Drive mechanism for pumps

US4911610A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• AKTIEBOLAGET SKF · SE

Inventors

• Armin Olschewski · Schweinfurt, DE
• Manfred Brandenstein · Aschfeld, DE
• Horst M. Ernst · Eltingshausen, DE
• Elmar Mause · Schweinfurt, DE
• Heinrich Kunkel · Schweinfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 13, 1988
• Grant date: Mar 27, 1990
• Expiry date: May 13, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16C2360/44
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a drive device for pumps consisting of a pump impeller mounted in a pump chamber, a pump cover covers the pump chamber and has an extension and a bore passing from the pump chamber to the outside. A shaft is connected at its inner end to the pump impeller and at its outer end in a torsion-proof manner by way of a coupling element to a drive wheel. A bearing supports the shaft and drive wheel in the housing bore and extension respectively. The coupling element is formed by an external edge rigidly connected to the drive wheel and covers the outer bearing and the extension laterally on the outside. A cover plate with a center section connects in a torsion-proof manner to the shaft, and is adjusted to elastically adjust the cover plate relative to the pump cover either inward toward the pump chamber or outward away from the pump chamber, thereby providing for automatic adjustment of the radial and axial load-supporting bearings means to remove their play.