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US2365515A
US2365515A US490289A US49028943A US2365515A US 2365515 A US2365515 A US 2365515A US 490289 A US490289 A US 490289A US 49028943 A US49028943 A US 49028943A US 2365515 A US2365515 A US 2365515A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F9/00—Casings; Header boxes; Auxiliary supports for elements; Auxiliary members within casings
    • F28F9/02—Header boxes; End plates
    • F28F9/0229—Double end plates; Single end plates with hollow spaces
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28D—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
    • F28D7/00—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary tubular conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall
    • F28D7/06—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary tubular conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall the conduits having a single U-bend
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F1/00—Tubular elements; Assemblies of tubular elements
    • F28F1/003—Multiple wall conduits, e.g. for leak detection
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F1/00—Tubular elements; Assemblies of tubular elements
    • F28F1/10—Tubular elements and assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with projections, with recesses
    • F28F1/12—Tubular elements and assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with projections, with recesses the means being only outside the tubular element
    • F28F1/34—Tubular elements and assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with projections, with recesses the means being only outside the tubular element and extending obliquely
    • F28F1/36—Tubular elements and assemblies thereof with means for increasing heat-transfer area, e.g. with fins, with projections, with recesses the means being only outside the tubular element and extending obliquely the means being helically wound fins or wire spirals
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01M—TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G01M3/00—Investigating fluid-tightness of structures
    • G01M3/02—Investigating fluid-tightness of structures by using fluid or vacuum
    • G01M3/26—Investigating fluid-tightness of structures by using fluid or vacuum by measuring rate of loss or gain of fluid, e.g. by pressure-responsive devices, by flow detectors
    • G01M3/32—Investigating fluid-tightness of structures by using fluid or vacuum by measuring rate of loss or gain of fluid, e.g. by pressure-responsive devices, by flow detectors for containers, e.g. radiators
    • G01M3/3227—Investigating fluid-tightness of structures by using fluid or vacuum by measuring rate of loss or gain of fluid, e.g. by pressure-responsive devices, by flow detectors for containers, e.g. radiators for radiators

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  • My invention relates to heat-exchange units, and particularly to water-circulating coolers for cooling the air which cools a large dynamo-electric machine for shipboard-use.
  • it. is customary and desirable to use the salt sea-water to circulate in the pipes of the coolers for cooling the Ventilating air of large dynamo-electric machines, and it is frequently desirable to place these coolers in such a position that any water-leakage which develops might get down into the vital parts of the machine, or might be carried there by the airstream.
  • FIG. 1 is a cross sectional view of a. part of one end of a heat-exchange unit constructed in accordance with my invention.
  • My heat-exchange unit has Vav header l at each end, and a series of liquid-conducting tubes 2 between the headers.
  • Each liquid-conducting tube is tightly surrounded by a iinned heat-exchange tube 3, having a spiral fin l formed integrally 'thereon as a part of the wall of the tube, such tubes being readily available on the market.
  • a spiral-iinned tube is a seamless ilexible thin-walled tube as shown in the drawing.
  • the heat-exchange tube 3 has portions 5 which are pressed or soldered onto the inner water-tube 2, orotherwise disposed in good heat-exchanging engagement therewith.
  • the process of forming the spiral fin 4 on the flexible heat-exchange tube 3 provides a small spiral duct E between the heat-exchange tube 3 and the water or other liquid-conducting tube 2, and this small spiral duct is sufficient to carry away any water which may leak out of the inner tube 2.
  • Each header l is provided with a main tubesheet or plate l, to which the ends of the liquidconducting tubes 2 are joined. At least one of the headers l, and preferably both of them, are
  • the auxiliary sheet-member 8 and the annular endmembers 9 provide communication from the several spiral ducts 6 to the space ll between the auxiliary sheet-member 8 and the main sheetmember 'l of its header.
  • the heat-exchange unit or cooler is provided with a cooler-frame or duct-portion l2 which ⁇ ioins the two headers l, and which provides an inner air-space I3 in which the air to be cooled is passed, so that the air-stream passes over the outside or the finned heat-exchange tubes 3, said air being conned by the cooler-frame l2 and the auxiliary sheet-mem-
  • the nned tubes 3 serve to keep the cooled air out or contact with any water which may leak out from the inside of the inner tubes 2. or from the Joints between these tubes and the main tubeplate or sheet-member 1 of either header.
  • the fact that the iins 4 are integral with the wall-portions 5 of the outer tubes insures a better heat-transfer path, from the water within the inner tubes 2, than was obtained in previous constructions in which the heat had to pass through two joints, iirst from the inner tube to the outer tube, and then from the outer tube to a separate fin-structure which surrounded the same.
  • the fact that my outer tube is thin-walled and iiexible means a very considerablev reduction in weight and cost, as compared with the past practice.
  • a heat-exchange unit having a header at each end, a series of liquid-conducting tubes between the headers, a iinned heat-exchange tube on each liquid-conducting tube, each heat-exchange tube having a spiral iin formed integrally thereon as a part of the wall of the tube, the parts of the heat-exchange tube between the successive convolutions of its spiral fin being in good heat-exchange engagement with respect to the liquid-conducting tube, the spiral iin providing va small spiral duct between the heat-exchange tube and the liquid-conducting tube, each header having a main sheet-member to which the ends of the liquid-conducting tubes are joined.
  • headers having a spaced auxiliary sheet-member to which the ends of the heat-exchange tubes are joined, said auxiliary sheet-member providing communication from' the several spiral ducts to the space between said auxiliary sheet-member and the main sheetmember of-its header.
  • a heat-exchange unit having a header at each end, a series of liquid-conducting tubes between the headers, a finned heat-exchange tube on each liquid-conducting tube, each heat-exchange tube having a spiral fin formed integrally thereon as a part of the wall of the tube, the parts of the heat-exchange tube between the successive convolutions of its spiral iin being in good heatexchanging engagement with respect to the liquid-conducting tube, the spiral fin providing a small spiral duct between the heat-,exchange tube and the liquid-conducting tube, an annular endmember joined to at least one end of each heat,
  • said auxiliary sheet-member and the annular end-members providing communication from the several spiral ducts to the space between said auxiliary sheet-member and the main sheetmember of its header.
  • a heat-exchange unit having a header at each end, a series of liquid-conducting tubes between the headers, a iinned heat-exchange tube on each liquid-conducting tube, each heat-exchange tube being a flexible thin-walled tube having a spiral iin formed integrally thereon as a part of the wall of the tube, thev parts of the heat-exchange tube between the successive convolutions of its spiral iin being in good heat-exchanging engagement with respect to the liquidconducting tube.
  • each header having a main sheet-member to which'the ends of the liquid-conducting tubes are joined, and at least one of the headers having a spaced auxiliary sheet-member to'which the ends of the heat-exchange tubes are joined, said auxiliary sheetmember providing communication from the several spiral ducts to the space between said auxiliary sheet-member and the main sheet-member of its header.
  • a heat-exchange unit having a header at each end, a series of liquid-conducting tubes between the headers, a nned heat-exchange tube on each liquid-conducting tube, each heat-exchange tube being a, iiexible thin-walled tube having a spiral fin formed integrally thereon as a part of the wall of the tube, the parts of the heat-exchange tube between the successive convolutions of its spiral iin being in good heat-exchanging engagement with respect to the liquidconducting tube, the spiral fin providing a small spiral duct between the heat-exchange tube and the liquid-conducting tube, an annular end-memthe headers having a spaced auxiliary sheetmember to which the annular end-members are joined, said auxiliary sheet-member and the annular end-members providing communication from the several spiral ducts to the space between said auxiliary sheet-member and the main sheet-member of its header.

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Dec. 19, 1944. R, A. BAUDRY 2,365,515 A WATER` COOLER Filed Jurie 10, 1943 WITNEssl-:s: INVENTOR Pene /Iazzdy ATTOR N EY Patented Dec. 19., 1944 WATER COOLER Ren A. Baudry, Wilkinsburg, Pa., assigner to Westinghouse Electric &'Manufacturinx Coinpany, East Pittsburgh, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Application June 10, 1943, Serial No. 490,289
4 Claims.
` My invention relates to heat-exchange units, and particularly to water-circulating coolers for cooling the air which cools a large dynamo-electric machine for shipboard-use. In ocean-going vessels it. is customary and desirable to use the salt sea-water to circulate in the pipes of the coolers for cooling the Ventilating air of large dynamo-electric machines, and it is frequently desirable to place these coolers in such a position that any water-leakage which develops might get down into the vital parts of the machine, or might be carried there by the airstream. In installations where the utmost reliability is required, it has been customary to provide such a construction that the water from a leaky tube would not come into contact with the air-stream, and it is a particular object of my invention to provide a novel construction for this purpose.
In the past, various means have been utilized for the purpose in question, the usual means involving a so-called double-tube construction in which each liquid-conducting tube is tightly surrounded by an outer tube or conduit, which is in turn surrounded` by a fin-structure, the bore of the outer tube being provided with longitudinally extending slots or ducts which will carry off any water leaking from the inner, or liquida` described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, the single figure of which the liquid-conducting tubes is tightly surrounded.by a finned heat-exchange tube in the form of a seamless flexible thin-walled tube having a spiral fin formed integrally thereon, as a part of the wall of the tube, the parts of the heatexchange tube, between the successive convolutions of its spiral iin, being in good heat-exchanging engagement with respect to the liquidconducting tube, the spiral iin providing a small spiral duct between the heat-exchange tube and the liquid-conducting tube. I am thus enabled to utilize the small spiral duct as a means for carrying away any leakage-water that may es- 1 bers 8 of the headers.
is a cross sectional view of a. part of one end of a heat-exchange unit constructed in accordance with my invention.
My heat-exchange unit has Vav header l at each end, and a series of liquid-conducting tubes 2 between the headers. Each liquid-conducting tube is tightly surrounded by a iinned heat-exchange tube 3, having a spiral fin l formed integrally 'thereon as a part of the wall of the tube, such tubes being readily available on the market. One form of such spiral-iinned tube is a seamless ilexible thin-walled tube as shown in the drawing.
Between successive convolutions of the spiral fin t, the heat-exchange tube 3 has portions 5 which are pressed or soldered onto the inner water-tube 2, orotherwise disposed in good heat-exchanging engagement therewith. The process of forming the spiral fin 4 on the flexible heat-exchange tube 3 provides a small spiral duct E between the heat-exchange tube 3 and the water or other liquid-conducting tube 2, and this small spiral duct is sufficient to carry away any water which may leak out of the inner tube 2.
Each header l is provided with a main tubesheet or plate l, to which the ends of the liquidconducting tubes 2 are joined. At least one of the headers l, and preferably both of them, are
provided with a spaced auxiliary sheet-member channel Ill between itself and the inner tube 2,4
and the auxiliary sheet-member 8 being joined to the several annular end-members 9 of the heat-exchange tubes 3. In this manner, the auxiliary sheet-member 8 and the annular endmembers 9 provide communication from the several spiral ducts 6 to the space ll between the auxiliary sheet-member 8 and the main sheetmember 'l of its header.
In operation, the heat-exchange unit or cooler is provided with a cooler-frame or duct-portion l2 which `ioins the two headers l, and which provides an inner air-space I3 in which the air to be cooled is passed, so that the air-stream passes over the outside or the finned heat-exchange tubes 3, said air being conned by the cooler-frame l2 and the auxiliary sheet-mem- It will be noted that the nned tubes 3 serve to keep the cooled air out or contact with any water which may leak out from the inside of the inner tubes 2. or from the Joints between these tubes and the main tubeplate or sheet-member 1 of either header. At the same time, the fact that the iins 4 are integral with the wall-portions 5 of the outer tubes insures a better heat-transfer path, from the water within the inner tubes 2, than was obtained in previous constructions in which the heat had to pass through two joints, iirst from the inner tube to the outer tube, and then from the outer tube to a separate fin-structure which surrounded the same. At the same time, the fact that my outer tube is thin-walled and iiexible, means a very considerablev reduction in weight and cost, as compared with the past practice.
I claim as my invention:
l. A heat-exchange unit having a header at each end, a series of liquid-conducting tubes between the headers, a iinned heat-exchange tube on each liquid-conducting tube, each heat-exchange tube having a spiral iin formed integrally thereon as a part of the wall of the tube, the parts of the heat-exchange tube between the successive convolutions of its spiral fin being in good heat-exchange engagement with respect to the liquid-conducting tube, the spiral iin providing va small spiral duct between the heat-exchange tube and the liquid-conducting tube, each header having a main sheet-member to which the ends of the liquid-conducting tubes are joined. and at least one of the headers having a spaced auxiliary sheet-member to which the ends of the heat-exchange tubes are joined, said auxiliary sheet-member providing communication from' the several spiral ducts to the space between said auxiliary sheet-member and the main sheetmember of-its header.
2. A heat-exchange unit having a header at each end, a series of liquid-conducting tubes between the headers, a finned heat-exchange tube on each liquid-conducting tube, each heat-exchange tube having a spiral fin formed integrally thereon as a part of the wall of the tube, the parts of the heat-exchange tube between the successive convolutions of its spiral iin being in good heatexchanging engagement with respect to the liquid-conducting tube, the spiral fin providing a small spiral duct between the heat-,exchange tube and the liquid-conducting tube, an annular endmember joined to at least one end of each heat,
member to which the annular end-members are joined, said auxiliary sheet-member and the annular end-members providing communication from the several spiral ducts to the space between said auxiliary sheet-member and the main sheetmember of its header.
3.L A heat-exchange unit having a header at each end, a series of liquid-conducting tubes between the headers, a iinned heat-exchange tube on each liquid-conducting tube, each heat-exchange tube being a flexible thin-walled tube having a spiral iin formed integrally thereon as a part of the wall of the tube, thev parts of the heat-exchange tube between the successive convolutions of its spiral iin being in good heat-exchanging engagement with respect to the liquidconducting tube. the spiral iin providing a small spiral duct between the heat-exchange tube and the liquid-conducting tube, each header having a main sheet-member to which'the ends of the liquid-conducting tubes are joined, and at least one of the headers having a spaced auxiliary sheet-member to'which the ends of the heat-exchange tubes are joined, said auxiliary sheetmember providing communication from the several spiral ducts to the space between said auxiliary sheet-member and the main sheet-member of its header.
4. A heat-exchange unit having a header at each end, a series of liquid-conducting tubes between the headers, a nned heat-exchange tube on each liquid-conducting tube, each heat-exchange tube being a, iiexible thin-walled tube having a spiral fin formed integrally thereon as a part of the wall of the tube, the parts of the heat-exchange tube between the successive convolutions of its spiral iin being in good heat-exchanging engagement with respect to the liquidconducting tube, the spiral fin providing a small spiral duct between the heat-exchange tube and the liquid-conducting tube, an annular end-memthe headers having a spaced auxiliary sheetmember to which the annular end-members are joined, said auxiliary sheet-member and the annular end-members providing communication from the several spiral ducts to the space between said auxiliary sheet-member and the main sheet-member of its header.
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US2772566A (en) * 1950-04-20 1956-12-04 Farnier Andre Device for obtaining liquid tightness of an enclosed space
US2854960A (en) * 1953-10-02 1958-10-07 Foster Wheeler Corp Vapor generating apparatus
DE1205121B (en) * 1959-05-02 1965-11-18 Scheer & Cie C F Standing heat exchanger
US3750444A (en) * 1970-10-29 1973-08-07 Kabel Metallwerke Ghh Method of continuous production of tubing with helical or annular ribs
US4210199A (en) * 1978-06-14 1980-07-01 Doucette Industries, Inc. Heat exchange system
US4232735A (en) * 1978-05-05 1980-11-11 Kim Sung C Double-walled finned heat transfer tube
US4249593A (en) * 1979-01-19 1981-02-10 The United States Of America As Represented By The United States Department Of Energy Heat exchanger with leak detecting double wall tubes
US4348794A (en) * 1978-05-05 1982-09-14 International Telephone And Telegraph Corporation Double-walled finned heat transfer tube
DE3203109A1 (en) * 1982-01-30 1983-08-11 Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG, 5000 Köln Heat exchanger matrix
US4538674A (en) * 1982-07-16 1985-09-03 The Babcock & Wilcox Company Heat exchanger having tubular members concentric with fluid carrying tubes to prevent mixing of the heat exchange fluids and method of construction thereof
US4635711A (en) * 1985-02-15 1987-01-13 Harsco Corporation Double wall heat exchanger
NL9302034A (en) * 1993-11-24 1995-06-16 Lentjes Standard Fasel Bv Cooling device.
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US2772566A (en) * 1950-04-20 1956-12-04 Farnier Andre Device for obtaining liquid tightness of an enclosed space
US2854960A (en) * 1953-10-02 1958-10-07 Foster Wheeler Corp Vapor generating apparatus
DE1205121B (en) * 1959-05-02 1965-11-18 Scheer & Cie C F Standing heat exchanger
US3750444A (en) * 1970-10-29 1973-08-07 Kabel Metallwerke Ghh Method of continuous production of tubing with helical or annular ribs
US4232735A (en) * 1978-05-05 1980-11-11 Kim Sung C Double-walled finned heat transfer tube
US4348794A (en) * 1978-05-05 1982-09-14 International Telephone And Telegraph Corporation Double-walled finned heat transfer tube
US4210199A (en) * 1978-06-14 1980-07-01 Doucette Industries, Inc. Heat exchange system
US4249593A (en) * 1979-01-19 1981-02-10 The United States Of America As Represented By The United States Department Of Energy Heat exchanger with leak detecting double wall tubes
DE3203109A1 (en) * 1982-01-30 1983-08-11 Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG, 5000 Köln Heat exchanger matrix
US4538674A (en) * 1982-07-16 1985-09-03 The Babcock & Wilcox Company Heat exchanger having tubular members concentric with fluid carrying tubes to prevent mixing of the heat exchange fluids and method of construction thereof
US4635711A (en) * 1985-02-15 1987-01-13 Harsco Corporation Double wall heat exchanger
NL9302034A (en) * 1993-11-24 1995-06-16 Lentjes Standard Fasel Bv Cooling device.
US5671807A (en) * 1993-11-24 1997-09-30 Standard Fasel-Lentjes B.V. Cooling apparatus
NL1012676C2 (en) * 1999-07-22 2001-01-23 Spiro Research Bv Method for manufacturing a double-walled heat exchanger tube with leak detection and such a heat exchanger tube.
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