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US 5,328,274 AGranted
Liquid ring vacuum pump-compressor with self aligning removable bearing bracket
AssigneeVooner Vacuum Pumps, Inc.
InventorsT. Michael Wallace, Charles H. Wunner
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Abstract
A bearing housing, particularly for a liquid ring pump, having an angular bottom projection for aligning the housing with and in a groove-containing receiving base with which it mates and to which it is attached, along with locator stops for accurate end-to-end spacing.
Claims9
A bearing housing for a liquid ring vacuum pump or compressor apparatus, comprising:
- a base;
- a cylindrical unitary housing upstanding from said base adapted to receive and journal a shaft therein, said cylindrical housing having a cylindrical bore with a horizontally oriented axis;
- said base having a pair of spaced horizontal coplanar bearing surfaces and a central v-shaped projection therebetween extending downwardly with the apex of the projection parallel to the axis of the cylindrical housing, for engaging a mating groove in a bearing housing support.
In a head for closing the end of a cylindrical unitary housing of a liquid ring vacuum pump or compressor apparatus, including a bearing housing support, the improvement comprising:
- a pair of spaced horizontal co-planar bearing surfaces on the upper surface of said bearing housing support with a central v-shaped groove therebetween;
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- a bearing housing having a central downwardly extending v-shaped projection with the apex of the projection parallel to the axis of the cylindrical housing, and engaging said central v-shaped groove in said bearing housing support.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.