Vertical sump pump motor
CA 2035608 A1 · Owner: Smith (A. O.) Corporation · Inventors: Long, Norman R.; Lykes, Robert E.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Abstract, An adaptor assembly for a motor permits mounting to a pump to form a sump pump unit. A motor main frame has its end by end bearing frames. The adaptor assembly includes top and bottom plate adaptors formed of cast plastic or aluminum, and are separately inventoried for connection to a line of motors built for other applications as well as sump pumps. The bottom adaptor plate is secured to the end frame with, the motor shaft projecting concentrically of a hub extending from the plate. The hub telescopes over a tubular pedestal of the pump and has a collapsing collar for mounting the motor to the pump with the pump shaft and motor shaft coupled by a mating slot and projection. The …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed February 4, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended February 4, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 4, 2013.
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