Cooling apparatus for an electrical cabinet of a textile machine

Claim 2

A cooling apparatus for removing heat from a compartment containing a heat-producing electrical component, said component involved in the control of a textile machine, said apparatus comprising: a blower mounted outside of said compartment; and a ribbed metal body along a wall of said compartment and in thermally conductive relation with the interior thereof, said ribbed body having a plurality of transversely spaced cooling ribs outside of said compartment and defining a plurality of cooling air channels, said cooling air channels being oriented and positioned to receive a blast of air from said blower, said air containing fuzz found surrounding said textile machine, said ribbed body being oriented so that a longitudinal dimension of said cooling air channels is inclined with respect to the direction of said cooling air flow from said blower before deflection by said ribbed body and that the flow is then deflected thereby such that no fuzz from said air accumulates on said metallic cooling ribs to such an extent that said removal of said heat is impaired.

Claim 3

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the flow direction of said cooling air flow to said ribbed body before said deflection by said ribbed body is inclined at an angle of approximately from 35° to 55° to said longitudinal dimension of said cooling air channels.

Claim 4

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 2 wherein said angle is approximately from 40° to 50°.

Claim 5

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 3 wherein said blower is an axial-flow blower.

Claim 6

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 4 wherein a rotation axis of said axial blower lies in a longitudinal medium plane perpendicularly bisecting said ribbed body and said blower has an impeller which blows cooling air directly on said ribbed body positioned adjacent said impeller.

Claim 7

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 5 wherein a front end of said ribbed body upstream with respect to said cooling air flow in a cooling air duct receiving said blower and said body is inclined that said front end runs approximately parallel to said flow direction.

Claim 8

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 6 wherein an air baffle is provided adjacent said front end of said ribbed body extending approximately parallel to said flow direction.

Claim 9

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 7 wherein at least one air guiding surface is mounted upstream of said cooling ribs on said air baffle adjacent said cooling ribs, which deflects said cooling air flowing along said air baffle upwardly to a region above the downstream end of said cooling ribs.

Claim 10

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein said blower and body are mounted inside of a cooling air duct.

Claim 11

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 9 wherein at least one air outlet is provided in said wall downstream of said ribbed body in said wall of said compartment so that said cooling air flowing past said air outlet in said cooling air duct creates a partial vacuum which pulls in air from said compartment.

Claim 12

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the blades of said impeller of said axial blower are flexible.

Claim 13

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein said cooling ribs of said ribbed body have smooth surfaces.

Claim 14

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 1, wherein said wall is continuous and metallic, and said body is mounted on said wall.

Claim 15

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 1, wherein said body at least in part forms said wall.

Claim 16

The cooling apparatus defined in claim 1, wherein the blades of said impeller are shaped to repel textile fuzz.

Claim 17

A cooling apparatus for removing heat from at least one compartment containing an electric or electronic device or devices used in a textile machine which uses cooling air containing fuzz or other contaminants from the textile manufacturing process comprising: an axial blower mounted in a cooling air duct outside of said compartment; a metallic ribbed body which forms a section of a wall of a housing of said compartment or is mounted on the outside of said section of said wall of said housing of said compartment in close enough contact to provide good thermal conductivity between said ribbed body and said section of said wall; a plurality of cooling ribs positioned next to each other parallel outside of said compartment in said ribbed body so that a plurality of cooling air channels are formed between said cooling ribs and said ribbed body is oriented to receive cooling air flowing from said blower and is inclined at an angle of from 40° to 50° with respect to the flow direction of said cooling air from said blower before deflection by said ribbed body; an air baffle extending approximately parallel to said flow direction of said cooling air prior to deflection by said ribbed body and positioned adjacent the front end of said ribbed body; at least one air guiding surface mounted upstream of said cooling ribs on said air baffle adjacent said cooling ribs which deflects said cooling air flowing along said air baffle upwardly to the region found over the downstream end of said cooling ribs; and at least one air outlet positioned downstream of said ribbed body in said wall of said compartment so that said cooling air flowing past said air outlet in said cooling air duct creates a vacuum which pulls in air from said compartment.

Claim 18

A cooling apparatus for removing heat from at least one compartment containing an electric or electronic device or devices used in a textile machine which uses cooling air containing fuzz or other contaminants from the textile manufacturing process comprising: an axial blower mounted in a cooling air duct outside of said compartment; a metallic ribbed body which forms a section of a wall of a housing of said compartment or is mounted on the outside of said section of said wall of said housing of said compartment in close enough contact to provide good thermal conductivity between said ribbed body and said section of said wall; a plurality of cooling ribs positioned next to each other parallel outside of said compartment in said ribbed body so that a plurality of cooling air channels are formed between said cooling ribs and said ribbed body is oriented to receive cooling air flowing from said blower and is inclined at an angle of from 40° to 50° with respect to the flow direction of said cooling air from said blower before deflection by said ribbed body; an air baffle extending approximately parallel to said flow direction of said cooling air prior to deflection by said ribbed body and positioned adjacent the front end of said ribbed body; at least one air guiding surface mounted upstream of said cooling ribs on said air baffle adjacent said cooling ribs which deflects said cooling air flowing along said air baffle upwardly to the region found over the downstream end of said cooling ribs; and at least one air outlet positioned downstream of said ribbed body in said wall of said compartment so that said cooling air flowing past said air outlet in said cooling air duct creates a vacuum which pulls in air from said compartment.