Vertical Turbine Pumps
Layne / Verti-Line manufactures vertical turbine pumps for municipal water supply and wastewater treatment. For more than a century, Layne / Verti-Line has been a leader in the pump industry, constantly improving design to satisfy changing market requirements.
Layne / Verti-Line is a division of Pentair Water. The Kansas City plan has over 500,000 square feet of complete manufacturing facilities with world class testing capability.
Layne / Verti-Line vertical turbine pumps have proven superior under the most demanding condition – time.
The vertical hollow shaft motor is designed specifically for turbine pump applications. Available in NEMA Weather-Protected Type I, Weather-Protected Type II, and Totally-Enclosed Fan Cooled enclosures.
The surface discharge head supports the column, shafting, motor and pump assembly. Standard design consists of a minimum 30,000 PSI tensile strength cast iron, and non-asbestos packing is compressed around the shaft by an adjustable gland. An optional lantern ring relieves pump pressure from the upper packing rings. The pumped liquid lubricates the packing rings. A drip basin collects the packing lubrication which is drained off. A grease fitting provides additional lubrication to a bronze upper shaft bearing. The top shaft and motor drive shaft are made of high tensile, C-1045 AISI pump shaft quality carbon steel. (Optional tube tension assembly for enclosure lineshaft available.) Horsepower rating, straightness and machining tolerance conform to ANSI/AWWA E101 standards.
Open lineshaft and bowl bearings are normally lubricated by the pumped liquid. There are applications, however, where the pumped liquid is either inadequate due to its lubricating qualities, or the upper line shaft bearings are not submerged. Enclosed lineshaft bearings are normally lubricated with oil fed by gravity from a standard one gallon, manually fed oil reservoir mounted on the discharge head. The oil flows through the tube tension assembly and within the shaft enclosing tube to each individual lineshaft bearing. Pump discharge case, bowls, and suction bearings are lubricated by the pumped liquid.
