Sickleless internal gear wheel pump with sealing elements inserted into the tooth tips

摘要

A sickleless gear wheel pump includes an internally geared hollow wheel including a plurality of tooth tips. A pinion includes a plurality of tooth tips and meshes with the hollow wheel. The hollow wheel and pinion are rotatably disposed in a housing. The housing has a suction connection and a pressure connection. The hollow wheel has openings for a medium to be pumped therethrough. Each tooth tip of the plurality of tooth tips of the hollow wheel has a profile groove in which there is present a sealing element that is radially moveable during rotation of the hollow wheel and pinion and which is in sliding seal-off engagement with a respective tooth tip of the plurality of tooth tips of the pinion. Each sealing element is metallic.