Patent · US Expired

Water pump

US3981610A · kind A · utility

12Cited by

9References

9Claims

0Family size

Assignee

SKF Industrial Trading & Development Company, B.V. · NL

Inventors

Horst M. Ernst · Eltingshausen, DE
Manfred Brandenstein · Aschfeld, DE
Armin Olschewski · Schweinfurt, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 17, 1974
Grant date	Sep 21, 1976
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 17, 1994

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF01P5/04
WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A water pump for motor vehicles having a pump wheel arranged at the end of a shaft. A belt driven pulley is connected to the shaft for rotating the shaft and a bearing journals the shaft. The bearing has a fixed race, a rotatable race and two rows of roll bodies located therebetween. The shaft and the pulley are integrally connected to the rotatable race and the pulley has a rim for receiving a drive belt extending about the bearing so that the line of application of the force acting on the bearing lies between the two rows of roll bodies.

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