Boundary-layer pump and method of use
OwnerJohn Lloyd Bowman, Ricky Jay Jackson +1inventors
InventorsJohn Lloyd Bowman, Ricky Jay Jackson, Bryan Patrick Killeen
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Abstract
A device for pumping fluid such as paints, sealants, caulks, and polymers made of a rotor assembly and a pump body. The rotor assembly contains at least one laminar flow element arranged in such a manner as to conduct the fluid from inlet to outlet as the rotor spins. The rotor may vary its distance from the pump body. This arrangement provides a rotor with exceptional capacity to pump without damage to the fluid media and to measure the fluid rate at low or high rotational speed with viscosity that can vary. The device also may provide a spray nozzle or nozzles that produce a multiplicity of spray patterns.
Claims19
A boundary-layer pump comprising:
- a pump body configured to receive a rotor assembly, said rotor assembly comprised of an input shaft configured to rotate the rotor assembly and a laminar fluid flow channel, wherein said pump body has a proximal end proximal to the input shaft and a distal end distal to the input shaft, at least one primary inlet port and at least one primary outlet port and an adjustment cap, wherein the rotor assembly is comprised of at least one rotor disk positioned on a shaft-type rotor wherein each of the at least one rotor disks are alternately positioned from 0.000 to 0.010 inch spacing between a corresponding at least two stationary stator disks, wherein the at least two stator disks are separated by at least one disk spacer.
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