Mixing impeller device and method
AssigneeSPX Corporation
InventorRobert A. Blakley
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Abstract
An impeller assembly is mountable onto a rotatable shaft that has a flange extending radially from the shaft and rotating with the shaft. The impeller has at least one blade pair member having two opposed blades and central hub portion having a hole therethrough with an inner diameter at least as large as the outer diameter of the shaft, a plurality of corresponding mounting holes provided in each of the flange and the blade pairs, and a plurality of bolts for fastening the blade pair to the flange via the mounting hole.
Claims5
A method for mounting an impeller assembly onto a rotatable shaft having flange radially extending from the shaft, the method comprising the steps of:
- inserting at least one member having two opposed blades and a central hub portion having a hole therethrough with an inner diameter at least as large the outer diameter of the shaft onto the shaft and into contact with the flange;
- and
- fastening the blade pair member to the flange so that it rotates with the shaft,
- wherein the shaft is a first shaft and the flange is a first flange located at the end of the first shaft and wherein the fastening step includes the step of connecting the first flange to a second flange that is located at the end of a second shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.