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Positive displacement pumps

US4511316A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJul 1, 1982
Grant dateApr 16, 1985
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Expiry dateJul 1, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF04C2/086
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A positive displacement pump comprising two lobed impellors to contra-rotate within a casing which has two ports to act respectively as an inlet and an outlet, the casing having two impellor chambers, each chamber being peripherally defined by two arcs, at least one of the arcs of each chamber being centered at a point offset from the normal rotational axis of the associated impellor in a direction towards one port.

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