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US 4,623,017 AGranted
Joint structure for a tube and a header
AssigneeAsahi Glass Company, Limited
InventorsNoriyuki Oda, Nobuyuki Kido, Keiji Muramatsu
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Abstract
A joint structure for at least one tube and a header, wherein the header comprises a gas chamber, a sand chamber filled with a sealing sand and a partition plate dividing the gas chamber and the sand chamber, and the tube extends from the exterior of the header through the sand chamber and has its one end open in the gas chamber.
Claims18
A joint structure comprising:
- at least two tubes;
- a support structure for said tubes;
- mounting means for mounting said tubes in said support structure and for permitting relative motion therebetween;
- a header for said tubes;
- and
- dividing means disposed in said header, contacting opposite walls thereof and extending across said header, thereby dividing said header into a gas chamber and a sealing chamber, said dividing means comprising a partition plate having an opening therein, said tubes passing in order through said support structure, through said sealing chamber, through said opening of said partition plate, and into said gas chamber, open ends of said tubes being disposed in said gas chamber, wherein said sealing chamber is filled with a gas-sealing means consisting essentially of sand packed around said tubes.
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