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US 4,284,066 AGranted
Solar liquid heater
OwnerRobert J. Browinventor
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Abstract
A solar liquid heater employing a solar absorber flat plate collector combined in a self-contained unit with an integral liquid storage tank insulated to prevent reversible heat flow and embodying an air flow path over the top of the collector, around the liquid storage tank, across the bottom of the collector and again back across the top of the collector in a closed loop path.
Claims10
A flat plate solar energy converter comprising:
- an insulating housing having a top plate formed of suitable solar transparent material for transmitting solar rays into said housing,
- a solar ray absorber mounted within said housing adjacent said plate and arranged to extend longitudinally thereof for receiving the solar rays,
- a liquid storage tank arranged in said housing at one end of said absorber,
- one end of said absorber being connected along its length to the outer periphery of said tank,
- said absorber being mounted in said housing to define between said plate and the top of said absorber an air flow passageway,
- said housing being form-fitted with insulating material to closely surround said tank to define a part of said air flow passageway between said tank and the interior periphery of said housing,
- said passageway defines an air flow in said housing along the top surface of said absorber and around at least a part of the outer periphery of said tank,
- whereby solar rays absorbed by the top surface of said absorber will heat the air juxtapositioned thereto, which heated air will flow in said part of said passageways around at least a part of the outer periphery of said tank for heating the liquid therein.
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A flat plate solar energy converter comprising:
- a closed insulating housing having a top plate formed of suitable solar transparent material for transmitting solar rays into said housing,
- a solar ray absorber mounted within said housing adjacent said plate and arranged to extend longitudinally thereof for receiving the solar rays,
- a liquid storage tank arranged in said housing at one end of said absorber,
- said housing being form fitted with insulating material to closely surround said tank to define a first part of an air flow passageway between said tank and the interior periphery of said housing,
- one end of said absorber being connected along its length to the outer periphery of said tank,
- said absorber being mounted in said housing to define a second and third part of said air flow passageway interconnected by said first part with one part positioned below and another part positioned above the top surface of said absorber,
- said passageway defining an air flow channel in said housing along the top surface of said absorber and around said other end of said absorber and said tank in a closed loop path,
- whereby solar rays absorbed by the top surface of said absorber will heat the air juxtapositioned thereto which heated air will flow in said passageway around the outer periphery of said tank for heating the liquid therein.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.