Method of assembling a plate-fin heat exchanger
A method is described of assembling a plate-fin heat exchanger comprising the steps of providing like substantially straight elongate plate fins with spaced holes therein, bowing the plate-fins to increase their stability and accumulating the plate fins in a stacked contiguous relationship to provide a bundle, providing elongated substantially parallel tubes spaced from each other substantially the same distance as the spaced holes and oriented substantially perpendicularly to the stacked plate fins, and mounting the plate fins in the stacked contiguous relationship onto the elongated substantially parallel tubes by inserting the substantially parallel tubes into the spaced holes, transferring the bundle of bowed plate-fins into a carriage, and transferring the bundle of plate-fins from the carriage onto the elongated substantially parallel tubes.
- Assignee:
- NOV; NOV-85-018346; EDB-86-151909
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4601088
- OSTI ID:
- 5327693
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 25 May 1984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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