Patents by Inventor Franz J. Schuldenberg

Franz J. Schuldenberg 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 tower
    Patent number: 3944636
    Abstract: A cooling tower has circumferentially distributed inlet openings at the lower end for the entrance of cooling air and a central upper outlet opening. Cooling air flows through the tower, on the one hand, counter-currently to a medium to be cooled which flows in downward direction over a trickling unit (wet cooling section), and on the other hand, parallel thereto about heat-exchanger elements, flown through by a medium to be cooled (dry cooling section). The trickling unit and the heat-exchanger elements are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1976
    Assignee: GEA Luftkuehlergesellschaft Happel GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Franz J. Schuldenberg, Hans-Bernd Gerz