Floor mounted air conditioner
AssigneeLaitram, L.L.C.
InventorJames M. Lapeyre
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Abstract
A floor mounted air conditioner comprising a housing containing cylindrical condenser coils disposed about a normally vertical axis and cylindrical evaporator coils coaxially disposed above the condenser coils. A drip pan separates the condenser and evaporator coils and includes openings for discharging condensate onto the condenser coils for evaporation. A condenser fan is associated with a bottom duct adapted for installation in a mounting opening in the floor of a room, for blowing hot air through the mounting opening, and an evaporator fan is associated with a top duct for blowing cool air into the room being cooled.
Claims6
A floor mounted air conditioner comprising:
- a housing having a lower portion and an upper portion, the lower portion of the housing including a cylindrical wall insertable into a mounting opening in the floor of a room to be cooled, the upper portion of the housing being disposable above the floor and having a cold air exhaust duct upwardly extending from the upper portion and terminating in an upper cold air exhaust port;
- an annular inlet at the top of the upper portion of said housing for drawing air from the room into the housing for cooling, said annular inlet surrounding and spaced from said upper cold air exhaust port;
- a hot air exhaust duct in the lower portion of said housing terminating in a lower hot air exhaust port at the bottom end of the lower housing portion below the mounting floor;
- an annular duct in the lower housing portion defined by the wall of the lower housing portion and the hot air exhaust duct and having inlet openings in the wall of the lower housing portion into which air is drawn from below the floor into the housing for cooling;
- a compressor within the housing;
- cylindrical condenser coils disposed about a vertical axis in the housing;
- cylindrical evaporator coils disposed about said vertical axis in said housing and above said condenser coils;
- a drip pan in said housing separating said condenser and evaporator coils and including one or more openings arranged to discharge condensate onto said condenser coils;
- a condenser fan in said hot air exhaust duct for blowing hot air from said housing out of said lower hot air exhaust port into the space below the floor;
- an evaporator fan disposed in the upper cold air exhaust duct for blowing cooled air out of said upper cold air exhaust port into the room;
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- an annular duct in the upper housing portion in communication with the annular duct in the lower housing portion for directing air from the annular inlet over the evaporator coils and air from the inlet openings in the wall of the lower housing portion over the evaporator coils.
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