Fill assembly for cooling tower

A fill assembly adapted to facilitate the formation of liquid droplets for enhanced contact with air or gas passing through the fill assembly, comprising:

• (a) a fill member having a generally inverted V-shape cross-section open at the bottom, said fill member comprising upwardly converging side walls terminating in a top ridge, said side walls being formed with openings, the surrounding defining edges of which are adapted to engage descending streams or drops of liquid and break the same up into smaller droplets thereby increasing the total liquid surface subject to contact with the air, the downwardly and outwardly diverging bottoms of said side walls being laterally spaced from a longitudinal axis through said top ridge, and
• (b) a generally flat bottom member extending between and interconnected to the bottoms of said side walls to close off the open bottom of said fill member, said interconnection being such as to substantially inhibit downward deformation of said ridge and lateral spreading of said side walls responsive to heavy loading on said fill assembly, said bottom member being apertured to provide an additional surface for droplet formation.