Trickle structures
AssigneeBarnstorfer Kunststofftechnik GmbH & Co. KG
InventorEgon Schumacher
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Abstract
Trickle bodies for the air conditioning of, in particular, animal housings, that possess only partially latticed layer elements. Trickle bodies are formed of a plurality of sandwiched layer elements that, in known trickle bodies, are formed of corrugated and completely latticed plastics foil. The trickle bodies formed of such layer elements possess a relatively low stability and a limited evaporation capacity. The plastics-formed layer elements of the instant invention are produced by injection molding, allowing layer elements having corrugation heights of more than 12 mm to be formed. Such trickle bodies are more stable, enable a high evaporation capacity and are, moreover, also less permeable to light.
Claims17
A trickle body for the air conditioning of buildings, preferably animal housings, having a plurality of mutually connected layer elements (13), which are corrugated to form alternately adjacent wave troughs (20) and wave peaks (21), and having flow channels (30) between respectively adjacent corrugated layer elements (13), wherein the layer elements (13) are, for the one part, of closed-wall configuration and, for the other part, of permeable configuration, to form at least partially closed and at least partially permeable flow channels (30), and/or at least partially closed and at least partially permeable wave troughs (20) and wave peaks (21), between adjacent layer elements (13), wherein directions of longitudinal extent (19) of the alternately adjacent wave troughs (20) and wave peaks (21) run transversely to the layer elements (13), and wherein the wave troughs (20) and wave peaks (21) of the layer elements (13) are provided with a course of the directions of longitudinal extent (19), which course of the directions of longitudinal extent (19) has several changes of direction.
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