US1214642A - Radiator. - Google Patents

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K. M. BOBLETT.

RADIATOR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, I912.

Patented Feb. 6, 1917.

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K. M. BOBLETT.

RADIATOR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25. I912.

Patented Feb. 6, 1917.

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KINIDERMAN M. BOBLETT, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

RADIATOR. i;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb, 6, 1917.

Original application filed July 12, 1911, Serial No. 638,057. Divided and this application filed November 25,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KINDERMAN M. BOB- LETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State l of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Radiators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fluid cooling apparatus and particularly to condensers or 1G radiators.

' tion and unlikely to get out of repair.

A further object is to provide a radiator comprising a plurality of units, each unit formed of two members, such units being capable of being assembled into cores of different sizes and proportions. The resulting unit permits the use of a radiating fin of any desired construction. Such radiating fin however, forms no part of the present invention.

E 85 With the above primary and other incidental objects in view as will more fully appear in the specification, the invention consists of the features of construction, the parts and combinations thereof and the mode of operation or their equivalents as hereinafter described and set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the assembled radiator. Figs. 2 and a5 3 are opposite detail perspective views of two unit side members ready to be engaged one with the other. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the assembled unit with a radiating fin plate of ordinary construction inserted within the unit between the side members. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the blank for the side member and Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of a radiator fin plate which may be employed with the unit forming the subject matter hereof. Fig. 'Zis a detail perspective Serial No. 733,384.

view of a plurality of the radiator units assembled into a core. Figs. 8 and 9 are sectional plan views of modifications.

Like parts are indicated by similar characters of reference throughout the several Views.

The radiator of which the particular radiator unit forming the subject matter hereof constitutes a part comprises a frame having in the upper portion thereof a receiving .chamber 1 and in the lower portion a dispensing chamber 2 connected with the receiving chamber by a plurality of conduits through which the water passes from the receiving to the dispensing chamber. These conduits may be either continuous from one chamber to the other, or they may be of short length, and arranged in tiers, separated by intervening water spaces or auxiliary chambers common to all the conduits in a manner common and well-known in radiator construction. The conduits connecting the chambers are formed by arranging a plurality of similar radiator units side by side but separated one from the other to form intermediate water spaces or conduits which communicate with the respective chambers.

The units are each formed from two similar side members 3 such as are shown in Figs. 2 and'3 united, one to the other, in opposite relation as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3 and Fig. 4. The side member 3 is formed from a single sheet metal blank cut and folded on lines as indicated in Fig. 5. The

portion 4. The extension of the blank at one end of said wall portion 4 is bent to a position perpendicular to the wall 4 upon line aa to form a right angle flange 5. The extension of the wall portion 4 at the opposite end of the blank is bent upon the line bb to a position perpendicular to the wall portion 4 to form a second end flange 6 which flange 6 is again bent upon line 0-0 and dd throughout successive reverse bends, the several portions of the flange being reduced to parallelism as shown at 7. The side extension of the blank projecting laterally from the wall portion 4 is bent upon line ee to a position perpendicular to the plane of the wall portion 4 and is 119? again bent on line ff throughouta right -fin-plates If so desired such radiator fin angle whereby the extremity of the lateral extension will extend parallel with the wall portion 4 but spaced away therefrom. The side extension thus forms a marginal inturned side flange or channel 8. The opposing member 3 is similarly formed and comprises the wall 4 and flange 56 and 8. The flange 6 is reversed at 7 as before mentioned.

The several radiator units are formed by uniting two of such side members one with the other in reverse relation whereby the terminal flanges 5 of each member will engage within the overlapping scams 7 formed upon the terminal flanges 6 of the opposite members. There is thus formed a box like unit having opposite parallel side walls 44 connected at their extremities by the right angle flanges 5 and 6. Eachof the side walls 44 has a longitudinal marginal flange 8- located in diagonally opposite relation upon the unit. That is, the longitudinal marginal flange 8 upon oneside of the unit will be at the right side while the corresponding marginal flange upon the opposite side of the unit will be at the left side.

In assembling the radiator core the several units are arranged side by side as shown in Fig. 7 with the flanged edge of one unit engaging the plane edge of the next succeeding unit. Inasmuch as each unit engages the succeeding unit at one side and the preceding unit at the opposite side there is formed intermediate the successive units longitudinally disposed water conduits 9 adapted to be placed in communication with the receiving and dispension chambers l and 2.

It is to be particularly noted that the side walls 4 of each radiator unit do not form the opposite side walls of a single conduit but that each side wall 4 of each unit forms a side wall of succeeding or separate conduits, the opposite walls of such succeeding conduits being formecf by the side members 4 of the preceding and succeeding radiator units.

It is to be'further noted that the side members 3 forming the several units are connected one to the other at the extremities corresponding to the terminals of the water conduits 9 while the unit thus formed by the terminal connection of the side members is connected to succeeding and preceding units by their lateral flanges extending in longitudinal relation with the intermediate conduits 9. The units thus formed do not contain in themselves a water conduit or water space but inclose an air space formed by the side walls 4 of separate succeeding conduits connected at their terminal extremities by the interlocking flanges 5 and 6.

The radiator thus constructed may be employed with or without additional radiator plates of any desiredconstruction may be inserted within the air space of the unit formed intermediate the side walls 4.4.

Such fin plates form no part of the present nvention.

There have, however, been shown in the drawings two forms of fin plates, one of which asillustrated in Fig. 4 comprises a single plate folded upon itself throughout a series of right angle and reverse bends to form a central septum from which project in opposite directions a plurality of plaits arranged at right angles to septum. In Fig. 6 is shown a second form of radiator fin plates, comprising a plate of meandrous formation and adapted to be inserted within the air space between the side walls 44. After the side members and the units formed therefrom are assembled as before described they are united into one structure by dipping or soldering whereby the terminal flanges 5 and 6 of successive side members are united and the succeeding units are united by their side flanges.

In Fig. 8 is shown. a sectional plan view of a modification in which the extremity of the lateral side flange 8 is bent outward and thence inward upon itself to form a re: cess or groove '10 inwhich the edge of the adjacent side wall 4 engages.

In Fig. 9 is shown a similar construction in which the edge of the side wall 4 is bent laterally to engage the recess lO upon the flange of the adjacent side wall.

From the above description it will be apparent that there is thus produced a device of the character described possessing the particular features of advantage before enumerated as desirable but which obviouslyis susceptible of modification in its form, proportion, detail construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the principle involved or sacrificing any of its advantages.

While in order to comply with the statute, the invention has been herein described in language more or less specific as to certain structural features, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to any specific details but that the means and mechanism herein shown and described comprise but one mode of putting the invention into effect and the invention is therefore claimed broadly in any of its possible forms or modifications within the scope of the appended claims.

The'subject matter hereof was originally disclosed in application Serial No. 638,057,

upon which was issued Patent No. 1,053,269, i

of which this is a division.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In a radiator, a plurality of independent plates arranged in spaced relation, a

flange projecting laterally from the terminal edge of each plate and a flange projecting laterally from the longitudinal edge of each plate, said flanges being extended in opposite directions from the plane of the plate and connected with the adjacent plates at opposite sides thereof.-

2. In a radiator, a plurality of substantially parallel spaced plates having both transverse and longitudinal flanges the transverse and terminal flanges being extended in opposite directions from the plane of the plate and connecting the succeeding plates one with another.

A radiator member comprising a plate the terminal edge of which is bent laterally in one direction from the plane of the plate and the longitudinal edge of Which is bent laterally in the opposite direction from the plane oi the plate, a plurality of said plates being adapted to be arranged in spaced relation and connected one to another by said laterally bent edges.

4-. A. radiator comprising a series of independent side plates, a marginal flange upon one edge of each plate, a terminal flange upon the end of each plate turned in a direction opposite that of the said marginal flange, the terminal flange of each plate being connected with the adjacent plate upon one side and the marginal flange being connected with the adjacent plate upon the opposite side.

A radiator core comprising a plurality of substantially flat independent parallel plates arranged side by side in spaced relation, and intermediate flanges connecting the plates one With the other, the flanges being alternately arranged at the sides and ends of the plates whereby there Will be formed intermediate the plates alternating vertical and transverse passages one for air and the other for Water.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of November, 1912.

KINDERMAN M. BOBLETT.

Witnesses L. P. KINSEY, W. E. WEsHoRsT,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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