Bottom source air outlet

• US 5,058,490 A
• Filed: 08/20/1990
• Issued: 10/22/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: H. Krantz GmbH & Co.
• Original Assignee: H. Krantz GmbH & Co.
• Inventors: Sodec, Franc, Schweikert, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): Joyce, Harold
• Application Number:
  US07/570,145
• Time in Patent Office: 428 Days
• Field of Search: 98/40.01, 98/40.05, 98/40.1, 98/40.11, 98/40.13, 98/40.15, 98/40.16, 98/40.22
• US Class Current: 454/290
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/06 Outlets for directing or distributing air into rooms or spaces, e.g. ceiling air diffuser

Abstract

Fresh air is supplied into an enclosed space by an air flow radially and substantially without turbulence horizontally over a floor by an air outlet, the outlet openings of which are substantially flush with the floor surface. The air outlet has a cylindrical air guide collar (1) and a concentric insert (7). The air guide collar (1) has a curved collar section (3) merging radially outwardly into a flange (4) which overlaps and bears against the edge of an opening (2) in the floor. The funnel-shaped insert (7) converges from the top to bottom and has an insert flange (8) that extends radially outwardly in the same plane as the collar flange (4). The insert flange (8) narrows an annular flow passage (9) between the air guide collar (1) and the insert (7). The exhaust aperture of the insert (7) can be closed to some extent by a transverse, horizontally arranged deflecting or baffle plate (12).

Claims

1. A bottom source air outlet for installation in an opening in a floor, comprising pot-shaped air inlet means with radially facing air inlet holes for introducing diffused air into said outlet, and air guide collar having a cylindrical section connected to said air inlet means, an outwardly curving section and a first flange section, said outwardly curving section connecting said cylindrical section to said first flange section, a funnel-shaped air guide insert converging downwardly and concentrically in said air guide collar, said air guide insert having an upper end second flange section extending radially outwardly toward said first flange section for forming a first annular air flow passage between an outer surface of said air guide insert and an inner surface of said air guide collar, and baffle means operatively arranged inside said air guide insert for closing an upper open end of said air guide insert to form a second annular air flow passage between an inner surface of said air guide insert and a radially outer edge of said baffle means in said air guide insert, and wherein said first flange section of said air guide collar and said second flange section of said air guide insert extend substantially in the same horizontal plane defined by a surface of said floor, so that an outlet plane of said air outlet extends substantially flush with said floor surface, whereby an incoming air volume is divided into a radially outer flow that curves out horizontally over said floor surface and a radially inner flow that is diverted to flow substantially horizontally.

2. The air outlet of claim 1, further comprising radially extending spoke-type lands connecting said air guide insert to said air guide collar, said lands being spaced from one another to form air outlets between neighboring lands in said first annular air flow passage.

3. The air outlet of claim 1, further comprising perforated means for covering said upper open end of said air guide insert.

4. The air outlet of claim 3, wherein said baffle means are arranged on or above said perforated covering means.

5. The air outlet of claim 3, wherein said baffle means are arranged below said perforated covering means.

6. The air outlet of claim 1, further comprising means for adjustably mounting said baffle means for adjusting said baffle means to different elevational positions along a central axis of said air outlet.

7. The air outlet of claim 6, wherein said means for adjustably mounting said baffle means comprise a spindle and a spindle nut.

8. The air outlet of claim 6, further comprising a perforated means secured to said upper open end of said air guide insert, and wherein said baffle means comprise a baffle plate adjustably mounted below said perforated means.

9. The air outlet of claim 1, wherein said outwardly curving section curves radially outwardly from said cylindrical section of said air guide collar into said first flange section for guiding air from an axial direction into a radially outward horizontal direction in cooperation with said radially outer insert second flange section.

10. The air outlet of claim 1, wherein said pot-shaped air inlet means also comprises a radially outwardly extending mounting flange.