U.S. patent application number 09/897002 was filed with the patent office on 2003-01-02 for spiral fluted wheel for a pump.
Invention is credited to Tsui, Shu-Chen.
Application Number | 20030002985 09/897002 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 25407204 |
Filed Date | 2003-01-02 |
United States Patent
Application |
20030002985 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Tsui, Shu-Chen |
January 2, 2003 |
Spiral fluted wheel for a pump
Abstract
A spiral fluted wheel (10) for a pump is composed of a first
plate (11), a second plate (12) corresponding to the first plate
(11), and a plurality of spiral blades sandwiched between the first
plate (11) and the second plate (12). The plurality of spiral
blades are combined easily and each has a large welding area
corresponding to the first plate (11) and the second plate (12) so
as to make the wheel have excellent endurance and precision in
structure.
Inventors: |
Tsui, Shu-Chen; (Taichung
Hsien, TW) |
Correspondence
Address: |
Alan D. Kamrath
Rider, Bennett, Egan & Arundel, LLP
Suite 2000
333 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis
MN
55402
US
|
Family ID: |
25407204 |
Appl. No.: |
09/897002 |
Filed: |
July 2, 2001 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
416/186R |
Current CPC
Class: |
F04D 29/2222
20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
416/186.00R |
International
Class: |
F04D 029/30 |
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A spiral fluted wheel for a pump adapted to be secured on a
rotating device, and the spiral fluted wheel (10) comprising: a
first plate (11) having a lock hole (110) defined in a center of
the first plate (11), and a periphery defining the lock hole (110)
adapted to be firmly secured on a rotating device; a second plate
(12) corresponding to the first plate (11) and having an inlet
aperture (120) defined in a center of the second plate (12) for
entry of water into the spiral fluted wheel (10); and multiple
spiral blades (20) sandwiched between the first plate (11) and the
second plate (12), each spiral blade (20) having a spiral channel
(21) defined therein and forming a sub-channel (25) with an
adjacent spiral blade (20) whereby in operation the spiral fluted
wheel is driven to rotate by the rotating device and water travels
into the spiral fluted wheel via the inlet aperture and is
centrifugally driven outwardly along the spiral channel and sub
channel.
2. The spiral fluted wheel for a pump as claimed in claim 1,
wherein each spiral blade has two wedges (23) extending
respectively outwardly from the spiral blade (20), each wedge (23)
complemented with other wedge (23) of adjacent spiral blades so as
to form the sub-channel (25).
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to a spiral fluted wheel for a
pump, and more particularly to a spiral fluted wheel that has
excellent endurance and can be produced rapidly and precisely.
[0003] 2. Description of Related Art
[0004] Referring to FIGS. 4, 5 and 6, a water pump with a
conventional multiple vane case comprises a shell (30), multiple
vane cases (31), multiple guide cases (311), a filter (32), a motor
(33) with an electricity supply wire (34), and a water outlet pipe
(35). The water pump is typically received in a well to draw water
therefrom.
[0005] The shell (30) contains the multiple vane cases (31) and the
multiple guide cases (311) in alternative with each other inside
and the filter (32) is mounted under the shell (30) to filtrate
water by its meshes. The motor (33) is secured under the filter
(32) and has an axle tube (330) penetrating the multiple vane cases
(31) and the multiple guide cases (311) and driving all cases (31,
311) to rotate. The water pipe (35) is communicated with the shell
(30) to pump water out of the well. Additionally, the multiple
guide cases (311) each has a plurality of guide waterways (3110)
defined therein. The guide waterways (3110) communicate with two
vane cases (31) adjacent to the guide case (311).
[0006] The detail structure of the vane case (31) is shown
particularly in FIG. 6. The vane case (31) is composed of an upper
plate (310), a lower plate (313) respectively combined with the
upper plate (310), and each combined pair of upper and lower plates
(310, 313) has a plurality of vane strips (315) sandwiched
therebetween.
[0007] The upper plate (310) is a round plate having a hole (3101)
defined in the center and the hole (3101) has a toothed periphery.
The axle tube (330) has a toothed circumference to penetrate and
drivingly engage each upper plate (310) via mating between the
toothed periphery of the hole (3101) and the toothed circumference
of the axle tube (330). The lower plate (313) is a round plate
corresponding to the upper plate (310) and an aperture (3131) is
defined in the center of the lower plate (313). The aperture (3131)
has larger diameter than a maximum diameter of the axle tube (330)
to allow water to flow into the vane cases (31). The plurality of
vane strips (315) are spirally arranged between the upper plate
(310) and the lower plate (313) so that multiple channels are
formed therebetween. The vane strips (315) are spot welded to both
the upper and lower plates (310, 313).
[0008] Now referring to FIG. 5 again, when the motor operates, the
axle tube (330) drives the multiple vane cases (31) to rotate to
cause centrifugal force to water. so that the water inside the vane
cases (31) starts to be thrown out by the centrifugal force and the
water outside the vane cases (31) is filtrated by the filter (32)
and attracted into the multiple vane cases (31) via the aperture
(3131) of the lower plate (313). . The rotating multiple vane cases
(31) cause centrifugal force to the water so as to make the water
travels spirally along the channels between vane strips (315) and
be expelled from the vane cases (31),. When the water is throw out
of the vane cases (31), the guide waterways (3110) of the guide
cases (311) receive the thrown water and spiral the water up to
another upper vane cases. Therefore, the water is pumped up
gradually to reach the water pipe (35) when the axle tube (330)
rotates fast enough, and then the water is pumped from the
well.
[0009] However, several drawbacks exist in this conventional water
pump:
[0010] 1. Not Endurable:
[0011] For efficiency of pumping water, the vane strips (315) must
be thin. Therefore, spot-welding of areas of the vane strips (315)
to the upper plate (310) and the lower plate (315) are small and
not firm enough. When the rotating speed of the vane cases (31) is
high, especially after rapid acceleration, the vane strips (315)
easily loosen to cause disturbance and obstruction to the water
flow. Moreover, the vane strips (315) can become completely
loosened from the upper and lower plates (310,313) and then stuck
inside the water pump to cause serious damage to the water pump. On
the contrary, if the vane strips (315) are thick, efficiency of the
water pump is reduced and product cost is raised.
[0012] 2. Time-Wasting in Combination:
[0013] For one vane case (31), the vane strips have to be welded
precisely to make the water flow fluently inside the vane case
(31). However, welding the thin and fiddly vane strips (315) to the
upper plate (310) and the lower plate (313) is troublesome and
time-wasting.
[0014] In order to make the water pump endurable and have more
efficiency, the present invention has arisen to mitigate and/or
obviate the disadvantages of the conventional vane cases.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0015] The main objective of the present invention is to provide a
spiral fluted wheel for a water pump that can be combined rapidly
and precisely.
[0016] Another objective of the present invention is to provide a
spiral fluted wheel for a water pump that is firm and
endurable.
[0017] Further benefits and advantages of the present invention
will become apparent after a careful reading of the detailed
description with appropriate reference to the accompanying
drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0018] FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a spiral fluted
wheel for a water pump in accordance with the present
invention;
[0019] FIG. 2 is a top cross-sectional view of the spiral fluted
wheel for a water pump in assembly in accordance with FIG. 1;
[0020] FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the spiral fluted wheel
for a water pump along line 3-3 in FIG. 2;
[0021] FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional side view of a water pump with
conventional multiple vane cases;
[0022] FIG. 5 is a side cross-sectional view of the vane cases and
the guide cases in combination; and
[0023] FIG. 6 is an exploded perspective view of the vane case in
accordance with FIG. 4.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0024] With reference to FIG. 1, a spiral fluted wheel (10) for a
water pump in accordance with the present invention comprises a
first plate (11), a second plate (12), and multiple spiral blades
(20).
[0025] The first plate (11) of the spiral fluted wheel (10) is a
round plate and a lock hole (110) is defined in the center of the
first plate (11). The lock hole (110) is adapted to be firmly
secured on an axle tube of the water pump to make the spiral fluted
wheel (10) rotate with the axle tube when the axle tube
rotates.
[0026] The second plate (12) of the spiral fluted wheel (10) is a
round plate the same size as the first plate (11) and an inlet
aperture (120) is defined in the center of the second plate (12).
The inlet aperture (120) has larger diameter than a diameter of the
axle tube to leave some space between the second plate and the axle
tube for entry of water into the spiral fluted wheel (10).
[0027] The multiple spiral blades (20) are combined together to
form a sandwich layer with a plurality of channels between the
first plate (11) and the second plate (12).
[0028] In FIG. 1, each spiral blade (20) is partially spiral-shaped
and a spiral channel (21) is defined in a middle portion of the
spiral blade (20). The spiral blade (20) has a flat bottom (201)
and two opposite thin side-walls (203) erected on the flat bottom
(201) to construct and surround the spiral channel (21).
Additionally, each side-wall (203) has a wedge (23) extending
laterally and outwardly from a top of the side wall (203). Width of
the wedge (23) is half a width of the flat bottom (201).
[0029] The flat bottom (201) of the spiral blade (20) is welded to
an upper face of the second plate (12) and top faces of the wedges
(23) are welded to a lower face of the first plate (11) to form the
sandwich layer between the first plate (11) and the second plate
(12).
[0030] Now referring to FIGS. 2 and 3, when the multiple spiral
blades (20) are composed together, the wedges (23) of one spiral
blade (20) are matched up to the wedges (23) of adjacent spiral
blades (20) to form sub-channels (25) between the combined spiral
blades (20). Because the width of the wedges (23) is half of width
of the flat bottom (201), the sub-channel (25) composed of two
adjacent wedges (23) is the same width with the spiral channel
(21). Therefore, three blades (20) can form three spiral channels
(21) and three sub-channels (25).
[0031] According to the above description, several advantages are
discovered and listed as following:
[0032] 1. Excellent Endurance:
[0033] Because the spiral blades (20) are combined by welding the
flat bottom (201) and the wedge (23) respectively to the first
plate (11) and the second plate (12), a contact area of the spiral
blade (20) is large whereby the spiral blades (20) are secure and
the spiral fluted wheel (10) is strong and endurable.
[0034] 2. Convenient in Combination:
[0035] The multiple spiral blades (20) have normal sizes,
thicknesses, and certain channels defined therein. Therefore, the
spiral blades (20) only need to be put together to form the
complete sandwich layer. Shapes of the spiral fluted wheel (10),
the spiral channels (21), and the sub-channels (25) are precise to
ensure that the water inside the spiral fluted wheel (10) flows
fluently.
[0036] Although the invention has been explained in relation to its
preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that many other
possible modifications and variations can be made without departing
from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter
claimed.
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