Classifications

• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
  • F24F9/00—Use of air currents for screening, e.g. air curtains
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24H—FLUID HEATERS, e.g. WATER OR AIR HEATERS, HAVING HEAT-GENERATING MEANS, e.g. HEAT PUMPS, IN GENERAL
  • F24H3/00—Air heaters
  • F24H3/02—Air heaters with forced circulation
  • F24H3/04—Air heaters with forced circulation the air being in direct contact with the heating medium, e.g. electric heating element
  • F24H3/0405—Air heaters with forced circulation the air being in direct contact with the heating medium, e.g. electric heating element using electric energy supply, e.g. the heating medium being a resistive element; Heating by direct contact, i.e. with resistive elements, electrodes and fins being bonded together without additional element in-between
  • F24H3/0411—Air heaters with forced circulation the air being in direct contact with the heating medium, e.g. electric heating element using electric energy supply, e.g. the heating medium being a resistive element; Heating by direct contact, i.e. with resistive elements, electrodes and fins being bonded together without additional element in-between for domestic or space-heating systems

Definitions

• the present invention refers to a device in hot-air units for emitting an air curtain along particularly such smaller openings, as kiosk and ticket office windows and the like, inside which at least one person is staying rather frequently, and which device is of the type, which within a common casing incorporates a blower, at least one electric infra-red heater and an air director provided in the air flow from the blower.
• hot-air units which emit a hot air curtain, but this requires big volumes of air for conveying the desired heat quantity and it has hitherto substantially been used in doorways, where people normally only passes through and not stays for longer time.
• These hot-air units efficiently prevent cold air from penetrating into the premises through the hot-air curtain, but they generally are not suffi- cient for heating the premises.
• the strong flows of air further ⁇ more give rise to draught and make it almost impossible to work with papers of different types, as those will be blown away by the air flows.
• the hot-air unit emitting the air curtain is provided inside and above the opening to be screened off and at such a low level as possible, which means that the unit will shade away the light from the light fittings which commonly is positioned in the ceiling above the opening.
• the purpose of the present invention is to provide a hot-air uni having an air curtain effect preventing the cold air from pene- trating in, but still having so low velocity that it will no whirl around pieces of paper inside the action area of the ho air flow, which emits so much heat, that the temperatur differences are eliminated and the stay adjacent the open windo is experienced as comfortable.
• Another purpose of the new hot-ai unit is to obtain better light conditions inside the opening an a practically noiseless device.
• the air director of the blower is directed towards and is provided ad acent to the opening, that at least one heater is positioned in the flow of air emitted by the blower and that th infra-red heater and the heater are located behind a commo screen adapted to direct the air jets of the heater and the hea rays of the infra-red heater mainly in parallel to each other.
• Fig. 1 shows the hot-air unit according to the invention in front view.
• Fig. 2 shows the unit according to Fig. 1 in a view from below.
• Fig. 3 is a section along line III-III in Fig. 1.
• Fig. 4 is a section along line IV-IV in Fig. 4
• Fig. 5 shows in a view analogous with Fig. 1, the hot-air unit, but with the front panel and the side panels removed.
• the hot-air unit consists of rectangular housing 11, incorporating a front side 12 with a inlet opening 13, a rear side 14, an upper side 15 and a lowe side 16, which substantially is constituted by a screen 17. Th open ends of the housing are closable by means of end panels 18, which are preferably snapped into the housing structure. In the lower side there is also provided a panel 19 provided with switches etcetera, which will be described later on in the text.
• the housing 11 is built around the rear side 14 and the upper side 15, which form a continuous unit 20.
• the rear side is reinforced with a mounting plate 21, which in cross-section is U-shaped, thus that it together with the rear side 14 forms a duct 22 for wiring.
• a mounting plate 21 which in cross-section is U-shaped, thus that it together with the rear side 14 forms a duct 22 for wiring.
• At each one of the two end portions of the housing 11 there is fitted to the mounting plate 21 one bracket 23 and 24, between which is fixedly provided a U-shaped sheet metal profile 25, which is open at its lower side and designed as a part of the light armature 26 of the hot-air unit.
• blowers 27 of cross-flow type are arranged axially after each other in such a manner, that the inlet opening 28 of the blowers is facing the admission opening 13 of the housing, whereas the discharge socket 29 of the blowers is directed towards the screen 17 at the lower side 16 of the housing.
• an electric heater 30, e.g. a finned heater e.g. a finned heater, said space on one side being limited by the mounting plate 21 and on the opposite side of an intermediate wall 31, which mainly forms an extension of one side wall 32 of the discharge socket 29.
• the lower end edge of the discharge socket is positioned at some distance above the upper end edge of the intermediate wall 31, thus that a slot 33 is formed, through which slot air can be ejected by the flow of air from the blowers, which air has flown around the light fittings 26 and an infra-red heater 37 provided in the space 34 between said intermediate wall 31 and one shank 35 of the U-shaped sheet metal profile 25.
• the reflector of the infra-red heater is designated 38.
• the three units i.e. the heater 30, the infra-red heater 37 and the light fittings 26 are positioned mainly in parallel beside each other and mainly in a common plane, thus that the screen 17 provided on the lower side 16 of the housing is a common director for these three units.
• the screen 17 directs the air jets from the heater, the heat rays from the infra-red heater and the light beams from the light fittings mainly in parallel to each other.
• the mutual sequence of the three units 30, 37, 26 is also important for obtaining the function aimed at, whereby the heater 30 is located outmost, closest to the wall 46 where the opening 47 is situated, thus that the air curtain sweeps along it. Thereupon comes the infra-red heater and farthest in the light fittings 26.
• the unit As hot-air units of this type are arranged above the window or opening 47 to be swept by the hot air curtain, the unit will be positioned just a little above the person staying adjacent the window. It is therefore very important that the unit has a very low noise level. In order to achieve this the blower is mounted thus in the housing that no vibrations can be transferred to it.
• double VELCRO tapes 39 it has according to the invention been used double VELCRO tapes 39, one being glued to the mounting plate 21 and the other to the rear side of the housing, such as shown in Fig. 3.
• An air jet always suffers from a certain turbulency in its bordering layer against ambient air, which results in a admixture of ambient air in the air jet. This admixture is however lower the lower the temperature of the air jet is as compared to the ambient air, which means that the throw of the jet increases.
• a panel 19 For control of the hot air unit there is at the lower side provided a panel 19, having an overall switch by which the entire hot-air unit can be turned on or off without changing earlier chosen settings.
• the flow of hot air can be adjusted regarding air quantity, i.e. whole and half by means of the switch 41.
• the heater 30 is connected to the switch 42, the infra-red heater to the switch 43 and the light to the switch 44.
• the amount of heat is adjusted with an electronic, proportional thermostat, which senses the temperature of the incoming air.
• the temperature range of the thermostat can be adjusted with a hand wheel 45.

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