Hydraulic jet pump

Abstract

A hydraulic jet pump comprising: a nozzle housing; a nozzle member disposed within said nozzle housing and including an inlet aperture communicating through a jet nozzle with a mixing chamber along a power fluid inlet flow path; a deflector member including an axial bore formed partially therethrough from an input aperture at a first end thereof towards a second end thereof, said input aperture communicating with said mixing chamber, said deflector member further including a plurality of radially-disposed deflector outlet ports communicating with said axial bore and disposed at an acute angle with respect to said input aperture to form a flow path having an output flow direction disposed at an acute angle with respect to an input flow direction from said input aperture, said deflector member further including a plurality of axially-aligned vacuum inlet ports formed therethrough from said first end to said second end and in communication with said mixing chamber but not with said deflector outlet ports.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.