Dry installation of a radiant floor or wall hydronic heating system, metal radiating plates that attach to the edges of side-by-side boards and provide metal slots for holding hot water tubing
OwnerJoachim Fiedrichinventor
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Abstract
In a hydronic heating system including a heating element that is a length of tubing that conducts water and is against a radiating metal plate, all mounted in a floor, wall or ceiling, the element being held by two spaced apart providing an elongated space for holding the tubing adjacent the plate, the metal plate is in two separate pieces that are attached to an edges of the spaced apart boards and combine when they abut each other at installation to provide a metal groove into which the tubing is inserted and held snugly with a substantial part of the tubing in direct intimate thermal contact with the metal.
Claims20
In a hydronic heating system including a heating element that is a length of tubing that conducts water mounted in a wall, floor or ceiling of an area heated by said system against a radiating metal plate, two spaced apart boards for holding said metal plate and providing an elongated space for holding said length of tubing adjacent said plate, said tubing being inserted into said space against said plate, the improvement comprising:
- (a) said metal plate is provided in two separate pieces, each of which is attached to an edge of one of said spaced apart boards,
- (b) said two separate pieces provide a metal groove that projects into said elongated space and
- (c) said metal groove accommodates the insertion therein of said tubing from one side thereof so that the tubing is held therein in intimate thermal contact with said plate metal,
- (d) whereby said plate is heated by conduction of heat from said tubing and radiates heat to said area.
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