Ingersoll-rand Company

Ingersoll-rand Industrial U.s., Inc.

John E Conrad

Paul K Metaxatos

John A McCallops

Dale Treml

Richard J Bookhout

Amy L Trochum

Kurt E Ashbaugh

Illustrative embodiments of diaphragm pumps including a sensor mount are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, a diaphragm pump may include a shaft disposed within a pump housing and coupled to at least one diaphragm, a mount removably attached to the pump housing and having a sensor receptacle, and a proximity sensor received in the sensor receptacle of the mount such that a sensing end of the proximity sensor is flush with an end of the sensor receptacle nearest the shaft.

Diaphragm pump with sensor mount

Illustrative embodiments of diaphragm pumps including a muffler-mounted sensor are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, a diaphragm pump includes a shaft coupled to at least one diaphragm, an exhaust chamber configured to receive a motive fluid that has driven reciprocation of the at least one diaphragm and the shaft, a muffler disposed at least partially within the exhaust chamber, the muffler having a sensor mounting chamber defined therein, and a proximity sensor disposed in the sensor mounting chamber, a sensing end of the proximity sensor being flush with an end of the sensor mounting chamber nearest the shaft.

Diaphragm pump with muffler-mounted sensor

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Effort, PA, United States of America

John E Conrad