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Pump having first and second outer casing members

US5888053A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 8, 1996
Grant dateMar 30, 1999
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Expiry dateFeb 8, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF04D29/445
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A pump having an improved fluid passage has an inner casing which houses at least one impeller and an outer casing which houses the inner casing. The pump also has a communicating pipe disposed outside of the outer casing for guiding a main flow of a fluid being handled from a space defined in the outer casing into another space defined in the outer casing.

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