Abstract: A device for use with heat exchangers for the transfer of sensible and latent heat between a gaseous and liquid medium is provided. The device includes a first set of narrower passageways defined between at least two corrugated foils to receive the liquid medium, and a second set of wider passageways to receive the gaseous medium. The surfaces of the foils defining the narrow liquid passageways have closely spaced fine ridges which cross the corrugations. These fine ridges cause flow resistance and result in the liquid medium in the liquid passageways being distributed over the entire surface area of the foils defining the liquid passageways, thus enhancing heat transfer. Furthermore, because the ridges tend to rigidify the foils defining the liquid passageways, these foils can be formed from a relatively thin material, thus further enhancing heat transfer between the liquid and the gas mediums.

Abstract: Method of manufacturing a heat exchanger body composed of a plurality of facially-opposed corrugated rectangular sheets of a deformable material with corrugations in alternate sheets crossing the corrugations in the intervening sheets and forming a series of channels through which two streams of gaseous medium are forced crosswise in heat exchange relationship with one another. The juxtaposed edges of the sheets are displaced so that the edges on the same side of the body are alternately sealed and form openings therebetween for admission of the gaseous media into the channels. The edges of the corrugated sheets, prior to being assembled into a heat exchange body, are pressed flat, with flat edges at two of the opposite sides extending substantially in the same plane and the contiguous flat edges at the other two opposite sides being displaced relative to the plane of the first two opposite edges.