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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 10, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Brian M Mitsch, Perrysville, OH (US);
Ralph D Austen, Jeromesville, OH (US);
Robert S Jones, Mansfield, OH (US);
Assignee:
General Signal Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4151821 ; 415203 ; 415206 ;
Abstract
A pump which includes a housing and a shaft disposed within the housing having an axis. The apparatus also includes apparatus for mounting the shaft within the housing for rotational movement thereof and an impeller having a geometric center carried on the shaft. A fluid inlet in the housing is disposed with a first opening disposed in eccentric relationship to the geometric center of the impeller. In some forms of the invention the opening is generally shaped like a dog bone with the two largest parts thereof spaced apart from the geometric center of the impeller.