Tubular air diffuser

• US 3,186,329 A
• Filed: 05/21/1962
• Issued: 06/01/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Walter W. Kennedy
• Original Assignee: Walter W. Kennedy
• Inventors: Kennedy, Walter W.
• Application Number:
  US04/196,366
• Time in Patent Office: 1,107 Days
• US Class Current: 454/316
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/06 Outlets for directing or distributing air into rooms or spaces, e.g. ceiling air diffuser
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2013/0612 Induction nozzles without swirl means

Claims

1. IN COMBINATION WITH A DUCT ADAPTED FOR THE FLOW OF AIR AXIALLY THERETHROUGH, AN ANNULUS ADAPTED TO BE SECURED TO THE END OF A DUCT CONCENTRIC WITH THE DUCT AXIS, AN ELONGATED TUBE EXTENDING THROUGH THE HOLD DEFINED BY THE ANNULUS AND HAVING AN OUTER PERIPHERAL SURFACE RADIALLY SPACED INWARDLY FROM THE INNER PERIPHERY OF THE ANNULUS, SAID TUBE RECEIVING AT ITS INNER END AIR DELIVERED THROUGH SAID DUCT AND DISCHARGING A STREAM OF SUCH AIR FROM ITS OUTER END IN A DIRECTION DETERMINED BY THE ANGLE INCLUDED BETWEEN THE AXES OF SAID ANNULUS AND SAID TUBE, AND MANS CONNECTING SAID ANNULUS AND SAID TUBE AND SUPPORTING THE LATTER FOR TURNING OF THE TUBE ABOUT THE AXIS OF SAID ANNULUS AND ALSO FOR SWINGING ABOUT A TRANVERSE AXIS EXTENDING DIAMATERICALLY ACROSS SAID HOLE AND LYING SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE PLANE OF THE ANNULUS, SAID CONNECTING AND SUPPORTING MEANS INCLUDING TWO TRUNNIONS PROJECTING RADIALLY FROM OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE TUBE ALONG SAID TRANSVERSE AXIS AND DISPOSED INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS OF SAID TUBE WHEREBY TO PROVIDE, IN THE DIFFERENT ANGULAR POSITIONS OF THE TUBE ABOUT ITS OWN AXIS, FOR SWINGING OF THE TUBE ABOUT SAID TRANSVERSE AXIS AS PERMITTED BY THE SPACE BETWEEN THE ANNULUS AND THE TUBE.