US Patent Issued to FLUID HANDLING on May 27 for "Volute design for lower manufacturing cost and radial load reduction" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,082, issued on May 27, was assigned to FLUID HANDLING LLC (Morton Grove, Israel).

"Volute design for lower manufacturing cost and radial load reduction" was invented by Paul J. Ruzicka (Auburn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A volute for a pump featuring a volute or casing having a pump inlet for receiving a fluid being pumped, a pump discharge for providing the fluid, and a volute or casing vane forming double volutes therein. The volute has an upper cutwater farthest from the pump discharge defining an upper cutwater throat area and an end of passage for the upper cutwater, and also has a lower cutwater closest to the pump dis...