Patent ID: 9303924
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: A61F,A61M,B01D,F28D,F28F,H01M,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. In combination, a tube sheet and a plurality of elongated tubular elements supported with the tube sheet, said tube sheet comprised of a plurality of separate planar tube sheet segments, multiple holes being provided in each planar tube sheet segment in a predetermined pattern, each hole for accommodating one of the plurality of elongated tubular elements, all of the tube sheet segments being aligning so that the hole pattern of each segment aligns with the hole pattern in all other segments, each said elongated tubular element having a flanged top end and a contiguous tubular shaft with the flanged top end having a diameter greater than a diameter of the tubular shaft, said flanged top end supported over a first one of said plurality of separate planar tube sheet segments, and a securing piece constructed and arranged about the tubular shaft of at least one of the plurality of elongated tubular elements and supported under a second one of said plurality of separate planar tube sheet segments, said securing piece for engagement with the tubular shaft to provide a compressive force against the tube sheet segments that are disposed between the flanged top end and the securing piece.