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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7367380 | Coil type turn-fin condenser Disclosed herein is a turn-fin condenser. The turn-fin condenser employs a turn-fin tube adhesively wound in a spiral shape around an outer surface of the tube in which refrigerant flows. The condenser comprises a coil type turn-fin tube 10 wound in a coil sh... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7040015 | Tube finning machine and method of use This invention relates to a tube finning machine (10), and in particular to a machine capable of fitting several fins (26) to one or more tubes (26) at the same time, the assembled finned tube being suitable for heat exchange applications. Accor... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6793014 | Heat transfer member and method for manufacturing same A method for manufacturing a heat transfer member comprises the step of subjecting a material to be worked, which is made of a metallic thin sheet, to a press forming utilizing a press-forming device to form a heat transfer member for a heat exchanger. The heat tran... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6701609 | Apparatus for tack welding a recuperator cell An apparatus for manufacturing a cell of a recuperator wherein the cell includes a plurality of primary surface sheets, a plurality of spacer bars and a pair of guide vanes. A fixture has a top portion and a bottom portion. The top portion is pivotably mo... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6687979 | System for manufacturing a circular primary surface recuperator A system is disclosed to manufacture a recuperator core. The core is made up of a plurality of cells and an inner sealing member. A manufacturing system has an input end, an assembly station having a lower or inner chucking portion and an upper portion, a... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6668446 | Recuperator duct assembly line An assembly line for economically and efficiently assembling a core into a recuperator. The assembly line has an inlet end, an assembly station, a welding station, a control station and an outlet end. The inlet end has a plurality of the cores to be used ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6581273 | Heat exchanger tube weaving apparatus and method A weaving apparatus used to separate the tubes of a heat exchanger so that spacers that hold the tubes apart can be inserted between the tubes to increase thermal efficiency. The weaving apparatus includes a frame assembly and a weaving mechanism containe... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6530144 | Apparatus for automatic assembling a heat exchanger An automatic assembling apparatus for inserting hair pins into holes formed on a heat exchanger including a plurality of flat plate fins and two side panel disposed both sides of said flat plate fins are provided. The apparatus includes a working station ... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6487768 | Heat exchanger manufacturing system Improved plastic heat exchanger production systems are described. The production systems are arranged to extrude plastic tubing, cut the tubing into segments of desired length and convey the tubing to a plurality of aligned tube inserters. Clip strips are... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6405428 | Apparatus of automatically assembling a heat exchanger An automatic assembling apparatus of assembling return bends and hair pins of a heat exchanger is provided. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat plat fins arranged spaced-apart from each other by a first predetermined interval, a plurality of h... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6370749 | Heat pipe shaping device A heat pipe shaping device comprises a rectangular table, and each lateral surface of the table has a work station. The top plate of the table is elevated by a plurality of supporting rods at a periphery of the table. A vacuum manifold is connected to the... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6332266 | Heat exchanger assembling apparatus A heat exchanger assembling apparatus includes a main conveyer for transferring a tray, at least one fin transfer conveyer and one molding plate transfer conveyer, installed at one side of the main conveyer to be parallel thereto and having a predetermine... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6067704 | Apparatus for assembling heat exchanger cores A core builder machine (10), including an elongated table (12) on which the cores are supported and transferred to the various assembly portions of the machine (10). A plurality of heat exchanger tubes (18) are fed from a tube magazine (16) by a tube disp... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6012220 | Self storing expander back plates A fixture for supporting a heat exchanger coil within a tube expander apparatus. The back wall of the fixture contains a series of spaced apart vertically disposed stationary slats. A moveable frame is slidably mounted in the back wall which contains a se... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5996217 | Heat exchanging tube assembling apparatus for heat exchanger and assembling method thereof A heat exchanging tube assembling apparatus is adapted to a heat exchanger having an outer casing in which is arranged a partition plate formed with holes through which heat exchanging tubes, each having a U-shape in an outer appearance, are inserted from... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5903977 | Method and an apparatus for manufacturing heatsink devices Heatsink devices are formed by attaching a plurality of fin members to a planar base member. A primary strip of thermally conducive material forms base members which are assembled with fin members formed from a secondary sheet of thermally conducting mate... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5893209 | Apparatus for effecting boiler tube removal A gap-cutter tool assembly for machining a longitudinal gap in an installed boiler tube is provided with clamp elements that engage the interior surface of the installed boiler tube, a cutter head track that provides a straight line cutting path within th... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5752312 | Tube transfer device A tube transfer device which includes a tube conveyor for transporting processed tubes from an entry location to an exit location thereon. The tube conveyor includes a plurality of first tube holders thereon which are adapted to hold the processed tubes s... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5732460 | Corrugation machine for making a core for a heat exchanger A machine for corrugating preformed plates that form the core element of a heat exchanger. A fold forming mechanism imparts an initial fold in the deformable links joining a series of preformed plates received from an external source. A gathering mechanis... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5632080 | Tube cutter/bender to lacer transfer station A tube transfer device which includes a tube conveyor for transporting processed tubes from an entry location to an exit location thereon. The tube conveyor includes a plurality of first tube holders thereon which are adapted to hold the processed tubes s... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5426847 | Assembling apparatus for a heat exchanger The present invention provides an assembling apparatus for a heat exchanger, which is capable of certainly coinciding ends of pipes with pipe holes of fins so as to easily insert the pipes into the pipe holes. In the apparatus, a send-in section sets the ... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5293682 | Apparatus for dismantling potentially contaminated tubes from a tube bundle An apparatus for deforming, splitting and chopping of contaminated, or potentially contaminated, heat exchanger tubes into short tubes segments that easily may transported to an off-site location for decontamination or disposal. The invention has particul... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5279025 | Method of securing a cap assembly to a radiator A radiator cap assembly has a cap, a tether and a seal member. The seal member is adapted to float upon coolant within the radiator. Upon removal of the cap while the coolant is in an elevated temperature and pressure condition, the seal member will cover... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5220722 | Quick height change adjustment for tube expander A mechanical tube expander having a construction which facilitates a machine setup prior to coil assembly without necessitating the machine operator to leave a control panel, this being due to all setup and locking features being accomplished from the con... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5165153 | Apparatus for producing a stress relieving zone in a heat exchanger An apparatus for producing a thermal stress-relieving zone in an automotive heat exchanger having a frame including a pair of channel-shaped side supports is disclosed, the apparatus including a support mechanism for receiving and supporting the heat exch... | 11/24/1992 |
| 4698904 | Apparatus for assembling fins and tubes for heat exchangers An apparatus for producing various heat exchangers is disclosed in which a plurality of heat exchangers disposed side by side are formed at once. A series of manufacturing stations for working heat exchanger components such as fins and tubes and for openi... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4688308 | Mobile radiator shop A portable automotive vehicle radiator repair shop is mounted on an automotive vehicle. The vehicle is equipped with an immersion tank having an open top and a drain beneath and a power lift having a platform moveable to submerge and raise a radiator to b... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4649628 | Method for crimping a tube end plate of a heat exchanger on a header box and heat exchanger obtained through this method In a method for crimping a tube end plate of a heat exchanger on a header box, there is provided a peripheral upright edge for enclosing an extra thickness defined by the header box. Portion of the upright edge of the tube end plate which has to extend, w... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4637133 | Apparatus for assembling radiator components An assembly machine is operable in a single continuous stroke to advance a radiator header plate having a plurality of tube receiving openings onto the ends of a plurality of radiator tubes and to forcibly peripherally expand the tube ends within the open... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4637132 | Apparatus for assembling heat exchanger core An apparatus for automatically assembling a heat exchanger core assembly comprised of a pair of inserts and a plurality of tubes and corrugated fins arranged in an alternate manner. The assembled core elements are guided along a guide rail means while bei... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4381592 | Method of producing helically wound spine fin heat exchanger A spine fin heat exchanger is disclosed in which the density of the spine fins is greater along the portions of the passes within the pattern of high flow of air or the like across the heat exchanger. Those portions of the tubing at the bends and outside ... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4380868 | Tube loading apparatus Apparatus in generally unitary machine form for the mechanical, automatic installation of tubes in an assembly of header plates and baffles to produce a tubular heat exchanger core or the like. Tubes are inserted one at a time in perforate parts held in a... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4203205 | Method and apparatus for the manufacture of a heat exchanger A method for the manufacture of a heat exchanger comprising an internal arrangement of general cylindrical shape constituted by winding in a spiral two parallel and adjacent portions of a first band, such as a metal sheet and a second band wound on this a... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4179781 | Method for forming a heat exchanger core An improved method for forming a heat exchanger core from a single elongated sheet of metal which is stamped to define longitudinally spaced corrugated sections and then is pleat folded between the stamped sections to define first and second groups of alt... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4170055 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing a heat exchanger A method and apparatus for manufacturing a heat exchanger. A plurality of parallel pipes are advanced from a magazine to an axially slotted open ended shell blank which is radially compressed against the pipes. The contacting surfaces of the pipe openings... | 10/09/1979 |
| 4106177 | Method of withdrawing elongate tubular members An elongated tubular member is withdrawn from a bore in a support member by fixing at a leading end of the tubular member a hollow adapter, inserting through the tubular member and the hollow adapter a rod having an overall length greater than the combine... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4095321 | Apparatus for manufacturing a helically finned heat exchanger An apparatus is disclosed for the manufacture of a continuous heat exchanger tube including helically winding a spine fin material on the outer wall of a base tube member. A preselected portion of the spine fin material is secured against movement relativ... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4085488 | Method and apparatus for winding and forming cooling coils A method for forming cooling coils of successive layers of rectangular configuration, in which the front end of an elongated tube is threaded between rolls of a straightening apparatus and clamped onto the periphery of a rectangular table, whereafter the ... | 04/25/1978 |
| 3982311 | Convector for heating buildings and tools and method for manufacturing convector modules for such convectors A convector for heating buildings consisting of horizontal convector modules spaced a distance apart, one above the other. Each convector module has heat-conducting tubes, onto which are forced lamella bodies, the side lugs of said lamella bodies being be... | 09/28/1976 |
