Vacuum pump
AssigneeWerner Rietschle GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsReinhard Garczorz, Fritz-Martin Scholz
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Abstract
In order to simultaneously generate pressure and negative pressure with a single-stage pump, said pump has a pump chamber (18) that is formed in a housing and that is provided with a suction port, a pressure port and a charging port. There is a pair of rotors (30, 32) in the pump chamber (18) that has at least three blades and that rotates in opposite directions around parallel spaced axes and the rotors intermesh free of contact and, together with the peripheral wall of the pump chamber (18), they define cells (60, 62a, 62b, 64) that are separate from each other.
Claims5
A pump for simultaneously generating pressurized air and vacuum, comprising a pump chamber within a housing, said pump chamber having a suction port, a pressure port and a pair of charging ports connected to atmosphere, wherein
- said pump chamber accommodates a pair of rotors rotating in opposite directions around parallel axes spaced from each other, each rotor having at least three claw-shaped blades;
- said rotors intermesh free of contact so that, together with a peripheral wall of said pump chamber, they define cells that are separate from each other;
- said rotors, together with said pump chamber, define a suction cell that is connected to said suction port and whose volume increases during rotation of said rotors;
- upon further rotation of said rotors, said suction cell separates into a pair of separate charging cells;
- upon further rotation of said rotors, each charging cell passes across an associated one of said charging ports;
- said charging cells on further rotation of said rotors merge into a pressure cell;
- said pressure cell on further rotation of said rotors decreases in volume;
- said pressure cell being connected to said outlet port on further rotation of said rotors for pushing air out from said pressure cell through said outlet port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.