Stoves and furnaces – Tool having fluid fuel burner – Curling iron
Patent
1978-10-19
1980-11-25
Scott, Samuel
Stoves and furnaces
Tool having fluid fuel burner
Curling iron
126438, F24J 302
Patent
active
042352223
ABSTRACT:
A system which automatically aligns itself, and any attached hardware such as a solar energy collection device, in response to changes in the solar position. The alignment system comprises a directional sunlight-admission element which is adapted to be focused over a relatively wide azimuth angle in advance of the direction of change of the solar elevation relative to the location of the device on earth, an infrared radiation-absorbing member having a fixed position relative to the sunlight admission element and aligned to receive and absorb sunlight passing through said admission element over said azimuth angle and to generate heat in response thereto, and a heat-responsive adjustment means in heat-conductive association with said radiation-absorbing member and adapted to move both said sunlight-admission element and said radiation-absorbing member in response to periodic substantial changes in temperature conducted thereto. The adjustment means is also adapted to be connected to and to move a support system for an associated working element such as a solar energy collection system, a telescope, a camera or other device, so that the associated system is automatically and periodically adjusted in response to changes in the solar elevation and azimuth as occur during the year.
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A Solar Powered Tracking Device, Farber et al., Journal of Environmental Sciences, vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 11-12, May-Jun. 1975.
Barrett Lee E.
Scott Samuel
Tully Thomas L.
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