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Rotary Vane Air Motors: Vane Shape?
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To match the curved pocket in the rotor they fit into. The pocket in the rotor is cut using a rotary cutter like a slitter saw.
Or they are parted off a round bar and then only three sides need to be straight and square.
Or both.
Or ask your original designers if they are still around.
Ted
Or they are parted off a round bar and then only three sides need to be straight and square.
Or both.
Or ask your original designers if they are still around.
Ted
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The Vanes could be extruded duble width and then machined by sawing or milling into separate vanes. That would allow for the end that rides the cam ring to have sharp edges for sealing or the rounded end for line contact.
Bud Trinkel, Fluid Power Consultant
HYDRA-PNEU CONSULTING
Bud Trinkel, Fluid Power Consultant
HYDRA-PNEU CONSULTING
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vanes may be activated by inlet air pressure to extend them against the housing. A chamfered/rounded profile may be intended to allow better flow from the pressurizing port.
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