Solar heating with air transfer
AssigneeAddison Products Company
InventorBernard J. Bergen
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Abstract
A solar heating system with one or more collector panels having an insulative, fiberglass top, black, heat-producing plates and an air manifold at each end. Cold air is transmitted through a manifold, across the plates and out the other manifold. The heated air is directed to a heat-storage compartment in which heat is stored in containers of wax.
Claims17
A solar heat collector comprising a heat-insulative enclosure including at least one surface area transparent to sunlight, material in zig-zag configuration in cross section as viewed from said ducts, said zig-zag material being spaced from said transparent area and absorbent to sunlight such that sunlight absorbed is transformed into heat energy, ducts extending across opposite sides of said collector, a plurality of holes of the same general size, said holes being small relative to the size of said ducts in each said ducts communicating with the interior of said collector from said ducts;
- neither said material or any other structure in said collector blocking free flow of air through said holes, across the vicinity of said material, and out of the other holes, the cross-sectional area of said ducts throughout the length of said ducts as viewed from the side being at least in the order of magnitude of thirty times the cross-sectional area of one of said holes as viewed from the side of said holes, said ducts extending to the side of said collector for communication with air under pressure from without said collector.
A solar heat collector comprising a heat-insulative enclosure including at least one surface transparent to sunlight, a plurality of flat plates positioned at an acute angle to adjoining ones of said plates in cross section and extending substantially straight across the inside of said collector to receive sunlight on their flat surfaces through said transparent surface, said flat surfaces of said plates comprising material which inherently transforms sunlight into heat energy, two ducts, each extending across said enclosure, said two ducts being on opposite sides of said enclosure where said plates are at an angle in cross section, a plurality of holes spaced along said ducts communicating to the region in said enclosure generally contiguous to the ends of said plates, said holes being of the same general size and being of size such that air under pressure is generally evenly distributed through said holes and across said plates, the cross-sectional area of said ducts throughout the length of said ducts as viewed from the side being at least in the order of magnitude of one hundred twenty times the cross-sectional area of one of said holes as viewed from the side of said holes, said ducts extending to the side of said collector for communication with air under pressure from without said collector.
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