Research-cottrell

Marcel R Lefevre

Anthony M DePalma

Improved support means are disclosed for a plurality of vertically arranged transversely oriented fill sheets or grids for direct contact cooling towers.

Support means for transverse fill for cooling towers

Filling sheets are disclosed for use in a gas and liquid contact apparatus. The sheet members are identical and each of the sheet members has a plurality of male type and female type locking tabs. The tabs are positioned in rows and columns and male type tabs in any row or column are adjacent a female type tab whereby rotation of alternate sheets 180.degree. bring the male and female type tabs of alternate sheets into alignment.

Filling sheet attaching means for gas and liquid contact apparatus and

Apparatus are provided for reducing detrimental wind influence on cooling towers by mounting at the air inlet to the towers a plurality of spaced baffles, each of which have continuous, smooth, curved, low wind resistance surfaces directed outwardly of the air inlet and high wind resistance surfaces directed toward the interior of the tower.

Apparatus for reducing the detrimental wind influence on cooling towers

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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Branchburg, NJ, United States of America

Marcel R Lefevre