Patent ID: 9174266
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: B21D,F28D,F28F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. For use with a cylindrical heat exchanger manifold header having an interior surface with a predetermined inner surface diameter, and with a cylindrical refrigerant conduit of smaller diameter to be supported within said manifold, a bending support configured to be inserted into said manifold header, comprising: a planar bracing member having two opposite facing member edge surfaces, the bracing member includes a length substantially equal to said manifold inner surface such that said member edge surfaces abut an interior surface of the manifold header to provide an interference fit; a pair of bracketing members extending perpendicularly from one side of said bracing member and spaced apart substantially by the diameter of said refrigerant conduit so as to tightly grip the outside thereof and terminating in distal ends that abut said manifold interior surface when said bracing member edge surfaces abut said interior surface, wherein said bending support supports the interior of said manifold surface and supports said refrigerant conduit in position when said manifold and supported conduit are bent in a radius while the plane of said bracing member is perpendicular to the axis about which said radius is bent.