F04D 9/046
The means being floats
Official title: {the means being floats}
F04D9/046 (The means being floats) appears on 11 US grants and 8 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F04D- Granted patents
- 11
- Published applications
- 8
- Assignees
- 8
- Inventors
- 16
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
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| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Float box with valve12 May 2026US 12,624,697 B2B.B.A. Participaties B.V.
- Smart vacuum priming system8 Apr 2025US 12,270,421 B2Cornell Pump Company
- Debris trap for capturing debris flowing in a stream of liquid and priming assembly for a pump16 May 2023US 11,649,835 B2Sulzer Management AG
- System for priming a pool pump7 Sep 2021US 11,111,923 B2
- Self-priming centrifugal pump31 Aug 2004US 6,783,330 B2Pioneer Pump Inc.
- Float box with valve12 Feb 2026US 2026/0043405 A1B.B.A. Participaties B.V.
- Smart vacuum priming system22 Aug 2024US 2024/0280107 A1Cornell Pump Company
- Debris trap for capturing debris flowing in a stream of liquid and priming assembly for a pump20 Oct 2022US 2022/0333616 A1Sulzer Management AG
- System for priming a pool pump11 Mar 2021US 2021/0071670 A1
- Selfpriming system having valve for a centrifugal pump10 Nov 2016US 2016/0327047 A1Rio Boxx Holding B.V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vacuum-assisted pump23US 6,409,478 B1Roper Holdings, Inc. · 2002
- Self-priming centrifugal pump19US 6,783,330 B2Pioneer Pump Inc. · 2004
- Well point system and apparatus16US 4,606,704 A1986
- Vacuum-assisted pump6US 6,575,706 B2Roper Holdings, Inc. · 2003
- Vacuum-assisted pump6US 6,616,427 B2Roper Holdings, Inc. · 2003