Variable displacement blower
Abstract
A blower having a stationary casing for rotatably supporting a rotor assembly having a series of open ended chambers arranged to close against the surrounding walls of the casing. Pistons are slidably mounted within each chamber with the center of rotation of the pistons being offset in regard to the center of rotation of the rotor assembly whereby the pistons reciprocate in the chambers as the rotor assembly turns. As inlet port communicates with the rotor assembly to deliver a working substance into the chamber as the pistons approach a top dead center position in the chamber while an outlet port also communicates with the rotor to exhaust the working substance as the pistons approach a bottom dead center position. The displacement of the blower is varied by adjusting the amount of eccentricity between the center of rotation of the pistons and the center of rotation of the rotor assembly.
- Inventors:
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- Niskayuna, NY
- Clifton Park, NY
- Ballston Spa, NY
- Ohain, BE
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 865731
- Patent Number(s):
- 4563131
- Assignee:
- Mechanical Technology Incorporated (Latham, NY)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F04 - POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS F04B - POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS
F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F04 - POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS F04C - ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS
- DOE Contract Number:
- DEN3-32
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- variable; displacement; blower; stationary; casing; rotatably; supporting; rotor; assembly; series; chambers; arranged; close; surrounding; walls; pistons; slidably; mounted; chamber; center; rotation; offset; regard; whereby; reciprocate; inlet; communicates; deliver; substance; approach; top; dead; position; outlet; exhaust; bottom; varied; adjusting; amount; eccentricity; rotatably supporting; center position; top dead; slidably mounted; rotor assembly; dead center; variable displacement; chambers arranged; surrounding walls; /417/
Citation Formats
Bookout, Charles C, Stotts, Robert E, Waring, Douglass R, and Folsom, Lawrence R. Variable displacement blower. United States: N. p., 1986.
Web.
Bookout, Charles C, Stotts, Robert E, Waring, Douglass R, & Folsom, Lawrence R. Variable displacement blower. United States.
Bookout, Charles C, Stotts, Robert E, Waring, Douglass R, and Folsom, Lawrence R. Wed .
"Variable displacement blower". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/865731.
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title = {Variable displacement blower},
author = {Bookout, Charles C and Stotts, Robert E and Waring, Douglass R and Folsom, Lawrence R},
abstractNote = {A blower having a stationary casing for rotatably supporting a rotor assembly having a series of open ended chambers arranged to close against the surrounding walls of the casing. Pistons are slidably mounted within each chamber with the center of rotation of the pistons being offset in regard to the center of rotation of the rotor assembly whereby the pistons reciprocate in the chambers as the rotor assembly turns. As inlet port communicates with the rotor assembly to deliver a working substance into the chamber as the pistons approach a top dead center position in the chamber while an outlet port also communicates with the rotor to exhaust the working substance as the pistons approach a bottom dead center position. The displacement of the blower is varied by adjusting the amount of eccentricity between the center of rotation of the pistons and the center of rotation of the rotor assembly.},
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year = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986},
month = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986}
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