Heat exchanger core structure

• US 3,103,971 A
• Filed: 08/08/1958
• Issued: 09/17/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/1958
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Helmut A. Freyholdt
• Original Assignee: Helmut A. Freyholdt
• Inventors: Freyholdt, Helmut A.
• Application Number:
  US03/754,106
• Time in Patent Office: 1,866 Days
• US Class Current: 165/165
• CPC Class Codes: F28F 3/022 the means being wires or pins
• CPC Class Codes: F28F 9/0075 Supports for plates or plate assemblies
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 165/355 having separate flow passage for two distinct fluids

Claims

1. IN A HEAT EXCHANGER CORE STRUCTURE:

A PLURALITY OF SPACED APART, LEAK-TIGHT SEPARATION WALLS AT LEAST PARTIALLY DEFINING FLUID PASSAGES, EACH OF SAID WALLS COMPRISING A JOINTLESS, HOMOGENEOUS STRUCTURE OF PLASTIC SEALING AND BONDING MATERIAL HAVING INTERNALLY EMBEDDED THEREIN A PLURALITY OF REINFORCING AND CARRIER MEMBERS OF SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM CROSS SECTION SPACED LATERALLY THROUGHOUT THE HEIGHT OF SAID WALL AND EXTENDING LENGTHWISE OF THE WALL SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL THERETO;

AND HEAT-CONDUCTIVE MEMBERS TRAVERSING ALL OF SAID WALLS IN A PLURALITY OF ROWS AND IN SEALED AND BONDED RELATIONSHIP THEREWITH, AND PASSING THROUGH ALL OF SAID PASSAGES AND DIRECTLY EXPOSED THEREIN, SAID ROWS OF HEAT-CONDUCTIVE MEMBERS AND SAID REINFORCING AND CARRIER MEMBERS BEING STACKED IN ALTERNATING CONTACTING SEQUENCE, THEREBY TO SPACE AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER THROUGHOUT THE HEIGHT OF EACH OF SAID WALLS AND TO FORM INTERNALLY REINFORCED WALLS.