Patent · US Expired

Screen for improving the environment of a workplace having a plurality of working areas

US4170930A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 8, 1977
Grant dateOct 16, 1979
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 8, 1997

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF24F2013/0608
  • WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A screen for improving the environment of separate working areas in a working place having a plurality of such working areas, e.g. a factory floor, a workshop, an office or the like, is provided with a mechanism for connecting the screen to an air-supply line and exhibits at least one perforated side surface. The screen is hollow and accommodates a perforated supply and distributing pipe for fresh air. So as to evenly distribute the air, the pipe in a preferred embodiment has a number of nozzles which project into the path of the main-flow in the pipe and deflect uniform part flows therefrom in a direction substantially transversally of the direction of the main-flow and at substantially the same speed as the speed of the main-flow before the first nozzle. The screen may serve as a combined acoustic and air-supply screen which enables personnel to work close to the screen without being subjected to draughts.

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