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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1991
Richard F Guardiani, Ohio Township, Allegheny County, PA (US);
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A rotating union used to transmit fluid to and from a rotating shaft includes a hollow tubular housing having inlet and outlet ports defined on an outer end, a set of radial bearings stationarily mounting the tubular housing within an axial bore in the rotating shaft permitting rotation of the rotating shaft relative to the tubular housing and defining an annular fluid cavity flooding the bearings with fluid, and annular seal assemblies sealing the annular fluid cavity at the outer and inner ends of the tubular housing. The union also includes inner and outer hollow tubular pipes disposed in the tubular housing. The inner pipe at its inner end is supported for rotation with the rotating shaft by an annular plug located between infeed and return passages in the rotating shaft. The outer pipe is stationarily supported by the housing in flow communication with the inlet port but not with the outlet port and is disposed in flow communication with the inner pipe for transmitting fluid from the inlet port along the interiors of the outer and inner pipes to the infeed passage of the shaft and from the return passage of the shaft along the exteriors of the outer and inner pipes to the outlet port.