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Class Number: 415 Class Title: ROTARY KINETIC FLUID MOTORS OR PUMPS Subclass Subclass Number Title 1 METHOD OF OPERATION 2.1 WITH MEANS FOR CONTROLLING CASING OR FLOW GUIDING MEANS IN RESPONSE TO NATURAL FLUID CURRENT FORCE OR DIRECTION 3.1 .Having specific features for water current 4.1 .Natural fluid current force responsive 4.2 ..Vertical runner axis 4.3 ..Axial flow runner 4.4 .Vertical runner axis 4.5 .Axial flow runner 5 ENDLESS FLEXIBLE RUNNER (E.G., CHAIN, ETC.) 6 CYCLICALLY DIPPING, LIQUID RETAINING, ELEVATING AND DISCHARGING RECEPTACLE OR CONDUIT 7 FLOAT SUPPORTED OR BUOYANT RUNNER 8 DRIVEN, FLUID IMMERSED RUNNER WITH VANE IN UNCONFINED FLUID STREAM (E.G., TROLLING PLATE, ETC.) 9 INCLUDING DESTRUCTIBLE, FUSIBLE, OR DEFORMABLE NON-REUSABLE PART 10 WITH CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO MOTION DEVELOPED FLUID EDDY, ELECTRICAL, OR MAGNETIC EFFECT 11 WITH PUMP RECIRCULATION PASSAGE CONTROL RESPONSIVE TO WORKING FLUID CONDITION OR CHARACTERISTIC 12 WITH BIMETALLIC BLADE, VANE, OR ADJUSTMENT MEANS THEREFOR 13 WITH CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO NON-CYCLIC CONDITION SENSING, CENTRIFUGAL ACTUATION OR TORQUE 14 .Casing, runner, or shaft position or extent of motion responsive 15 .With input signal of independent condition 16 .With testing means for speed control 17 .Plural diverse condition responsive (e.g., temperature and pressure, speed and level, etc.) 18 .Control of clutch or brake surface 19 .Including control of starting motor or runner blade starting position 20 .Control of working fluid and diverse apparatus part 21 ..Diverse part is runner portion or connection to shaft 22 ...Runner bypass from inlet controlled 23 .Responsive to working fluid discharge angle from blade or vane 24 .Responsive to liquid level or weight 25 .Centrifugally initiated valve controlling fluid flow in shaft or runner 26 .Responsive to moving member developed fluid force, current or pressure 27 ..Of relief valve in branched pump discharge line 28 ..Of valve bypassing runner stage 29 ..Motor and upstream working fluid flow control 30 .By shaft speed or torque responsive means 31 ..Helix or screw runner 32 ..Including reset or manual adjustment 33 ..Of adjustable runner, blade, shaft or bearing 34 ...Axially shifted runner, shaft or bearing 35 ..Of movable deflector intermediate jet discharge and runner 36 ..Of working fluid valve or vanee 37 ...Including valve in interstage or re-entry passage 38 ...Plural passages with sequential or reverse fluid control 39 ....Inlet and relief or bypass valves 40 ....Fluid motor operated valve 41 ...With latch means for valve actuator 42 ...Actuated by runner or separate motor 43 ....Fluid servo-motor and speed responsive means actuated pilot valve 44 ...Multiple working fluid inlets to runner 45 ....On same radial plane with blade 46 ...Downstream of runner 47 .Temperature or fluid force responsive member 48 ..For adjustment of runner, shaft, vane or blade 49 ..Fluid force responsive member controls working fluid 50 ...For a plurality of runners 51 WITH INDEPENDENTLY OPERATED TIMER OR PROGRAMMER ACTUATOR FOR WORKING FLUID CONTROL 52.1 WITH MEANS FOR RE-ENTRY OF WORKING FLUID TO BLADE SET (E.G., RE-ENTRY TYPE DEVICE, PASSAGE, ETC.) 53.1 .Cross flow runner 53.2 ..Having vane or deflector within runner blade set 53.3 ..Having selectively adjustable vane or working fluid control means 54.1 .To opposite face of blade 55.1 .Turbine regenerative pump 55.2 ..Having specific means to deflect working fluid in regenerative passage 55.3 ...Means extends parallel to passage 55.4 ...Positioned at passage end (e.g., stripper seal, etc.) 55.5 ..Having plural, rigidly related blade sets 55.6 ...Acting serially but nonalternating (e.g., multistage, etc.) 55.7 ...In separate regenerative passages 56.1 .Pump priming means 56.2 ..Vertical runner shaft 56.3 ..Having plural and arcuately arranged vanes around runner 56.4 ..Re-entry through working fluid discharge passage for runner 56.5 ..Re-entry working fluid joins inlet working fluid upstream of runner 56.6 ..Walled pumping chamber positioned within liquid separation chamber 57.1 .Plural, independent, serially acting re-entry means 57.2 ..Having additional blade set in re-entry path 57.3 ..Re-entry from opposite sides of blade face 57.4 ..Re-entry into blade in radial plane of blade 58.1 .Having additional blade set in re-entry path 58.2 .Radial flow runner portion guides re-entry working fluid (e.g., hub, back plate, etc.) 58.3 ..Runner inlet shroud 58.4 .Re-entry working fluid joins inlet working fluid upstream of runner 58.5 ..Axial flow runner 58.6 .Open recirculation from and to blade set 58.7 .Axial flow runner 59.1 .Plural blade sets 60 PLURAL RUNNERS SUPPORTED FOR RELATIVE MOTION OR ON SEPARATE SHAFTSS 61 .With means for selective runner operation or drive shaft connection 62 .Diverse type runners, blade systems or working fluid paths in runners 63 ..Including internally passaged runner with reaction type jet discharge nozzle 64 .Radial flow through concentric radially spaced blade rows 65 .Interdigitated, oppositely extending, coaxial, axially spaced blade rows 66 .Serially spaced in working fluid flow path 67 ..With initial fluid flow path to each runner 68 ..Coaxial runners 69 ...One runner support surrounds another 70 RUNNER HAS PLANETARY MOTION OR ROTATES AROUND OBLIQUE OR CONSTANTLY MOVING AXIS 71 RUNNER HAS SPIRALLY ARRANGED BLADE OR FLUID PASSAGE 72 .Extending along runner axis (i.e., axial flow) 73 ..Fluid conducting passage 74 ..With additional impingement means in fluid flow path 75 ..Motor runner 76 FLUID FLOW BETWEEN PLURAL SINUOUS RUNNER SURFACES 77 AXIAL FLOW RUNNER WITH BLADES EXTENDING RADIALLY INWARD AND OUTWARD FROM COMMON ANNULUS 78 .With means selecting only one blade row for working fluid flow 79 .Serial flow through inward and outward extending blade rows 80 MOTOR RUNNER MOTIVATED BY REACTION TYPE JET DISCHARGE NOZZLE FROM INTERNAL WORKING FLUID CONDUIT 81 .With additional rotary, fluid impinged blades 82 .With control of runner speed or direction 83 RUNNER WITH ANNULAR BLADE ROWS OR FLUID CHANNELS SPACED ON COMMON RADIAL PLANE 84 .Including peripheral blade row 85 .With means for reversing runner rotation 86 .Blades projecting axially from plural transverse runner faces 87 ..From opposed faces of common central disc 88 PUMP HAVING ROTATING INLET END OR SCOOP IMMERSED IN LIQUID 89 CENTRIFUGAL BOWL PUMP 90 SMOOTH RUNNER SURFACE FOR WORKING FLUID FRICTIONAL CONTACT (E.G., UNBLADED RUNNER, ETC.) 91 ANNULAR RUNNER WITH INWARDLY PROJECTING BLADE 92 MOTOR RUNNER HAVING WORKING FLUID TRAPPING POCKET 93 AXIALLY OPPOSED WORKING FLUID PATHS TO OR FROM RUNNER (E.G., END BALANCE, ETC.) 94 .With working fluid regulation or control means 95 ..For fluid motor 96 .With additional shaft connected end balancing fluid force reactor surface 97 .Pump impeller means 98 ..Impeller blades extending from opposite sides of common central support 99 ..Plural axially spaced impellers 100 ...Serially arranged in working fluid path 101 .Plural, separate, parallel, simultaneous flow paths 102 ..Towards each other and common exhaust 103 ..Plural, axially spaced blades in each path 104 WITH SHAFT CONNECTED FLUID FORCE SUBJECTED THRUST BALANCING SURFACE 105 .In separate chamber having non-system fluid inlett 106 .Fluid force on opposite face of blade or blade support member 107 .Motor shaft 108 CASING AND SPACED HOUSING WITH SPACE VENTED TO WORKING FLUID 109 WITH SHAFT CONNECTED FLUID ABUTMENT MEMBER IN SEALING FLUID FILLED CHAMBER 110 WITH LUBRICATING, SEALING, PACKING OR BEARING MEANS HAVING INTERNAL WORKING FLUID CONNECTION (E.G., FLUID OR FLUID BIASED SEAL, ETC.) 111 .For shaft sealing, packing, lubricating or bearing means 112 ..With inlet and outlet connections 113 ..Fluid biased, movable or resilient portion 114 WITH CHANGING STATE CONFINED HEAT EXCHANGE MASS 115 WITH PASSAGE IN BLADE, VANE, SHAFT OR ROTARY DISTRIBUTOR COMMUNICATING WITH WORKING FLUID 116 WITH DIVERSELY ORIENTED INLET OR ADDITIONAL INLET FOR DIVERSE FLUID (E.G., HEATING, COOLING OR MIXED WORKING FLUID, ETC.) 117 .Diverse fluids to motor 118 WITH INSPECTION, SIGNALING, INDICATING OR MEASURING MEANS 119 WITH SOUND OR VIBRATORY WAVE ABSORBING OR PREVENTING MEANS OR ARRANGEMENT 120 CENTRIPETAL PUMP 121.1 WITH CUTTER OR COMMINUTOR FOR DEBRIS IN WORKING FLUID 121.2 WITH SEPARATING MEANS OR GUARD FOR SOLID MATTER IN WORKING FLUID (E.G., DEBRIS, ETC.) 121.3 COMBINED 122.1 INCLUDING SHAFT TRANSMISSION TRAIN, BRAKE, CLUTCH, OR ATTENDANT ACTUATED DRIVE MEANS 123 .Brake or clutch 124 .Hand or foot operated crank, pedal or traction wheel 124.1 .Runner supported portion engages shaft transmission train (e.g., peripheral gear drive, etc.) 124.2 .Shaft transmission train having flexible means or coupling 125 INCLUDING MEANS TO CAUSE CYCLICAL MOVEMENT OF A PART (E.G., BLADE, VALVE, ETC.) 126 INCLUDING CASING PART SELECTIVELY MOVABLE RELATIVE TO FIXED SUPPORT 127 .Circularly around fixed runner axis 128 .Separate liner portion 129 RUNNER OR BLADE SELECTIVELY ADJUSTABLE RELATIVE TO CASING 130 .Relatively angularly adjustable plural blades or runners 131 .Axially adjusted 132 ..Shaft end supported on movable bearing 133 .Radially adjusted or centered shaft 134 INCLUDING THERMAL EXPANSION JOINT 135 .Resilient 136 .Radially sliding 137 ..Stator vane in shroud ring opening 138 ..And axial or circumferential expansion 139 .Circumferentially spaced nozzle or stator segments 140 RESILIENT OR MOVABLY MOUNTED BLADE PORTION OR AXIALLY MOVABLE RUNNER OR SHAFT 141 .Yieldingly or pivotedly mounted or flexible blade 142 SHAFT BEARING COMBINED WITH OR RETAINED BY ARM OR VANE IN SURROUNDING WORKING FLUID SPACE 143 PLURAL RUNNERS HAVING DIFFERENT TYPE FLOW PATHS 144 WORKING FLUID BYPASS 145 .Selectively adjustable vane or working fluid control forr bypass 146 INCLUDING WORKING FLUID FORCE RESPONSIVE VANE OR FLOW CONTROL 147 .Upstream of runner 148 SELECTIVELY ADJUSTABLE VANE OR WORKING FLUID CONTROL MEANS 149.1 .Separate means upstream and downstream of blade set 149.2 ..Including axial flow blade set 149.3 ...Means to reverse flow through blade set 149.4 ...Plural, selectively adjustable, alternating vane assemblies and blade rows (A,B,A,B) 150 .Runner, shaft, or separate motor operated 151 .Upstream of runner 152.1 ..Motor runner with selective inlet paths for reversible rotation 152.2 ...Runner includes radial flow blade set 153.1 ...Separate runner blade set acted upon for reverse rotation 153.2 ....Axial flow blade set 154.1 ...Plural inlets simultaneously discharging working fluid onto single blade set 154.2 ....Axial flow blade set 154.3 ...Including axial flow blade set 155 ..Plural, independently adjustable 156 ..Deformable, resilient or resiliently biased 157 ..Single, axially movable cylinder or plate 158 ...Movable to position surrounding blade 159 ..Plural and arcuately or circularly arranged around runner axis 160 ...Individually pivoted vanes 161 ....And fixed vane 162 ....Plural, selectively adjustable vane sets 163 ....Pivoted parallel to runner axis 164 .....Vanes and blade in same radial plane 165 ...On same radial plane with blade 166 ....Circumferentially movable around shaft 167 ..Movable pipe or nozzle 167.1 ..Convertible series-parallel pump 168.1 INCLUDING MEANS FOR HANDLING WORKING FLUID LEAKAGE 168.2 .Leakage through seal between runner or shaft and static part 168.3 ..Screw type pumping seal 168.4 ..Means specific to axial flow runner 169.1 INCLUDING MEANS FOR HANDLING PORTION SEPARATED FROM WORKING FLUID 169.2 .Moisture or liquid separated from gaseous working fluid e.g., condensate removal, etc.) 169.3 ..Vane having specific moisture or liquid directing surface 169.4 ..Axial flow blade set and area for collecting moisture or liquid thrown radially outward 170.1 BEARING, SEAL, OR LINER BETWEEN RUNNER PORTION AND STATIC PART 171.1 .Dynamically created seal 172.1 .Means to seal radial flow pump runner inlet from outlet 173.1 .Between blade edge and static part 173.2 ..Selectively adjustable 173.3 ..Resilient, flexible, or resiliently biased 173.4 ..Erodable or permanently deformable 173.5 ..Labyrinth seall 173.6 .Between blade supported radial tip ring and static part 173.7 .Between axial flow runner and vane or vane diaphragm structure 174.1 .Selectively adjustable 174.2 .Resilient, flexible, or resiliently biased 174.3 ..Seal lies against axial face of runner hub 174.4 .Erodable or permanently deformable 174.5 .Labyrinth seal 175 INCLUDING ADDITIONAL MEANS CAUSING OR CONTROLLING FLUID FLOW FOR HEAT EXCHANGING, LUBRICATING OR SEALING 176 .Means subjected to or is working fluid 177 INCLUDING HEAT INSULATION OR EXCHANGE MEANS (E.G., FINS, LAGGING, ETC.) 178 .Working fluid on at least one side of heat exchange wall 179 ..Interstage heat exchanger 180 .Cooling fluid contacts shaft, seal or bearing 181 MEANS, DISPOSITION OR ARRANGEMENT FOR CAUSING SUPERSONIC WORKING FLUID VELOCITY 182.1 WORKING FLUID PASSAGE OR DISTRIBUTING MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH RUNNER (E.G., CASING, ETC.) 183 .Plural distributing means immediately upstream of runner 184 ..Inlet scrolls, or distributors within inlet scroll 185 ..Arcuately or circularly arranged around runner axis 186 ...On radial plane with runner blade 187 ....Plural, axially spaced sets of distributors 188 ....Radially inward of blade 189 ...Removably secured or mounted in casing 190 ....Axially arranged securing or mounting means 191 ...Vanes 192 ....Differentially twisted about radial axis 193 ....Plural, axially spaced vane sets 194 .....Diverse size or spacing in different spaced vane sets 195 ....Varied spacing between vanes in same set 196 .Passage or casing attached removable liner or wear member 197 ..Nonmetallic material 198.1 .Plural rigidly related blade sets 199.1 ..Including serial radial flow blade sets and intermediate stationary flow diverter(s) 199.2 ...Wherein the diverter includes divider vane(s) between the blade sets 199.3 ....Including spirally configurated vane(s) 199.4 ..Including an axial-flow blade set 199.5 ...Plural serial axial-flow blade sets with intermediate stationary flow diverter(s) 199.6 ...And radial-flow blade set in series therewith 200 .Specific casing or vane material 201 .Access opening through portion of casing or cover 202 .Nozzle discharging onto motor runner 203 .Casing having tangential inlet or outlet (i.e., centrifugal type) 204 ..Scroll-type casing 205 ...Inlet scroll 206 ..Axially directed inlet and tangential outlet 207 .Pump outlet or casing portion expands in downstream direction 208.1 .Vane or deflector 208.2 ..Plural and arcuately or circularly arranged in radial plane around runner axis 208.3 ...Plane intersects with runner bladee 208.4 ....Plural, radially spaced vane sets 208.5 ....Nonradial flow runner 209.1 ...Plural, axially spaced vane sets acting successively or having specific spacing means 209.2 ...Having means for mounting diaphragm or plural vane holder to casing 209.3 ...Having specific vane mounting means 209.4 ....Vane fixed between radially separate surfaces 210.1 ...Fixed between radially separate surfaces 211.1 ..In radial plane with runner blade 211.2 ..Downstream of runner 212.1 .Scroll or helical type casing with specific exit nozzle 213.1 .Casing with mounting means 214.1 .Casing having multiple parts releasably clamped (e.g., casing seal, etc.) 215.1 .Casing having multiple parts welded, cemented, or fused 216.1 .With runner shaft of specific shape or material 217.1 .With runner having corrosion resistant or nonmetallic portion 218.1 .With runner having conical hub including small diameter facing upstream 219.1 .Casing with axial, conical flow runner 220 .Casing with axial flow runner 221 ..Having specific features for liquid flow 222 ..Pump with casing narrowing to runner 223 ..Having runner in orifice of radially extending partition or casing element 224 .Casing with nonradial flow runner (e.g., circumferential flow, etc.) 224.5 .Radial flow casing having vaneless annulus diffuser 225 .Exit chamber in radial plane axially offset from runner (e.g., sludge pump, etc.) 226 .Annular exit chamber outward of runner 227 .Runner having flow confining continuous passage 228 .Runner having full circular shroud for blades 229 BEARING, SEAL, OR LINER BETWEEN SHAFT OR SHAFT SLEEVE AND STATIC PART 230 .Seal 231 ..Resiliently biased 232 MISCELLANEOUS * ****************************** * CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS * ****************************** 900 ROTARY BLOOD PUMP 901 DRILLED WELL-TYPE PUMP 902 ROTARY PUMP TURBINE PUBLICATIONS 903 WELL BIT DRIVE TURBINE 904 TOOL DRIVE TURBINE (E.G., DENTAL DRILL, ETC.) 905 NATURAL FLUID CURRENT MOTOR 906 .Having specific features for water current 907 .Vertical runner axis 908 .Axial flow runner 909 AIR STACK OR SHAFT HAVING NATURAL FLUID CURRENT MOTOR 910 REVERSIBLE BETWEEN PUMP AND MOTOR USE 911 PUMP HAVING REVERSIBLE RUNNER ROTATION AND SEPARATE OUTLETS FOR OPPOSING DIRECTIONS OF ROTATION 912 INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS TO VARY PUMPING CAPACITY OR SIZE OF PUMP 913 INLET AND OUTLET WITH CONCENTRIC PORTIONSS 914 DEVICE TO CONTROL BOUNDARY LAYER 915 PUMP OR PORTION THEREOF BY CASTING OR MOLDING 916 PERPETUAL MOTION DEVICES