Header arrangement in a shell and tube heat exchanger
CA 1075677 A · Owner: Foster Wheeler Limited · Inventors: Nickerson, James H. D.; Steel, Robert R.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A heat exchange vessel has a plurality of tubes disposed therein. A tube sheet section in the vessel has a plurality of ports formed therein for receiving one end of each of said tubes, and at least one channel is formed in said first tube sheet section for communicating with said ports. An additional tube sheet section disposed in said vessel has a plurality of ports formed therein for receiving the other ends of said tubes and at least one channel formed in said additional tube sheet section is provided for communicating with said latter ports. Means is provided for introducing a heat exchange fluid to the channel associated with one of said tube sheet sections for passing through its …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted April 15, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 15, 1997.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.