Carrier Corporation

Other

Robert C Swilik, Jr

Rex R Mills

Scott A Beck

Merle Dana Sears

Michael J Larsen

Thomas P Bruce

Larry D Rieke

Ninev Karl Zia

Paul M Haydock

Matthew Kujawa

Brian Alan Reeves

Paul J Otts

James K Beerbower

Randel K Patterson

Allen L Sherven

Randall E Light

Robert A Lang, Ii

Mark T Whitaker

A media filter cabinet for a gas furnace is sized to accept a high-efficiency media filter while being easily adaptable to accept a standard size filter. A perforated duct flange on one side of the cabinet permits ease of installation since the flange can be bent at 90 or 180 degrees along the perforations, or removed, depending on the type of duct the cabinet is installed with. The cabinet is adapted to fit a standard filter by using a removable bracket and a wire to retain the standard filter within the cabinet. With the removal of a front door and a back side of the cabinet, the cabinet collapses to diminish its shipping size. In one embodiment, the cabinet is in kit form which is easily assembled.

Media filter cabinet for gas furnace

A multipoise furnace cabinet includes right and left sides with top and bottom plates connecting upper and lower parts of the right and left sides together. In one embodiment, top and bottom plates include vent cutouts. A side of the top plate has a first partially cut section that aligns with a second partially cut section in a door to the furnace cabinet, wherein the first and second partially cut sections substantially describe a circle, such that when the first and second partially cut sections are removed from the door and the cabinet, a resulting opening permits entry of a flue vent pipe. Front edges of the right and left cabinet sides are flanged, as are the front edges of the top and bottom plates. In another embodiment, the vent cutouts are entirely within the door.

Multipoise furnace cabinet

Louver pattern for a gas furnace door

A high efficiency furnace having a heat exchanger and an inducer fan housing attached to the flue gases exit of the heat exchanger to draw flue gases out of the exchanger and force the gases out of the furnace under pressure through a venting system. A condensate return channel is provided for directing condensate developed in the vent system back into the inducer housing where it its removed from the furnace by a drain.

Inducer condensate channel

A forced air furnace has its blower mounted on a blower shelf beneath the heat exchanger, by screws that enter aligned clearance holes in the blower mounting flanges and blower shelf and which engage gripper holes in a bottom lip of the vertical cell panel that serves as the proximal wall of the furnace heat exchanger cell. This provides vertical support for the blower and absorbs stresses from up-and-down motion.

Blower mounting arrangement for forced air furnace

A burner assembly for a gas furnace includes an elongated support member and a number of individual burners. The support member includes consecutive yoke sections for receiving a corresponding burner and shelves for supporting a flange segment formed around the periphery of each burner. Each flange segment of the burners includes a pair of mounting apertures which receive bendable tabs provided on the support member when the burner is positioned within a corresponding yoke section and supported by consecutive shelves. When the tabs are bent over, the individual burners are secured to the support member. The support member also includes mounting ears for quickly mounting and removing the burner assembly to a bracket provided in the burner box of the gas furnace.

Burner mounting assembly for gas furnace

There is disclosed a modification in the control circuitry of a gas furnace having a primary or main limit whereby the primary circuit subsumes the functions of a the secondary or manual reset limit circuit. The control circuit incorporates a microprocessor capable of sensing conditions in the furnace, enabling and disabling the various furnace components. When an overtemperature condition is sensed the furnace is thereupon disabled by a process that executes in the microprocessor and comprises the repeated steps of: sensing if the limit switch is open; determining, in the event that the limit switch is open, whether the limit switch remains open for a period that exceeds a predetermined time interval; incrementing a cycle count in the event that the limit switch has remained open for the predetermined time period; waiting for the limit switch to reset in the event that the incremented cycle count does not exceed a predetermined value, and reinitiating the combustion cycle if the step of waiting was performed; and disabling the furnace in the event that the incremented cycle count exceeds the predetermined value.

Safety circuit for furnace

In a furnace of the type having a blower shelf with a blower attached to one surface thereof and a heat exchanger unit located proximate a second surface thereof, and the heat exchanger unit being reversibly attachable to the blower shelf, the improvement comprising: a retaining structure unitary with the back panel of the heat exchanger; and a structure which mates with the retaining structure and is unitary with the blower shelf. The retaining structure and mating structure function jointly to retain the back panel of the heat exchanger unit perpendicular to and proximate the blower shelf.

Support for furnace heat exchanger

A cell panel for a gas furnace having a burner box containing combustion burners includes burner target plates formed by an extrusion process from the sheet material forming the cell panel. The burner target plates include a concave side positioned to face the discharge side of a corresponding burner, and a convex side upon which the flared inlet port of a corresponding heat exchanger cell may be securely seated.

Cell panel with extruded burner target plates and process for making same

A bracket for a hot surface ignitor is provided with a central opening having downwardly directed supporting arms and upwardly directed L-shaped retention arms such that the ignitor can be lockingly engaged with the bracket without creating crack-inducing stresses in the ceramic base of the ignitor. The bracket is further provided with upwardly directed resilient detents that allow the bracket to be securely snapped into the burner box of a gas furnace. The bracket thus positions the hot surface portion of the ignitor within the burner box while positioning the ceramic base and electric supply wires exterior to the box.

Snap-in hot surface ignitor bracket

A front access door suitable for accessing and enclosing a housing within a multipoise furnace functions in conjunction with a safety shutoff switch to provide greater access and safety when assembling and servicing the furnace. The front access door is hingably supported upon the bottom wall of the housing for removal from the furnace and rotation between a closed position and an opened position. The shutoff switch is mounted outside the housing on the top housing wall. When the access door moves into a closed position, a switch activator, mounted to the access door, passes over the top housing wall and closes the switch, thereby allowing power to flow to a blower within the housing. When the access door is moved into an open position, the switch activator opens the switch, thereby terminating power to the blower.

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Indianapolis, IN, United States of America

Robert C Swilik, Jr