Heat recovery in a laundry system
OwnerOdean F. Georgeinventor
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Abstract
In a laundry system including a washer, a dryer, and a water heater, the improvement of using a heat pipe to recover waste heat, whether it be from the hot air exhaust of the dryer or from the conductive losses from the dryer and to transfer that heat to the feed water of the water heater.
Claims5
In a laundry system comprising a washer employing hot water, a dryer having a fire box, a water heater, and water pipe circulating system conducting cool water to said water heater and distributing hot water to said washer, the improvement which comprises a heat pipe having the bottom thereof in heat conductive contact with the outside surface of said fire box of said dryer and the top of said heat pipe in heat conductive contact with said water pipe circulation system spaced above said dryer in the portion thereof conducting cool water to said water heater.
In a laundry system comprising a multiplicity of washers employing hot water, a multiplicity of dryers, each having a fire box, means for heating water to supply said hot water to said washers, and a water pipe circulation system connecting said heating means and said washers, the improvement which comprises a heat pipe on each dryer having the bottom of each heat pipe in conductive contact with said fire box of each said dryer to absorb heat from said dryer and the top of each said heat pipe in heat conductive contact with said water pipe circulation means in the portion thereof conducting water into said heating means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.