Electrical apparatus

Claim 1

STATIONARY ELECTRICAL INDUCTION APPARATUS COMPRISING ALIGNED CORE ELEMENTS UPON WHICH CURRENT CARRYING WINDINGS ARE DISPOSED, SAID WINDINGS AND CORE ELEMENTS GENERATING HEAT IN PROPORTION TO THE CURRENT PASSING THROUGH THEM, AN ENCLOSURE SURROUNDING SAID CORE ELEMENTS AND WINDINGS ON ALL SIDES THEREOF, A HEAT ABSORBING FLUID OCCUPYING SAID ENCLOSURE, AN INTERNAL PLENUM CHAMBER FOR CIRCULATING SAID HEAT ABSORBING FLUID LOCATED IN SAID ENCLOSURE SUPPORTED BY THE BOTTOM THEREOF, SAID INTERNAL PLENUM CHAMBER COMPRISING A PAIR OF ELONGATED, SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TUBULAR MEMBERS EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID ENCLOSURE, AND A PAIR OF SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING TUBULAR MEMBERS CONNECTING THE FIRST MENTIONED TUBULAR MEMBERS AT THEIR ADJACENT ENDS, SAID TUBULAR MEMBERS THUS DEFINING BETWEEN THE INNER FACING SIDES THEREOF A CLOSED CHAMBER OF SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLELEPIPED CONFIGURATION, SAID INTERNAL PLENUM CHAMBER HAVING A FLUID INLET OPENING ON THE OUTER FACE OF EACH LONGITUDINAL TUBULAR MEMBER ADJACENT ONE END THEREOF, THE INLET OPENINGS EACH BEING SUBSTANTIALLY ALIGNED TRANSVERSELY OF SAID APPARATUS, SAID INLET OPENINGS COMMUNICATING WITH THE EXTERIOR OF SAID ENCLOSURE BY MEANS OF OUTWARDLY EXTENDING DUCTS, THERE BEING A GROUP OF EXIT APERTURES IN THE UPPER SURFACE OF EACH LONGITUDINAL MEMBER FOR EACH CORE ELEMENT COMPRISING SAID APPARATUS, INSULATING MEANS RESTING ON SAID LONGITUDINAL TUBULAR MEMBERS AND HAVING APERTURES THEREIN ALIGNED WITH SAID EXIT APERTURES TO PROVIDE A FIRST EXIT PATH FOR SAID HEAT ABSORBING FLUID PASSING OUT OF SAID INTERNAL PLENUM CHAMBER, SAID WINDINGS COMPRISING TURNS OF ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS THAT ARE RADIALLY SPACED TO PROVIDE CANALS THEREBETWEEN THROUGH WHICH SAID HEAT ABSORBING FLUID FLOWS, SAID WINDINGS RESTING ON SAID INSULATING MEANS SO THAT ONE END OF EACH OF SAID CANALS OPENS INTO SAID FIRST FLUID EXIT PATH, THE OTHER END OF EACH OF SAID CANALS OPENING INTO THE UPPER END OF SAID ENCLOSURE, SAID CORE ELEMENTS ALSO HAVING FLUID CANALS EXTENDING THERETHROUGH, SAID CORE ELEMENTS EACH HAVING AN END THEREOF LOCATED WITHIN THE PARALLELEPIPED CLOSED CHAMBER DEFINED BY SAID TUBULAR MEMBERS, THE CORE FLUID CANALS OPENING INTO THE LAST MENTIONED CHAMBER, EACH OF SAID LONGITUDINAL TUBULAR MEMBERS HAVING OTHER FLUID EXIT APERTURES ON THE INNER FACE THEREOF THAT OPEN INTO SAID LAST MENTIONED CHAMBER THUS PROVIDING A SECOND FLUID EXIT PATH ENABLING SAID HEAT ABSORBING FLUID TO FLOW UPWARDLY THROUGH SAID CORE TO THE UPPER END OF SAID ENCLOSURE, SAID ENCLOSURE HAVING EXIST PORTS FOR SAID HEAT ABSORBING FLUID IN AN END WALL THEREOF AT SAID UPPER END, AN EXTERNAL PLENUM CHAMBER ATTACHED TO SAID ENCLOSURE END WALL BELOW SAID EXIT PORTS, SAID EXTERNAL PLENUM CHAMBER HAVING FLUID ENTRY PORTS IN A WALL THEREOF THAT IS SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO SAID ENCLOSURE END WALL SO THAT SAID ENCLOSURE EXIT PORTS AND SAID CHAMBER ENTRY PORTS FACE IN THE SAME DIRECTION, THE LAST MENTIONED EXIT AND ENTRY PORTS BEING ARRANGED TO FORM VERTICALLY ALIGNED PAIRS OF FLUID PASSAGES BETWEEN WHICH HEAT TRANSFER MEANS ARE REMOVABLY CONNECTED TO SAID ENCLOSURE, EACH PAIR OF ALIGNED EXIT AND ENTRY PORTS BEING THE SAME DISTANCE APART SO THAT SAID HEAT TRANSFER MEANS CAN BE SELECTED FROM A GROUP OF DIVERSE TYPES OF UNITS HAVING COUPLINGS SEPARATED A PREDETERMINED DISTANCE EQUAL TO THE DISTANCE SEPARATING SAID PORTS, THE NUMBER OF PAIRS OF PORTS CONNECTED TO HEAT TRANSFER UNITS BEING DETERMINED BY THE HEAT GENERATED BY THE CURRENT PASSING THROUGH SAID APPARATUS, MEANS SEALING ANY PAIRS OF PORTS THAT HAVE NO HEAT TRANSFER UNITS CONNECTED BETWEEN THEM, SAID EXTERNAL PLENUM CHAMBER HAVING FLUID DISCHARGE DUCTS AT OPPOSITE SIDES THEREOF, THE DISCHARGE DUCTS ON EACH SIDE OF SAID EXTERNAL PLENUM CHAMBER FACING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS SAID OUTWARDLY EXTENDING DUCTS CONNECTED TO SAID INTERNAL PLENUM CHAMBER, THE EXTERNAL CHAMBER DISCHARGE DUCTS BEING SUBSTANTIALLY ALIGNED WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH SAID OUTWARDLY EXTENDING DUCTS TO FORM HORIZONTALLY ALIGNED PAIRS OF FLUID PASSAGES BETWEEN WHICH CONDUIT MEANS ARE CONNECTED, THE RESPECTIVE PAIRS OF DUCTS BEING THE SAME DISTANCE APART THUS ENABLING THEM TO BE COUPLED BY VARIOUS DIVERSE CONDUIT MEANS OF PREDETERMINED LENGTH EQUAL TO THE DISTANCE SPACING SAID INLET AND OUTLET DUCTS, WHEREBY THE SPECIFIC TYPE OF HEAT TRANSFER ELEMENT AND CONDUIT MEANS SELECTED FROM SAID DIVERSE TYPES, AND THE NUMBER OF SELECTED ELEMENTS ATTACHED TO SAID APPARATUS CAN BE VARIED IN ACCORDANCE WITH VARYING AMOUNTS OF HEAT PRODUCED BY SAID APPARATUS AS VARYING AMOUNTS OF CURRENT ARE PASSED THROUGH SAID CORE AND WINDINGS.