Cylinder sleeve assembly
AssigneeThomas Industries, Inc.
InventorsWilliam H. Lynn, Paul J. Thomas, Gerald A. Armfield
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Abstract
A cylinder sleeve is composed of multiple identical interlocking sleeve elements. Each sleeve element has a circular cylindrical portion and an integral circular arc portion tangent to the cylindrical portion. The circular arc portion has a boss on one end and an offset finger on the other which mates with the boss of an adjacent sleeve element to fix the adjacent sleeve elements together radially.
Claims9
A cylinder sleeve member for an axial piston pumping apparatus, said member defining a central opening and a number of cylinders radially equi-angularly spaced around said opening, said member comprising the same number of cylinder sleeve elements, each said element having a circular cylindrical portion which defines one of said cylinders and a connecting portion integrally formed with said circular cylindrical portion, said connecting portion defining a portion of said central opening, and means at opposite ends of each said connecting portion for connecting the connecting portions of adjacent sleeve elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.