Heat exchanger
AssigneeAluminum Company of America
InventorElmer H. Rogers, Jr.
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Abstract
A heat exchanger including a plurality of tubes arranged in at least three side-by-side planes, the tubes being held at their ends in the sidewalls of an even-sided polygon of at least six sidewalls, each sidewall being connected to its opposite sidewall by tubes in at least one of the planes.
Claims6
A heat exchanger comprising a plurality of tubes arranged in at least three side-by-side planes, the tubes being held at their ends in the sidewalls of an even-sided polygon of at least six sidewalls, each sidewall being connected to its opposite sidewall by tubes in at least one of the planes, wherein, in any given plane, there are tubes lateral to the tubes connecting the opposite sidewalls, the lateral tubes extending between sidewalls lateral to the opposite walls.
A heat exchanger as claimed in claim 2, wherein the tubes connecting the opposite sidewalls are parallel to one another, and the lateral tubes run parallel to the tubes connecting the opposite sidewalls.
A heat exchanger comprising a plurality of tubes arranged in at least three side-by-side planes, the tubes being held at their ends in the sidewalls of an even-sided polygon of at least six sidewalls, each sidewall being connected to its opposite sidewall by tubes in at least one of the planes, wherein one-half of the number n of sides of the polygon is an odd number and wherein there is at least 2 n planes, the first n planes being fed from, or drained to n/2 boxes arranged one on every other side, the last n planes being drained to, or fed from, n/2 boxes on the same every other sides, other boxes on the heat exchanger being 2 n planes high.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.