Combined Patents (Class 418/181)
  • Patent number: 4990070
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an improved vertical type uniaxial eccentric screw pump for transferring a variety of powders such as flour, cement and pigment. The vertical type uniaxial eccentric screw pump, without jetting compressed air inside the pump, directly sucks powder contained in a vessel through a suction port in the lower end of the pump and transfers the powder to any desired place. An eccentric screw pump includes a stator and a rotor, and a propeller shaft projects from the lower end of the male thread type rotor. Vanes for sucking powder are mounted on the shaft, and a powder delivery port is formed in the pump casing close to the discharge port at the upper end of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Heishin Sobi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 4990073
    Abstract: A sealed case has first and second housing portions. A motor section is arranged in the first housing portion of the sealed case and has a rotating shaft extending toward the second housing portion. A compression section has first and second compression mechanisms stacked in the second housing portion of the sealed case and driven by the rotating shaft. A first valve cover has a predetermined volume so as to temporarily store a high-pressure fluid discharged from the first compression mechanism near the motor section. A second valve cover has a predetermined volume larger than that of the first valve cover so as to temporarily store a high-pressure fluid discharged from the second compression mechanism opposite to the motor section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Motohiro Kudo, Yasuhiro Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 4984975
    Abstract: A rotary pump of the type having a pair of double-lobed intermeshing rotors rotatably mounted in a housing is provided with a concave recess in the leading edge of each lobe of each rotor which defines a cutting edge with the end surface of each lobe for comminuting solid or stringy material entrained in the liquid being pumped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Inventor: George A. Thompson
  • Patent number: 4981423
    Abstract: A hydraulic device includes a hydraulic motor having a wobble shaft driven by a rotor of a gerotor gear set. An outer end of the wobble shaft is received in a hollow inner end portion of an output shaft. A brake assembly holds the motor output shaft against rotation when the hydraulic motor is being operated. A seal blocks fluid flow between the brake assembly and the hydraulic motor. The seal is disposed in sealing engagement with the hollow end portion of the output shaft at a location between the motor and the brake assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Assignee: TRW Inc.
    Inventor: Lee A. Bissonnette
  • Patent number: 4978287
    Abstract: A horizontal crankshaft rotary compressor in a housing having a discharge muffler formed with a plurality of interconnected communicating volumes with a discharge tube extending through the housing in which an oil draining tube has one end communicating with the lowest muffler volume where oil accumulates and the other end with the interior of the shell at a point above the oil in the bottom of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores
    Inventor: Caio M. F. N. Da Costa
  • Patent number: 4973230
    Abstract: A discharge system for a hermetic compressor of the type that comprises a shell in whose interior a cylinder is housed defining a compression chamber in conjunction with a rolling eccentric piston driven by an electric motor, such cylinder having a discharge orifice in communication with a discharge valve to communicate the compression chamber with a discharge muffler chamber. The discharge orifice has a surrounding wall defining a valve seat on the internal face of the discharge muffler chamber. The discharge valve in the muffler chamber comprises a disc; disc guide means fastened in an inner wall of the discharge muffler chamber; and an elastic biasing element forcing the sealing disc against the valve seat and dimensioned to allow the sealing disc to be displaced off the when a certain pressure in the compression chamber is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1990
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A Embraco
    Inventor: Caio M. F. N. Da Costa
  • Patent number: 4960372
    Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a cylinder with a cylindrical compression chamber. A cylindrical piston is eccentrically movable within the chamber. A vane slot extends outwardly in the cylinder from and communicates with the chamber. A vane is reciprocatingly mounted in the vane slot for selective protrusion into and retroaction from the chamber to contact the piston. At least one noise reduction slot projects into the cylinder from its outer peripheral wall near the vane slot and extends completely between the ends of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gary O. Scheldorf, James F. Gordon, Owen H. Scheldorf
  • Patent number: 4948517
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for preventing oil droplet size reduction when introducing an oil/water stream into an oil-from-water separation unit. The system includes a conduit extending from a source of the oil/water stream to an inlet of the oil-from-water separation unit, which can be one or more hydrocyclone separators, centrifuges, settling tanks and the like. A throttling device is operatively connected to the conduit for regulating the quantity of the oil/water stream passing therethrough. The throttling device eliminates the shearing of the fluid, thereby preventing oil droplet size reduction. The throttling device can include a progressive cavity motor with a rotation control mechanism connected to the rotor of the motor to control the rpm of the rotor, and thus the quantity and pressure of the fluid passing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Grant A. Young, William D. Wakley
  • Patent number: 4934912
    Abstract: A sliding-vane compressor of the type including a compressor body housed in a front head and a shell, wherein a cushioning member is disposed on at least one of a contacting surface between the front head and the compressor body and a contact surface between the compressor body and the shell for taking up vibration produced by the compressor body before the vibration is transmitted to the shell. The cushioning member which is disposed between a rear side block of the compressor and the shell may be formed integrally with a seal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Diesel Kiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Iio, Yoshio Suzuki, Toshihiro Murayama, Mitsuya Ono
  • Patent number: 4932851
    Abstract: Noise reduction is provided in a rotary compressor by selecting the location of the opening of the discharge port so as to minimize the transmission of noise by the discharge compressed gasses. In particular, the discharge port opening is located in the middle (i.e., in an axial direction) of the cylinder wall of the rotary compressor corresponding to a node in a first thickness mode standing wave. This corresponds to 1/4 wavelength relative to the thickness mode standing wave from the end plate. Additionally, the opening is located 1/4 wavelength from the corner or edge at which the sliding vane is positioned, this ensuring that the opening is at a node in a first cylindrical mode standing wave set up in the compression chamber. The discharge port includes a passage extending through the cylindrical wall and a passage extending through the end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Jeung T. Kim
  • Patent number: 4929160
    Abstract: A muffler chamber being defined by a circumferential side wall member integrally and perpendicularly extending from the upper surface of a stationary scroll member and a cup-shaped upper wall member supported by the circumferential side wall member in a sealing state. An exhausting pipe is pressed into an exhausting port formed in the circumferential side wall member under pressure to reduce soldering portions of muffler chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Toshinobu Inoue
  • Patent number: 4927342
    Abstract: A Helmholtz resonator is used in communication with the compression chamber of a rotary compressor in order to attenuate noise. The resonator concentrates the attenuation of noise in a frequency band around 4 kHz corresponding to the concentration of noise produced by a particular rotary compressor, this band also corresponding to the frequencies which the human ears are most sensitive to. The resonator branches off from the discharge port in an end wall of the compressor. The resonantor uses an easily machined cylindrical resonance cavity on the surface of the end wall, the resonance cavity also being bounded on one side by a cylindrical wall of the rotary compressor. The resonator significantly reduces the noise in a rotary compressor of a specific type commonly used for compressing refrigerant gases in a refrigerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jeung T. Kim, Imdad Imam
  • Patent number: 4915554
    Abstract: A hermetic rotary compressor has a motor unit composed of a stator and a rotor which are arranged in an upper portion of a hermetic housing, an oil-lubricated compressor unit arranged in a lower portion of the hermetic housing, a crank shaft which interconnects said motor unit and said compressor unit, a discharging silencer which is formed by a lower bearing of the compressor unit positioned around the lower end of the crank shaft and a cover of the lower bearing. The hermetic rotary compressor further has a lower balancing weight mounted around a lower shaft end portion of the crank shaft which extends to a position below the discharging silencer and a weight cup surrounding the lower balancing weight. In this hermetic rotary compressor, the lower balancing weight is not disposed within the discharging silencer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Serizawa, Kazuo Ikeda, Hiroaki Hata, Shin Ishihara, Motohiro Shiga
  • Patent number: 4911620
    Abstract: A scroll-type hermetic compressor is disclosed including a compressor mechanism having a fixed scroll member. The fixed scroll member includes a plate portion that is subject to forces causing deflection thereof. A housing cover plate is attached to the back surface of the fixed scroll member so as to define a discharge pressure chamber therebetween for exposing a partial area of the back surface to compressed refrigerant fluid. The discharge pressure chamber also serves as a discharge muffler. Also disclosed is a method of assembling a compressor wherein a compressor mechanism is mounted to a top cover plate before the top cover plate is attached to an open-ended shell to form a hermetically sealed housing. The compressor mechanism is suspended from the top cover plate and extends into the interior of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventors: Hubert Richardson, Jr., Thomas R. Barito
  • Patent number: 4884956
    Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a top clearance volume formed between a cylinder chamber and at least one delivery valve. Another top clearance volume, in communication with the cylinder chamber, produces a reverse flow of compressed fluid which generates pulsations adapted to offset a high frequency component of pulsations generated in the cylinder chamber by compressed fluid reversely flowing from the first top clearance volume to the cylinder chamber. Thereby the high frequency component of pulsations generated in the cylinder chamber is eliminated, and a low-noise rotary compressor is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Churyo Engineering Kabushiki Kaishi
    Inventors: Makoto Fujitani, Masashi Hirabayashi, Hideo Honda, Hiroshi Machida, Masami Kondo, Sachio Onoda
  • Patent number: 4881879
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed rotary compressor is disclosed wherein gas compressed within a compression chamber defined by a cylinder block is discharged through respective discharge ports in the main and outboard bearings defining the ends of the cylinder. Mufflers are provided on the outside ends of the bearings into which the compressed gas is expanded. A constricting gas passageway extending through the bearings and the cylinder block provides a path for constricted flow of gas from one muffler to the other. The constricted gas expands upon entry into the other muffler, thereby providing a cooler recombined discharge gas for use in cooling oil in the oil sump and cooling the motor stator windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventor: Arturo L. Ortiz
  • Patent number: 4865531
    Abstract: In a scroll compressor for compressing gas by the relative orbital movement between first and second scrolls which combined with each other to form a compresson chamber therebetween and a super-charging tube is connected to an intake port formed in the first scroll. The volume of the gas to be compressed is controlled by changing the length of the super-discharging tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Kakuda, Etsuo Morishita
  • Patent number: 4815951
    Abstract: In a scroll compressor for compressing gas by the relative orbital movement between first and second scrolls which combined with each other to form a compression chamber therebetween and a super-charging tube is connected to an intake port formed in the first scroll. The volume of the gas to be compressed is controlled by changing the length of the super-discharging tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1989
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Kakuda, Etsuo Morishita
  • Patent number: 4797075
    Abstract: A progressing cavity well pump has an overspeed brake to protect the gear box during reverse rotation. A power source rotates an input shaft of the gear box, which through a right angle drive, drives a string of rods extending into the well to the progressing cavity pump. A centrifugal brake is mounted to the input shaft. If the pump locks up, the power source will impart energy to the rods by twisting them until the power source reaches its limit. When the rods start to unwind, the centrifugal brake will engage to dissipate energy and slow the speed of the reverse rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Hughes Tool Company
    Inventors: Wallace L. Edwards, Joel F. Jones, Howard G. Thompson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4781541
    Abstract: An external axial rotary piston blower for quarter-roller type of construction with transfer ports leading to the outlet in the casing runway surfacing or inner peripheral surface of the housing with length differing relative to each other and increasing cross section differing toward the outlet, the greatest length of which can be permitted to be dimensioned or measured only such that the transfer ports are first opened when the inlet is closed-off by the piston traversing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1988
    Assignee: Wankel GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sohler, Werner Schubert
  • Patent number: 4781545
    Abstract: A rotary compressor comprises a rotary shaft for compression action, a bearing which supports the rotary shaft and includes a discharge valve to discharge compressed gas and a sound suppression cover which covers the discharge valve, so that an annular discharge chamber is formed between the sound suppression cover and the bearing. At least one tubular cavity section with a bottom is provided to open into the discharge chamber at a location adjacent the discharge valve. The tubular cavity section has a length approximately one-fourth of the average circumference length of the discharge chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1988
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yukio Yokomizo, Masahiko Sasaki
  • Patent number: 4752195
    Abstract: A vane type pump has an elongated pump housing through which the drive shaft of the pump passes. The usual components of the pump comprising a rotor which carries vanes within a cam ring is disposed between an inner end wall of the housing and a pressure plate wherein the pressure plate has pressure recesses or pockets. Damping chambers are provided in the elongated housing generally parallel to the drive shaft and substantially co-extensive with the housing bore that carries the drive shaft. Thus, very large volume damping chambers are provided for smoothing out pump pulsations in the course of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1988
    Assignee: Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen, AG.
    Inventors: Peter Friedrich, Johann Merz
  • Patent number: 4747761
    Abstract: A silencer-carrying rotary vane pump wherein a hollow portion is provided between inner and outer circumferential walls of a cylindrical center case of the vane pump. The hollow portion is closed with side covers to form a sealed chamber through which a pumped out medium is discharged to the outside. A plurality of partitions may be provided in a portion of the sealed chamber to divide the sealed chamber into a plurality of sealed compartments, with adjacent compartments being in communication with each other by a passage having a small cross-sectional area. Soundproof members may be provided in the sealed compartments and an additional discharge port may be provided for communicating the sealed chamber with the outside of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Yumiyama, Takaki Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 4746277
    Abstract: In a rotary compressor for refrigeration and heat pump systems with an integrated drive motor on the high-pressure side, the operating medium will flow over the drive motor. During operating of the rotary compressor gas pulsations/pressure pulses will occur on both low-pressure and high-pressure sides. In order to suppress these pressure pulses on the high-pressure side one or more chambers with different volumes are provided, joined by channels between the discharge opening and the drive motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Stal Refrigeration AB
    Inventor: Rune V. Glanvall
  • Patent number: 4739865
    Abstract: A housing encloses a supply of oil and has opposite end portions supporting axially aligned input and output shafts. Interfitting annular clutch plates and discs provide for connecting the input shaft to the output shaft, and interfitting annular brake plates and discs provide for braking the output shaft to the housing in response to axial movement of a non-rotating oil actuated piston supported within the housing concentrically with the output shaft. Oil recirculating passages are provided within the housing for cooling and lubricating the plates and discs, and a positive displacement high pressure annular pump forms an extension of the housing around the inlet shaft. The pump has inner and outer thin flat rotors and pressurizes a portion of the oil within the housing sufficiently to actuate the piston through the control of a solenoid actuated valve unit mounted on the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1988
    Assignee: Force Control Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry L. Yater, Stephen L. Carmichael
  • Patent number: 4730996
    Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a compression section disposed in a case. The compression section has a cylinder and first and second bearings fixed on both sides of the cylinder to define a compression chamber together with the cylinder. A first discharge mechanism for discharging a fluid compressed in the compression chamber into the outside of the chamber is provided at the first bearing. A second discharge mechanism for discharging a fluid compressed in the compression chamber into the outside of the chamber is provided at the second bearing. The first mechanism has a first discharge port formed in the first bearing and a first discharge valve for opening and closing the first port. The second mechanism has a second discharge port formed in the second bearing and a second discharge valve for opening and closing the second port with a different frequency from that of the first valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiro Akatsuchi, Tsugio Itami
  • Patent number: 4728272
    Abstract: In a fluid displacement machine with a rotor ring (7) rotatably supported about a fixed axis (6) and carrying a number of radially movable vanes (a-h), the latter being held in fluid-tight contact with the chamber wall (5) of the machine housing (3) by a stationary vane guide block (9), the new feature is that the vane guide block (9) is loosely supported inside the rotor ring (7), where it is held in its working position by the revolving vanes (a-h).With this arrangement it is possible to dispense with special securing means for the guide block (9), thus making it possible to connect both ends of the rotor ring (7) (i.e. both in front of and behind the plane of the Figure) with the drive shaft (18), resulting in a considerable increase in the mechanical strength of the machine, so that it may be used for rough work, such as pumping comminuted meat containing fragments of bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Inventor: Knud Simonsen
  • Patent number: 4669961
    Abstract: A thrust reducing apparatus for a progressing cavity pump used in a well and driven by a submersible pump motor. A piston is mounted to the top of the rotor and located in a bore between the stator and the tubing which extends to the surface. A bypass passage enables fluid discharged from the pump to flow past the bore and the piston. An annulus passage extends into the bore above the piston for communicating fluid pressure in the annulus to the top of the piston. The lower side of the piston is exposed to discharge fluid pressure from the pump, resulting in a net upward force on the piston. The piston pulls upwardly on the rotor to reduce the downward thrust on the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Hughes Tool Company
    Inventor: Jerzy A. Lorett
  • Patent number: 4639203
    Abstract: A rotary fluid pressure device is disclosed of the type including housing means defining a fluid inlet (57) and a fluid outlet (61) and including some form of rotary fluid energy-translating displacement mechanism associated with the housing. In one embodiment of the invention, the displacement mechanism comprises a gerotor gear set (17) including a housing member (22), an internally-toothed ring (23), and an externally-toothed star (27). Included is a free-wheeling mechanism (71) having an engagement member (73) and an actuation means (81) operable to move the engagement member between first and second positions. In a first position, the engagement member (73) prevents rotational movement of the ring (23) and the star (27) has its normal and orbital rotational movement to define expanding (28) and contracting (29) fluid volume chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Steven J. Zumbusch
  • Patent number: 4637785
    Abstract: Apparatus for handling of fluids contaminated by solid objects and/or being partly solidified comprises a displacement pump of the screw type, as well as a cutter device driven by the pump shaft. The cutter device comprises a cylindrical drum with a number of axially directed edge steel, spaced apart a suitable distance to ensure a maceration of solid objects to a size suited for passing through the pump. The drum is located adjacent to an opening in the side wall of the pump housing. The pump is preferably reversible, and the material in the cutter device is selected so as to ensure a non-sparking structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1987
    Inventor: Hans Backstrom
  • Patent number: 4561834
    Abstract: A rotary vaned pump has solid vanes of fixed length sliding in a boss mounted for rotation about a longitudinal axis eccentrically displaced from the longitudinal axis of the pump chamber, so as to provide respective pump compartments in the pump chamber which vary cyclically in volume and are arranged to pressurize fluid entering the pump chamber through an inlet opening and discharging from the chamber through an outlet opening. Each leading vane edge that passes over the inlet opening is formed as a shearing knife edge that shear-cuts any cuttable solid material in the entering fluid that is engaged by the edge as it enters the pump chamber through the inlet. Such solid material is thereby cut into pieces which can be handled by the pump without jamming rotation of the rotor. The leading edge of the inlet opening is also formed as a knife edge that cooperates with the vane edge to shear the solid material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Poss Design Limited
    Inventor: Werner Poss
  • Patent number: 4534717
    Abstract: A flushable, positive displacement, gear-type metering pump assembly comprising: a pump housing with inlet and outlet chambers; cylindrical gears disposed within the pump housing adapted to rotate such that gear faces mesh and form a seal which separates inlet and outlet chambers, the gears being adapted to carry metered amounts of fluid between the gear faces and the wall of the pump housing from the inlet chamber to the outlet chamber; channel means for conveying fluid into the inlet chamber and directing the fluid against the gear faces exposed to the inlet chamber; channel means for conveying fluid from the inlet chamber to valve means; channel means for conveying fluid from the valve means to the outlet chamber; valve means adapted to be closed when the pump assembly is in a metering mode such that fluid may pass from the inlet chamber to the outlet chamber only by being carried between the gear faces and the wall of the pump housing and in an open mode when the pump is in a flushing mode such that fluid
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1985
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Bernard J. McCabe, David T. Courtney
  • Patent number: 4500268
    Abstract: A backup fuel pump (16) has a thermal fuse (40) positioned in a bearing. The fuse is adapted to melt at a predetermined temperature during dry running of the pump. Melting of the fuse causes a spring urged braking member (42) to screw into a shaft journal (26) and terminate operation of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: Chandler Evans Inc
    Inventors: Jack G. Sundberg, John P. Schaffner, Daniel J. Conlon
  • Patent number: 4486158
    Abstract: A sliding vane type rotary compressor, of which refrigerating capacity at the high speed operation of the compressor is suppressed by making use of suction loss involved when refrigerant pressure in the vane chamber becomes lower than the pressure of the refrigerant supply source in the suction stroke of the compressor. The compressor has a rotor, vanes slidably carried by the rotor, a cylinder accommodating the rotor and the vane, side plates fixed to both sides of the cylinder for closing both open ends of the vane chambers defined by the rotor, vanes and the cylinder, and suction and discharge ports serving as passages for communicating the vane chambers with the outside of the compressor. A spacer for adjustment of the refrigerating capacity is disposed in the suction port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1984
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Shinya Yamauchi, Nobuo Kagoroku
  • Patent number: 4457671
    Abstract: A horizontal hermetic type rotary compressor to be used in a refrigerator, air conditioner, or the like comprises an outer hermetic casing provided at both ends with suction and discharge pipes for a gaseous refrigerant, a compression device contained in the casing and a motor operatively connected to the compression device in the casing. The compression device has a cylinder body on both sides of which main and sub-bearings are attached and a silencer is provided for the cylinder body. The silencer comprises a plurality of silencer chambers formed in casting in the cylinder body at portions outside of the peripheries of the bearings and communicated with each other and a pair of cover plates secured to the cylinder body by tubular rivets so as to hermetically seal openings of the silencer chambers on both sides of the cylinder body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshikuni Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4439120
    Abstract: An injection unit intended to inject, for example, rubber into a mold comprises in principle two driven cog-wheels, which are located each in a hollow space in the unit housing and mesh with each other, and which in an injection chamber located in direct connection to the engagement zone of the cog-wheels subjects material fed-in to a high pressure, so that the material is pressed out of the injection chamber to a mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: Skega AB
    Inventor: Per-Olov Berggren
  • Patent number: 4293290
    Abstract: A positive displacement rotary pump is provided for use in circulating a viscous product at high pressures. The pump includes a housing having a product inlet and a product outlet communicating with an interior cavity. One wall of the cavity is defined by a removable cover. A pair of spaced substantially parallel shafts extends through a wall of the cavity opposite the cover wall. One end of each shaft is supported by the cover. A pair of meshing rotors is locked on the shafts and disposed uniformly within the cavity. The endface of each rotor adjacent the removable cover has a substantial countersunk portion. Bearing means, substantially isolated from the product, is disposed within each rotor endface countersunk portion and supportingly engages a segment of the rotor shaft one end. At least a portion of each bearing means is located between planes defined by the surfaces of the cover and the wall opposite thereto which coacts to form the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1981
    Assignee: Crepaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Victor E. Swanson
  • Patent number: 4187063
    Abstract: An air motor includes an arrangement such that a part of an exhaust air from a cylinder of the air motor passes through a gear chamber containing a gear mechanism which links a gear fixed to a shaft directly connected to a rotor with a power output shaft and is discharged through a silencer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignees: Fuji Kuuki Kabushiki Kaisha, Hitachi Zosen Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Dan Yoshida, Tatsumi Onaka, Yasuhiro Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 4174196
    Abstract: Screw fluid machines are for use as a compressor for generating high pressure gas, a cooling-medium-compressing compressor for use in a refrigerator or an air conditioner. The fluid machine includes a rotor casing, two side-casings, a pair of screw rotors, and accessories such as silencer, a gas cooler, an oil cooler, and an oil tank. The rotor casing includes an outer wall, an inner wall and interconnecting members or ribs which interconnect the outer wall and the inner wall, with a space being provided between the outer wall and the inner wall. This space is partitioned into two or more spaces by means of the aforesaid interconnecting members. A working chamber or space is provided inwardly of the inner wall and has an inlet port and a discharge port. Both side-casings are secured to the opposite end faces of a rotor casing through the medium of flanges and are provided with a passage adapted to bring two or more spaces thus partitioned, into communication with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1979
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetomo Mori, Katsumi Matsubara, Haruo Mishina, Akira Arai, Riichi Uchida, Eiji Yokoyama, Hajime Arai
  • Patent number: 4135602
    Abstract: A muffler is integrally incorporated with a pneumatic tool by cooperating with the tool housing intermediate the air exhaust chamber for the air motor and atmosphere. An inwardly dished muffler shell includes an exhaust inlet for receipt of exhaust air from the air motor. The shell is selectively positionable and may be combined with screen and additional muffler material as well as a retaining plate in any of a number of combinations to provide distinctive muffling characteristics for the air tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: The Aro Corporation
    Inventor: Melvin D. Clark
  • Patent number: 4068987
    Abstract: In a pneumatic motor that includes a vaned rotor, a rotor chamber having a gas inlet and gas outlet means, a housing and an axially extending rotor shaft to rotate in said chamber, structure to control and muffle the escape of exhaust gas comprisingA. a first exhaust chamber extending about the rotor chamber and into which pressurized exhaust gas escapes from the rotor chamber,B. a second exhaust chamber spaced axially from the first exhaust chamber and extending about the shaft, and primary porting communicating between the first and second exhaust chambers, andC. a third exhaust chamber extending about the shaft and located radially inwardly of the second exhaust chamber, there being radially inwardly extending porting spaced about the shaft and communicating between the second and third exhaust chambers to direct escaping exhaust directionally inwardly and in conflicting turbulent streams to dissipate energy contained in said streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1978
    Assignee: Elmer A. Selzer
    Inventor: Fuller A. Crooks
  • Patent number: 4061448
    Abstract: An improved drive for the ignition distributor of an internal combustion engine of the type having a lubrication pump driven by its crankshaft. The pump has an internal gear driven by and coaxial with the crankshaft. An external gear has internal teeth and is driven, in planetary gear fashion, by the internal gear. A distributor shaft is rotatably mounted in the pump housing and has a helical tooth pinion gear that meshes with helical teeth on the external periphery of the external pump gear. Thus, the driven external gear drives the pinion gear and the distributor shaft. Preferably, the transmission ratio is 1 to 1.25 between the internal and external gears and 1 to 1.6 between the external and pinion gears, providing an overall ratio of 1 to 2 between crankshaft and distributor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: Hans-Ullrich Gondeck
  • Patent number: 4042062
    Abstract: A pneumatic tool having an exhaust air noise attenuating system in which air exhausting from a rotary air vane motor is caused to pass in order through an exhaust port, past a flexible leaf damper overlying the exhaust port into a wave modulating chamber containing an air diffusion screen, and finally through ports exiting to atmosphere. The damper is illustrated in a first form as applied to the motor of an impact wrench; and is illustrated in a second embodiment as applied to a grinding tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1977
    Assignee: Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company
    Inventor: Earl C. Tooley
  • Patent number: 4009974
    Abstract: An apparatus for melting and dispensing thermoplastic material comprising a hopper, a grid melter, a reservoir and a pump. The novelty of this application resides in a novel method and apparatus for forcing molten material into the pump inlet. The infeed is accomplished by a pair of counter-rotating shafts to which the molten material is supplied and from which it is sheared by a pair of inclined surfaces. In the process of being sheared from the counter-rotating shafts the molten material is forced into the pump inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1977
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventor: Charles H. Scholl
  • Patent number: 3972351
    Abstract: A burner control system comprises a housing defining a reservoir therein and primary and secondary pumps disposed in the reservoir for pumping oil through a viscosity valve and into a burner. The outlet side of the primary pump communicates pressurized oil to the inlet side of the secondary pump directly via intercommunicating conduit means. A back pressure valve communicates with the conduit means to substantially equalize the oil pressure between the inlet and outlet of the secondary pump, discharging the excess oil capacity back into the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1976
    Assignee: Ray Oil Burner Co.
    Inventors: Theodore Schuitemaker, Raymond B. Plass
  • Patent number: 3960470
    Abstract: A brake for a hydraulic device of the type in which a train of driving or driven shafts includes at least one shaft adapted for orbital and rotational motion. One or more frictional braking members are fixedly secured to the rotating and orbiting shaft, and are adapted to be frictionally engaged by a fixed member to apply a braking torque to the shaft. A preferred embodiment discloses a particularly advantageous manner in which such a braking device is applied to a hydraulic motor wherein the orbital and rotational motion of the driven shaft which is braked is provided by a gerotor gearset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1976
    Assignee: TRW Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Russell Kinder
  • Patent number: 3936238
    Abstract: A high-speed rotary vacuum pump has a compression chamber which is spaced from the walls of a housing by at least one body of acoustic insulation material which acts to absorb noise, to position the chamber with respect to the housing, and to form a fluid-tight seal between the chamber and the housing in the region where the rotary drive shaft of the pump projects from the compression chamber. The drive shaft and the gas inlet and outlet ducts are also acoustically insulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1976
    Assignee: BOC Limited, trading as Edwards High Vacuum International
    Inventor: Henryk Wycliffe