Gsi Group Corporation

Joshua Sander

Brian Daniel Duke

Laszlo Talaber

A fan assembly has a propeller with a plurality of fan blades and a fan power system including a driven sheave on a fan shaft connected to a drive sheave with a drive belt. The propeller is mounted within a fan shroud having an inner surface facing the propeller such that a tip clearance is formed between outer tips of the fan blades and the inner surface. The fan shroud has a belt pocket located on a circumferential path of the propeller, the belt pocket extending away from the inner surface and having a pocket floor that is offset from the inner surface and sized to allow the drive belt to fit between the outer tip of one of the plurality of fan blades and the pocket floor.

Fan casing with defined belt pocket

A fan assembly has a propeller and a housing that forms a fan shroud. A propeller mount assembly mounts the propeller to the housing and positions the propeller concentric within the fan shroud. A mounting bar is connected to the housing with mounting brackets. Each mounting bracket has a body that interfaces with the mounting bar and at least one wing that interfaces with the housing, where the body has at least one elongated body slot with a body slot axis that aligns with a bar hole in the mounting bar. Each wing has a wing slot a wing slot axis that aligns with a housing hole in the housing. A body fastener is configured to secure the mounting bar to the mounting bracket and a wing fastener is configured to secure the mounting bracket to the housing.

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Assumption, IL, United States of America

Joshua Sander