Silencer-carrying rotary vane pump

Claim 1

A rotary vane pump, comprising: a cylindrical center case, a rotor supported at both ends of said cylindrical center case on bearing means and adapted to be rotated in said center case, vane means displaceably mounted in said rotor, side covers fixed to both end surfaces of said center case so as to form compression spaces being rotated to carry out a pumping operation due to different volumes of different portions of said spaces defined by said cylindrical center case, said rotor, and said vane means and said side covers, a suction port formed in said cylindrical center case for communicating one of said compression spaces with the outside, moat-like groove means formed within said cylindrical center case and defining inner and outer circumferential walls so as to form a sealed chamber between said covers, and a discharge port means for communicating a pump chamber with the sealed chamber whereby a medium is discharged from the pump chamber through said discharge port means into said sealed chamber and then to the outside of said pump, wherein a plurality of partitions are provided in a portion of said sealed chamber to divide said sealed chamber into a plurality of sealed compartments, a passage means of a small cross-sectional area is provided for communicating adjacent compartment, soundproof members are provided in said sealed compartments, said soundproof members being sealed in second to last sealed compartments except for a first sealed compartment having said discharge port means in communication with the pump chamber.