Furon Company

Osmonics, Incorporated

Saint-gobain Performance Plastics Corporation

Anthony K Chan

Kenji A Kingsford

David R Martinez

Mario Fregoso

Van Trong Tran

David L Henderson

Pumps of this invention comprise a pump housing having at least one pressurizing chamber disposed therein, and a pressurizing member is disposed within the pressurizing chamber. The pressurizing member has a body with a solid imperforate head at one end, a thin-walled skirt extending away from the body head, and a flange extends circumferentially around a terminal edge of the skirt. A piston is disposed within the pump housing and is connected at one end to the pressurizing member. A piston gland is attached to the chamber and includes a diametrically positioned piston guide through which the piston is disposed. The flange is interposed between the chamber and the piston gland and includes sealing means to provide a fluid-tight seal therebetween. A pressurizing member plug is attached to the pressurizing member and has an outside wall surface that contacts and carries a variable portion of the skirt inside surface during reciprocating pressurizing member axial displacement. The thin-wall skirt has a sufficient axial length to roll between the plug outside wall surface and the gland inside diameter to permit pressurizing member reciprocating axial displacement within the pressurizing chamber.

Reciprocating pump

A valve apparatus comprises a valve body, a piston disposed within the valve body, and a rolling diaphragm poppet that is attached the piston to regulates fluid flow through the valve via interaction with a valve seat within the valve body. The valve body has a chamber extending therethrough that includes a valve seat at one chamber end that defines a fluid inlet passage into chamber. The piston disposed within the chamber and is adapted for axial displacement therein by an actuating means. The rolling diaphragm poppet is attached to an end of the piston and is of a one-piece construction. The poppet includes a head that has a circular radial cross section, and that has a frontside surface that is adapted to interface with the valve seat in the chamber to control fluid flow therethrough. The head also has a backside surface that is adapted to accommodate attachment with an end of the piston. The poppet includes a cylindrical sleeve that extends axially away from a peripheral edge of the head and that has a non-bellowed configuration. A flange extends radially from the sleeve to define a peripheral edge of the poppet. The flange including means for providing a leak-tight seal with the valve body. Axial displacement of the poppet head within the chamber, in response to the axial movement of the piston, is provided by a rolling movement of the sleeve in an axial direction between a piston wall surface and a concentric wall surface within the valve body.

Compact valve with rolling diaphragm poppet

A double-diaphragm gauge protector constructed according to principles of this invention comprises a diaphragm housing formed from a upper housing body, a lower housing body, and a central housing body interconnected between the upper and lower housing bodies. A first diaphragm is disposed within the upper housing body forming an upper chamber therebetween and a liquid pressure-transfer medium is disposed within the upper chamber. The first diaphragm includes a transfer pad that projects outwardly away from a frontside or downwardly facing bottom surface of the first diaphragm toward the lower housing body. A second diaphragm is disposed within the lower housing body forming a lower chamber therebetween. The second diaphragm also includes a transfer pad that projects outwardly away from a frontside or upwardly facing top surface of the second diaphragm toward the first diaphragm. The transfer pads of the first and second diaphragms are positioned one on top of the other. A freely-floating spacer is disposed within the central housing body and is interposed between the bottom and top surfaces of the first and second diaphragms, respectively. The transfer pads of the first and second diaphragms are disposed within a central opening in the spacer.

Double-diaphragm gauge protector

A bellows-type pump having a support ring positioned interiorly within the coil of the plastic bellows. The support ring is initially coiled to a diameter smaller than the normal bellows coil diameter. The free ends of the support ring have a telescopic relationship so that, when expanded to form a complete loop for supportive engagement within the bellows coil, the oppose free ends of the loop circumferentially engage one another and are positively held in telescopic engagement due to the circumferential hoop stress of the support ring.

Bellows-type pump

A bellows-type pump has a plastic bellows interiorly supported by interior pressure. The interior pressure is supplied by a fluid source which passes through a pressure regulator to control the amount of interior pressure exerted on the bellows. A fiber-optic leak detector can be inserted into the plastic bellows to detect the leakage of process fluid therein.

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San Gabriel, CA, United States of America

Anthony K Chan