Abstract: A fuel distributor is provided which is capable of distributing fuel through plural fuel injection lines to the corresponding cylinders of a multicylinder internal combustion engine and which includes a distributor housing including a supply inlet passage, a plurality of fuel injection outlet passages and a plurality of distributor valves for providing sequential periodic fluidic communication between the supply inlet passage and the outlet passages. Each distributor valve, which may be cam-actuated or solenoid-actuated, is adapted to be placed in an open position to define a fuel injection period during which high pressure fuel may flow through the distributor valve to the respective engine cylinder and a closed position blocking fuel flow through the respective fuel injection outlet passage.

Abstract: A fuel pumping apparatus for supplying fuel to an internal combustion engine has a drive shaft which is coupled to a rotary part of a high pressure pump. A low pressure pump for supplying fuel to the high pressure pump has a rotor mounted about the drive shaft, a stator and side plates on opposite sides of the stator. The stator has an internal surface engaged by vanes carried by the rotor and one end plate has an arcuate outlet port which is connected to a transfer port formed in the side plate but inwardly of the outlet port. The transfer port is connected by passage means in the rotor with a fuel supply passage in the drive shaft.

Abstract: An inner-cam type distribution fuel injection pump has a lubricating system for lubricating the interior of a cam chamber defined by an inner cam and a rotor with a lubricating oil having a viscosity higher than the viscosity of fuel oil. The pump is structured to prevent the fuel oil from leaking into the lubricating oil.

Abstract: A fuel pumping apparatus includes a high pressure pump and a low pressure pump contained in a housing and driven by a drive shaft which is coupled to a rotary part of an internal combustion engine. The low pressure pump is a vane pump having a rotor in which is formed a plurality of outwardly extending slots which accommodate outwardly spring loaded vanes. The edges of the vanes engage an eccentrically disposed surface formed on a stator. The pump has end plates and inlet and outlet ports communicating with the space defined between said surface and the outer surface of the rotor. The outer edges of each vane are formed with grooves which extend along the edges and the grooves communicate by way of passages with the inner ends of the respective slots.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump includes a pumping section that is segregated from the drive mechanism to permit independent lubrication of the latter, thereby avoiding any need for reliance upon the fuel supplied for that purpose. Generally, the unit will have two pumping stages, one utilizing a rotating vane arrangement and the second comprising reciprocating pistons, and it may include novel means for adjusting timing and speed, which means may automatically be controlled in response to fuel pressure.

Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a rotary vacuum pump including a pair of rotors cooperating to suck gas, a driving source connected to a shaft of one of the pair of rotors, timing gears connected to respective shafts of the rotors and transmitting the driving force of the driving source between the shafts of the pair rotors, and a reciprocating vacuum pump connected to the driving source and connected to the downstream side of the rotary vacuum pump for sucking gas therefrom.

Abstract: A supply pump for continuously supplying pressurized fuel to an accumulator-type injector system employs an electrically controlled metering valve for regulating the supply of fuel to the pump chamber. The output pressure of the pressurized fuel from the pump is regulated by means of a relief valve assembly. The inlet metering valve also controls the operation of the relief valve assembly. The relief valve assembly comprises a hydraulically controlled piston which selectively controls the position of a valve member for releasing pressurized fuel from the outlet portion of the pump so that the pressurized fuel in the injection system may be regulated by controlling the fuel supply to the pump chamber and by also releasing pressurized fuel from the pressurized injection system.

Abstract: A two-stage rotary compressor makes use of a piston-vane arrangement where both stages are built end to end and where the same members (piston-vanes) work for both stages, the "axial pistons" of the second stage becoming the dividing "vanes" in the first stage.

Abstract: A rotary vane pump having a rotatable rotor in an elliptical chamber and a plurality of radially slidable vanes dispersed around the rotor, and having an intake phase and a discharge phase of rotor rotation, wherein liquid is admitted into the pump, pressurized and expelled from the pump at an elevated pressure. The improvement including passages in flow communication with the pressurized side of the pump vanes, and an auxiliary outlet communicating with the passages to provide an auxiliary pressurized liquid outlet from the pump, wherein the auxiliary pressure is developed by the pump vanes.

Abstract: A hydraulic arrangement has a housing which includes a first space of a definite first pressure and a second space with a lower second pressure. A primary pump supplies fluid under the first pressure into the first space to open the entrance ports into cylinders, which contain pistons therein, whereby the pistons are forced partially out of the cylinders and into the mentioned second space. In the second space the pistons are moved inwardly into the cylinders by an eccentric cam ring to supply a flow of fluid of a fourth pressure out of the outlet of the arrangement's housing.In modified embodiments the arrangement is a pressure transmission, which takes in a third pressure to drive a motor in the arrangement which in turn drives the shaft with the eccentric cam and the unit then exits the fourth pressure, which might be a very high pressure of up to more than ten thousand pounds per square inch.

Abstract: A fuel injection pumping apparatus for supplying fuel to an engine is of the rotary distributor type and has an annular cam ring having cam lobes for imparting inward movement to a pumping plunger. The trailing flanks of the cam lobes define metering portions which are less steep than those of known pumps so as to extend the time during which the outward movement of the plunger is controlled by the cam lobes. In addition the apparatus includes a sleeve slidable in the distributor member of the apparatus and this incorporates a shaped recess which communicates with a source of fuel. The bore containing the plunger communicates with an inlet port which can be uncovered to the recess while the plunger is under the contact of the metering portion of the cam lobe. The sides of the recess are not parallel so that the amount of fuel which flows to the bore depends on the setting of the sleeve.

Abstract: A liquid fuel injection pumping apparatus for supplying fuel to an engine includes an injection pump to which fuel is supplied through a feed passage in a distributor member from a low pressure pump. Fuel is delivered by the injection pump through a separate delivery passage which can register with an outlet. In order to enable air to be purged from the passages and injection pump, the delivery passage during the time fuel is being supplied to the injection pump is arranged to register with a further port which communicates in the example with a fuel supply tank. A restrictor is provided to control fuel flow through the further port.

Abstract: A liquid fuel injection pumping apparatus of the axially slidable rotor type includes a low pressure supply pump which supplies fuel to an injection pump including pumping plungers mounted in a rotary distributor member. A surface of the distributor member is located within a chamber to which a control pressure can be supplied by way of a control valve from the outlet of the low pressure pump. The distributor member is moved by increasing control pressure against a spring to reduce the amount of fuel supplied by the injection pump. A valve is provided which is responsive to the pressure drop across the control valve, the valve acting to prevent flow of fuel to the injection pump in the event that the pressure drop across the control valve falls below a predetermined value.

Abstract: A fuel pumping apparatus includes an injection pump which is supplied with fuel through a passage from a feed pump. A throttle member having a groove is angularly adjustable to determine the rate of fuel flow. For this purpose the groove has variable communication with a port at the end of the passage. The throttle member has a further groove which when the throttle is closed to prevent fuel flow to the injection pump, places the port in communication with a further port connected to a low pressure. This allows fuel to be expelled from the injection pump so that delivery of small amounts of fuel to the engine does not occur when the throttle is closed.

Abstract: A liquid fuel injection pumping apparatus for supplying fuel to an internal combustion engine comprises an injection pump to which fuel is supplied by a fuel pump. An air/fuel separator is provided and also a valve including a spring loaded piston for controlling the output pressure of the feed pump, the separator being connected to the outlet of the feed pump and the piston being subject to the output pressure of the pump. A space is defined in the pump housing and from which fuel can be drawn by the feed pump when the output pressure of the feed pump falls due to the entry of air into the feed pump. The air/fuel separator has a restricted outlet through which air and fuel can flow to an outlet in the housing and the space has an outlet which is placed in communication with the feed pump inlet by the piston.

Abstract: The specification discloses a centrifugal pump in which radial thrust on the impeller shaft is reduced by employing a modified volute casing in which the casing flow area downstream from the cutwater to a point generally opposite the cutwater is significantly greater than would be the flow area of a true volute casing, the area at a point generally opposite the cutwater being significantly less than the flow area of a true volute casing and the area just upstream of the throat back towards the point opposite the cutwater being significantly greater than would be the flow area of a true volute casing.

Abstract: A two-stage pump having a low and high pressure stages having a casing with a pair of pumps positioned therein, with one pump being a low pressure stage unit and the other pump being a high pressure stage unit. Each of the pumps has a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet with the outlet of the low stage pump being in fluid flow relation with an outlet port from the casing and also the fluid inlet of the high stage pump. The low stage pump is supplied with fluid through internal flow passages in the casing and associated structure including a flow passage through a rotatable element of the high stage pump.

Abstract: Apparatus for eliminating cavitation in a main pump in which the rotor of a supercharging pump is connected to the rotor of the main pump such that the latter rotor drives the rotor of the supercharging pump. Permanent communication is established between the delivery side of the supercharging pump and the induction inlet of the main pump. A hydraulic fluid reservoir is connected to the inlet of the supercharging pump and it is also connected to the delivery side of the supercharging pump through the intermediary of a valve which controls the flow of hydraulic fluid to the reservoir from the delivery side of the supercharging such that when the pressure at the induction inlet of the main pump exceeds a predetermined value flow is established to the reservoir in order to avoid the appearance of cavitation in the main pump. Leakage flow within the main pump is also recycled to the reservoir continuously through the valve.

Abstract: A two-stage pump assembly employs a rotary-type gerotor pump combined with a reciprocating axial piston-type pump both mounted on and driven by a common shaft of a motor. A single key drivingly connects the rotor of the gerotor pump and the angle plate of the axial piston pump to the shaft of the motor for simultaneous operation of the two pumps. A wear sleeve is seated on the shaft of the motor and coacts with an oil seal carried by a common wall between the motor and the gerotor housing to prevent leaking of the fluid being pumped.

Abstract: This gas pressure control system is intended primarily for testing gauges by providing an accurate static gas pressure over a wide range, preferably from zero to 10,000 pounds per square inch. The system is equipped with a pressure intensifier that operates automatically to raise the delivery pressure above the supply pressure when necessary. The supply may be a bottle of nitrogen under pressure of two thousand two hundred pounds per square inch, and the pressure intensifier is preferably a cylinder-and-piston motor-pump combination with a displacement ratio such as 70 to 1.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injection pumping apparatus which includes a feed pump the output pressure of which is controlled by valve. The feed pump supplies fuel to an injection pump under the control of a shuttle which is movable in a bore. The extent of movement of the shuttle determines the amount of fuel supplied by the injection pump to the associated engine. In addition, a fluid pressure operable device is provided to control the timing of injection of fuel to the engine, and the pressure for controlling the device is obtained from a point intermediate a fixed restrictor and a variable restrictor constituted by a groove formed in the shuttle and a port formed in wall of the bore accommodating the shuttle. Fuel from the outlet of the pump flows through the fixed and variable restrictors.