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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2001
Peter K. Bostwick, Maryland Heights, MO (US);
Donald E. Morgan, Florissant, MO (US);
Emerson Electric Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A deep well submersible pump has a pump housing containing an electric motor. The motor is radially spaced from the pump housing interior surface defining an annular channel through the pump housing from an inlet opening to an outlet opening of the housing. The motor is mounted on a cowling that has an exterior surface. A plurality of deswirler blades extend between the pump housing interior surface and the cowling exterior surface. As the deswirler blades extend through the housing interior, a spacing between the-cowling exterior surface and the housing interior surface expands radially. The cowling exterior surface and the pump housing interior surface define an annular liquid flow path that is first directed radially outward from the inlet opening and then curves around the cowling and is directed axially through the deswirler blades to the annular channel between the motor and the pump housing interior surface. An impeller mounted on the motor shaft has axially spaced inner and outer disks with a plurality of radiating vanes between the disks. The outer disk has a center hole with an annular rim surface in sealing engagement with the inlet cap and a peripheral surface in sealing engagement with the inlet cap. The impeller inner disk has a peripheral surface in sealing engagement with the cowling. Rotation of the impeller draws liquid through the inlet cap opening and pushes the liquid through the pump flow path.