Solar panel construction
OwnerAbraham Grossmaninventor
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Abstract
A solar panel construction including an elongated, sealed, flat, polygonal case or receptacle within which is supported a metal solar energy collector panel on rigid permeable insulation material and also relatively soft yieldable permeable insulation material and a radiant energy transmitting means is spaced above the collector panel, the construction being hermetically sealed and dehumidified and particularly arranged to yield under conditions of temperature extremes without loss of hermetic sealing and loss of efficiency. A method of preconditioning such a solar panel construction to obtain optimum effectiveness between temperature ranges to which the panel construction will be subjected.
Claims14
A solar panel construction comprising:
- a receptacle having a bottom wall, an upstanding peripheral wall, and a top opening defined by said peripheral wall,
- a solar collector plate supported below said top opeining;
- said plate having tubular means in heat transmitting relation thereto for circulation of a fluid;
- said tubular means having inlet and outlet means;
- an energy transmitting means spaced above said collector plate in said top opening;
- and means for yieldably mounting and maintaining said plate and energy transmitting means in sealed assembly with respect to said receptacle whereby differential expansion and contraction are compensated without impairing said sealed relation,
- said mounting means including air permeable means.
A solar panel construction comprising:
- a receptacle having a bottom wall, an upstanding peripheral wall, and a top opening defined by said peripheral wall,
- a solar collector plate supported below said top opening;
- said plate having tubular means attached thereto in heat transmitting realtion for circulation of a fluid;
- said tubular means having inlet and outlet means;
- having inlet and outlet means;
- an energy transmitting means spaced above said collector plate in said top opening;
- and means for yieldably mounting and maintaining said plate and energy transmitting means in sealed assembly with respect to said receptacle whereby differential expansion and contraction are compensated without impairing said sealed relation;
- said mounting means including first dimensionally stable permeable insulation means at peripheral portions of said receptacle for supporting edge margins of said plate;
- said permeable insulation conducting air heated by said collector plate throughout the receptacle and minimizing air pressure differentials in the receptacle.
A solar panel construction, comprising:
- a hollow receptacle having an opening;
- a transparent cover means for said opening;
- an energy collecting means within said receptacle and facing said opening to receive radiant energy passing through said opening;
- means within said receptacle supporting said energy collecting means and said cover means and regulating thermal movement of said cover means and energy collecting means to maintain said panel construction in sealed assembly;
- said means including permeable means extending beneath said collecting means and around the peripheral edges of the collecting means providing communication of air around said energy collecting means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.