Weir Minerals Australia Limited

Adrian Lionel Bois

Garry Bruce Glaves

Luis Moscoso Lavagna

A centrifugal slurry pump impeller including: a back shroud with opposed inner and outer faces and an outer peripheral edge, a central axis, a plurality of pumping vanes extending from the inner main face of the back shroud, the pumping vanes being disposed in spaced apart relation, each pumping vane including opposed main side faces, a leading edge in the region of the central axis and a trailing edge in the region of the outer peripheral edge of the back shroud with passageways between adjacent pumping vanes, wherein the inner main face of the back shroud along the length of the passageways, leading from the leading edge to the trailing edge, includes a generally planar inner region beginning adjacent the leading edge of the plurality of pumping vanes, and an outer region ending at the outer peripheral edge of the back shroud, wherein the outer region of the inner face of the back shroud includes a lip formation with an apex including a convex surface.

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Pymble, Australia

Adrian Lionel Bois