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Submersible pump for radioactive liquids

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6534602
A submersible pump is described that has a fluid displacement element separated from a motor and a plurality of detachable shaft sections, each of which has, at its opposite ends, a coupling flange and coupling member; when the shaft sections are connected , a fluid displacement member will be coupled through a magnetic coupling to the output of the motor through a drive shaft extending through one of the tubes of each shaft section; each coupling flange at one end of each shaft section is provided with protruding ridges which act as keying elements for cooperation with v-shaped grooves formed on coupling flanges on the opposite end of each shaft section.
Assignee:
IFI; EDB-81-058189
Patent Number(s):
US 4235569
OSTI ID:
6534602
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English