Roots Blower Company

For the British automobile manufacturer, see Rootes Group.
Roots Blower Company
IndustryEngineering
Founded1859 Edit this on Wikidata
Founders
  • Philander Higley Roots
  • Francis Marion Roots
Defunct1931 (1931)
FateAcquired by International Derrick and Equipment Company and merged with Connersville Blower Company to form Roots-Connersville Blower Company
Headquarters
Connersville, Indiana
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United States
Philander and Francis Roots, founders of Roots Blower Company
Cover story of February 1880 Scientific American magazine, Manufacture of Rotary Pressure Blowers at Roots, Indiana
A Roots blower with two-lobed rotors. Modern Roots blowers may have 2- or 3-lobed rotors.
Key:
  1. Rotary vane
  2. Pump body
    1. Intake
    2. Pumping
    3. Output
  3. Rotary vane

The Roots Blower Company was an American engineering company based in Connersville, Indiana. It was founded in 1854 by the inventors Philander Higley Roots and Francis Marion Roots. It is notable for the Roots blower, a type of pump.[1] Today, Roots blowers are mainly used as air pumps in superchargers for internal combustion engines; they were first used in blast furnaces to blow combustion air to melt iron.[2]

  1. ^ INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3, By Charles Roll, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  2. ^ Roots Blower mechanism