US Patent Issued to Cornell Pump on Sept. 29 for "Belt drive system for centrifugal pump priming accessories" (Washington, Oregon, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,690, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Cornell Pump Co. LLC (Clackamas, Ore.).

"Belt drive system for centrifugal pump priming accessories" was invented by Jordan Russell White (Canby, Ore.), Brandon Yoder (Bethune, S.C.) and Jordan A. Hall (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein provide a belt drive with necessary power transfer for a vacuum priming system while enabling simplified belt replacement. In one implementation, an auxiliary drive system for driving a vacuum pump in a pump priming system is provided. The auxiliary drive system includes a drive sprocket attached to a drive sh...