ROTARY PUMP

摘要

A rotary pump (10) of the type having inner and outer rotary components (32, 30) which rotate in the same direction at the same speed, the inner rotary component (32) being located within the outer rotary component (30), and in which the outer rotary component (30) has an annular wall (44), abutments (46) and recesses (50) between the abutments (46), and contact bodies (48) formed on the abutments (46) and being shaped as a major segment of an ellipse; and in which the inner rotary component (32) has an inner body (60) with abutments (64) located within respective outer recesses (50), and receiving the outer wall abutments (46) and contact bodies (48), the outer component (30) having a rotary axis, located along its central axis, a drive shaft (36) connected to the inner body (32) and located along its central axis, the outer and inner axes being parallel to and spaced from one another so that the inner component (32) is located offset from the centre of the outer component (30), the inner body recess surfaces defining a recess shape in plan, in which any given point around the inner body recess surfaces corresponds to the location of an adjacent point of the corresponding outer contact body (48), when the outer rotor contact body (48) is in contact with the inner rotor recess surface.