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Modular gas and liquid contact means

US4052491A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 25, 1976
Grant dateOct 4, 1977
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Expiry dateJun 25, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S261/11
  • WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A modular gas and liquid contact member is formed of a plurality of extended surface sheet members with means associated with at least the peripheral margins thereof warping the sheets and maintaining the sheets in an undulated array. In a preferred form of the invention, the means for warping and maintaining the sheet members in the undulated array comprises a plurality of through bolts and spacers of varying lengths threaded on the through bolts and contacting opposed surfaces of adjacent sheet members.

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