Method and apparatus for the manufacture of variable dimension fans
OwnerWilliam D. Phelpsinventor
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Abstract
Construction of impellers of various dimensions are manufactured from tubular hub stock and sheet-like blade stock by cutting a hub of particular length from said hub stock and blades of corresponding length from said blade stock and attaching said blades to said hub. The bore of the hub may be enlarged according to a specified support shaft diameter, and the overall diameter of the impeller may be altered, preferably by trimming ends of the blades prior to mounting on the hub.
Claims10
A method of making impellers, and comprising the steps of:
- providing a hub and blades mountable on said hub, said blades each having a mounting end and a free end;
- mounting said blades on said hub;
- and
- trimming portions from a free end of each blade after said mounting to provide a remaining blade of specified length
- whereby impellers of variable diameter are realizeable from similar basic components.
A method of making impellers, and comprising the steps of:
- providing a hub and blades mountable on said hub, said blades each having a mounting end and a free end;
- trimming portions from an end of each blade to provide a remaining blade of specified length;
- mounting said blades on said hub, whereby impellers of variable diameter are realizeable from similar basic components;
- trimming said hub to a preferred length;
- and
- trimming a dimension of each of said blades to a preferred length corresponding to said hub preferred length, whereby said impellers are variable in a dimension generally along an axis of rotation of each said hub.
A method of making impellers, and comprising the steps of:
- providing a hub and blades mountable on said hub, said blades each having a mounting end and a free end;
- trimming portions from an end of each blade to provide a remaining blade of specified length;
- mounting said blades on said hub, whereby impellers of variable diameter are realizeable from similar basic components;
- and
- boring an axial hole of a selected diameter in said hub according to a corresponding diameter of a support shaft for said hub.
A method of making impellers of various sizes from two basic components, and comprising the steps of:
- extruding a length of hub stock;
- extruding a length of blade stock;
- trimming a hub of selected length from said hub stock and a plurality of blades of selected length from said blade stock for each impeller, said blade stock having a width corresponding to said hub selected length to provide an impeller selectable in diameter;
- and
- attaching said blades to said hub.
Apparatus for manufacturing impellers of variable dimensions, and comprising:
- means for trimming from blade stock a plurality of blades of selected length according to a selected diameter for said impeller;
- means for trimming hub stock to provide a hub of preferred length corresponding to a width of said blade stock;
- and
- means for attaching said blades to said hub.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.