Patents by Inventor Ennis C. Smith

Ennis C. Smith has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Cooling equipment
    Patent number: 4315873
    Abstract: There is disclosed cooling equipment wherein air is caused to pass through a wet cooling tower section and thus precooled prior to passage across the tube bundle of a dry cooling tower section through which a medium to be cooled is circulated, and then either selectively vented or recirculated successively through the wet section and across the tube bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1982
    Assignee: Hudson Products Corporation
    Inventors: Ennis C. Smith, Addison Y. Gunter, deceased
  • Tube bundle
    Patent number: 4168742
    Abstract: There is disclosed apparatus for condensing steam, or other vapors containing non-condensibles such as air, which includes bundles each made up of a single row of parallel, side-by-side and spaced-apart tubes over which air is passed in a direction transverse to the row. Each tube has substantially parallel side walls which are generally parallel to the side walls of adjacent tubes, with the side walls being substantially longer in the direction of air flow than the width of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1979
    Assignee: Hudson Products Corporation
    Inventors: George E. Kluppel, Ennis C. Smith