, 1979Assignee: Aquarium Stock Company Inc.Inventors: Daniel W. Shields, Robert J. Kershaw
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Patent number: 3947193Abstract: The structure comprises a turbo-molecular pumping element providing a very moderate compression ratio and a rotating drum type pumping element equipped with an interchangeable stator or drum. These two elements are mounted in series and driven in a rotating movement by a single shaft. On the interchangeable part, parallel helical grooves whose depth depends on the molecular mass of the gas to be pumped are formed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1974Date of Patent: March 30, 1976Assignee: Compagnie Industrielle des Telecommunications Cit-AlcatelInventor: Louis Maurice