Motor-driven pump unit for a high-pressure cleaning apparatus

• US 4,480,967 A
• Filed: 04/14/1982
• Issued: 11/06/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1981
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alfred Kaercher GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Alfred Kaercher GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Schulze, Werner
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Leonard E.
• Application Number:
  US06/368,231
• Time in Patent Office: 937 Days
• Field of Search: 417/357, 417/366, 417/367, 417/368, 417/369, 417/371, 417/370
• US Class Current: 417/368
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 2203/0205 Bypass pressure relief valves
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 2203/0223 Electric motor pumps
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 2203/0235 Cooling the motor pump
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 2203/027 Pump details
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 3/00 Cleaning by methods involving the use or presence of liquid or steam B08B9/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 3/026 Cleaning by making use of hand-held spray guns; Fluid preparations therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 11/008 Enclosed motor pump units
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 15/0096 Heating; Cooling of machines or engines in general F01P
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 13/06 the pump being electrically driven
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/5806 Cooling the drive system

Abstract

In a motor-driven pump unit for a high-pressure cleaning apparatus, where the cleaning fluid supplied by the high-pressure pump is conveyed through the housing of the motor so as to cool the motor, in order to improve the cooling characteristics and in order to reduce the dimensions of the motor-driven pump unit it is proposed that a fan wheel, which is driven by the motor and which directs a cooling air stream towards the motor housing, be disposed at the end of the motor opposite the pump, and that the fan wheel and the cooling surfaces of the motor be designed in such a way that an adequate cooling of the motor is achieved by the air stream cooling alone when the pump is not conveying any cleaning fluid to the cleaning apparatus or, in other words, is pumping the cleaning fluid only in circulation.

Claims

1. A motor-driven pump unit for a high-pressure cleaning apparatus, with which cleaning fluid supplied by the pump is conveyed through a casing of the motor in order to cool the motor, characterized in operation by the fact that the flow rate of cleaning fluid from said pump to the cleaning apparatus can be varied from zero flow rate to maximum flow rate while said motor continues to operate said pump and characterized in that a fan wheel driven by said motor is disposed on the side of said motor opposite said pump, said fan wheel directing a cooling air stream over said motor casing, and that said fan wheel and cooling surfaces of said motor are dimensioned such that adequate cooling of said motor is achieved by the fan air cooling alone when the flow rate of cleaning fluid from said pump to the cleaning apparatus is zero.

2. A motor-driven pump unit as set forth in claim 1 wherein said motor casing has a part thereof remote from said fan wheel and cleaning fluid is conveyed only through said part.

3. A motor-driven pump unit as set forth in claim 1, wherein said motor casing has a wall defining a duct which surrounds a stator of said motor in a helical manner in order to convey cleaning fluid through said motor casing.

4. A motor-driven pump unit as set forth in claim 3, wherein a steel tube which is embedded in said wall of said casing defines said duct.

5. A motor-driven pump unit as set forth in claim 4, wherein said wall of said casing is formed as an aluminum die-casting.

6. A motor-driven pump unit as set forth in claim 1, wherein said motor defines an interior space which is filled with oil.