Ceiling element for a heating and cooling ceiling
AssigneeBarcol-Air AG
InventorHelmuth Sokolean
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Abstract
In order to simplify and lower the costs of production and to facilitate installation and assembly, aluminum ceiling elements, for channelling the heat-transfer medium, each include a hose, preferably made of polyurethane, which, for the purpose of ensuring good heat transfer, is clamped between two parallel contact walls, which are respectively formed, for example, by a surface strip of a ceiling panel and the underside of a guide plate, with the result that the hose presses elastically against the two contact walls with a large part of its outer peripheral surface. The clamping action can be assisted by providing a slight super-atmospheric pressure in the heat transfer medium. A slit, through which the hose can be drawn into the groove, is left between the border of the guide plate and the ceiling panel.
Claims18
A ceiling element for a ceiling serving a heat-transfer function, comprising:
- a ceiling panel having a first surface configured to be disposed downwards towards a room, and a second, opposite surface arranged to face upwards, away from the room;
- said ceiling panel having an outer perimeter;
- at least one hose guide provided for disposing a hose in proximity to said second surface;
- said hose guide having inner peripheral surface means having a given internal transverse cross-sectional shape and size;
- a hose for conducting heat-transfer fluid;
- said hose being made of flexible material and having an outer peripheral surface having a given external transverse cross-sectional shape and size when undeformed, said size being substantially equal in area to that of said hose guide internal surface means, but said shape which substantially differs from said shape of said inner peripheral surface of said hose guide internal surface means;
- said hose being flexibly deformed by being received in said at least one hose guide, with said outer peripheral surface of said hose disposed in engaging conformation with said inner peripheral surface of said at least one hose guide;
- said hose having two opposite ends;
- said hose being made of elastically flexible material and being elastically, flexibly deformed by being received in said at least one hose guide.
A method for effecting heat transfer through a ceiling of a room, comprising:
- providing as at least a portion of the ceiling of the room a ceiling element which includes:
- a ceiling panel having a first surface configured to be disposed downwards towards a room, and a second, opposite surface arranged to face upwards, away from the room;
- said ceiling panel having an outer perimeter;
- at least one hose guide provided for disposing a hose in proximity to said second surface;
- said hose guide having inner peripheral surface means having a given internal transverse cross-sectional shape and size;
- a hose for conducting heat-transfer fluid;
- said hose being made of flexible material and having an outer peripheral surface having a given external transverse cross-sectional shape and size when undeformed, said size being substantially equal in area to that of said hose guide internal surface means, but said shape which substantially differs from said shape of said inner peripheral surface of said hose guide internal surface means;
- said hose being flexibly deformed by being received in said at least one hose guide, with said outer peripheral surface of said hose disposed in engaging conformation with said inner peripheral surface of said at least one hose guide;
- said hose having two opposite ends, and
- said hose being made of elastically flexible material and being elastically, flexibly deformed by being received in said at least one hose guide;
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- conducting a heat exchange fluid through said hose at a superatmospheric pressure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.