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US 4,307,777 AGranted
Heat exchanger tube support
AssigneeCombustion Engineering, Inc.
InventorWasyl Chwyla
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Abstract
A support arrangement for horizontal tubes (14) located in a gas pass. Vertical hanger tubes (20) have longitudinal fins (30) on opposite sides thereof, and a U strap (32) is arranged to surround the horizontal tube to be supported with the U strap welded only to the longitudinal fin.
Claims4
In a heat exchanger having walls confining a flow of hot gases, at least one tube bank including a plurality of horizontal tubes located in the gas pass and conveying a fluid therethrough, said horizontal tubes being parallel to one another, and groups of said tubes sinuously connected in series flow relationship;
- an apparatus for supporting said horizontal tubes comprising:
- vertical hanger tubes supported at an upper elevation;
- means for passing fluid through said hanger tubes;
- continuous longitudinal fins on said hanger tubes extending beyond said plurality of horizontal tubes and located on opposed sides of hanger tubes;
- U straps, located at a lower elevation surrounding and supporting said horizontal tube, the two legs of each of said straps welded only to said longitudinal fins.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.