Stoves and furnaces – Solar heat collector – With means to reposition solar collector for optimum...
Patent
1998-03-31
1999-08-10
Dority, Carroll B.
Stoves and furnaces
Solar heat collector
With means to reposition solar collector for optimum...
126605, 353 3, F24J 238
Patent
active
059342714
ABSTRACT:
A solar collection antenna has a large aperture reflective dish which is mounted on a dish support fame. When the dish is pointed at the sun, it reflects received solar radiation into a zone of concentration, at which either a solar energy receiver or a secondary reflector (supported by an ancillary support) is located. To track the sun, the dish is rotated about a first axis which is transverse the dish aperture and a second, orthogonal axis (which intersects the first axis). The center of mass of the combination of the dish, its support frame, the solar energy receiver or secondary reflector and the ancillary support is relatively close to the lower edge of the dish, and lies substantially on the transverse axis of rotation, at the point where the first and second axes intersect (or almost intersect). The dish aperture is chosen so that the dish experiences balanced wind loading about its transverse axis of rotation.
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Anutech PTY Limited
Dority Carroll B.
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