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US 2009/0014152 A1Published application
Hydronic floor heating system with adaptive fluid circuit
OwnerMeng Yeow Foo, Timmy Sze Ming Fooinventors
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Abstract
A room heating apparatus uses separate heating panels fastened to a sub-floor to conduct a heating fluid which then adjusts the temperature of a room. The panels carry fluid tubing and transition panels conduct this tubing between the heating panels. The transition panels have a plurality of grooves that allow the selection of how the tubing is conducted between the heating panels so that a custom heating circuit may be formed to optimize the heating pattern of each installation.
Claims7
An apparatus comprising:
- a heating panel made up of a plurality of side-by-side planks;
- each said plank providing a planar mounting surface having therein a linear groove extending longitudinally between opposing ends of the plank;
- each one of the planks having a continuous metal sheet covering the mounting surface and the respective linear groove therein;
- each pair of the side-by-side planks joined by a hinge means enabling the side-by-side planks to rotate between a coplanar state and a stacked state;
- a pair of transition panels abutting the ends of heating panel, each said transition panel providing a first set of curved grooves extending between the linear grooves of adjacent pairs of the planks, a second set of the curved grooves extending between the linear grooves of non-adjacent pairs of the planks, and a further linear groove connecting the second set of curved grooves.
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A method of providing a heated floor comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a plurality of heating panels each made up of a plurality of side-by-side planks;
- each said plank providing a planar mounting surface having therein a linear groove extending longitudinally between opposing ends of the plank;
- each one of the planks having a continuous metal sheet covering the mounting surface and the respective linear groove therein;
- b) providing a plurality of pairs of transition panels abutting the opposing ends of the planks, each said transition panel providing a first set of curved grooves extending between the linear grooves of adjacent pairs of the planks, and a second set of the curved grooves extending between the linear grooves of non-adjacent pairs of the planks;
- c) fastening the heating panels and the transition panels to a sub-floor surface;
- d) engaging tubing within selected portions of the linear and curved grooves for conducting heating fluid therethrough;
- e) securing the tubing within the linear and curved grooves using a bonding agent;
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- f) covering the heating and transition panels with a layer of sound insulation and heat conduction padding.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.