Solar actuated boiler and appurtenances
OwnerWalter L. Depewinventor
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Abstract
A solar actuated boiler which receives the incident rays of the sun, magnifying them and concentrating them at precise multiple points. This concentration results in an aqueous solution, under pressure, being heated to temperatures resulting in hydrokinetic motion. The heat from this solution will then be convected through a system of piping, deposited and stored in the systems heat storage vault. This stored heat is then convected through a companion system of piping for the purpose of, but not limited to, such uses as heating, domestic hot water, air-conditioning and electrical energy.
Claims10
A solar boiler comprising:
- at least one elongated header pipe, a plurality of ganged, discrete, movable mounted converging lenses adapted to provide a point image positioned adjacent to but spaced from the header pipe with each lense focused thereon to produce an individual and discrete focused point image on the header pipe corresponding to each lense, and tracking means connected to each lense to automatically and synchronously move the lenses through the azimuth to follow a solar body and maintain the focused, concentrated point image of the solar body on the header pipe, whereby the boiler may be maintained in an advantageous configuration for the collection of solar energy on the header pipe by the lenses as the relative position of the solar body and the boiler header pipe change.
A method of collecting solar energy comprising:
- focusing a group of ganged concentrating lenses on at least one header pipe to define a plurality of image points, automatically moving the lenses synchronously along the azimuth to track a solar body as the solar body moves relative to the header pipe, maintaining a substantially constant distance substantially equal to the focal length of the lense between each lense and the image point of the lense on the header pipe, and maintaining the image point on the header pipe in a substantially fixed position as the lense moves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.