Rotary Motor Patents (Class 417/405)
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Patent number: 5618166Abstract: A submersible pump for pumping radioactive liquids comprises a pump cartridge (2) which is removably mounted in a cavity (3) formed in the pump body (1). Seals (30a, 30b) are provided between the cartridge (2) and the cavity (3). The cartridge houses a pneumatically operated motor to drive an impeller which discharges liquid through an outlet duct (10). Compressed air required for driving the motor is supplied through an air inlet tube (12) and air exhausted from the motor is conveyed through an air outlet tube (14). Both the air inlet and the air outlet tubes extend through the interior of the outlet duct (10).Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1994Date of Patent: April 8, 1997Assignee: British Nuclear Fuels plcInventors: Clive Legett, Leonard S. D. Taylor, Colin Walton, Simon J. White
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Patent number: 5617732Abstract: An automotive air conditioning system is provided. The air conditioning system includes an air conditioning compressor. A reservoir having fluid is provided. A pump is interconnected with the reservoir and operatively interconnected with and driven by an engine of a vehicle. The pressure chamber is interconnected with the pump and receives fluid from the pump. A fluid drive element, located relative to the pressure chamber, and interconnected with the air conditioning compressor, converts a passage of pressurized fluid therethrough into mechanical driving force for driving the air conditioning compressor. A regulator maintains a selected level of pressure in the pressure chamber and diverts excess fluid from the pressure chamber to the reservoir so that a constant air conditioning compressor driving speed is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1995Date of Patent: April 8, 1997Inventor: Rashaid A. Albader
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Patent number: 5575629Abstract: A motor/pump unit for pumping vapor in response to a flow of liquid, and particularly useful in systems for dispensing fuel to a vehicle wherein vapor given off by the fuel is to be returned from the filling port of the vehicle back to the fuel dispensing apparatus to avoid atmospheric contamination. One inventive embodiment, with available conventional fuel dispenser pressure and flow rate, allows abnormally small motor and pump chambers and motor/pump rotor assembly size and abnormally high rotor assembly rotation rate and abnormally quick rotor assembly acceleration to operating speed with sufficient vapor pumping capability. The resulting abnormally small motor/pump enables same to be easily adapted to a variety of existing dispensing pump and hose configurations. Under another embodiment, structure is provided for maximizing fuel flow rate and minimizing pressure drop across the motor/pump unit while providing adequate vapor pumping rate.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1994Date of Patent: November 19, 1996Assignee: Delaware Capital Formation, Inc.Inventors: Scott M. Olson, David O. Roe, Gregory P. Wood
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Patent number: 5529464Abstract: A turbopump which operates at cryogenic temperatures to pump cryogenic liquid fuels to high pressure which includes a rotating group including a shaft mounted turbine to directly drive a multistage pump with the rotating group being supported on process fluid foil journal bearings and a hydrostatic and hydrodynamic hybrid thrust bearing.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1988Date of Patent: June 25, 1996Assignee: AlliedSignal Inc.Inventors: Terence P. Emerson, Alston L. Gu
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Patent number: 5492457Abstract: A hydraulic pump provides unidirectional fluid flow regardless of the direction of rotation of the rotary shaft of the pump. The rotary shaft is affixed to a rotating arm, which arm includes a spherical bearing in the outer end thereof which secures to the pin of a plunger. The rotary shaft is inclined at an angle to the axis of the plunger, resulting in a reciprocating action of the plunger when the rotary shaft is turned. The pump may be motorized by a variety of different power sources, and preferably includes a speed reduction for such motors in order to allow smaller motors and valve assemblies. The valves are preferably included in an easily removable and replaceable integrated cartridge, thus enabling the pump to be quickly adapted to various types of hydraulic devices, such as jacks, hoists, presses, etc. The valving within the cartridge also includes various features providing for compactness and efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1994Date of Patent: February 20, 1996Inventor: W. Ken Lee
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Patent number: 5467613Abstract: A single-fluid two-phase turbine expander is employed in a compression-expansion refrigeration system. The turbine expander has its rotor mechanically coupled to the drive train of the associated refrigeration compressor, which can be a high-speed centrifugal compressor or a geared screw compressor. The turbine is a straight-forward design, with a rotor disk having peripheral vanes, and a nozzle block that houses the disk and contains a group of nozzles that are directed at the vanes. The nozzles each have an inlet orifice plate and a converging/diverging internal geometry that permits supersonic discharge. The vanes are shaped for impulse reaction and have a sharp exit bend to prevent further flashing of the two-phase mixture in the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1994Date of Patent: November 21, 1995Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventor: Joost J. Brasz
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Patent number: 5352100Abstract: In a pump drive for a motor vehicle automatic gearbox, a hollow shaft (6) secured in rotation to a primary part (3) of a torque converter (1) projects into the inside of a pump housing (7) and bears an impeller (10) of the pump. The hollow shaft (6) is borne in a bore (12) in the pump housing (7) via a rolling bearing, whereby, in order to seal the pump housing, there is a radial sealing ring (18) on one side of the rolling bearing and a sealing ring (14) on the other. The latter ring (14) is designed to enclose a uniform sealing gap (25) with the hollow shaft (6) and it is guided freely both radially and axially in the bore (12) so that the sealing gap (25) may automatically set itself.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1993Date of Patent: October 4, 1994Assignee: Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Gert Bauknecht, Rainer Pfalz, Manfred Bucksch
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Patent number: 5320500Abstract: The invention concerns a continuous mixing device (1) having a rotating shaft (4) fitted with blades (7, 7a). The mixture obtained at the outlet from the mixer results from admitting to the mixer a high-viscosity fluid (22) and at least one fluid of a lower viscosity. The mixing device is suitable for providing a mixture of lower viscosity compared with the most viscous fluid admitted at the inlet (2, 38) of the mixer. The invention provides a method of pumping a viscous fluid and use of the mixing device in an installation for pumping a high viscosity crude oil.FIG. 1 to be published.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1992Date of Patent: June 14, 1994Assignee: Institut Francais Du PetroleInventor: Henri Cholet
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Patent number: 5217051Abstract: An improved vapor recovery system for use in a fuel dispensing arrangement is disclosed employing two concentrically arranged hoses. The inner hose includes a turbine disposed therein which rotates in response to fuel flowing therethrough. The outer hose includes a turbine which is preferably magnetically coupled to the turbine included within the inner hose. Rotation of the turbine in the inner hose causes rotation of the turbine in the outer hose and rotation of the turbine in the outer hose creates a vacuum which recovers vapors from the fuel being dispensed.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1991Date of Patent: June 8, 1993Assignee: Saber Equipment CorporationInventors: W. Dwain Simpson, James H. Pyle
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Patent number: 5186822Abstract: A desalination apparatus including pressure responsive desalination means, a storage tank and conduit means connecting such storage tank to a pump mounted in a caisson defining a resonant chamber having an opening in one side thereof for receiving the incoming ocean waves. The caisson is configured in accordance with the natural frequency of the incoming waves and amplify such waves to drive a float coupled with the pump. Actuation of such pump pressurizes the storage tank to drive brine through the desalination means for separating therefrom potable water. The apparatus includes a turbine generator arranged to facilitate the pressurizing of the brine.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 1991Date of Patent: February 16, 1993Assignee: Ocean Resources Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Tsair-Jyh Tzong, Frank H. Y. Wu, Chan-Feng Tsai
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Patent number: 5156301Abstract: The present invention is a post-mix beverage dispensing valve for accurately maintaining the proper ratio of two liquid beverage components. The present invention includes a valve main body having a gear pump secured thereto. The gear pump includes two sets of oval gears. One set of oval gears is in fluid communication with a source of pressurized carbonated water, and the second set is in fluid communication with a source of syrup. The valve body also includes solenoid operated pallet valves for each of the beverage components. Ratioing of the solenoid provides for simultaneous opening of both pallet valves whereby the pressurized carbonated water flows between the carbonated water gears and is swept thereby through the valve body to the dispensing nozzle. One gear of each gear pair is secured to a common rotating shaft. Pressurized carbonated water provides for the rotation of the syrup gears, thereby providing for the pumping of the syrup to the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1990Date of Patent: October 20, 1992Assignee: IMI Cornelius Inc.Inventors: David A. Hassell, David C. Anderson
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Patent number: 5156534Abstract: A rotary machine having a pair of back to back turbines in serial flow relationship is disclosed. Various construction details are developed which permit for a compact design. In one detailed embodiment the turbine has a housing having an inlet manifold and an exit manifold which are disposed between the outlet manifold for an associated turbopump.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1990Date of Patent: October 20, 1992Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: N. Frank Burgy, Alfred M. Palgon, Bruce R. Branstrom
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Patent number: 5154571Abstract: A multistage turbocompressor with a two-stage transmission with a double intermediate cogwheel (5) consisting of two cogwheels (51 and 52). The first cogwheel has a larger module than the second cogwheel and engages only a central cogwheel (2) that drives the pinion shafts (3 & 4) in the first stage. The second cogwheel engages only the pinion shafts (6, 7, & 8) in the second stage.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1991Date of Patent: October 13, 1992Assignee: Deutsche Babcock-Borsig AktiengesellschaftInventor: Heinrich Prumper
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Patent number: 5150742Abstract: A device for recovering vapor in a vehicle fuel tank has a hydraulic motor arranged in the way of a liquid duct for feeding volatile liquid from a fuel reservoir tank to a gun nozzle mounted at the free end of the liquid duct, and a pneumatic pump arranged in the way of a vapor duct for feeding the vapor in the vehicle fuel tank through the gun nozzle to the fuel reservoir tank. The hydraulic motor and the pneumatic pump have a pair of meshing rotors, respectively. One pair of rotors are of substantially same configuration and size with those of the other pair of rotors. The rotors of the pneumatic pump are driven by the hydraulic motor rotors through multiplying gearings.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 1991Date of Patent: September 29, 1992Assignee: Tokyo Tatsuno Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Motohashi, Yooichi Harada, Tsuyoshi Yanagihara
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Patent number: 5145333Abstract: A rotary blood pump includes an impeller in a pump chamber driven by a fluid motor. In a first preferred embodiment, the fluid motor includes a rotary member having a series of cupped fluid reactive surfaces that receive a tangential inlet pressurized fluid flow. The cupped surfaces direct the fluid to opposite sides of the rotary member. Passages extending through the rotary member convey fluid from one side of the rotary member to the other. In a second preferred arrangement, the fluid motor is defined by a positive displacement motor. In a third embodiment, the fluid motor is separated from the pump chamber by a wall. Both biocompatible and non-biocompatible fluids can be used to drive the fluid motor.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 1990Date of Patent: September 8, 1992Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic FoundationInventor: William A. Smith
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Patent number: 5012837Abstract: A ratio device for dispensing first and second liquids in a preselected ratio, which comprises a housing assembly having two gear pumps interconnected for concurrent operation. One of the gear pumps is configured also to act as a liquid powered motor operative in response to the pressure and flow of the first liquid.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1990Date of Patent: May 7, 1991Assignee: Xolox CorporationInventor: Lawrence P. Zepp
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Patent number: 4929158Abstract: A turbopump with active magnetic suspension comprises at least two back-up bearings, each constituted by a first ring fast with a rotary shaft and a second ring fast with a casing, the rings being concentric and defining a free space whose length in the radial direction is about half the length of the means air gap of the radial magnetic bearings. The first and second rings are preferably anchored, respectively, in the rotor laminated ferromagnetic armature and in the stator laminated ferromagnetic core of a radial active magnetic bearing which may also provide hydrodynamic effects by pumping fluid into the air gap of the bearing.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1988Date of Patent: May 29, 1990Assignee: Societe Europeenne de PropulsionInventor: Jean-Philippe Girault
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Patent number: 4902204Abstract: The invention relates to a vertical submersible pump assembly, comprising a pump assembly casing which contains a hydraulic drive motor with a drive shaft. On the pump assembly casing a pump house is secured, and a pump rotor which is connected with the pump shaft and provided in the pump house, a transport conduit from the pump house, which transport conduit extends above the pump medium, and two drive medium conduits from the above said pump medium and down to the pump assembly casing. The vertical submersible pump assembly is characterized by the fact that the pump house is divided radially outside the pump rotor, the external ring shaped pump house portion being connected with the transport conduit. Each drive medium conduit comprises a releasable conduit means which when removed permits a unit compressing pump assembly casing with the drive motor, the pump rotor and the inner pump house portion to be pulled up.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1988Date of Patent: February 20, 1990Assignee: Kvaerner-Eureka A/SInventor: .ANG.ge Hofstad
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Patent number: 4772135Abstract: A bearing arrangement for the impellers of the compressor and the turbine of an exhaust gas turbocharger that are arranged next to one another on a shaft end of a rotor shaft. The rotor shaft, via two roller bearings, is supported in the compressor housing. In order to achieve a vibration-damped bearing, at least one roller bearing is supported in the compressor housing while either enclosing a gap-shaped damping space as the hydraulic cushion or a radially acting spring body.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1987Date of Patent: September 20, 1988Assignee: Daimer-Benz AktiengesellschaftInventor: Manfred Griguscheit
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Patent number: 4756671Abstract: A submersible rotary impeller fish pump augmented by the release of large volumes of pressurized air into the pump's discharge stream during pump operation enables the pumping of fish or other water-borne articles to the same or greater heights at materially lower impeller speeds and with less impeller damage than the same pump unaided.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1983Date of Patent: July 12, 1988Assignee: Marco Seattle, Inc.Inventors: Eldon L. Grimes, deceased, by Monterey Grimes, executrix
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Patent number: 4685868Abstract: A hydraulically-driven, vacuum jet apparatus is capable of drawing a liquid and solid mixture from a holding receptacle or container and of blending the mixture to provide a uniformly distributed liquid and solid solution. An intake assembly positioned on one end of an elongated tube agitates and thoroughly blends the mixture to an easily displaceable slurry using a rotating, hydraulically actuated propeller positioned outside and beyond a lower end of the tube to permit the solution to be vacuum drawn up through the tube and into a vacuum tank.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 1986Date of Patent: August 11, 1987Inventors: Donald A. Bodensteiner, David Wenthold
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Patent number: 4614232Abstract: A device for delivering flowable materials from a production bore (2), consisting of a source of pressurized medium (1), a pressurized medium conduit (3) for conducting the pressurized medium into the bottom area of the bore, the pressurized medium being used to operate drive means (5) coupled to a pump (6) for the flowable material. The drive means (5) and the pump (6) are both rotary displacement devices having a spiral rotor (10, 12) which describes an eccentric rotational path within a spiral stator (11,13). The rotor (10) and the stator (11) of the drive means (5) and the rotor (12) and the stator (13) of the pump (6) have the same eccentricity and are rigidly connected to one another.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1985Date of Patent: September 30, 1986Assignee: Norton Christensen, Inc.Inventors: Rainer Jurgens, Johann Biehl
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Patent number: 4552512Abstract: A water-powered positive displacement auxiliary sump pump has a drive water inlet connected to the municipal water supply via a float actuated pilot valve. The pump is designed to be constructed chiefly of molded plastic supported by an exit manifold connected to the discharge line of an existing electrical sump pump. The presently preferred design is a rotary sliding vane pump having drive water and pump water chambers.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1983Date of Patent: November 12, 1985Assignee: Permutare CorporationInventors: William Gallup, Detleff W. P. Schmidt
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Patent number: 4529359Abstract: Sewerage pumping apparatus is provided for delivering sewerage collected by gravity in a wet well to a force main which supplies sewerage by force to a remotely located sewerage treatment plant. The sewerage pumping apparatus comprises a hydraulically driven submersible pump located in the wet well for supplying sewerage to the force main. Two trailer-mounted hydraulic pump units (main and standby) adjacent the wet well are alternatively operable to supply pressurized hydraulic fluid to drive the submersible pump. Check valves prevent the operative pump unit from supplying hydraulic fluid to the inoperative pump unit. The main pump unit is driven by an electric motor energized from a nearby electric utility power line. The standby pump unit is driven by an internal combustion engine. Float switches sense the sewerage level in the wet well and regulate operation of the in-service pump unit (and submersible pump) accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1983Date of Patent: July 16, 1985Inventor: Albert H. Sloan
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Patent number: 4511378Abstract: A glycol dehydrator having a contacting vessel, a glycol regenerator and an improved glycol pump which is powered by glycol and gas flowing from the contacting vessel to pump glycol into the contacting vessel. The improved pump includes a positive displacement gear motor, a positive displacement gear pump, and a drive connecting the motor to the pump with the gear motor having a greater volumetric capacity than the gear pump. The gas from the gear motor is separated from the glycol and delivered to the regenerator burner.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1983Date of Patent: April 16, 1985Inventor: George J. Greene
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Patent number: 4463554Abstract: In an internal combustion engine a rotary gas motor, driven by the intake gas of the engine, drives pump providing secondary air to the engine exhaust at low engine load, and at high load a clutch connects the pump and the motor to the engine shaft, the output of the pump and the motor being delivered to the engine intake.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1981Date of Patent: August 7, 1984Assignee: Pierburg GmbH & Co., KG.Inventors: Rainer Sudbeck, Hans Baumgartner
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Patent number: 4448256Abstract: A foam liquid proportioner including a positive displacement water motor coupled to a positive displacement foam liquid pump is provided with a gear drive mechanism which steps up the RPM of the foam liquid pump to be much higher than the RPM of the water motor to a speed so as to reduce the ratio of the slippage of foam liquid to the total flow of the foam liquid through the foam liquid pump.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1982Date of Patent: May 15, 1984Assignee: Hale Fire Pump CompanyInventors: H. Alfred Eberhardt, Kenneth F. Hoffman, Raymond R. Petersen
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Patent number: 4386654Abstract: A hydraulically operated downhole pump that is connected to or disposed in a string of tubing, and when operated by pressurized oil from the ground surface, is capable of discharging production fluid, gas, and pressurized oil from the well either separately or in desired combinations thereof. The pump includes an elongate housing preferably of such transverse cross section as to be longitudinally movable through a tubing string, with the pump including universal joint connected upper and lower helical screws that rotate in slidable sealing contact with upper and lower double threaded resilient stator blocks secured to the interior of the housing. As pressurized oil is discharged into the upper end of the housing the upper helical screw and associated stator act as a motor to drive the lower helical screw relative to the lower stator block.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1981Date of Patent: June 7, 1983Inventor: John A. Becker
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Patent number: 4315403Abstract: A reversible aero-hydraulic generator capable of operating as a turbo-pump or as a motor-compressor, and a heat energy recovery installation including such a generator.The generator comprises a positive displacement pump (5) and an axial turbine (6) tandem connected and coupled by their respective shafts (23 and 11) so that one can drive the other directly and disposed within a single sleeve (1) having end connecting flanges (3 and 4), whereby the sleeve can be directly inserted within a conduit for a first fluid, in the gaseous or vapor phase state, so that the first fluid can pass axially through the sleeve (1), and inlet and outlet conduits (31 and 32) for a second fluid in the liquid or vapor phase, for the pump (5), the conduits (31, 32) passing through the sleeve (1). A heat recovery installation can comprise such a generator for the recovery of heat energy from a drier for printing ink with the pump output used to drive a hydraulic motor to assist in driving the rollers of a printing press.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1979Date of Patent: February 16, 1982Assignee: MessierInventors: Edmond Girard, Robert Rey
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Patent number: 4295802Abstract: Combined vapor pump and a liquid driven motor for driving same. A combined motor and pump, as aforesaid, is provided as a compact unit which is of sufficiently simple design, and possessed of sufficiently few parts, as to be economical in manufacture while being effective in operation and capable of long life with a minimum of maintenance. The unit is made in three basic components, namely a motor component, a pump component and a conduit component positioned between the motor and pump components whereby the manufacture and assembly of said components may be carried out quickly and efficiently and whereby, further, a malfunctioning unit can be quickly and easily repaired by replacing in a simple manner the malfunctioning component thereof. Means comprising a chamfer in the body structure adjacent the vanes of the motor are provided to minimize the deleterious effect of dirt or grit entering into the motor from the liquid used for driving same.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1979Date of Patent: October 20, 1981Assignee: Dover CorporationInventor: Norman Peschke
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Patent number: 4292011Abstract: An improved power fluid driven turbo pump is provided for pumping oil wells of the type having, from time-to-time, significant quantities of gas included in the oil so that wide variations in the density of the medium to be pumped may be expected to be encountered. Two separate pumping units driven by the same power fluid are employed, one of which is designed to efficiently compress and pump gas, and the other is designed to efficiently pump normal density fluids. Since the pumps are disposed in series, the combined efficiency of the pumps is substantially unchanged due to changes in density of the fluid to be pumped and remains at a uniformly high level.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1979Date of Patent: September 29, 1981Assignee: Kobe, Inc.Inventor: John W. Erickson
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Patent number: 4276002Abstract: An improved turbopump unit and system for pumping hot geothermal liquids from deep wells to the earth's surface. The unit is of simplified single-shaft construction with reduced net reaction thrust on the shaft. Bearing wear is minimized by using hydrostatic bearings and by supplying lubricating liquid thereto which is taken from an intermediate stage of a centrifugal pump at the surface which supplies motive liquid to the turbine. An arrangement is provided that is operated by pressure of the lubricating liquid for maintaining all thrust-engageable surfaces carried by the shaft out of engagement at start-up and shut-down. Means operated by liquid pressure are provided for sealing the unit to the well casing and also for preventing undue tensile or compressive stresses in the supply conduit for the turbine motive liquid while maintaining an effective seal between the unit and the well casing.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1979Date of Patent: June 30, 1981Inventor: James H. Anderson
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Patent number: 4264285Abstract: While in a well, a downhole turbo-machine of a series of turbine stages and pump stages is driven by power fluid circulated into the turbine stages from the surface. A branch stream from the power fluid passes through a centrifugal cleaner and is cleansed of solid material. The turbine stages drive the centrifugal cleaner. The cleansed stream becomes lubricant for the turbo-machine bearings. On the turbine side, the lubricant stream passes at substantially cleaner discharge pressure into longitudinal passages between turbine shrouds and an alignment tube to journal bearings and journals located between turbine stage stators and a drive shaft driven by the turbines. Annular channels between separate shrouds effect communication between the longitudinal passages between the shrouds and the alignment tube. On the pump side, the lubricant stream is first directed so that it can act on a thrust bearing runner and apply a force in opposition to an otherwise unbalanced axial force.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1979Date of Patent: April 28, 1981Assignee: Kobe, Inc.Inventors: John W. Erickson, Harold L. Petrie
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Patent number: 4251987Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprising a fan, a compressor and a turbine, wherein the torque requirements of the fan or compressor can be modulated, is provided with differential gearing to transmit all of the fan and compressor power requirements from the turbine. The differential gearing maintains an adjustable speed relationship between the fan and compressor with respect to the turbine depending upon the torque requirements thereof and the gear ratios within the differential gearing.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1979Date of Patent: February 24, 1981Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Arthur P. Adamson
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Patent number: 4184808Abstract: A pump has three gears disposed in three cavities of a housing, with the first and second gears being connected and the second and third gears being connected. A pressurized fluid source is connected to the housing for rotating the gears, whereupon fluid is drained into and expelled from housing through a plurality of passages therein.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1977Date of Patent: January 22, 1980Assignee: Caterpillar Tractor Co.Inventor: Delwin E. Cobb
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Patent number: 4162137Abstract: A submersible, hydraulically-driven pump rotating about a vertical axis, the pump having a short shaft between the hydraulic motor and the impeller of the pump. A cofferdam is placed around the hydraulic pipe and the hydraulic motor, extending from the pump housing to up above the cargo level, with a shaft sealing arrangement being provided between the motor and impeller. The cofferdam is formed as three consecutive chambers around the shaft, extending between the hydraulic motor and the impeller, whereby the upper, first chamber is a receptacle for oil leakage from the hydraulic motor, and the next, second chamber contains a sealing liquid under pressure and is sealed at the top and at the bottom by respective mechanical shaft seals against the upper, first chamber and the lower, third chamber, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1977Date of Patent: July 24, 1979Assignee: Thune-Eureka A/SInventor: Leiv Bjerke
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Patent number: 4147473Abstract: A method of regulating the output of a multistage axial compressor having two coaxial rotors in series. The regulation of the compressor output is effected by varying the head of the medium to be compressed, the variation of the head of the medium being effected, after the medium leaves the stator, by changing the rotational speed of the first rotor, the speed of the second rotor being kept constant. The first rotor is connected to a variable-speed drive motor and the second rotor is connected to a constant-speed drive motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 1977Date of Patent: April 3, 1979Inventors: Gimn V. Bufalov, Kir B. Sarantsev, Gennady I. Bogoradovsky, Vladimir I. Titensky, Alexei V. Stolyarov, David M. Bavelsky, Alexandr A. Burdin
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Patent number: 4138202Abstract: The present hydraulic system for driving a submersible pumping unit has an above-ground pump for pumping oil through a hydraulic motor in the submersible pumping unit, and a check valve between the above-ground pump and that hydraulic motor to prevent the reverse flow of oil after the submersible pumping unit is turned off. A pressure regulating valve limits the oil pressure to the hydraulic motor. The inlet flow to the above-ground pump is filtered.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 1977Date of Patent: February 6, 1979Inventor: J. Marlin Eller
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Patent number: 4121418Abstract: A low-cost, light-weight automotive power plant includes a turbine operating on a first shaft and a compressor operating on a second shaft, formed as an element separate from the first shaft. These shafts are arranged at an angle to the horizontal power transfer shaft operably connected to the wheels of the vehicle. An infinitely variable transmission transfers power from the turbine to the compressor, and an angular drive transfers power from the turbine to the power transfer shaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1976Date of Patent: October 24, 1978Assignee: United Turbine AB & Co. KommanditbolagInventor: Sven-Olof Kronogard
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Patent number: 4087211Abstract: Driving unit for a vertical shaft-driven pump for pumping liquids from wells and deep bore holes through a riser pipe, the driving unit having a cross-shaped base, a top flange mounting a prime mover such as an electric motor, radially disposed supporting ribs and upwardly and radially inwardly inclined reinforcing webs. A bearing box is disposed on the central axis of the driving unit assembly between the ribs, a stuffing box, forming a part of the riser pipe being disposed in the cross-shaped base. The driving unit, without any alteration thereof, permits the use of a branch, liquid delivering pipe which extends laterally either below or above the cross-shaped base, and in the latter case, between any two adjacent arms of the cross-shaped base of the driving unit assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1976Date of Patent: May 2, 1978Assignee: Sigma Lutin, narodni podnikInventor: Frantisek Pochyly
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Patent number: 4077220Abstract: A geothermal energy recovery system of improved life duration makes use of thermal energy stored in hot, solute-bearing well water as it is pumped upward to the earth's surface through an extended heat exchange element for continuously heating a downward flowing organic working fluid to a supercritical state. Some of the energy of the latter fluid is used within the well for operating a turbine-driven pump for pumping the hot well water at high pressure and always in liquid state to the earth's surface, where it is reinjected into the earth in a second well. After driving the deep-well turbine-driven pump, the organic fluid still in supercritical state arises toward the earth's surface in a thermally insulated conduit; at the earth's surface, vapor turbine electrical power generation equipment is driven by the ascending organic fluid, after which it is returned into the well for re-heating in the extended heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1976Date of Patent: March 7, 1978Assignee: Sperry Rand CorporationInventor: Hugh B. Matthews
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Patent number: 4077748Abstract: A turbomachine plant comprises a gas turbine, a synchronous electrical machine operable as a motor or generator, and a compressor all mounted on the same shafting and adapted to be coupled together for two optional operating modes. In a first operating mode, the gas turbine serves to drive the synchronous electrical machine for generation of electrical power and the compressor is not utilized. In the second operating mode, the synchronous electrical machine operating as a motor serves to drive the compressor for gas compression and the gas turbine is not utilized. When in the first operating mode the compressor is not disconnected by conventional clutch means from the gas turbine-synchronous electrical machine group but rather always remains connected to that group and is arranged by suitable valving so as to rotate in a vacuum type of operation with a power loss which is slight in relation to the gas turbine.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1975Date of Patent: March 7, 1978Assignee: BBC Brown, Boveri & Company LimitedInventor: Franz Potz
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Patent number: 4072445Abstract: The specification discloses a rotary gas pressure engine system including a housing and a stationary shaft extending through the housing. A circular cylinder block is rotatably mounted on the stationary shaft. The cylinder block includes a plurality of radial piston cylinders and a piston mounted within each cylinder for slidable movement therein. The cylinder block further includes a circumferentially mounted cam ring having generally elliptical risers around its inner periphery in order to cause radial operation of the pistons. A vane pump is associated with the cylinder block for pumping fluid from a fluid reservoir external of the housing and through the housing to a vaporization chamber external of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1976Date of Patent: February 7, 1978Inventor: Johnny L. Hay
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Patent number: 4066386Abstract: A reservoir is provided in the inlet line to a pump in which air and vapor collects. The air and vapor is drawn out by a fuel operated pump and supplied to a fuel/air separator. Fuel passes back to the inlet line and the air and vapor is allowed to escape.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1976Date of Patent: January 3, 1978Assignee: Rolls-Royce LimitedInventors: Christopher Linley Johnson, Colin Millns
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Patent number: 4012176Abstract: A fluid-driven motor comprises a collapsible tube connectable at one end to a source of pressurized fluid, and a pinch-roller engaging the outer surface of the tube and collapsing same at the point of engagement, whereby the pressure within the tube drives the pinch-roller and a mechanical power output device coupled thereto. In the described preferred embodiment, the pinch-roller mounting is a rotary one and supports a plurality of pinch-rollers, the collapsible tube being supported in a semi-circular form so as always to be engageable by at least one of the pinch-rollers.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1975Date of Patent: March 15, 1977Inventor: Mordeki Drori
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Patent number: 4008010Abstract: A hydraulic machine combining a pump and a turbine has pump and turbine runners keyed on a common shaft and designed for the same direction of rotation. The pump is connected to a head by at least two partial volutes, and the turbine by at least two partial volutes wound in opposite direction to those of the pump. Sleeve valves between the runners and their partial volutes enable draining of the pump during turbine operation, and vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1975Date of Patent: February 15, 1977Assignee: Ateliers des Charmilles S.A.Inventor: Michel Fauconnet
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Patent number: 4003678Abstract: A fluid operated turbopump, suitable for use in an oil well pumping system, is structurally adapted as either a hydraulically insertable and removable unit or as a permanent attachment to a bottom hole tubing. The turbopump has axially spaced rotary driving and driven impellers operable for overbalancing columns of fluid which are separated by the well tubing wall, the overbalancing operation facilitating upward movement of fluid from a production zone to above ground storage. A tubular drive shaft which interconnects the impellers is utilized to convey fluid axially through one of the impellers.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1975Date of Patent: January 18, 1977Assignee: E M C Energies, Inc.Inventor: Ed B. David
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Patent number: 3997283Abstract: In order to obtain a low-cost, light-weight automotive gas turbine plant, the latter is provided with a compressor operating on a first shaft and a turbine operating on a second shaft formed as an element separate from that of the rotor. An infinitely variable transmission interconnects the first and second shafts and ensures that sufficient power for any operational condition is transferred from the turbine to the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1974Date of Patent: December 14, 1976Assignee: United Turbine AB & Co., KommanditbolagInventor: Sven-Olof Kronogard
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Patent number: 3989418Abstract: A fluid pump for use in explosive bore holes comprising an elongated outer housing having upper and lower ends and adapted to permit water to enter the interior thereof. A hydraulic motor is secured to and is positioned in the lower end of the outer housing. A pump housing extends upwardly from the hydraulic motor within the outer housing. A drive shaft rotatably extends upwardly from the hydraulic motor within the pump housing and has a rotor means connected thereto for rotation therewith. The rotor rotatably extends through a pump stator means which is positioned in the pump housing. A pair of hydraulic hoses are in communication with a source of hydraulic fluid under pressure and extend downwardly into the outer housing between the outer housing and pump housing. The hoses are fluidly connected to the hydraulic motor.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1973Date of Patent: November 2, 1976Assignee: Swanson Engineering Inc.Inventor: Floyd R. Swanson, Jr.
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Patent number: 3985471Abstract: An impeller shaft turning device is disclosed, for use in rotating the shaft of an impeller within a housing in a revolving machine, to aid in impelling material into a bag, the impeller shaft turning device comprising motor means operative to rotate the shaft of an impeller and hydraulic means operative to control the motor means.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1974Date of Patent: October 12, 1976Assignee: Larry Harold KlineInventor: Harold Seals