Pump mounting for a filtration system
AssigneeHenry Filters, Inc.
InventorStephen N. McEwen
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Abstract
The pump mounting includes vertical guide tracks and horizontal supports whereby a pump can be lowered in a filtration tank along the vertical guide tracks to connect its axial inlet port with an inlet conduit and rotated to connect its radial discharge port with an outlet conduit. Positive pump displacement means are provided to rotate the pump into its operative position in the tank and to release the pump from its operative position for removal from the tank. Cams cooperate between the tracks and the pump mounting frame to rotate to the pump to disconnect its radial discharge port and the outlet conduit in response to lifting the pump from the tank.
Claims19
Apparatus for mounting a pump in a liquid filtration tank, comprising:
- a tank for containing liquid and having an outlet conduit;
- a filter in said tank and a suction conduit in communication with said filter for applying a suction to said filter;
- a pump having a vertical axis, an inlet port and a discharge port;
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- means mounting said pump for movement between an inoperative position removed from said tank and an operative position in said tank with said suction conduit and said pump inlet port connected one to the other and said pump discharge port and said outlet conduit connected one to the other for pumping liquid filtrate from said filter into said outlet conduit;
- said mounting means including cooperable means carried by said tank and said pump cooperable to guide said pump for movement in said tank in a vertical direction and in a horizontally rotational direction about the vertical axis of the pump to connect said pump discharge port and said outlet conduit one to the other in response to movement of said pump into said operative position.
Apparatus for mounting a pump in a liquid filtration tank, comprising:
- a tank for containing liquid and having an outlet conduit;
- a filter in said tank and a suction conduit in communication with said filter for applying a suction to said filter;
- a pump having a vertical axis;
- means mounting said pump for movement between an operative position in said tank for pumping liquid filtrate from said filter through said suction conduit and into said outlet conduit and an inoperative position removed from said tank;
- said mounting means including means carried by said tank and said pump cooperable to guide said pump for rotational movement in said tank toward its operative position;
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- means for positively rotating in a horizontal plane said pump about its vertical axis in said tank toward said operative position.
Apparatus for mounting a pump in a liquid filtration tank, comprising:
- a tank for containing liquid and having an outlet conduit;
- a filter in said tank and a suction conduit in communication with said filter for applying a suction to said filter;
- a pump having a vertical axis, an outlet for connection to said outlet conduit;
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- means mounting said pump for movement between an operative position in said tank for pumping liquid filtrate from said filter through said suction conduit and into said outlet conduit and an inoperative position removed from said tank;
- said mounting means including means carried by said tank and said pump cooperable to guide said pump for rotational movement in a horizontal plane about its vertical axis in said tank in response to movement of said pump from its operative position toward its inoperative position thereby to disconnect said pump outlet and said outlet conduit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.