Volumetric blower with covers having a duct for connection to the delivery manifold

• US 6,176,693 B1
• Filed: 03/13/1998
• Issued: 01/23/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Finder Pompe SPA
• Original Assignee: Finder Pompe SPA
• Inventors: Conti, Carlo
• Primary Examiner(s): Vrablik, John J.
• Application Number:
  US09/042,410
• Time in Patent Office: 1,047 Days
• Field of Search: 418/15, 418/75, 418/78, 418/180, 418/206.4
• US Class Current: 418/180
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 18/086 Carter
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 29/0035 Equalization of pressure pulses silencing F04C29/06
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 29/12 Arrangements for admission or discharge of the working fluid, e.g. constructional features of the inlet or outlet
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 29/122 Arrangements for supercharging the working space similar arrangements for internal combustion engines F02B33/00, F02B37/00

Abstract

Volumetric blower comprising an internally hollow body (11) for defining a compartment (12) which is placed in communication with an intake manifold (30) and a delivery manifold (31) and which has, arranged inside it, two rotors (20) which are parallel to a longitudinal axis (X—X) of the blower, counter-rotating and shaped in the manner of lobes (21) having a correlated profile and which are designed to produce, together with the internal wall (11a) of said compartment, the periodic formation of a chamber (40) containing the fluid to be conveyed to the delivery manifold (31), the opposite openings in the longitudinal direction of said compartment (20) being closed by an associated cover (50), wherein the internal surface (51) of said covers (50) has, formed in it, at least one duct (52;152) arranged, with respect to the longitudinal axis (X—X), on the side corresponding to the delivery manifold (30) so as to allow connection of said chamber (40) to the delivery manifold itself and designed to be closed by the front surface (21a) of the lobes (21) of the associated rotor (20) whenever each lobe passes opposite the duct itself.

Claims

1. A volumetric blower comprising an internally hollow body for defining a compartment which is placed in communication with an intake manifold and a delivery manifold and which has, arranged inside it, two rotors which are parallel to a longitudinal axis of the blower, counter-rotating and shaped in the manner of lobes with a correlated profile and which are designed to produce, together with the internal wall of said compartment, the periodic formation of a chamber containing fluid to be conveyed to the delivery manifold, the opposite openings in the longitudinal direction of said compartment each being closed by an associated cover, characterized in that the internal surface of each of said covers has, formed in it, at least one duct means arranged, with respect to the longitudinal axis, on the side corresponding to the delivery manifold so as to allow connection of said chamber to the delivery manifold itself and designed to be closed by the front surface of the lobes of the associated rotor whenever each lobe passes opposite the duct itself and a second duct means similarly arranged at the intake manifold to allow connection to said chamber, to thereby enable bidirectional fluid flow through the blower.

2. Blower according to claim 1, characterized in that said duct means are symmetrically formed with respect to the longitudinal axis both on the intake side and on the delivery side so as to obtain a bidirectional blower.

3. Blower according to claim 1, characterized in that said duct means consists of at least one cavity extending in a transverse direction with respect to the longitudinal axis of the blower, the ends of said cavity being arranged on opposite sides with respect to the longitudinal axis of the blower.

4. Blower according to claim 3, characterized in that said cavity has a depth variable from a minimum at the opposite ends to a maximum in the central zone of the groove itself.

5. Blower according to claim 3, characterized in that said ends of the cavity are shaped in the manner of curved profiles extending over angular sections (α

) comprised of between 10° and

45°

.

6. Blower according to claim 1, characterized in that said duct means is located inside the cover and emerges inside the compartment in a substantially central position and on the delivery side.

7. Blower according to claim 5, characterized in that said duct means has channels located inside the cover and emerging inside the compartment on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis of the blower.

8. Blower according to claim 6, characterized in that the angular distance (α

) between the position in which said channels emerge inside the compartment and the entry circumference of the delivery manifold inside the compartment itself is comprised of between 10° and

45°

.