Securing packing elements
AssigneeNorton Chemical Process Products Corporation
InventorFrank D. Moore
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Abstract
Corrugated tower packings which are easier to fabricate from individual corrugated elements having parallel rows of ridges and valleys wherein the elements are provided with extension tabs along the ridges of at least a first surface of such elements to provide a location at which the tabs can be spot welded to a contacting element to provide a rigid structure.
Claims9
A tower packing assembly comprising a plurality of corrugated packing elements each having alternating ridges and valleys and provided, along at least a portion of at least some of the crests of the ridges, with tab extensions tangential to the crest and at right angles thereto, the elements being in face to face relationship with the lines of corrugations angled with respect to those on contiguous elements and the elements being held together at locations in which the tab extensions are in contact with a contiguous sheet.
A tower packing assembly comprising a plurality of corrugated packing elements each having alternating ridges and valleys with at least some of the ridges of the element being provided with tab extensions extending tangentially from the crest of the ridge in the direction of one of the adjacent ridges by an amount that is from about 40 to about 60% of the distance separating adjacent crests, the elements being in face to face relationship with the lines of corrugations angled with respect to those on contiguous elements and the elements being held together at locations in which the tab extensions are in contact with a contiguous sheet.
A tower packing assembly comprising a plurality of corrugated packing elements each having alternating ridges and valleys with at least some of the ridges on both sides of the element being provided with tab extensions extending tangentially from the crest of the ridge in the direction of one of the adjacent ridges by an amount that is from about 40 to about 60% of the distance separating adjacent crests, the elements being in face to face relationship with the lines of corrugations angled with respect to those on contiguous elements and the elements being held together at locations in which the tab extensions on contiguous sheets are in contact.
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