Heat exchanger module for a vehicle or the like

A heat exchanger module comprising:

• a pair of heat exchangers in side by side, but spaced relation;
• each of said heat exchangers, at their point of adjacency, having an elongated, shallow channel facing the other heat exchanger, the side walls of each channel including aligned, apertured tabs with the tabs on one channel being staggered with respect to the tabs on the other channel;
• an elongated plastic strip received in and spacing said channels, said strip having at least one row of recesses opening toward the side walls of said channels, at least some of said recesses aligning with the apertures in said tabs, the bottoms of said recesses being sufficiently thin so as to be easily penetrable by the shank of a fastener and of sufficient thickness as to prevent the flow of fluid through the interface of said heat exchangers;
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• fasteners having shanks of smaller size than said recess as extending through said apertures and the aligned recesses to secure said heat exchangers to each other via said strip.

A heat exchanger module comprising:

• first and second superimposed heat exchangers;
• one of said heat exchangers having opposed sides defined by outwardly opening channels, the sides of said channels including aligned apertures adapted to receive the shank of a fastener;
• an elongated plastic strip disposed in each channel and extending out of the same in the direction away from the heat exchanger, each said strip having at least one row of elongated recesses, at least some of which are alignable with the apertures in said channels, the recesses having bottoms sufficiently thick as to prevent the passage of air through the strips and sufficiently thin as to be easily penetrated by a fastener;
• apertured legs on the other of said heat exchanger spacing the same from said one heat exchanger and engaging said strips in alignment with some of said recesses and in spaced relation to said channels;
• first fasteners penetrating said apertures in said channels and the aligned recesses to secure said strips to said one heat exchanger;
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• second fasteners penetrating the apertures in said legs and the aligned recesses to secure said other heat exchanger to said strips and thus to said one heat exchanger.