Pumps – Expansible chamber type – Having pumping chamber pressure responsive distributor
Patent
1997-06-23
2000-07-04
Thorpe, Timothy S.
Pumps
Expansible chamber type
Having pumping chamber pressure responsive distributor
4431, 4174131, F04B 3910
Patent
active
060829796
ABSTRACT:
A vacuum toilet assembly including a vacuum toilet and a vacuum tank (e.g. a combined holding and vacuum tank) uses a simple air pump to remove air from the tank to create a partial vacuum. The air pump is capable of achieving about ten inches mercury of vacuum in an empty 9.5 gallon vacuum tank in roughly one minute, and can pump at least about one liter of liquid per minute. A combined sound muffler and odor filter and/or rat-tail check valve and noise reducer, is/are connected to the outlet from the air pump. The pump comprises a powered reciprocating diaphragm pump having a reciprocating diaphragm powered by an electric motor rotating an eccentric at about 2300 rpm, and oppositely directed first and second disk valves. The disk valves have elastomeric disk valve elements die-cut from flat sheets which cooperate with perforated concave surfaces in a dividing wall in the pump housing. The reciprocating diaphragm has a total stroke length of about 0.3-0.33 inches.
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Sealand Technology, Inc.
Thorpe Timothy S.
Torrente David J.
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