Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
  • E04F17/00—Vertical ducts; Channels, e.g. for drainage
  • E04F17/04—Air-ducts or air channels
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
  • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
  • F16L59/00—Thermal insulation in general
  • F16L59/14—Arrangements for the insulation of pipes or pipe systems
  • F16L59/143—Pre-insulated pipes
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
  • F24F13/00—Details common to, or for air-conditioning, air-humidification, ventilation or use of air currents for screening
  • F24F13/02—Ducting arrangements
  • F24F13/0245—Manufacturing or assembly of air ducts; Methods therefor
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
  • F24F13/00—Details common to, or for air-conditioning, air-humidification, ventilation or use of air currents for screening
  • F24F13/02—Ducting arrangements
  • F24F13/0263—Insulation for air ducts
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
  • F24F2221/00—Details or features not otherwise provided for
  • F24F2221/18—Details or features not otherwise provided for combined with domestic apparatus
  • F24F2221/186—Details or features not otherwise provided for combined with domestic apparatus combined with a fireplace

Definitions

• Insulated ventilation duct component and method of producing the same
• the invention concerns an insulated duct component with at least two connecting openings for coupling to other components in a ventilation installation, said duct component comprising an external metal sheet casing enclosing the component all around, a layer of insulating material disposed inside the metal sheet casing, and an internal metal sheet coating.
• the invention also concerns a method of producing such a duct component.
• Ventilation ducts are often insulated in order to prevent the transfer of heat to the surrounding, so that e.g. heated supply air in a supply air duct will not cool down, or cooling air will not be heated. It is also desireable to maintain the heat contents in exhaust air in case of an exhaust duct being connected to a heat exchanger, where the heat carried by the exhaust air is normally transferred to the outdoor air, which is blown in through a supply air duct. Heat insulation of ventilation ducts is also essential from the point of view of fire hazard, and hot flue gases or flames should be conducted through a duct without causing a fire in the surrounding con ⁇ struction members in a building.
• insulating ventilation ducts The most common way of insulating ventilation ducts is to install a metal sheet duct system consisting of straight duct sections, bends, branches, dimensional shifts, sound dampers and other components, whereupon an insulating material is brought on externally, either in the form of mats or layers being laid onto the ducts and fastened in a suitable manner, e.g. by means of a threaded net, or in the form of preformed insulating bodies, e.g. tubular sections.
• metal sheet ducts in particular rectangular ducts
• insulating layers to cover the insulating layers internally with loose metal sheets.
• This can be made in advance in a manufacturing plant, but the making of holes and the like for the connection of branch ducts or the like is made very difficult because the insulating layers and the associated loose metal sheets will easily be cut off and fall into separate pieces. Thus, prob ⁇ lems often arise at the installation site.
• the object of the present invention is to eliminate the above mentioned problems and to provide an insulated duct component, which is easy to mount and which does not require time consu ⁇ ming work at the site of installation.
• the duct component and the associated layer of insulating material ' and the internal metal sheet coating form a unitary, stable and fire isolating unit, wherein the internal metal sheet coating is likewise made up of a metal sheet casing being closed all around, and wherein the external and internal metal sheet casings at the respec- tive connection openings are mutually connected by means of one or more perforated sheet metal elements, which cover the corresponding end surface of the layer of insulating material and which, because of its perforations, has a reduced capacity of conducting heat between the inside and the outside of the duct component.
• a metal sheet casing being closed all around is intended to mean that the internal metal sheet coating covers the layer of insulating material internally all over and is open only in the region of the connecting openings of the duct component.
• the internal metal sheet casing is formed as an internal shell, which is uniform with the external metal sheet casing.
• the internal and external metal sheet casings with the intermediate layer of insulating material form a sandwhich- like element, the stability of which is enhanced by the con ⁇ nection of the perforated metal sheet elements in the region of, i.e. all around, the respective connection openings.
• the metal sheet elements will be located substantially in the plane of the connection opening and will form a spacing means for the edge portions of the metal sheet casings radially outside the connection opening.
• Such spacing means of a suitable heat resistant material i.e. in practice a metal material, would normally form heat conducting bridges radially between the inside and the outside.
• the degree of perforation and hole configuration should be selected so as to achieve a desired fixation of the layer of insulating material at the end surfaces thereof in the end region radially outside the associated connection opening (which is important i.a. when storing, transporting and hand- ling of the duct component) , and to reduce the heat conduc ⁇ tivity of the metal sheet element radially to the necessary extent (between the inside and the outside) .
• the invention is especially suitable for ventilation ducts having a rectangular cross-section, although it can of course be used also for ducts having circular or other cross-sectio- nal forms.
• the metal sheet ele ⁇ ments associated with a connection opening will preferably be constituted by four straight metal sheet profile elements dis ⁇ posed along an associated one of the four side edges of the opening.
• Each such metal sheet profile element may preferably have a substantially U-shaped cross-section with inner and outer flange portions which are fastened, e.g. by means of spot welding or special fasteners, to the internal or the external metal sheet casing, respectively, and an interme- diate, perforated web portion extending between the inside and the outside of the duct component.
• the strength requirements are not as severe for the internal metal sheet casing as for the external metal sheet casing, since the latter will be more likely to be exposed to mechani ⁇ cal strain at transport and installation.
• at least the internal metal sheet casing can be produced in a simple manner by bending a piece of metal sheet into a closed cross- section with overlapping edge portions, which are mutually secured by means of a double adhesive tape.
• duct component Such a sheet metal casing, being denoted “duct component”, is described in detail in a simultaneously filed patent application (“Ventilation duct component and a method of producing the same") , the contents of which are included into this application by refe- rence. Compare also claim 8.
• a ventilation duct component When manufacturing a ventilation duct component according to the present invention, one starts out from the external metal sheet casing, or a substantial portion thereof, and provides the same with one or more layers of insulating material loca ⁇ ted inside thereof, i.e. in the form of sheets of isolating material, whereupon the internal metal sheet casing is app ⁇ lied, e.g. by application or insertion through a connection opening. Thereupon, the layer of insulating material and the external metal sheet casing is supplemented, if required, and the external and internal metal sheet casings are connected by means of the perforated metal sheet elements in the region of the connection openings.
• the perforated metal sheet elements are preferably first secured to the external metal sheet casing, whereupon the layer of insulating material is applied, and thereafter the internal metal sheet casing is fixed to the already applied perforated metal sheet elements, whereafter, finally, the perforated metal sheet elements associated with the other connection opening are secured.
• Figs, la, lb, lc, Id and le illustrate in schematic perspec- tive views how a straight duct component can be produced step by step in accordance with the invention.
• Figs. 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e and 2f illustrate in a corresponding way how a 90° duct bend can be manufactured in accordance with the invention.
• a metal sheet casing 1 which is intended to constitute the external side of the finished duct component and which has a rectangular cross-section with side walls la, lc and lower and upper walls lb and Id, respecti ⁇ vely.
• the metal sheet casing is made of one unitary piece of metal sheet which has been bent along the longitudinal corner edges and has been fixed to a closed cross-section by means of a longitudinal joint (not shown) .
• This longitudinal joint can be constituted by a folding joint or a tape joint, as descri ⁇ bed in the above mentioned patent application.
• the metal sheet casing 1 can be provided with flanges (not shown) for coupling with other duct components by means of slip joints and seals, so that a tight joint is formed in a manner known per se.
• the duct component is manufactured by first applying metal sheet profile elements 2a, 2b, etc. (see Fig. lb) internally along one edge of the connection opening (the remote one in Figs, la and lb) , e.g. by spot welding.
• metal sheet profile elements 2a, 2b, etc. see Fig. lb
• the flange portions 3 are spot welded to the respective wall la, lb etc. , so that the remote connection opening in Fig. lb is now defined by a perforated edge frame consisting of the four metal sheet pro ⁇ file elements 2a, 2b, etc.
• layers 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d of insulating material are laid inside the respecive metal sheet casing wall la, lb, lc. Id, the remote end portions in Fig. lc being fitted between the flange portions 3, 4 at the respective metal sheet profile element 2a, 2b, etc.
• a good fit will be obtained if the layers 6a, 6b, etc. of insulating material have a width corresponding to the respective length of the metal sheet profile elements 2a, 2b, etc.
• an internal metal sheet casing 7 is then applied at the inside of the insulating material layers 6a, 6b, etc.
• This internal metal sheet casing has a closed cross-section, like the external metal sheet casing 1, with corresponding walls 7a, 7b, etc. and a longitudinal joint 7e.
• the metal sheet casing 7 is dimensioned such that it can be fitted inside the internal flange portions 4 of the metal sheet profile elements 2a, 2b, etc.
• corresponding metal sheet profile elements 2'a, 2'b, 2'c, 2'd are applied at the other connec ⁇ tion opening (the hither one in Fig. le) , the flange portions 3, 4 of these metal sheet profile elements being fixed at the inside by the internal and external metal sheet casings 1, 7 by means of separate fasteners, such as rivets or screws (since there is no room for spot welding in this case) .
• the finished duct component is to ⁇ tally coated with metal sheet internally and externally and has its connection openings framed by perforated metal sheet elements, the latter having several functions, viz.:
• the degree of perforation is preferably about 70%, but may in principle vary between 30% and 90%, preferably between 60% and 80%, in particular between 65% and
• the hole configuration may also be modified from square ope ⁇ nings to relatively longitudinal slits, which preferably extend substantially in parallel to the edges of the asso ⁇ ciated connection openings, so that the heat conduction bet- ween the inside and the outside is reduced as much as possible while maintaining the required stability and closure of the end surface of the insulating material layer.
• Figs. 2a - 2f there is illustrated how a 90% duct bend may be manufactured step by step in a similar manner as the straight duct according to Figs, la - le.
• connection openings A, B are finally covered and fixed by means of perfo ⁇ rated metal sheet profile elements 12'a, 12'b, 12'c, 12'd and 12a, 12b, 12c, 12d, respectively, corresponding to the metal sheet profile elements 2a etc. and 2'a etc. in Figs, lb and le.

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