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References: Housing Construction and Exploded Views

  1. Exploded-view drawing - Wikipedia - Explains how exploded views separate an assembly along its assembly lines so each part can be labeled. The drawing convention FanPedia uses to name every housing part.

  2. Volute (pump) - Wikipedia - Describes the spiral casing whose growing cross-section collects flow from an impeller and converts velocity to pressure. The same principle as a fan's scroll wrapper and cutoff.

  3. Metal casting - Wikipedia - Overview of casting processes and materials such as aluminum and iron. Background for the cast housings used on pressure blowers, as opposed to fabricated sheet and plate housings.

  4. Fan Handbook: Selection, Application, and Design - Frank P. Bleier - McGraw-Hill - Bleier's handbook presents housing construction alongside fan types and accessories, with practical guidance on how construction choices follow from installation and service needs.

  5. Fans and Ventilation: A Practical Guide - William Cory - Elsevier - Cory writes from long fan-industry experience, explaining fan components, accessories and installation in plain practical terms suited to readers learning the parts of a fan.

  6. FanPedia: The Fan & Blower Encyclopedia (PDF) - Twin City Fan - Source for the exploded views (pp. 9-19), housing construction details (pp. 59-66), split housings (pp. 156-157, 194) and plug fan insulation plug notes cited in this chapter.

  7. FanPedia online - Twin City Fan - Online edition of FanPedia, including the housing construction and accessories sections. Use it to look up a housing part name quickly while reading an exploded view.

  8. Plug Fans - Twin City Fan - Current catalog page for plug fans, describing the gusseted mounting panel that separates motor and drive from the process air and lets the fan be removed as a unit.

  9. Inline Centrifugal Fans - Twin City Fan - Current catalog page for tubular and square inline centrifugal fans, the families whose housings carry straightening vanes, discharge cones, belt tubes and removable access panels.

  10. Centrifugal Roof & Wall Exhausters - Twin City Fan - Current catalog page for upblast, downblast and wall exhausters, the product family whose FanPedia exploded view shows the shroud, curb cap and motor cover covered in this chapter.