Abstract: In a refrigerating machine, a reservoir heated by an electric motor driving a compressor contains oil up to certain level. The reservoir is fed with refrigerating liquid complemented with oil. The liquid vaporizes while oil falls down in the liquid state. A number of lubrification conduits connect individual bearings of the compressor with the reservoir above the oil level on the one hand and with the reservoir below the oil level through a micro-orifice on the other hand, so as to send to the bearings refrigerating gas loaded with an oil mist. The bearings are in fluid communication with the intake of the compressor.

Abstract: A method for ensuring fluid-tightness is applicable to a submersible motor for operation under conditions of total and permanent immersion, especially in oil wells and geothermal boreholes. The emergent end of the drive shaft of the motor is fitted with a rotary packing-gland. The motor casing is filled with oil which is circulated via an axial duct of the drive shaft, the impulse being produced by a disk pierced by radial ducts. A second circuit constituted by a system of ducts including radial ducts comes into contact with the packing-gland which is at overpressure with respect to the external medium. This results in a controlled leakage flow between the two portions of the packing-gland.

Abstract: In a refrigeration compressor having at least one piston-cylinder arrangement therein for compressing gaseous refrigerant, an elongated, tube extending upwardly from a lubricant passage in the crankshaft for slinging oil radially, outwardly therefrom, and a lubricant deflector upstanding from the cylinder head to deflect slung oil over exterior surfaces of the cylinder head for conducting heat energy therefrom.

Abstract: A horizontal compressor including an electric motor and a compressor element mounted in a case serving concurrently as an oil sump. The compressor element includes a cylinder, a shaft having a crank, a roller fitted to the crank for eccentric rotation along inner side surfaces of the cylinder, a vane moving in reciprocatory movement in a bore of the cylinder while abutting against the roller, two side plates located on opposite sides of the cylinder, one of the two side plates being formed with a suction port for a lubricant and the other side plate being formed with a discharge port for the lubricant, and a pump chamber defined by a back of the vane, the bore of the cylinder and the two side plates.

Abstract: A lateral rotary compressor comprises a compressing mechanism including a blade chamber for filling the lubricating oil, and a blade contained in the blade chamber and reciprocatingly movably between the first position where the blade chamber is increased to the maximum volume and the second position where the blade chamber is decreased to the minimum volume, and a supply tube for communicating the blade chamber with bearings and having an opening formed at the position located in a lubricating oil reservoir.

Abstract: A horizontal type rotary compressor including a compression element having a cylinder, a shaft having a crank thereon, a pair of side plates concurrently serving both as bearings of the shaft and as side walls of the cylinder, a roller fitted onto the crank, and a vane so arranged as to slide in a groove of the cylinder and have a tip end thereof contacted with the roller rotating in accordance with the rotation of the crank and an appropriate end thereof urged by a spring to make a reciprocating movement along the groove are provided within a case. A pumping chamber is defined by a rear face of the vane, the groove of the cylinder and the side plates. One of the side plates is formed with a suction port capable of sucking thereinto the oil within the case while the other of the side plate is formed with a discharge port for transmitting the oil in the pumping chamber to an oil feeding passage.

Abstract: A horizontal type rotary compressor includes a lubricant distribution system which does not require a check valve for preventing the return of lubricant from the frictional bearing surfaces to the blade chamber. An eccentric blade within a blade chamber pumps lubricant out of the blade chamber through an aperture in one wall thereof. A dispensing pipe communicates the aperture of the blade chamber with the frictional bearing surfaces and includes an opening in the pipe adjacent the blade chamber. Reciprocal movement of the blade causes lubricant to be sucked through the aperture of the blade chamber and discharged from the blade chamber into the dispensing pipe. The opening in the pipe permits a larger amount of lubricant to pass into the pipe than out of the pipe, thereby effectively acting as a check valve and negating the need for a separate check valve in the lubricant distribution system.

Abstract: A horizontal type rotary compressor includes a lubricant distribution system which does not require a check valve for preventing the return of lubricant from the frictional bearing surfaces to the blade chamber. An eccentric blade within a blade chamber pumps lubricant out of the blade chamber through an aperture in one wall thereof. A dispensing pipe communicates the aperture of the blade chamber with the frictional bearing surfaces and includes an opening in the pipe adjacent the blade chamber. Reciprocal movement of the blade causes lubricant to be sucked through the aperture of the blade chamber and discharged from the blade chamber into the dispensing pipe. The opening in the pipe permits a larger amount of lubricant to pass into the pipe than out of the pipe, thereby effectively acting as a check valve and negating the need for a separate check valve in the lubricant distribution system.

Abstract: A communication aperture is formed in a wall of a pump chamber for allowing a part of pressurized fuel in the pump chamber to flow into a motor chamber, to thereby cool a motor armature, brushes, a commutator and so on. The aperture is formed inclined with respect to the direction of fuel flowing in the pump chamber. A dynamic pressure component as well as a static pressure component is applied to the inclined aperture with a result that a sufficient amount of fuel flows into the motor chamber even when a discharge pressure of a pump is decreased.

Abstract: A refrigerant compressing machine comprises a motor having a rotor and a stator, a compressor driven by the motor to compress a refrigerant, a casing for hermetically receiving therein the motor and the compressor wherein the refrigerant is passed from a refrigerant gas intake port through a refrigerant gas passage formed in the motor in its axial direction toward the compressor to thereby cool the motor. A stirring means is provided, separate from elements which form the refrigerant gas passage, at the outlet side of a motor chamber to stir the refrigerant flowing through the refrigerant gas passage.

Abstract: An oil-less gas compressor comprises at least one cylinder block mounted on a crankcase, the outer end of the cylinder block being closed by a cylinder head. A piston in the cylinder block bore is reciprocated by a motor-driven crankshaft in the crankcase. The cylinder blocks and cylinder heads are generally square in cross section. On all four sides of the cylinder block and cylinder head there are spaced cooling fins which extend in an axial direction. Axially extending cooling air passages between the fins communicated at their lower ends with the interior of the crankcase. Air drawn into the crankcase by a fan on the crank shaft flows into and through these cooling air passages to cool the cylinder block and head. In one corner portion of the cylinder block and head there is an integral axially extending suction bore containing a filter. In an adjacent corner portion of the cylinder block there is an axially extending compressed air bore.

Abstract: A combination motor-fan unit for wet pick-up vacuum cleaner applications is provided with a flow of sealing air past the bearing located between the motor and the fan. The housing supporting the bearing is provided with a diffusing chamber on the fan side of the bearing and a restricted air flow path through the housing to the diffusing chamber to utilize the motor cooling air as a source for the bearing sealing air. A check valve is provided in the restricted air flow path.

Abstract: A sealless fluid pump apparatus has a primary pump moving fluid from an inlet through an outlet of the apparatus and a secondary pump adjoining the primary pump. Shaft means driving the two pumps extends through a portion of the housing separating the two adjoining pumps as well as through another portion of the housing separating the two pumps from a motor or other means driving the shaft means. No seals are provided where the shaft means extends through the housing. Rather, the secondary pump operates to resist the flow of fluid between the shaft means and housing into the secondary pump.

Abstract: An electric motor has an upright axial drive shaft carrying a blower at the bottom and a separate fan at the top. The blower supplies a strong flow of air for aerifying water contained in a whirlpool bath or tub and the fan supplies a secondary flow of air for cooling the motor. A housing mounting the motor has a bottom bowl section forming a first plenum for air blown by the blower and a top dome section forming a second plenum for air blown by the fan. The two plenums are substantially sealed from each other so that the fan continues to supply air to cool the motor and maintain it at its designed operating temperature regardless of whether or not the primary air flow is prevented or reduced, such as by an obstruction.

Abstract: A hermetic refrigerant compressor having an electric motor and compressor assembly in a hermetic shell is cooled by oil which is first cooled in an external cooler 18 and is then delivered through the shell to the top of the motor rotor 24 where most of it is flung radially outwardly within the confined space provided by the cap 50 which channels the flow of most of the oil around the top of the stator 26 and then out to a multiplicity of holes 52 to flow down to the sump and provide further cooling of the motor and compressor. Part of the oil descends internally of the motor to the annular chamber 58 to provide oil cooling of the lower part of the motor, with this oil exiting through vent hole 62 also to the sump. Suction gas with entrained oil and liquid refrigerant therein is delivered to an oil separator 68 from which the suction gas passes by a confined path in pipe 66 to the suction plenum 64 and the separated oil drops from the separator to the sump.

Abstract: A combined power steering pump and vacuum pump assembly is disclosed wherein a vented reservoir is connected to receive the discharge of the vacuum pump as well as supply the fluid for circulation by and lubrication of the power steering pump. A sealing arrangement seals the vacuum pump from the power steering pump when the pumps are stopped but provides limited delivery of the fluid from the power steering pump to the vacuum pump when the pumps are running whereby the fluid in the power steering system is prevented from draining into the vacuum pump when stopped and is delivered thereto when running to lubricate same and is then delivered with the discharge air to the reservoir so that there is no loss of the fluid from the power steering system in lubricating the vacuum pump.

Abstract: A drive shaft (26) of a gear type fuel pump (2) forms a driving interconnection between an engine gearbox (4) and a shaft (14) which carries the driving gear (10) of the fuel pump. The drive shaft has a slightly diverging lubricant supply passage (65) which receives lubricant from an oil jet (70) in the engine gearbox and directs the lubricant to the engaged splines (44, 46) at the inboard end of the drive shaft. Lubricant from the area of spline engagement is returned to the gearbox via radial passage (78), annular lubricant return passage (68) and radial passage (80). O-ring seals (82, 84) on the drive shaft, which straddle a drain passage (86) prevent the mixing of the lubricant and the fuel which may envelop an intermediate portion of the drive shaft. Wear of the engaged, oil lubricated splines (40, 42) at the outboard end of the drive shaft should provide a general indication of spline wear at the inboard end of the drive shaft because both ends are exposed to similar lubrication.

Abstract: A system for lubricating the main drive shaft bearings in a scroll compressor enclosed within a hermetic shell. The drive shaft and its main bearings are supported in a frame that defines first and second chambers adjacent each end of a main bearing. Each of the chambers includes an opening to a spatial volume contained within the compressor shell. An oil pump at the lower end of the drive shaft supplies oil through a bore in the shaft to a swing link bearing and a thrust bearing, both disposed adjacent its upper end. Oil is dispersed into the spatial volume as a mist of oil droplets by the rotating elements connected to the drive shaft. Fan means are disposed within the second chamber and are operative to develop a differential pressure between the two chambers so that oil droplets are drawn toward the first chamber, lubricating the main bearing as they pass through it.

Abstract: In a motor-driven pump unit for a high-pressure cleaning apparatus, where the cleaning fluid supplied by the high-pressure pump is conveyed through the housing of the motor so as to cool the motor, in order to improve the cooling characteristics and in order to reduce the dimensions of the motor-driven pump unit it is proposed that a fan wheel, which is driven by the motor and which directs a cooling air stream towards the motor housing, be disposed at the end of the motor opposite the pump, and that the fan wheel and the cooling surfaces of the motor be designed in such a way that an adequate cooling of the motor is achieved by the air stream cooling alone when the pump is not conveying any cleaning fluid to the cleaning apparatus or, in other words, is pumping the cleaning fluid only in circulation.

Abstract: The vertical crankshaft of a hermetic compressor has a longitudinal inner duct for drawing-off oil from the bottom of the hermetic housing. This duct comprises a cylindrical vertical upper duct section which is eccentric relative to the axis of rotation of the shaft, and has its outlet at the upper end of the shaft. At this upper end there is a side outlet passage which comprises a groove made in the upper end face of the shaft and extending from the outlet of the eccentric duct section to the lateral surface of the upper end portion of the shaft in the area in which the outlet and surface are closest together. The bottom of the groove slopes upwards towards the lateral surface.

Abstract: A direct suction radial compressor having a crankcase therein dividing the compressor into an upper chamber and a lower chamber sealed one from the other, and suction inlet tubing extending through the top portion of the upper chamber for delivering refrigerant to the compressor. A suction chamber is disposed in the crankcase and sealed from the upper chamber and in communication with the suction inlet tubing, and a plurality of radially disposed cylinders are disposed in the crankcase. Positioned between the suction inlet and the cylinders is a centrifuging assembly that separates liquid refrigerant and oil from gaseous refrigerant, and returns the liquids through a unique network of passageways to an oil sump in the lower chamber.

Abstract: A refrigerant compressor for use in refrigerators, air conditioners, heat pumps or the like apparatus. The refrigerant pump has a casing which encases a combination of a compressor and an electric motor. A spring guide has an attaching base portion fixed to a bearing supporting a crank shaft driven by the motor, and an oil pipe connected to the attaching base such that the inside of the oil pipe opens to one end of the crank shaft. The oil pipe is bent so that the free end thereof is immersed in the lubricating oil in the case. The oil pipe receives a closely-coiled spring which is fixed at its one end to the end of the crank shaft while the other end is immersed in the lubricating oil. As the compressor operates, the coiled spring rotates in the oil pipe so that the lubricating oil is sucked by the lead of the coiled spring through the gap formed between the inner peripheral surface of the oil pipe and the coiled spring.

Abstract: A refrigerant compressor suitable for use in refrigerators, air conditioners, heat pumps or the like apparatus. The refrigerant compressor has a closed casing which encases a driving electric motor section and a compressor section constructed as a unit. The compressor section has a substantially horizontal crank shaft consisting of a main shaft portion fixed to one end of the rotor of the driving motor, an eccentric portion rotatably carrying a rotary piston and an end journal portion. The lubrication system of this compressor has a passage means for introducing a lubricating oil to various parts requiring lubrication, and a lubricator adapted to supply the lubrication oil to the passage means. The passage means includes a peripheral oil groove formed in the portion having crank shaft of the minimum eccentricity and connected at its one end to a peripheral oil groove formed in the main shaft portion and at its other end to a peripheral oil groove in the journal portion of the crank shaft.

Abstract: A centrifugal oil pump for a compressor having improved head and flow performance in which a plurality of tunnels extend radially outward and angularly upward from the face of the impeller and convey oil to the perimeter of the drive shaft during operation. The oil is collected in a chamber of a housing around the bottom of the crankshaft, flows through a channel of an end plate and is transmitted upwardly in a bore of the crankshaft. Entrained gases are vented from each inlet hole to a common annular ring, and through a vent from the annular ring upwardly in the crankshaft.

Abstract: A compressor oil pump with integral contaminant collector and helical vane for improved pumping efficiency. A generally cone-shaped pick-up tube is adapted to be attached to the lower end of a hollow rotatably driven vertical shaft for rotation thereby about its longitudinal axis. The lower end of the pick-up tube includes an inlet opening which extends into a reservoir of oil. An annular contaminant collection groove is disposed circumferentially within the wall of the pick-up tube forming a pocket. This groove collects and retains contaminant particles contained in oil which is swept up the tapered interior surface of the tube due to the centrifugal force developed by its rotation. The helical vane is provided in the interior of the pick-up tube to increase its pumping efficiency. The vane acts to accelerate the oil to the rotational speed of the pump, thereby improving the volumetric flow output from the pump.

Abstract: A hermetically sealed reciprocating motor compressor unit including a sealed shell. Discharge gas from the compressor is passed through the motor via suitable flow passages. The top of the motor and the interior surface of the shell define a chamber therebetween. The rotor functions as a centrifuge for separating the high pressure refrigerant gas from oil entrained therein. A substantially oil free vortex is formed encompassing a sector of the chamber defined by sides bearing 45.degree. relative to the vertical center line of the rotor. A refrigerant gas discharge tube connected to the top of the shell is located at any position which falls within the sector defining the vortex.

Abstract: A lubricating device, especially for use with a hermetic motor compressor unit, having a vertical shaft extending downwardly into a lubricant sump. The lubricating device comprises a pick-up tube having a larger diameter upper cylindrical portion open at the upper end thereof and adapted for being fitted into a central bore in the shaft, a smaller diameter lower cylindrical portion adapted to be immersed in fluid in the sump, a tapering transition region connecting the upper and lower cylindrical portions, an inlet port extending axially into the lower end of the lower portion, and the pair of diametrally opposite ribs on the lower cylindrical portion comprising ridges on the inner surface and corresponding hollows on the outer surface thereof.

Abstract: An air cooled compressor is provided with a centrifugal type fan mounted on one end of a motor shaft. Cooling air is drawn through a shroud for bearing eccentric and connecting rod cooling. A shroud also directs the cooling air drawn and delivered by the fan, over the external surfaces of thinned cylinders and cylinder heads. The cooling air flowing over the thinned cylinder heads also functions to cool the intake air which assists in reducing the temperature experience within the compression chambers of the compressor. A pair of oppositely disposed openings are formed in the wall of each cylinder, which openings register with a wrist-pin that connects a connecting rod to a reciprocating piston when the piston is in the lowermost portion of a stroke within the cylinder. This construction allows the cooling air to flow through the hollow wrist-pin for cooling purposes.

Abstract: A motor-immersed fuel pump for a fuel supplying system of vehicles such as an automobile wherein the motor for driving the pump is completely immersed in the flow of fuel for cooling, thereby attaining an extended service life. At least that part of the brush lead which is exposed to fuel of such a motor-immersed fuel pump is composed of a material which is non-reactive with the fuel.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a housing for reducing the noise and exhaust air velocity of a bypass type blower motor, particularly a motor used for a tank type vacuum cleaner. The entire housing sits atop the lid of the tank of the vacuum cleaner. The bypass type blower motor has a main, suction generating, centrifugal blower fan and a separate motor cooling fan. Outlet from the main blower fan is into a first expansion chamber above the lid. A spiral pathway baffle in the first expansion chamber defines a gradually increasing cross-section plenum which communicates from the fan to the outlet from the first expansion chamber. There is a tubular outlet from the first expansion chamber which is surrounded by a sound baffling cuff of foamed plastic material. A cooling air inlet to the motor cooling fan and a separate cooling air outlet from the casing for the motor cooling fan are provided.

Abstract: An air compressor system of the type having fluid-treating components including a compressor and downstream coolers for hot fluids emanating from the compressor, characterized by a substantially airtight cabinet enclosing the fluid-treating components and including air outlets and an ambient air inlet, a device over the air inlet to clean incoming ambient air, and wherein the coolers are of the air-cooled type. In preferred embodiments, a device at the inlet, preferably a water-scrubbing air cleaner, cools incoming ambient air. The cabinet preferably includes a substantially vertical surrounding wall section and a removable cover engaged therewith. The cabinet wall section preferably includes at least two perimetrical portions removably interconnected to allow separation and thus to allow ready accessibility to fluid treating components. A highly preferred feature is a jack or other similar device for raising the cover for inspection and minor service.

Abstract: A fuel supply pump is proposed where the pumping system comprises two individual pumping stages connected in seriatim and are both driven by the motor armature of an electromotor located in a common housing, and further where the drive of the pumping stage adjacent to the electromotor is accomplished by means of a contactless coupling assembly including permanent magnets fixed in the hub areas of the rotating parts of the adjacently disposed pumping stages. In a further preferred embodiment of the invention the permanent magnets are operatively associated by being in radial alignment but not in contact with each other and are separated in a pressure-tight manner by means of a rigid flange-like element inside the housing of the fuel supply assembly.

Abstract: A coin operated vending machine operable to compress air and dispense compressed air for a selected period of time. The machine has an air compressor drivably connected to an electric motor. An air outlet hose attached to an on-off valve is connected to the air outlet of the air compressor. A housing surrounds the air compressor and motor to prevent unauthorized access thereto. The housing has a doorway closed with a locked door. A coin actuated control located within the housing has a switch and a timer operable to connect the motor to a power source for a selected period of time. A sequence counter connected to the control functions to count the number of times that the motor is connected to the power source.

Abstract: An air cycle heat pump uses a regenerative heat exchanger to provide warm air to heat a load, while at the same time providing fresh air to the load. The stale air returned from the load is utilized as the refrigerant air in an electrically driven regenerative air cycle heat pump, and no additional heat exchangers are required, thereby significantly reducing the electric power needed for heating the load. A turbine-driven compressor is used to raise the stale load air in pressure and temperature and, after giving up some of its heat to the fresh ambient air used to heat the load, the compressed refrigerant air performs useful work in the expansion turbine before being returned to ambient.

Abstract: A small power hermetic motor-compressor suitable for use in an electric refrigerator having a compression mechanism section and a driving electric motor section combined together and confined in a closed container. The compression mechanism section and the driving electric motor section are connected to each other by means of a rotor shaft manufactured through a plastic working of a single steel pipe blank. The rotor shaft has a journal section adapted to be slidingly held by a cooperative bearing section provided on the stationary part of the compressor. A plurality of oil grooves of a relatively small length are press-formed on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft from the outside thereof. At least one of the oil grooves is provided with an oil passage bore formed through the thickness of the rotor shaft, so that the lubricating oil sucked up along the inner peripheral wall of the rotor shaft is allowed to come out of the rotor shaft and get into the oil groove.

Abstract: A motor-fan unit for a wet pick-up type of vacuum cleaner comprising a fan-section and a separately ventilated motor section. A motor-end bracket in the motor housing structure serves as a common end wall with the fan section and carries a bearing for the common shaft of the motor and fan. A baffle carried by the motor-end bracket within the fan section has an apertured central portion, at least partly enclosing the bearing, to provide a passage-way for high velocity air sealing the bearing from detergent-containing cleaning liquid entrained in working air drawn into the fan section. A normally closed check valve at an inlet to the sealing air passageway inhibits back-flow of either air or liquid through the inlet but permits such sealing air to serve as cooling air when the entrance of working air into the fan section is impeded.

Abstract: Motor-fan unit, particularly for the cooling of the circulation water of an automobile vehicle motor, comprising a helicoid fan driven by an electric motor. A centrifugal interior blading draws air through the electric motor to cool it. The motor is fixed in a housing having at least one lateral opening for air entry which is located radially opposite a cavity formed in an arm connecting the housing to a collar which surrounds the helicoid fan. The cavity has a generally U-shaped section with its concavity turned downstream of the flow of air drawn in by the helicoid fan.

Abstract: A fluid pumping system includes a pump driven at a variable speed by a motor connected to the pump by a fluid cooled transducer. A regulator, connected to the transducer, controls, the speed of the pump responsive to an analog signal related in value to the flow rate of the pump and responsive to a control signal provided by a pump cycle controller. The pump cycle controller senses the level of a basin of fluid to be pumped and provides the control signal. The control signal is operative to start the pump when the fluid level reaches a predetermined starting level, to vary the pump speed responsive to changes in fluid levels higher than the starting level, and to run the pump at a minimum speed when the fluid level is between the starting level and a predetermined stopping level, lower than the starting level.

Abstract: A refrigerator having a cooled induction motor, the housing interior of which is completely filled with a cooling medium, and having a cooler for the re-cooling of the cooling medium in the housing interior by means of another medium separate from the cooling medium of the motor, in which insulating cooling oil is contained as cooling medium in the housing interior of the induction motor.

Abstract: Variable-speed electric induction motors are known with a closed fluid-flow circuit for coolant liquid driven by a pump operated by the motor. A disadvantage is that the coolant flow varies with speed of the motor. The improvement is that the motor has an ancillary shaft which drives the coolant pump and which is rotated at constant speed irrespective of the speed of the main drive rotor of the motor. The ancillary shaft may be driven by an ancillary rotor cooperating with the main stator of the motor. There may also be provided a coolant fan driven at constant speed, for example by the ancillary shaft and preferably through a releasable clutch.

Abstract: A compressor unit for use with a heat pump system wherein a motor-driven compressor is disposed within a casing which can be placed indoors or outdoors. Vapor from the suction side of the system is directed into and through the compressor, through an oil separator-muffler, and then into contact with liquid from the high side of the system, the liquid being directed onto a rotating disk to form a spray which contacts and thereby de-superheats the compressor discharge vapor. The de-superheated vapor then moves into and through the air gaps of the compressor motor in heat exchange relationship thereto where it is re-superheated. The re-superheated vapor then leaves the fan ports of the motor and enters the open top of a vertical standpipe which also receives the excess liquid collected in a trough surrounding the upper end bell of the motor. The liquid is entrained in the re-superheated vapor and moves therewith out of the casing toward the four-way valve and the condenser coil of the system.

Abstract: A wet pick-up type vacuum motor fan unit with a separately ventilated motor section and a motor end bracket serving also as a support for, and part of a discharge end housing wall for, the working air fan section, has on the bracket fanward face a centrally apertured metal disk plate defining a flow space or path for bearing sealing air flow from ambient air inlets external of the motor section to a central discharge into the inlet eye of an auxiliary fan clamped on the shaft back-to-back with a larger diameter working air centrifugal fan adjacent the end bracket.

Abstract: In a hermetically-sealed motor compressor having a vertically oriented crankshaft into which oil is centrifugally pumped from a sump, the oil pumping tube extending into the sump is cast as an integral part of the lower end ring of the rotor, providing a unitary rotor end ring and oil tube.

Abstract: An improved system to eliminate a stuffing box or mechanical seal around the rotating shaft of a pump for liquids. The pump and its motor are hermetically sealed, and a pressurized gas pad maintains a liquid seal at the shaft entrance to the pump casing. A suction return line is provided from the seal liquid to the pump suction. A small flow of pumped liquid leaks past the shaft entrance into the seal liquid, then through the return line back to the pump suction. The gas pad and seal liquid are at slightly higher than pump suction pressure.

Abstract: There is disclosed an electric blower assembly provided with an air guide structure designed such that the current of air expelled from a rotating impeller under the influence of centrifugal force is guided to the body of an electric motor while being accelerated. The air guide structure comprises an air guide block having front and rear compartments. The front compartment includes a plurality of volute chambers designed such that, during flow of air within the volute chambers, the dynamic pressure can be converted into static pressure. The flow of air under the static pressure is subsequently guided at a relatively low pneumatic velocity into the rear compartment and then into the body of the motor to cool the latter. The air used to cool the motor is thereafter exhausted to the outside of the motor.

Abstract: A motor-compressor unit is resiliently mounted within a shell defining a lubricating oil sump. The compressor includes a primary oil pump having its inlet submerged in the oil sump to pump said oil to lubricate various compressor components. A secondary oil pump has its inlet in fluid flow communication with the oil sump. The secondary oil pump agitates said oil and increases the velocity thereof to cause any gas entrained therein to separate therefrom. The separated gas and agitated oil is directed by a distributor radially outward through the oil and over the outside surfaces of the compressor to absorb acoustical energy generated thereby.

Abstract: A housing in a vacuum cleaner is subdivided into a first space and a separate second space which does not communicate with the first space but is in heat-exchanging relationship with the first space. An impeller is located in the second space for sucking dust-laden air into one end of the second space and discharging it out the other. The drive motor for the impeller means is located in the first space. Thus, the drive means is not contacted by the dust-laden air passing through the second space but is nevertheless cooled by such dust-laden air.

Abstract: A magnetically driven centrifugal pump comprising an impeller rotatably supported in a casing by means of a hollow shaft; passage means including the through hole of said hollow shaft for conducting part of a fluid so as to cool said shaft; and an auxiliary pump for forcing the fluid through said passage means, thereby preventing the shaft from being thermally seized or damaged even when the discharge pressure of the pump suddenly drops.

Abstract: A jacket of a submersible pump motor is provided with an internal partition wall to provide chambers through which dry air may be circulated in the event that cooling fluid into the pump runs out. When the pump turns, its impeller forces the air to circulate around the partition wall and carry heat from hot areas of the jacket adjacent to the pump motor to be dissipated through cool outer areas of the jacket.

Abstract: A wet pick-up type vacuum motor fan unit with a separately ventilated motor section and a motor end bracket serving also as a support for, and part of a discharge end housing wall for, the working air fan section, has on the bracket fanward face a centrally apertured metal disk plate defining a flow space or path for bearing sealing air flow from ambient air inlets external of the motor section to a central discharge into the inlet eye of an auxiliary fan clamped on the shaft back-to-back with a larger diameter working air centrifugal fan adjacent the end bracket.