GB122205A - Improvements relating to Heating, Cooling, Condensing or like Apparatus. - Google Patents

Abstract

122,205. Bowman, E. J., and Wade, P. W. June 19, 1917. Straight tubes between headers or connecting boxes; honeycomb apparatus.-The circulating tubes cf a radiator for internal-combustion engines and other condensing, heating, and cooling apparatus are secured to the tanks in a watertight manner by the compression of rubber members which surround the tubes tightly, the arrangement facilitating repair and tending to prevent fracture. The arrangement is such that each row of tubes may be dismantled separately from the rest. As shown in Figs 3 and 4, a series of tubes 5 are secured between the upper tank and lower tank 1 of a radiator by means of dove-tailed or other shaped rubber members 4 fitting in similar grooves formed in the tanks, and as each row is assembled the rubber is compressed between a turned-up end 8 of the tank and a plate 12 actuated by a set-screw and carried by a detachable plate 10 The tubes 5 may be cylindrical or flat tubes and may be formed with gills. In modified forms each row of tubes may be replaced by a series of zig-zag tubes 39, Fig. 16, connected to small tanks 35 secured in position by rubber members as 4, or tanks such as 35 may be connected by three large vertical tubes connected together by radiating members, or by one chamber which is honeycombed with aircooled partition tubes. In modifications, the rubber members 4 are held in place by metal plates secured in position by key-pieces or by a screw carried by a pivoted member, or, as shown in Fig. 10, the members 4 are carried by metal members 27 secured to the tanks by lugs 28 and screws 29 which serve to compress the members 4. In a modification a metal member with turned up ends embraces the tubes 5, and one of the turned up ends is fitted with an adjusting screw for compressing each member 4.