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Abstract

A pump assembly includes a housing, and first and second rotor that are rotatable within the housing and mesh with each other. The pump assembly includes wear plates arranged on opposing sides of the rotors and a separation mechanism that is engageable with the wear plates and enables axial movement of the wear plates relative to the rotors. The wear plates are normally biased to be disengaged from the rotors and axially moveable to engage the rotors when pressure in the pump assembly exceeds a predetermined pressure threshold. The rotors may be lobe gears that each include a plurality of lobes. The lobes may include wiper retaining recesses that retain wiper inserts and the walls of the wiper retaining recesses may have pressure trapping grooves that enable trapped fluid to flow out of the wiper retaining recesses for pressure relief.

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