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US 6,164,910 AGranted
Housing assembly for a fluid-working device such as a rotary pump
AssigneeITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
InventorPhilip Anthony Mayleben
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Abstract
Outer ends of inlet and outlet ducts have annular grooves, in lieu of bolt-holed flanges, to receive the inwardly-extending rims of a two-piece, clamping coupler. The coupler joins a conduit, which has a bight, to the inlet duct, in order to change an end-suction configuration of the device to an in-line configuration, selectively.
Claims8
A housing assembly, for a fluid-working device such as a rotary pump, comprising:
- a housing body;
- said body including a first fluid-conducting elongated duct defining a fluid inlet, and a second fluid-conducting elongated duct defining a fluid outlet, each of said ducts having an outermost termination and an annular groove formed therein adjacent to said termination for receiving an annulus which mates said duct with associated components;
- said body further having a given, rotary axis, and a second axis transverse to said given axis;
- a conduit for selectively changing one of said first and second ducts from a given alignment with one of said axes to an alignment with the other of said axes;
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- an annulus for coupling said conduit to said one of said first and second ducts.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.