Abstract:
There is provided a high pressure fuel pump which includes a reliable fuel seal having a long durability and which can be produced at a relatively low cost. When a rotating shaft 4 is rotated to rotate a swash plate 7, such rotation is transmitted to a piston shoe guide plate 8 through a thrust ball bearing 9. Since the plate 8 is supported by a spherical portion 16 of a rod 14 mounted to a body 12, the plate 8 performs a precession to recurrently operate a plurality of fuel pumps 21 to 25 disposed around the rod 14. Each of the fuel pumps 21 to 25 includes a bellows provided between an outer end of the piston and the body 12, and the bellows completely seals a fuel leaked from a sliding clearance between the piston and the cylinder. Since the leaked fuel is introduced into a return passage 19 through a groove formed in an outer wall of the cylinder, a large internal pressure is not applied to the bellows and therefore, the bellows can be made of a low-priced material such as Teflon.
Abstract:
A pump configured so that tools are not required to remove the pump head and disassemble the plunger. A single large hand operated knob or head nut facilitates tool-less pump head removal. The pump head is guided into position in a manifold and held in place by the hand knob. The manifold is designed to receive all the external fluidic connections made to the pump head. Fluid paths to the pump head have been replaced with miniature face seals which facilitate high pressure sealing between the pump head and manifold. Low pressure tubing seals reside in a seal wash chamber or housing and are not attached to the head, eliminating the need for tooling to disconnect them during pump head removal. A tool-less plunger mechanism includes a nutcap assembly having a plunger socket receiving a plunger assembly including a sapphire plunger fixed to a plunger holder ball accommodated by the socket. The plunger assembly is captured within the socket by a plurality of cams. The cams are spring loaded to rotate and collapse onto the plunger holder ball, pulling the plunger assembly tightly into the socket. A restricting cone is actuated to rotate the cams away from the plunger holder ball for release and removal of the plunger assembly.
Abstract:
Piston assemblies for use in fluid translating devices normally are made of hardened metal alloy materials which require very smooth surface and are always subject to varying degrees of thermal expansion when being operated at high operating temperatures. In the subject arrangement, a piston assembly is provided and is constructed of most, if not all, ceramic components. The piston assembly includes a ceramic piston having a spherical head portion at one end thereof which rests in a spherical cavity of a ceramic slipper and held therein by a cylindrical ring. The cylindrical ring can be of a one-piece or a two-piece design which is in contact with the spherical head portion and bonded to the ceramic slipper, thus, retaining the spherical head portion. The cylindrical ring could also be made of a metallic material. The metallic ring is bonded to the ceramic slipper and subsequently swaged to hold the spherical head portion within the spherical cavity. The subject ceramic piston assembly provides a very smooth surface which reduces sliding friction and likewise the effects of thermal expansion and inertia are minimized by the use of a ceramic material. Consequently, the subject piston assembly is very efficient when operating at high temperatures and, likewise, is easy to manufacture and assemble.
Abstract:
Arcuate bearings are useful, for example, in pivotally supporting a cradle swashplate of axial piston variable displacement hydraulic devices. The bearings of known hydraulic devices have either been a pair of laterally spaced roller bearings assembly or a pair of laterally spaced sleeve bearings. The subject hydraulic device includes a roller bearing assembly positioned between the swashplate and the housing at the side of the swashplate subjected to high loads and a less expensive sleeve bearing positioned between the swashplate and the housing at the other side of the swashplate subjected to low loads. By using this combination of bearings, the overall cost of the hydraulic device is reduced without impairing the operation of the hydraulic device.
Abstract:
The piston mechanism comprises a piston (3), a sliding shoe (6) and a coupling member (18) holding together the piston (3) and sliding shoe (6). The coupling member (18) comprises a shaft part (19) and joint heads (20,21) arranged at the end of the shaft part (19). The heads (20,21) have spherical zone-shaped sliding surfaces (9,11,23,24), which cooperate with corresponding sliding surfaces (9,24) in sliding shoe (6) or in the bottom of the piston (3). Due to the fact that the radius of curvature (R1,R2,R3) of the sliding surfaces of the sliding shoe (6) and the piston (3) have the same centre of curvature (10) and therefore the same fulcrum, damage to the sliding surfaces is avoided.
Abstract:
A guide and seal assembly for a piston of a drowned piston type pump comprising at least a chamber within which the said piston reciprocates to suck into and supply from the said chamber a liquid. The assembly comprises a ring having a first frontal seat for a first annular seal element having a substantially C-shaped cross-section and an annular groove formed in the inner cylindrical surface of the ring and arranged to accommodate a second annular seal element of substantially U-shaped cross-section; a first and a second annular cavities formed in the ring communicate with each other by means of at least a radial hole, and the first annular cavity communicates with at least a discharge hole for the liquid which gathers in the first cavity.
Abstract:
A pump having first and second pumping chambers and a double-acting reciprocating piston which partly defines the pumping chambers. The piston is reciprocated by a rotatable drive member which may include an eccentric. The rotatable drive member has a peripheral surface which engages first and second wear members lying on opposite sides of the drive member. Each of the wear members is mounted on the piston for at least limited movement toward and away from the drive member. First and second resilient elements are positioned between the first wear member and the piston and the second wear member and the piston, respectively. The resilient elements resiliently support the wear members to provide a good driving connection between the drive member and the piston.
Abstract:
A compressor motor has a flywheel connected directly to a motor shaft which drives two opposed pistons that are simultaneously compressed so that the bearing loads are balanced. A double inlet blower is connected to said shaft and has one inlet for drawing cooling air through a crankcase for cooling the connecting rod bearings. A second inlet draws air through a vent formed in a shroud member. The blower discharges the air from both inlets into the shroud member which then directs the air to the cylinder sleeves and heads for cooling purposes. The cylinder, piston skirts and piston rings are self-lubricated by containing a fluorocarbon thereby substantially reducing the heat generating friction between said members.
Abstract:
To permit dry operation of a piston within the cylinder, the cylinder is made of metal, and the piston is made of polytetrafluorethylene; the piston, preferably, is formed with an annular ring groove extending downwardly from an end face thereof to leave a circumferential lip, the groove having a spring located therein biasing the lip outwardly against the cylinder wall, to provide for sealing contact of the lip against the cylinder wall, which is additionally reinforced by pressure of the gas being compressed by movement of the piston within the cylinder, tending to expand the lip against the piston surface, at the time when the compression is highest, and sealing is the most desired.
Abstract:
A pump having pistons that actuate a pumping device by suction and compression and having novel means for sealing the fluid being pumped from the lubricating fluid and for ensuring lubrication between the pistons and their cylinders. The reciprocation of the pistons is made to pump the lubricating fluid between them and the cylinder and to return the fluid to an internal lubricant reservoir. A swash plate acts also as a circulating pump for sending the lubricating fluid through an external cooling reservoir.