Acoustic blanket for machinery and method for attenuating sound
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsWei Tong, Thomas Arthur Wagner, Ian Arthur Hughes, John Michael Gillivan, James Joseph Gibney III
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Abstract
An acoustic blanket is disclosed for an industrial machine including a plurality of flexible panels, wherein each panel includes at least one layer of a fiber glass material, an outer casing of a chemically resistant material and an attachment for connecting the panel to an adjacent panel, and the plurality of flexible panels are each assigned a position in said blanket corresponding to a location on the industrial machine.
Claims34
An acoustic blanket for an industrial machine comprising:
- a plurality of flexible panels, wherein each panel includes at least one layer of a fiber glass material, an outer casing of a chemically resistant material and an attachment for connecting the panel to an adjacent panel, and
- said plurality of flexible panels are each assigned a position in said blanket corresponding to a location on the industrial machine.
A system for reducing the sound in an industrial machine comprising:
- an acoustic blanket further comprising a quilt of interconnected flexible panels, wherein each panel includes at least one layer of a sound adsorbing material, an outer casing of a chemically resistant material and an attachment for connecting the panel to at least one adjacent panel, wherein each of said panels bears an indicia indicating a position of the panel in said blanket, and
- a securing device extending over said blanket to hold the blanket onto said machine.
A method for installing an industrial acoustic blanket on an industrial machine comprising:
- a) forming flexible panels wherein each panel includes at least one layer of a sound adsorbing material, an outer casing of a chemically resistant material, and an attachment for connecting the panel to at least one adjacent panel;
- b) marking each of said panel with an indicia indicating a position of the panel in said blanket corresponding to a location on the industrial machine;
- c) positioning each of said panels the corresponding location of said industrial machine using the indicia to determine the proper location of the panel on the machine;
- d) attaching the panels to adjacent panels of the blanket, and
- e) securing the blanket to the machine.
- b) attaching said plurality of blanket sections to said industrial equipment frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.