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Positive displacement pump

US4412786A · kind A · utility

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1Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateNov 12, 1981
Grant dateNov 1, 1983
Priority date
Expiry dateNov 12, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF04F7/00
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

This invention relates to a positive displacement pump. The pump utilizes a source of rotary motion in the back and forth, clockwise, counterclockwise direction. The rotary oscillatory motion drives an annular piston weight mass in a toroidal rotary track, back and forth within the track in combination with at least a pair of one-way valves to pump fluid through the pump. Specially designed electric motors that rock back and forth, without a 360.degree. rotation, for example, may be coupled to a positive displacement pump of this invention. In the medical profession, this pump may be used to pump liquids at a very slow, precise rate to transmit, for example, a variety of medications into a patient.

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