Patents Represented by Attorney K. H. MacLean
  • Patent number: 4175309
    Abstract: A method of forming elongated heat exchange fins from a continuous sheet of material having a width equal to a multiple of the width of a single fin and of collecting the fins in stacked relationship including the following steps: forming the sheet into longitudinally continuous adjacent fin strips with a width equal to the width of the fins, severing each fin strip into finite length fins with the ends in adjacent strips being longitudinally staggered and the ends in alternate strips being transversely aligned, progressing the finite length fins of alternate fin strips in a longitudinal direction, collecting the transversely aligned fins in the alternate fin strips moving the collected fins one fin width in the transverse direction, simultaneously progressing the finite fins of intermediate fin strips and stacking the finite fins of the intermediate fin strips over respective finite fins of the alternate fin strips on the respective finite fins of the alternate fin strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1979
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: James A. Barnard