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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1992
Andrew Mitchell, Montoursville, PA (US);
Young Industries, Inc., Munch, PA (US);
Abstract
A rotor for a rotary valve of the type including a housing providing a rotor chamber with a material inlet and a material outlet and a drive shaft journaled in said housing for supporting said rotor in said rotor chamber. The rotor includes a rotor shaft operatively connectable to the drive shaft and disposable in said rotor chamber. The rotor shaft has a plurality of longitudinally disposed, circumferentially spaced between recesses in which an edge of a plurality of vanes are received. The recesses include a slot preferably with a dovetail cross-sectional configuration, with the edge of the vanes having a comparable cross-sectional configuration. A pair of shrouds are included on either side of the vanes.