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US 4,848,450 AGranted
Heat exchanger
AssigneeC & J Jones (1985) Limited
InventorAndrew Lapkowsky
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AssigneeC & J Jones (1985) Limited
InventorAndrew Lapkowsky
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A heat exchanger includes a core structure formed by a plurality of plate members in stacked arrangement. Each plate member is square or rectangular and includes along two opposed sides a portion bent at right angles to the basic plate and then bent inwardly to wrap around the next adjacent plate member. The other two sides of the plate member are bent in the opposite direction and then turn inwardly to act as spacers to hold each plate member from the next by a predetermined dimension thus defining cells between each plate member and the next adjacent plate member. This core construction is then assembled in a plurality of separate core members into a frame structure defined by a pair of side frames defining rails along which the core members can slide. The core members are compressed inwardly by a pair of end doors leaving open top and bottom open sides of the frame structure for connection to suitable duct work.
A heat exchanger core for forming a first fluid path and a second fluid path which is fluid imperviously separated from the first fluid path and in heat exchanging relation therewith, said core comprising a plurality of plate members each formed from a substantially rigid sheet metal material and shaped to define a planar plate portion with the plate members assembled so that the plate portions lie in parallel stacked relationship defining between each plate portion and a next adjacent portion on one side a portion of the first fluid path and between said each plate portion and the next adjacent portion on an opposed side a portion of the second fluid path, each said plate member being cut and formed from a single sheet to define said planar plate portion which has a first pair of opposed parallel side edges and a second pair of opposed parallel side edges with the side edges of one pair being at right angles to the side edges of the other pair, two first plate portions each extending from said planar plate portion at a respective one of said first pair of side edges at right angles to said planar plate portion in the same direction therefrom and to a substantially equal extent therefrom, two second plate portions each extending from an edge of a respective one of the first plate portions remote from said planar plate portion in a direction at right angles thereto and so as to lie back over the planar plate portion, two third plate portions each extending from said planar plate portion at a respective one of said second pair of side edges at right angles to said planar plate portion in the same direction therefrom and to a substantially equal extent therefrom, the third plate portions extending in a direction opposite to the direction of the first plate portions, two fourth plate portions each extending from an edge of a respective one of the third plate portions remote from said planar plate portion in a direction at right angles thereto and to lie back over the planar plate portion, outermost edges of said third and fourth plate portions being rebated from a respective adjacent one of said first pair of side edges by distance greater than the extent of a respective one of the second portions from the respective first portion, an outside extent of said first portions from said planar plate portion of one of said plate members being substantially equal to an inside extent of said third plate portions from said planar plate portion of a next adjacent one of said plate members.
A heat exchange device comprising a generally rectangular frame structure defining mutually parallel first and second side openings, mutually parallel third and fourth side openings, the third and fourth side openings lying generally at right angles to the first and second side openings, a pair of frame ends, door means for closing each of the frame ends, a plurality of rectangular core members each defining therein a first fluid path and a second fluid path fluid imperviously separated from the first fluid path and in heat exchanging relation therewith and comprising a plurality of plate members assembled so that planar plate portions thereof lie in parallel stacked relationship defining between each plate portion and a next adjacent portion on one side a portion of the first fluid path and between said each plate portion and a next adjacent plate portion on an opposed side a portion of the second fluid path, each of the core members having a first length parallel to said first fluid path so as to extend from said first side opening to said second side opening, a second length parallel to said second fluid path less than the distance between said, third side opening and said fourth side opening such that a multiple of the length is equal to said distance, and a third length at right angles to said fluid paths which is less than the distance between said frame ends such that a distance between the frame ends is a multiple of the length of the core member, and guide means mounted on said frame structure by which a core member can slide into the frame structure from one frame end toward the opposed frame end such that the frame structure can be filled with a multiple number of the core members.
The invention according to 16 wherein the first pair of side edges are different in length from the second pair of side edges to define a substantially rectangular planar plate portion different from a square and wherein there are provided first and second different types of plate members with the first and third portions thereof dimensioned to define different amount of spacing between each planar plate portion and its next adjacent planar plate portion on one side relative to said each planar plate portion and its next adjacent planar plate portion on the other side.
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