Modular floor terminal basket with damper

• US 7,628,686 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2006
• Issued: 12/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: E.H. Price
• Original Assignee: EH Price Limited (E.H. Price)
• Inventors: Rimmer, Julian Douglas Tyldesley, Nicholson, Mike, Oliver, Vasilios
• Primary Examiner(s): McAllister; Steve
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kosanovic; Helena
• Application Number:
  US11/380,290
• Publication Number:
  US 20060246835A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,322 Days
• Field of Search: 454/290
• US Class Current: 454/290
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/105 composed of diaphragms or segments
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2013/1433 with electric motors
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2221/40 HVAC with raised floors

Abstract

A modular floor terminal basket with a damper is mounted in the floor of an occupied space for delivering air from an under floor air plenum to the occupied space above. The modular floor terminal basket with a damper includes a generally cylindrical basket with air inlet openings on the basket side and an air outlet at the top of the basket. A damper is positioned in the basket for movement from a lower opened position to an upper closed position. The position of the damper is controlled by an actuator which in turn is controlled by a thermostat/controller in the occupied space above the floor. The damper is slideably mounted on a damper guide extending from the bottom of the basket toward the air outlet at the top of the basket. The actuator rotates a threaded shaft that engages a threaded collar attached to the damper so that the damper slides up and down along the damper guide.

Claims

1. A modular floor terminal basket mounted in a floor with an air plenum below and an occupied space above, wherein the modular floor terminal basket controls flow of conditioned air from the air plenum to the occupied space, and comprising:

a. a basket supported by the floor and extending into the air plenum below the floor and having;

i. a top with an air outlet;

ii. a side with an air inlet wherein the side comprises vertically extending columns; and

iii. a bottom directly affixed to the side;

b. a damper having an edge for engaging the vertically extending columns for movement between an opened position adjacent the bottom of the basket and a closed position adjacent the top of the basket;

c. a damper drive for driving the damper between the opened position adjacent the bottom of the basket and the closed position adjacent the top of the basket comprising;

i. a threaded collar immovably affixed to the damper;

ii. threaded screw drive for threadably engaging the threaded collar; and

iii. a motor connected to the threaded screw drive for rotating the threaded screw drive;

wherein the edge of the damper has protrusions that engage the vertically extending columns, wherein the columns define the air inlet including a top of the air inlet, and wherein the protrusions on the edge of the damper extend into the air inlet and, when the damper is in an upper closed position, the protrusions engage the top of the air inlet to shut off the flow of conditioned air from the air plenum to the occupied space.