Air conditioner adapted for through-floor installation

Claim 2

An air conditioner adapted for through-floor installation, comprising a cabinet and conventional air-conditioner components therein operatively connected to each other, the cabinet having and upper evaporator compartment including an air inlet and a cooling air outlet, whereby to provide a path for air to be cooled and housing along said path the evaporator coil and refrigerated air blower of said components, partition means to provide a bottom of said evaporator compartment and of said air path, a condenser compartment immediately therebelow including an upward condenser air inlet and a downward outlet, both spacedly below the evaporator air inlet and outlet, whereby such spacing permits through-floor installation with the evaporator air inlet and outlet above such floor and the condenser air inlet and outlet and blower means associated therewith therebelow, the condenser compartment housing a condenser coil of said components proximately beneath said partition and in the path of air flow from said upward inlet to said downward outlet, said partition having perforations through it immediately above said condenser coil, whereby to catch the condensate from the evaporator coil and permit it to drip directly onto the condenser coil.

Claim 3

An air Conditioner as defined in claim 1, the air outlet of the condenser compartment being a lower surface thereof, the cabinet further having a third compartment beneath said surface and having an upper wall opening aligned and communicating with said condenser compartment air outlet, the blower means associated therewith being positioned in said third compartment.

Claim 4

An air conditioner as defined in claim 1, wherein the cabinet top wall is imperforate, the refrigerated air outlet from the evaporator compartment is in a vertical wall of the cabinet, the air blower in said evaporator compartment is of the centrifugal type and has a scroll leading horizonally to said outlet, and the scroll has an inlet spacedly below said cabinet top wall.

Claim 5

An air conditioner adapted for through-floor installation, comprising a cabinet and otherwise conventional air-conditioner components therein operatively connected to each other, the cabinet having an upper evaporator compartment including an air inlet and a cooling air outlet, and housing the evaporator and refrigerated air blower of said components, a partition defining a portion of the bottom of such evaporator compartment, a condenser compartment therebelow including condenser air inlet means to provide upflow of air entering therein and a downward-presented outlet, the condenser compartment housing a condenser coil, motor and compressor means, the cabinet further having, beneath said downward-presented outlet of the condenser compartment, a lateral air outlet compartment having a sideward air outlet and an upper wall inlet opening in common with the air outlet of the condenser compartment, the motor having a downward shaft extension through said common opening, and an impeller of the sideward discharge type mounted thereon and housed in said air outlet compartment, whereby to avoid return flow into the condenser air opening of the air so impelled sideward.

Claim 6

An air conditioner adapted for through-floor installation, comprising a cabinet and otherwise conventional air-conditioner components therein operatively connected to each other, the cabinet having an upper evaporator compartment including an air inlet and a cooling air outlet, and housing the evaporator and refrigerated air blower of said components, a partition defining a portion of the bottom of such evaporator compartment, a condenser compartment therebelow including condenser air inlet means to provide upflow of air entering therein and a downward-presented outlet, the condenser compartment housing a condenser coil, motor and compressor means, the cabinet further having, beneath said downward-presented outlet of the condenser compartment, a lateral air outlet compartment having a sideward air outlet and an upper wall inlet opening in common with the air outlet of the condenser compartment, the motor having a downward shaft extension through said common opening, and an impeller of the sideward discharge type mounted thereon and housed in said air outlet compartment, whereby to avoid return flow into the condenser air opening of the air so impelled sideward.

Claim 7

An air conditioner adapted for through-floor installation, comprising a cabinet having a removable top wall, an upper evaporator compartment having a room air inlet and a refrigerated air outlet, the compartment terminating downwardly in an upper partial partition having a horizontal edge by which an upper opening is in part defined, a condenser compartment therebeneath whose lower surface is in part provided by a lower partial partition having a downward outlet opening, and an air discharge compartment located therebeneath, conventional evaporator components fixedly positioned in said evaporator compartment and conventional compressor and condenser components fixedly positioned in said condenser compartment and means operatably connecting them, together with a vertically removable assembly which when in place extends through said upper and lower openings into all three said compartments, including a motor in the condenser compartment having its shaft oriented vertically and having upward- and downward-extending shaft portions, its upward-extending shaft portion having a substantially imperforate divider at the level of said upper partial partition, and having a blower assembly thereabove, whereby the divider substantially fills the upper opening and seals the evaporator compartment from the condenser compartment and the blower assembly thereabove directs air in the evaporator compartment to its outlet, said downward-extending shaft portion having thereon a discharge blower positioned in the air discharge compartment, whereby to draw air downward from the condenser compartment to and discharge it from the discharge compartment, and means to permit such removable assembly to be removed upwardly when the cabinet top wall is removed, whereby to facilitate servicing.

Claim 8

An air conditioner adapted for through-floor installation, comprising a cabinet having a removable top wall, an upper evaporator compartment having a room air inlet and a refrigerated air outlet, the compartment terminating downwardly in an upper partial partition having a horizontal edge by which an upper opening is in part defined, a condenser compartment therebeneath whose lower surface is in part provided by a lower partial partition having a downward outlet opening, and an air discharge compartment located therebeneath, conventional evaporator components fixedly positioned in said evaporator compartment and conventional compressor and condenser components fixedly positioned in said condenser compartment and means operatably connecting them, together with a vertically removable assembly which when in place extends through said upper and lower openings into all three said compartments, including a motor in the condenser compartment having its shaft oriented vertically and having upward- and downward-extending shaft portions, its upward-extending shaft portion having a substantially imperforate divider at the level of said upper partial partition, and having a blower assembly thereabove, whereby the divider substantially fills the upper opening and seals the evaporator compartment from the condenser compartment and the blower assembly thereabove directs air in the evaporator compartment to its outlet, said downward-extending shaft portion having thereon a discharge blower positioned in the air discharge compartment, whereby to draw air downward from the condenser compartment to and discharge it from the discharge compartment, and means to permit such removable assembly to be removed upwardly when the cabinet top wall is removed, whereby to facilitate servicing.

Claim 9

An air conditioner as defined in claim 5, wherein said discharge blower is of the type which receives air centrally and discharges it outwardly, and wherein said vertically removable assembly further includes ring-like baffle means, positioned about the downward extension of the motor shaft above the discharge blower, to seal against the downward outlet opening of said condenser compartment and conduct air centrally to said discharge blower.

Claim 10

An air conditioner as defined in claim 5, wherein means is provided beneath the upper partial partition to accommodate conventional air conditioner controls and connectors and to provide access to them past said upper partition edge when said assembly is removed.