摘要 |
A tubeaxial fan (10) broadly including a cylinder (12), a propeller (14) rotatably supported in the cylinder (12), and a drive assembly (16) operable to rotate the propeller (14) is disclosed. The propeller (14) includes blades (28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38) each having an inventive blade design. The inventive blade design presents a chord length (C), a stagger angle (betae) and a camber height (deltac) that vary along each of the blades as shown in TABLE 1. The inventive blade design presents an external surface of each of the blades having a shape defined by the relative positioning of a plurality of coordinates contained in at least nine cross-sections (e.g., the blade (28) includes cross-sections (44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60)). The cross-sections (44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60) of the illustrated blade (28) have the corresponding plurality of coordinates listed in TABLE 2. The drive assembly (16) incorporates an inventive design that presents, among other features, a cover dimension DC of the bearing cover (72) of less than about one-sixth the propeller diameter (delta), and tapering end sections (76a,76b) on the belt cover (76). A preferred alternative embodiment is also disclosed in the fan (210) including support plates (212a,212b) having a plate width (Wp) between about one-tenth and one-seventh of the axial length of the cylinder (212).
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