Air cooled exchanger

An air cooled heat exchanger, comprising:

• a pair of tube banks positioned in oppositely inclined vertical planes to define an A-shape, each of said tube banks having exposed tubes supported in a tube plane;
• a pair of side walls connected to the tube banks to define a chamber having an open bottom between the side walls and the lower portion of the tube banks;
• means for passing fluid through the tubes;
• means for drawing air from the atmosphere into the open bottom of the chamber to pass air upwardly through the tube banks and into the surrounding atmosphere;
• and
• a plurality of individual and separate wind shields for each tube bank, said wind shields each being comprised of a wind defecting front wall and integral triangularly shaped side walls, said side walls being attached to the tube frame of each of the tube banks whereby each of the wind shields are separately supported by the tube frame, said front walls being disposed in a substantially vertical plane, each of said front walls extending across the width of the tube banks and being spaced over the length thereof to prevent wind from passing through each of the tube banks when the tube banks are exposed to the atmosphere and permitting air to flow through the tube banks and upwardly to the atmosphere between the wind shields and tube banks, said wind shields being supported as evenly supported loads on the tube frame.