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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1999
Gilbert Delsol, Cernay la Ville, FR;
Alston France S.A., Paris, FR;
Abstract
A device which suspends a horizontal heat-exchanger tube from a vertical supporting tube, including a flat section member adapted to be welded to an outside wall of the vertical supporting tube and parallel to an axis thereof, the flat section member being provided with a rounded notch which receives a support piece adapted to accommodate the horizontal tube, wherein the tube-receiving support piece is a folded metal sheet that is folded to match a shape of the notch and adapted to surround a portion of an outside periphery of the tube, the support piece having a top end and a bottom end, each of the ends being folded over towards the flat section member so as to be welded thereto, and wherein a collar adapted to enclose the horizontal tube is fixed against the tube-receiving support piece.