PUMPORTATION

[music] >> You are listening to the sound of air at work. Air as applied to its own distinctive workhorse, the air-operated pump. Air-operated pumps can move and transfer almost any type of liquid or semi-solid material. Air-operated pumps can spray liquids and semi-solids for painting, >> [music] >> coating and lining, surfacing and roofing, applying adhesives, lubricating, cleaning, >> [music] >> sound-deadening and insulating, and applying catalyst materials. >> [music] >> Air-operated pumps can extrude and inject the heaviest types of materials for a host of uses, including metering and dispensing. The story of how these versatile pumps have solved the problems of fluid transfer and [music] handling is the success story of the promising new concept known as pump-portation. >> [music] [music] >> Somewhere in the distant past, man discovered that by reciprocating a valved piston, he could cause liquids to flow. The early version was a simple reciprocating single-action pump. As the valved [music] piston was driven upward inside a cylinder containing a foot valve, the liquid was forced up [music] into the pump beneath the closed piston valve by atmospheric pressure. On the downward stroke, fluid weight or head pressure closed the foot valve, trapping the liquid within the cylinder. Hydraulic pressure caused by the down stroke then forced open the piston valve and compelled the fluid to flow to the upper side, where at the next upward stroke, it was forced out of the pump. Then came the double-action principle, in which [music] the volume of the piston rod was equal to half the volume of the cylinder. So that by [music] displacement, the fluid within the pump would be discharged at an equal rate, half during the upward [music] and half during the downward strokes. This maintained a balanced [music] steady flow and a constant pressure throughout the up stroke down stroke cycle. It remained for modern technology to apply this principle to a multitude of industrial uses. Thus was born the durable, dependable air-powered double-action reciprocating pump to put a strong and steady heartbeat behind the vital flow of the fluid materials of industry. Air is an abundant force that can be captured and harnessed [music] in many ways for mechanical applications. It also can be compressed [music] to concentrate its force into tremendous energy that can be controlled and released as [music] needed. And it is compressed air, as used throughout industry, that powers the pumps of pump-portation. >> [music] >> This common power source gives universal scope to the reciprocating pump. For it is driven by [music] an efficient air motor. While valving mechanisms may differ, the reciprocating air motor is like a steam [music] engine in principle. An automatic valve system directs the air pressure first to the top side, then to the bottom side of the air motor piston. At the same [music] time, it exhausts the air pressure from the opposite side of the piston, causing the air motor to reciprocate. This action is [music] transferred to the pump piston, causing it to reciprocate also, thus converting the available air pressure into fluid pressure. >> [music] >> Fluid materials vary greatly in weight, viscosity, density, and flow rate, and require different amounts of pressure [music] for different applications and uses. They range from light liquids such as solvents, paints, and oils to heavy mastics, resins, [music] greases, glues, cements, putties, and other viscous semi-solids [music] that cannot be poured from containers. What amazes industry most about pump-portation is that it provides a system that will transfer, spray, or extrude [music] any of these type materials in a wide variety of applications. This has been [music] made possible through the development of an entire series of pumps with a wide range of built-in speed, pressure, and volume capacities. Various air [music] motor sizes and pressure ratios are available to develop fluid pressures from 10 to 10,000 lb and volumes from drams to drum fulls. [music] Pump ratio is determined by the difference between air [music] piston area and fluid piston area. The larger the air piston area in proportion to the [music] fluid piston, the higher the ratio. As an example, a 4:1 ratio pump would use 25 lb inbound air pressure to develop 100 lb outbound fluid pressure. The pumps are light in weight, so easily serviced and installed, they greatly increase operating efficiency and improve general plant housekeeping. The pumps are designed to work in drums and other containers standing on end to allow maximum accessibility and [music] minimum storage space requirements. They can entirely eliminate manual handling by pumping to any [music] desired point direct from the original containers, thus preventing contamination and leakage by operating in the material itself. [music] Another great advantage is their broad range of speed [music] control and the ability to stall out against high load pressure without [music] damage to pump or motor. The air-powered pumps will speed up or slow down instantaneously [music] with immediate compensation for heavy or light load upon demand. They can be used safely [music] even in hazardous fire areas, so spark-free and explosion-proof that they rate the [music] Underwriters Laboratories safety seal of approval. >> [music] >> Probably the most inefficient fluid transfer system known is a man and [music] a bucket. Good for physical fitness perhaps, but hardly a match for the speed of a battery of modern printing presses for instance, which drink up great volumes of ink by the minute. It would take quite a crew of bucketeers to keep these massive machines operating at peak capacity. >> [music] >> But there's no need for backs or buckets. The ink flows smoothly, efficiently, as needed, straight to the point of use from the original container. Thanks to pump-portation. >> [music] >> The world of man is very much a world of chemicals, paints, and coatings. For [music] color, beauty, cleanliness, protection, and many other reasons, paints and [music] coatings are applied in great variety to a multitude of man-made products and creations. And [music] spray coating is one of the more familiar and widely used applications for which the pumps of pump-portation provide the perfect heartbeat. >> [music] >> Two of the more familiar systems are air spraying, in which paint is atomized by compressed air released through the spray [music] gun, and airless, in which paint is atomized by being forced hydraulically through a small orifice at high velocity. Wherever men live and work, the need for protective coatings is a never-ending problem. >> [music] >> Especially where vast coverages and large quantities of coating are used, the airless system [music] brings big economies in manpower and additional mileage of material. Elimination of loss through fogging, overspray, and bounce back is one [music] of the great triumphs of pump-portation. The pump's ability to apply high direct pressure on the material adapts it perfectly [music] to airless hydro spray applications, which put all the paint where it belongs. This pump [music] is actually the high pressure brother of the original air-powered reciprocating paint pump. >> [music] >> It is also the perfect answer for paint jobs common to construction and maintenance, assuring a smooth, even application with more and better coverage per gallon. In building maintenance and renovation, such as in hospitals, churches, [music] schools, office buildings, factories, and warehouses, a craftsman armed with this modern equipment restores the economic reasons for the use of coatings to achieve [music] the wide range of colors, which only paint can provide. The airless method, with its [music] remarkable ability to handle special coating materials, such as the zinc rich weld through primers used in car body assemblies, has opened vast new possibilities in spraying applications by eliminating the need for compressed air atomization. [music] Pump portation provides tremendous advantages in economy, speed, [music] safety, ease of handling, and material purity. >> [music] >> Many new factory uses of the reciprocating pump, including specially designed automatic airless spray painting applications, are helping to improve the product [music] and speed the production. However, airless spraying is not confined to paint. Because [music] of its unique advantages, pump portation is continually being adapted to many new and exciting uses in industry. Typical of this versatility >> [music] >> is the application of contact adhesives. The system eliminates the time lost and messiness so common to the manual handling of these sticky substances. Here's a really tacky job greatly simplified with production [music] time cut in half. Impossible to spray only a few years ago, heavy mastics, which are fibrous and viscous in nature, also can be sprayed with such precision not one wasted drop escapes through the hole. Mastic materials are perfectly suited to pump portation, which handles them with ease and efficiency. >> [music] >> Increased pressures, together with spray guns specially designed for this purpose, have vastly [music] expanded the pump's range of industrial uses. Aside from airless, conventional air spray is still the standard for many kinds of coating applications, >> [music] >> and pump portation is bringing many important benefits to this phase of the production process. In countless industrial paint operations, the circulating system has greatly improved assembly line efficiency. It is especially impressive where quick, frequent changes of color are required along the conveyor route. Instantaneous changes are made possible by maintaining a central storage, mixing, and supply area with each color in its separate original container, from which it is conveyed pure and container clean through dirt free, high volume line systems to the point of application. The advantages of [music] such remote circulating systems are quite obvious, for they center all the mixing, maintenance, and control in the hands of one man in one remotely located area, adding substantially to the speed, economy, safety, and efficiency of the operation. Whether for [music] air spray or airless, the reciprocating pump serves well the world of coatings, performing flawlessly >> [music] >> to put the material where it's wanted, when it's wanted, at the mere touch of a trigger. >> [music] >> Another important spray application that depends on pump portation's high volumes and high pressures is the widely successful hydro cleaning process. Again, the air powered reciprocating pump bestows its practical benefits in a multitude of ways, making previously difficult cleaning tasks simple and easy, >> [music] >> and doing the cleaning job better, more thoroughly, and in far less time than any other method. Employing the appropriate pump units and cleaning agents, hydro clean makes quick, inexpensive work out of many different cleaning and maintenance problems always present in plants and factories. The size or nature of the problem and the type or extent of the dirt make little difference. Even the greasiest accumulations in a meat processing plant can't resist the high pressure, high volume persuasion of hydro clean. Where the cleaning job is difficult and sometimes impossible with only elbow grease, hydro clean's effectiveness is almost miraculous. >> [music] >> In still another field, the system is made to order for handling alkalized, acids, and other special cleaning materials. Oxidized surfaces, such as on aluminum truck trailers, are easily cleaned. And where fast cleaning is essential in the production line to clean and prepare the product for final painting, pump portation brings [music] new meaning to the concept of cleanliness. Wherever the big cleaning job might otherwise be slow, costly, and difficult, the new system saves time, labor, and makes it easy. >> [music] >> In the world of thick, viscous, semi-solid fluid materials, pump portation has achieved another major breakthrough. Many nearly [music] solid substances ordinarily considered unpumpable, such as putty for instance, can positively be transferred and extruded by this system as by no other. Reciprocating pumps are the only type that have a mechanical primer for force loading. This feature, [music] as well as using pneumatically operated follow plates, makes it possible to pump when it's tough. Jobs which once required many hands in mass production, [music] such as the caulking or sealing of car body seams and windows, have been [music] greatly speeded up to meet the increasing demands of an expanding national economy. >> [music] >> Again, the pumps beat a fast, steady tempo for the march of progress. >> [music] >> The versatility of the pumps shows up impressively in metering and dispensing, where efficiency in batch mixing [music] and packaging operations depends upon consistent accuracy in the measuring process. [music] In such critical applications as mixing or blending additives, exact proportions can be accurately metered by using reciprocating pumps to keep proper pressure steadily behind the material. It is this consistent, precise performance from pump to valve, assuring absolute accuracy in the metering and dispensing operation, [music] which is opening vast new vistas of possibility in the use of [music] chemical fluid materials for the development of new and better products. For such varied operations as applying glues to packages and cartons, the system works wonders. [music] In highly competitive industries, pump portation's production line efficiency helps trim the overhead. >> [music] >> Probably pump portation's most dramatic achievement [music] has been in making possible many important new industrial uses and techniques associated with reactive chemicals. By a combination of proportioning pumps and mixer type dispensing guns, many newly developed epoxies, polyesters, and urethanes can now be applied safely at high speed [music] and without waste. New resilient foams, as light and airy as sponge cake, have already emerged to fill a multitude of new product uses, and the surface has only been scratched. One such use is in building insulation. The foam is formed by several highly reactive chemicals coming together, but because many such chemicals cure quickly when intimately mixed, they must first be individually metered accurately and then remain separate until they are blended at the very instant of application. The entire job is a perfect assignment for the versatile pumps and special guns of pump portation. Now that the way has been opened, more and more of these hard to work with materials can be applied to a host of new and better services [music] and products. Other reactive compounds are finding valuable uses as protective [music] coatings with remarkable long-lasting durability in such commonplace applications as weather proof roofing or even such unique uses as ultra smooth inner [music] linings to increase the flow capacity of the massive pipelines used by the natural gas industry. [music] A familiar water provides another example of how pump rotation helps progress. The making of fiberglass boats is a recent [music] innovation. Not until an efficient method was found to mix and bind chopped glass fibers with a fast-setting polyester could this superior type of watercraft be manufactured profitably. The air-powered reciprocating pump again showed the way and helped revolutionize the boating industry. When catalyzed materials could be homogenized into a final binding mix >> [music] >> at the very moment of dispensing, fiberglass became a practical reality. In a typical application, [music] two forms of resin, one catalyzed and one promoted, are pumped individually through separate circulating systems till they are mixed together in the spray pattern after leaving the gun. Shredded glass fibers are fed into the spray stream >> [music] >> and the three components fuse together. The final result is a sturdy, graceful, leak-proof craft that holds up for years with little or no maintenance. The pump has done it again. >> [music] >> Production men know that every material handling problem requires its own special solution. A bad spray painting problem is typical. Faulty distribution, overspray, heavy fogging, loss of paint, low quality at high cost, general inefficiency. Plant conditions, problems, and needs are discussed with qualified pump rotation technicians to determine exact requirements. The problem must first be analyzed in terms of such variables as volume, line distance, pressure, height, number of outlets, material evaluation, and other factors. Once the situation is clearly defined, pump rotation's competent engineering staff goes to work. The right fluid transfer system with the right pumps and related equipment are tailored to fit the problem. A complete set of blueprints, equipment recommendations, bills of material, and detailed installation information is prepared. The result is a custom-built system that exactly fits the job specifications and eliminates the original problem. >> [music] >> Thus, we see that [music] the air-driven pumps of pump rotation are truly the heart of today's most advanced methods of handling fluid, semi-fluid, and [music] semi-solid materials. Ready to help solve the problems of engineering and management wherever efficient, profitable production [music] is hindered by outmoded techniques. More and more companies, particularly where time-saving >> [music] >> and cost-saving factors are vital, rely confidently upon pump rotation for an endless variety of applications. Already, the reciprocating pump has spanned the breach between grandmother's kitchen and the space age. New and exciting uses are steadily evolving in transfer, extrusion, metering, proportioning, dispensing, batching, and other automatic systems. So, whether for improving products or services, for cleaning, >> [music] >> for insulating, painting, or caulking, for protective treatment of barges, ships, bridges, tanks, and other massive steel work, or the countless new adaptations to plastics and other chemical materials, >> [music] >> some of these uses are as spectacular as the space age itself. For even in such highly specialized applications >> [music] >> as the spraying of heat-resistant coating materials onto the mighty Minuteman missile, there will continue to be an up-to-date pump rotation system available, backed by continuing development and research [music] to meet new ideas and new needs. Taking its place beside the pioneers of industrial progress in the never-ending search for better ways to provide more and better products and services, the innovator of the multi-purpose air-powered reciprocating pump joins in the spirit of the new era with those who stand ready to meet the challenge of the age of space. Wherever there is industry, there will be materials [music] that must be moved, handled, and applied. And if the materials are fluid in nature, there is just one best way to handle them via the pumps of pump rotation. >> [music] [music] [music]