Peter C Bodett

US Patent:

46415025, Feb 10, 1987

Filed:

Jul 9, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/883581

Inventors:

Roger L. Aldrich - LaGrange IN
Peter C. Bodett - Sturgis MI
Richard E. Kelly - Orland IN

Assignee:

The Duo-Therm Corporation - IN

International Classification:

B60H 1002

US Classification:

62244

Abstract:

A roof mounted air conditioning unit for recreation vehicles comprising a cabinet made up of a base pan and a removable shroud. The base pan has a bottom wall and an upstanding perimeter wall with an outwardly protruding porch flange extending around the entire upper edge of the perimeter wall to provide stiffening reinforcement and a ledge on which the shroud seats. The ledge has air inlets and outlets therein providing air flow communication between ambient air and the condenser compartment. The perimeter wall also has air inlets and outlets therein. The shroud is generally imperforate and serves as a roof-like cover for the base pan. The shroud has a generally light color and the base pan has a generally dark color such that the air inlets and outlets in the pan perimeter wall are camouflaged from view. The cabinet is sub-divided by bulkheads into junction compartments including an evaporator coil compartment and the condenser coil compartment. Evaporator and condenser centrifugal blowers are disposed respectively in the evaporator and condenser compartments for inducing air flow respectively therethrough.