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(11) EP 0 117 821 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
23.01.1985 Bulletin 1985/04

(43) Date of publication A2:
05.09.1984 Bulletin 1984/36

(21) Application number: 84400378

(22) Date of filing: 24.02.1984
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE FR GB IT LI LU NL SE

(30) Priority: 28.02.1983 US 470806

(71) Applicant: BALTIMORE AIRCOIL COMPANY, INC.
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(72) Inventors:
  • Flamm, Katherine K.
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  • Morrison, Frank T.
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(54) Compression sealing of tubes within shell and tube heat exchangers


(57) The invention relates to a sealing means for shell and tube heat exchangers which means uses only components which are external to the heat exchanger shell to mechanically compress a series of rubber type gaskets and metal tube sheets and thereby seal the tube to tube sheet joints and the tube sheet to shell joints.






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