Split ring seal of a centrifugal pump

• US 4,867,638 A
• Filed: 03/09/1988
• Issued: 09/19/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Albert Handtmann Elteka GmbH & Co. KG. (Handtmann Beteiligungen GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Albert Handtmann Elteka GmbH & Co. KG. (Handtmann Beteiligungen GmbH)
• Inventors: Fischer, Franz, Haupt, Gunter, Handtmann, Albert A., Gebhard, Erwin, Schroder, Valentin
• Primary Examiner(s): Garrett, Robert E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pitko, Joseph M.
• Application Number:
  US07/165,726
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: 415/170 A, 415/170 R, 415/174, 415/212 R, 415/212 A, 415/200, 416/241 A
• US Class Current: 415/172.1
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/167 of a centrifugal flow wheel
• CPC Class Codes: F16J 15/44 Free-space packings

Abstract

A split ring seal of a centrifugal pump comprises two rings that consist of a sintered material and that are respectively connected in a frictional or positive manner to a front cover disk of the impeller and to the pump housing which are made of a cast polyamide as produced by the activated anionic polymerization of monomeric laurinlactam.

Claims

1. A split ring seal of a centrifugal pump which is formed by an inner ring disposed on the front cover disk of the impeller and by an outer ring disposed on the pump housing,

characterized in that said two rings consist of a sintered material and that at least said cover disk and at least the portion of said pump housing which is adjacent to said outer ring consist of a cast polyamide which is made by the activated anionic polymerization of monomeric laurinlactam and to which the two rings are respectively connected in a frictional or positive manner.

2. The split ring seal set forth in claim 1,

characterized in that said inner ring is shrunk onto a hub formed coaxially on said cover disk or integrally cast with said polyamide of said cover disk.

3. The split ring seal set forth in claim 1,

characterized in that said outer ring is integrally cast with said polyamide of said adjacent portion of said pump housing.

4. The split ring seal set forth in any of claims 1 to 3,

characterized in that both rings consist of a carbide metal based on a metal silicide or of a sintered ceramic material based on silicon carbide.