Tangential blower

• US 4,078,870 A
• Filed: 06/16/1976
• Issued: 03/14/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: International Standard Electric Corporation (ITT, Inc.)
• Inventors: Keller, Bruno, Engelhardt, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): Husar, C. J.
• Application Number:
  US05/696,785
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• Field of Search: 415/54, 415/119, 415/209, 415/219 C
• US Class Current: 415/53.1
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 17/04 of transverse-flow type

Abstract

A tangential blower stands out for its low noise level as a result of a specially constructed baffle plate inlet edge, vortex former and pressure connection. It is also possible to vary air-inlet and air-outlet cross sections and thus influence the blower characteristic.

Claims

1. A tangential blower comprising:

a rotor mounted for rotation about an axis and having a plurality of blades with edges extending parallel to said axis;

a spiral-shaped baffle plate mounted around said rotor, said spiral-shaped baffle plate extending in its spiral shape into a planar portion that is near a region of a high-pressure side connection, after the closest approach of said spiral-shaped baffle plate to said rotor near a low-pressure side, said spiral-shaped baffle plate extending away from said rotor bending in a spiral toward said planar portion;

two end plates of a vortex-forming system which interconnect said low-pressure side and said high-pressure side;

at least two guidewalls having edges extending transversely to the direction of flow and extending straight over their entire lengths and being parallel to said blade edges of said rotor, said guidewalls forming passages converging toward said rotor and being open at both ends, said baffle plate having, in a region of said pressure connection, an air-deflecting member which extends parallel to said rotor axis for the distance between said end plates, each baffle-plate inlet edge being parallel to the blade edges of said rotor and having steplike offsets between the said plates;

the air outlet slots and a plurality of guidewalls having air outlet slots so divided in the direction of said axis as to be staggered in relation to one another in a steplike arrangement by a 0.3 to 0.7 blade pitch t.

2. A tangential blower according to claim 1, wherein the maximum height of said member is equal to about 0.08 times the diameter of said rotor.

3. A tangential blower according to claim 1, wherein said baffle-plate inlet edge has a height equal to a 0.3 to 1.5 blade pitch t.

4. A tangential blower according to claim 1, wherein said baffle-plate inlet edge between said end plates is continuously inclined in relation to said axis.

5. A tangential blower according to claim 4, wherein said baffle-plate inlet edge has an inclination between said blower end plates equal to about a 0.3 to 1.5 blade pitch t.

6. A tangential blower according to claim 1, wherein said guidewalls have edges of the vortex-forming system which face said rotor are inclined with respect to the blade edges by a given angle along the entire length of the rotor.

7. A tangential blower according to claim 1, wherein said guidewalls have edges which face said rotor and are swept back.

8. A tangential blower according to claim 7, wherein the height of said air outlet slots between those edges of said guidewalls which face said rotor increases from the center toward said end plates.

9. A tangential blower according to claim 1, wherein in the region of said end plates said air outlet slots at said guidewalls are higher than they are in their center portions.

10. A tangential blower according to claim 1, wherein the height of said air outlet slots at said guidewalls amounts to between about a 0.1 to a 0.6 blade pitch t.