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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1979

Filed:

Apr. 14, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:

Maynard J Neal, North Tonawanda, NY (US);

Assignee:

Buffalo Forge Company, Buffalo, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F04D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
416 87 ; 416143 ; 4161 / ; 416207 ; 416208 ;
Abstract

An adjustable centrifugal impeller including a hub, a plurality of elongated vanes located circumferentially on the hub with each of the vanes having inner and outer portions, an annular ring mounted for circumferential sliding movement on the hub, first fasteners extending directly between the inner portions of the vanes and the annular ring for fastening the inner portions of the vanes directly to the hub, and second fasteners extending directly between each of the outer portions of the vanes and the hub for fastening the outer portions directly to the hub, and a plurality of locations on the vanes for receiving the second fasteners to thereby adjust the positions of the vanes on the hub, each of the vanes having a flat face which bears against flat faces of the annular ring and the hub to provide a rigid connection therewith through full face-to-face contact of the overlapping parts.


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