US 4,043,143 AGranted

Locomotive environmental system

AssigneeVapor Corporation

InventorsChester Henry Fluder, Nick J. Yohanna

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Abstract

Locomotive environmental system to be mounted in the roof of a cab for controlling the environment within the cab which includes a housing having an upper chamber arranged above the roof line of the cab and having one compartment for a condenser unit and another compartment for a compressor unit, a blower in the compartment housing the condenser unit for circulatng air through the condenser compartment and also through the compartment housing the compresser unit, a lower chamber arranged below the roof line of the cab and housing an evaporator unit for the system together with blower means for circulating air through the lower chamber and the cab, wherein the motors for the compressor unit and the blower associated with the condenser unit are driven by the same source of variable power.

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Dependent claims

An air conditioning system for a locomotive cab to be mounted in the roof of the locomotive cab, said system comprising a frame including a centrally and horizontally arranged panel, upper and lower covers on the top and bottom sides of the panel defining upper and lower chambers, the upper chamber being generally positioned above the roof and exposed to the atmosphere, the lower chamber being generally positioned below the roof and within the cab, said upper chamber being divided into first and second side-by-side compartments,

a pair of spaced heat exchanger condensing units in said first compartment one at each of the front and back ends thereof and extending vertically and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of and the path of movement of the locomotive, means connecting the condenser units in parallel, a compressor unit in said second compartment,
air inlet openings in the upper cover at the front and back walls aligning with the condenser units,
a first air discharge opening in a side wall of the upper cover for communicating said first compartment to the atmosphere and a second air discharge opening for said first compartment to connect same to said second compartment, a third air discharge opening in a side wall of the upper cover for communicating said second compartment to the atmosphere, whereby the compressor unit is cooled,
a blower unit in said first compartment between the spaced condenser units arranged to draw air into said compartment through the condenser units and expel air through said air discharge openings,
a heat exchanger evaporator unit in the lower chamber, an air inlet opening in the lower cover for the lower chamber aligned with said evaporator unit to allow air to move from the cab through the evaporator unit and into the lower chamber, air discharge opening means in the lower cover, and a blower in the lower chamber to draw air through the evaporator unit and expel it through the discharge opening means into the cab.

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a pair of spaced heat exchanger condensing units in said first compartment one at each of the front and back ends thereof and extending vertically and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of and the path of movement of the locomotive, means connecting the condenser units in parallel, a compressor unit in said second compartment,
said compressor unit including a compressor and an AC variable speed motor for driving said compressor,
air inlet openings in the upper cover at the front and back walls aligning with the condenser units,
air discharge opening means in said upper cover,
a blower unit in said first compartment between the spaced condenser units arranged to draw air into said compartment through the condenser units and expel air through said air discharge opening means,
said blower unit including a fan and an AC variable speed motor for driving said fan,
a heat exchanger evaporator unit in the lower chamber, an air inlet opening in the lower cover for the lower chamber aligned with said evaporator unit to allow air in the cab to move through the evaporator unit and into the lower chamber, air discharge opening means in the lower cover, a blower in the lower chamber to draw air through the evaporator unit and expel it through the discharge opening means into the cab,
and a single source of AC power connected to said motors and variable in relation to the speed of the locomotive.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.