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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 02, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jon P Hartfield, La Crosse, WI (US);
Duane F Sanborn, La Crosse, WI (US);
Assignee:
American Standard Inc., Piscataway, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23C / ; B05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
165117 ; 165D / ; 239462 ;
Abstract
A liquid refrigerant distributor for use within a heat exchanger having a body of heat exchange tubes. The distributor comprises a mesh screen and a liquid refrigerant sprayer. The liquid refrigerant sprayer is adapted to spray refrigerant on the mesh screen. The mesh screen being adapted to pass liquid and vaporous refrigerant but also to direct liquid refrigerant onto the heat exchange tubes.