| 摘要 |
A Roots vacuum pump stator is arranged to house a pair of intermeshing rotors, said stator being characterized in that it comprises a director or deflector arranged to direct solid material entrained in a gas pumped through the pump towards the outlet. In other words, the stator according to the present invention has a means for directing or deflecting powder or solid material entrained in a gas being pumped directly towards an outlet of the pump or out of the pump. The directing means can comprise a channel disposed between the arcuate surface and the outlet, said channel comprising a portion that engages the arcuate surface prior to the bottom-dead-centre position and which extends away from the rotor's axis of rotation towards the pump outlet. Thus, powder entrained in the pumped gas is effectively removed from pumping volume in a way which reduces the likelihood of any solid material causing the pump to seize: the channel can be arranged so that the solid material is "flung" towards the outlet or away from a meshing zone where rotors mesh with one another.
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