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US 4,055,162 AGranted
Solar energy collector
OwnerEd Gonzalezinventor
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Abstract
A solar collector in the form of a shell having an upper face of heat-conductive material with recesses and a serpentine coil arranged in the recesses and in a snug fit in heat exchanging relation with the heat absorbing material and said coil comprising a tubular length with an inlet and an outlet opening whereby material to be heated may be flowed through said coil.
Claims10
A solar collector comprising:
- an open shell, said shell comprising a rim with an outer downwardly extending skirt terminating at a support surface, and a floor within the skirt, said floor having a first end zone and a second end zone between the floor and the support surface defining spaced lower end floor zones and said shell including a septum spanning the skirt between the lower floor zones and the support surface defining a space between the floor and septum, and said floor having a plurality of elongate, spaced, parallel recessed portions of generally U-shaped, cross section extending between the end zones, and the base zone of the recessed portions being semi-circular in cross section and of a predetermined radius of curvature, and said shell having an inlet and outlet opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.