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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5887982 | Bearing assembly for use with a submerged apparatus and method for performing maintenance thereon The present bearing assembly is for use with a wastewater treatment apparatus which is driven by a drive shaft, e.g., cog rake bar screens, or water treatment apparatus, e.g., paddle wheels in flocculation mixing tanks, and submerged, partially submerged ... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5639165 | Method of operating pump and bearing device for pump In a ceramic bearing device having a ceramic bearing slidably supporting a sleeve fixed to a pump main shaft, a bearing case mounting the ceramic bearing and a bearing casing elastically supporting the bearing case with rubber, a cylindrical container is ... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5466071 | High speed hydrostatic spindle design A novel means for the design of the pockets of a hydrostatic spindle and the flow supply, collection, and pocket injection means to allow for very high speed rotation with a minimum of heat generation, mid maximum load capacity; furthermore the concept of... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5305487 | Spherical rod end with flexible conduit A spherical rod end with a flexible fluid conduit is disclosed. The spherical rod end includes a housing having an outer region and a spherical inner race surface, with a fluid passageway extending between the outer region and the inner race surface. A sp... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5297927 | Vertical shaft type pump A vertical shaft type pump including a bearing device in which water in the pump is utilized as lubricating water without supplying water to the bearing from the outside of the pump, thereby repeatedly conducting no-load operation in the air (in such a st... | 03/29/1994 |