US 12,085,289 B2
Method of installing a universal air handler
Terrell Jackson Small, III, Fort Worth, TX (US)
Filed by Terrell Jackson Small, III, Fort Worth, TX (US)
Filed on Jun. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/346,270.
Application 17/346,270 is a division of application No. 16/388,687, filed on Apr. 18, 2019, granted, now 11,073,292.
Application 16/388,687 is a continuation of application No. 15/312,638, granted, now 10,309,661, issued on Jun. 4, 2019, previously published as PCT/US2015/032324, filed on May 23, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/002,727, filed on May 23, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0302033 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. F24F 1/022 (2019.01); A47C 4/54 (2006.01); A47C 27/08 (2006.01); A63H 33/00 (2006.01); E04H 4/00 (2006.01); F24F 1/00 (2019.01); F24F 13/02 (2006.01); F24F 13/20 (2006.01); F24F 13/28 (2006.01); F24F 13/32 (2006.01); A63H 27/10 (2006.01)
CPC F24F 1/022 (2013.01) [A47C 4/54 (2013.01); A47C 27/081 (2013.01); A47C 27/087 (2013.01); A63H 33/00 (2013.01); E04H 4/00 (2013.01); E04H 4/0025 (2013.01); F24F 1/00 (2013.01); F24F 13/0209 (2013.01); F24F 13/20 (2013.01); F24F 13/28 (2013.01); F24F 13/32 (2013.01); A63H 2027/1025 (2013.01); F24F 2221/16 (2013.01); F24F 2221/17 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of installing a universal air handler for a building air conditioning system, the method comprising
providing a coupling manifold adapted to be disposed adjacent said building, said coupling manifold having
a bulkhead adapted to be disposed juxtaposed to said building and affixed to a conditioned air duct and a return air duct within said building, said bulkhead surrounding and defining a conditioned air port and a return air port;
a shelf coupled to said bulkhead by a proximate shelf edge and extending away from said bulkhead to a distal shelf edge;
providing said universal air handler having
a cabinet having a cabinet bottom, a cabinet top and cabinet walls surrounding and defining a cabinet interior;
an evaporator coil dividing said cabinet interior into a conditioned air chamber and a return air chamber;
a blower positioned within said conditioned air chamber;
an outlet air port coupled to said conditioned air chamber and adapted to pneumatically couple to said conditioned air port;
an intake air port coupled to said return air chamber and adapted to pneumatically couple to said return air port;
installing said bulkhead juxtaposed to said building with said shelf extending away from said building; then
coupling said conditioned air duct to said conditioned air port and said return air duct to said return air port; then
positioning said universal air handler on said shelf with said outlet air port and said intake air port directed toward said bulkhead; then
sliding said universal air handler across said shelf toward said bulkhead until said outlet air port couples to said conditioned air port and said intake air port couples to said return air port.