Stacked packing with spacing features
AssigneeLantec Products, Inc.
InventorKo C. Lang
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Abstract
Highly efficient packing bodies are formed by stacking plates having at least 30% open space provided by apertures and rod-like baffle elements which project from a surface of the plate. The panels are latched together into a stack by means of a plurality of latching rods, longer than the baffle rods which are frictionally received into opposed sockets formed in the surface of the adjacent plate. A cover plate with downwardly depending rods and latching sockets disposed to receive the latching rods from the opposed plate is utilized to prevent the exposed rods from engaging the rods of other plates so that voids in a packed tower are avoided.
Claims12
A packing body for use in fluid contact comprising in combination:
- a plurality of individual panels containing a pattern of apertures;
- p1 fluid baffle means raised from top and/or bottom surfaces of the panels comprising a plurality of rod elements projecting from said surfaces;
- means spacing a plurality of the panels into a stack having a top panel and a bottom panel;
- means latching the panels together comprising a plurality of latching rods longer than said rod elements projecting from one of said surfaces and sockets for receiving ends of said rods formed in the opposed surface of an adjacent panel;
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- at least one cover panel, having an outward facing surface and an inward facing surface, said cover panel containing a pattern of apertures, fluid baffle means comprising a plurality of rod elements projecting only from said inward facing surface, and a plurality of sockets for receiving ends of latching rods projection from said top and or bottom panel of the stack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.