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US 5,111,875 AGranted
Modular heat installation for premises with water as a heat transmitting medium
OwnerCurt Hammarstedtinventor
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A heat installation for buildings, with water as the heat transmitting medium which comprises a forward pipe and a return pipe (19 and 18 respectively) as well as radiators (11) connected to said pipes. Said installation is designed as a building element system and comprises differently designed buildings elements (1-10), which are strip- and block-shaped and can be inserted into each other and with which said forward pipe and said return pipe are integral parts. Said installation includes a main connection element (1), connection elements (2), inner corner and outer corner elements (3 and 4 respectively), threshold transition elements (5, 7), thresholds (6), radiator connection elements (8) and terminal parts (9). In a radiator connection element (8), like in the majority of the remaining elements, said pipes are arranged the one above the other, and through said element cylindrical cuts (51) extend, at right angles with said pipes, within the plane of said pipes and at a distance from each other in a horizontal direction, in which cuts inserts (54 and 55 respectively) can be introduced, one insert type (54) being designed for a one-pipe system and one of the radiator connection elements as regards said two-pipe-system respectively, while the other insert type is designed for a two-pipe-operation having a casing-like constriction element (66), which crosses the adjacent pipe (19) and ends in the other pipe (18). Said insert types can optionally be introduced into said cuts in order to allow a one-or-two pipe operation, also within the same installation.
A heating system for building, using water as a heat transmitting medium, comprising two conduits (18, 19), one of which is a supply conduit and the other of which is a return conduit, and at least one of the two conduits being connected with at least one radiator (11), characterized in that the heating system comprises a plurality of different modular building elements (1-10) interconnectable with one another to form a flow path for the water therethrough, and each building elements (1-10) has a said supply and a said return conduit supported therein disposed adjacent and substantially parallel one another, wherein at least one of the building elements of the heating system is a connection element (8) which connects the at least one radiator (11) to the heating system, the connection element (8) comprises an elongate element carrying a said supply and a said return conduit and having two spaced apart bores (51) extending therethrough at right angles to the two conduits and disposed within a plane defined by the two conduits, a removable bore insert (54, 55) is positioned within each bore (51) and each bore insert having two transverse openings therethrough aligned with said supply and return conduits and interconnects the at least one radiator with a desired one of the two conduits of the connection element, and the bore inserts are removable from their respective bores, said bore inserts (54, 55) comprising either of identical bore inserts, each interconnecting the at least one radiator with the same conduit, provided in the two bores of the connection element (8) so that a series piping system is achieved or dissimilar bore inserts, each interconnecting the at least one radiator with a different one of the two conduits, provided in the two bores of the connection element (8) so that a parallel piping system is achieved.
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