Patent ID: 7670207

Claim:
An impeller for feeding blasting shot into a centrifugal wheel of a blasting installation, the centrifugal wheel having a direction of rotation, the impeller ( 2 ) being located centrally within the centrifugal wheel and inside a distributing sleeve ( 1 ), the distributing sleeve ( 1 ) having a distributing opening ( 8 ), the impeller ( 2 ) being rotatable in the direction of rotation of the centrifugal wheel, and the impeller ( 2 ) having guiding elements that are directed toward the distributing sleeve ( 1 ) for guiding the blasting shot to outside of the impeller ( 2 ), the guiding elements being arranged on at least one lateral disk ( 4 ), comprising: at least two adjacent guiding elements designed as interconnected limbs ( 5 , 6 ) of profiled pieces ( 3 ), and recesses that are arranged between the limbs ( 5 , 6 ) and which are accessible from the direction of the distributing sleeve ( 1 ), wherein adjacent limbs ( 5 , 6 ) of adjacent profiled pieces ( 3 ) form channels ( 7 ) through which the blasting shot can be discharged to the outside, wherein the limb ends of the profiled pieces ( 3 ) that are directed toward the distributing sleeve ( 1 ) are spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction of the impeller ( 2 ) and the lateral disk ( 4 ), and wherein the the blasting shot can escape into the recesses.