Ford Motor Company Limited

Progressive Tool and Industries Company

Progressive Tool Industries

Progressive Tool Industries, Co.

Eddy G Mizzi

Ronald Lewis Pardi

William J Maybee

Daniel J Stark

Paul Krause

James C Rollinson

Walter Kowalewski

Walter Kowaleski

Walter Kowalcski

An apparatus assembles a heat exchanger core having first and second side plates. The first and second side plates cooperate with first and second end plates to sandwich a plurality of layered tubes and fin plates therebetween. The apparatus includes a lifting mechanism for stacking the tubes and fin plates with respect to one another to define a layered stack having opposite sides and opposite ends. A side plate assembling mechanism associates the first and second side plates on opposite sides of the layered stack. An end plate assembling mechanism associates the first and second end plates on opposite ends of the layered stack. A method for assembling a heat exchanger core includes the steps of stacking tubes and fin plates with respect to one another to define a layered stack having opposite sides and opposite ends, associating first and second side plates on opposite sides of the layered stack, and associating first and second ends plates on opposite end of the layered stack to form a completed heat exchanger core.

Method for assembling a heat exchanger core

An apparatus for aligning and delivering fins manufactured in a fin mill for use in manufacture and assembly of heat exchangers used for controlling temperature conditions. The apparatus includes first and second conveyors, the first conveyor receiving and transporting fins emanating from a fin mill, and the second conveyer delivering the fins to an apparatus for manufacturing and assembling a heat exchanger. A tier of chutes reorient the direction of the fins with respect to the direction of the conveyor travel.

Fin alignment and delivery apparatus

An apparatus for alignment and delivery of tubing for use in manufacture and assembly of heat exchangers used for controlling temperature conditions. The apparatus includes a drum into which bulk tubes are loaded. The drum aligns and deposits the tubes onto a conveyor which transports the tubes to a feed magazine. An alignment mechanism aligns the tubes within the feed magazine for use in the process of the assembly of the heat exchanger.

Tube alignment and delivery apparatus

Apparatus for assembling a heat exchanger core

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Allen Park, MI, United States of America

Eddy G Mizzi