Patent ID: 6837692

Claim:
A centrifugal pump for pumping a fluid with facilitated self-priming, comprising a casing with a suction inlet and a discharge outlet and with an internal series of diffusers and impellers, which form a cylindrical assembly that forms, together with said casing, an annular interspace which is connected to the inside of said series of diffusers and impellers on the side comprising the discharge outlet through radial discharge openings and on the side comprising the suction inlet through a hole arranged perimetrically in the inlet side, said hole being controlled, on the side facing said interspace, by a normally-open flexible metallic laminar valve, said pump having a wall lying opposite said series of diffusers and impellers and struck by said fluid exiting from said interspace through said controlled hole, said wall forming a symmetrical double channel, for imparting to said fluid a double vortex before passing through a first impeller of said series.