Roots blower
Compresor volumétrico tipo Roots
- Date
- 1860 · confidence medium
- Place
- Connersville, Indiana, United States
- Credited to
- Philander Higley Roots y Francis Marion Roots
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A positive-displacement pump made of two intermeshing lobed rotors that turn together to move air or another fluid without internally compressing it, patented by brothers Philander and Francis Roots.
What it led to
- widespread use in ventilating mines and industrial furnaces
- later adaptation as a supercharger for combustion engines
- influence on the design of modern positive-displacement compressors