| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5252024 |
Transfer method for various sizes of assemblies |
October 12, 1993 |
| A loose assembly of parts which are not secured is moved from a pallet on a conveyor to a banding station. The assembly may vary in size and a machine readable tag on the pallet bears the size information. A transfer apparatus reads the tag and adjusts a clamp size to fit the assembly. A |
| 5234302 |
Conveyor belt for braze furnace |
August 10, 1993 |
| A conveyor assembly for a braze furnace includes a plurality of first chain links pivotally interconnected to form a continuous loop chain and a plurality of second chain links pivotally interconnected to form a continuous loop chain identical to the first chain links. The first and |
| 5226234 |
Method for assembling heat exchanger tubes |
July 13, 1993 |
| Plates for forming heat exchanger tubes are assembled into pairs by an assembly machine having two cooperating rotors, each having a plate input, and a feed mechanism transfers plates of different types from stacks of plates to the machine in a desired order. A conveyor belt for each rot |
| 5172761 |
Heat exchanger tank and header |
December 22, 1992 |
| A heat exchanger is formed by a pair of tanks with heat exchanger tubes connected therebetween. The tanks include a header plate with chamber indentions that cooperates with a tank plate to form a row of tank chambers for interconnecting the heat exchanger tubes joined to the header |
| 5146847 |
Variable speed feed control and tensioning of a bander |
September 15, 1992 |
| A strap feed assembly wraps a flexible strap around an item. A drive wheel is connected to a reversible drive motor for feeding and reversing the strap to wrap the strap around the item and to tension the strap once it is wrapped therearound. A controller operates the drive motor to cont |
| 5120189 |
Jump indexing pallet and method for heat exchanger assembly |
June 9, 1992 |
| A method and apparatus for assembling heat exchanger elements includes a pallet comprising a frame and a plurality of blocks slidably aligned on each side of the frame with opposed pairs of blocks slotted to receive pairs of plates dropped into the pallet. Lead screws driven by servomoto |
| 5022814 |
Jump indexing pallet and method for heat exchanger assembly |
June 11, 1991 |
| A method and apparatus for assembling heat exchanger elements includes a pallet comprising a frame and a plurality of blocks slidably aligned on each side of the frame with opposed pairs of blocks slotted to receive pairs of plates dropped into the pallet. Lead screws driven by servomoto |
| 4971145 |
Heat exchanger header |
November 20, 1990 |
| A heat exchanger header is formed of a tube plate and a header plate having indentations that cooperate with the tube plate to form a row of tank chambers for interconnecting heat exchanger tubes joined to the tube plate. The tube plate has ribs extending between adjacent tube apertures |
