Abstract:
Apparatus, including a pumping system, is provided featuring a pump and a control circuit. The pump has an impeller housing configured with a slit at the top for trapped air to leave the impeller housing once the pump has been submerged. The control circuit is configured to cycle the pump on and off for a predetermined number of cycles so that the trapped air will float to the top and be expelled out the slit when the pump is cycled off. The control circuit is configured to leave the pump on after the predetermined number of cycles.
Abstract:
A pump mounting system for mounting a pump to a beverage dispensing system, the pump mounting system featuring a pump, an elastic pump mounting bracket, the elastic pump mounting bracket dampening the transmission of vibration from one end of the pump to the system; and a flexible looped hose connection having a corresponding pump-to-hose connector portion to coupled to the pump-to- hose connector portion of the pump, and having a hose-to-system connector portion to couple to a corresponding hose-to-system connector portion of the system, an intermediate looped hose connection portion to couple together the corresponding pump-to-hose connector portion and the hose-to-system connector portion, the flexible looped hose connection to provide a flow path connection to the system and dampen the transmission of the vibration of the pump to the system via the flow path connection.
Abstract:
Apparatus, including a pumping system, is provided featuring a pump and a control circuit. The pump has an impeller housing configured with a slit at the top for trapped air to leave the impeller housing once the pump has been submerged. The control circuit is configured to cycle the pump on and off for a predetermined number of cycles so that the trapped air will float to the top and be expelled out the slit when the pump is cycled off. The control circuit is configured to leave the pump on after the predetermined number of cycles.