Patent ID: 6192974
Filing Date: 2001-02-27
Classification: F28F

Abstract:
A heat exchanger housing for enclosing a finned heat exchanger, the housing comprising:first aid second generally planar metallic walls, each of the walls being substantially rectangular, the walls positioned parallel to each other;a first substantially circular opening in the first wall, and a second substantially circular opening in the second wall, the first and second openings substantially opposite one another, wherein the first circular opening has a first circular diameter and the second circular opening has a second circular diameter;a first conical metallic transition member connected to the first substantially circular opening in the first wall, wherein the first conical transition member tapers from the first circular diameter proximate the first wall to a smaller circular diameter distal from the first wall;a second conical metallic transition member connected to the second substantially circular opening in the first wall, wherein the second conical transition member tapers from the second circular diameter proximate the second wall to a smaller circular diameter distal from the second wall; anda heat exchanger coil positioned within the housing.