Stoves and furnaces – Stoves – Cooking
Patent
1977-05-31
1979-02-27
Evans, F. L.
Stoves and furnaces
Stoves
Cooking
126270, 350289, G02B 510, F24J 302
Patent
active
041416260
ABSTRACT:
A heliostat apparatus includes a frame which is rotatable about an axis which is parallel to the aperture plane of an elongate receiver. A plurality of flat flexible mirror elements are mounted to the frame between several parallel, uniformly spaced resilient beams which are pivotally connected at their ends to the frame. Channels are mounted to the sides of the beams for supporting the edges of the mirror elements. Each of the beams has a longitudinally varying configuration designed to bow into predetermined, generally circular curvatures of varying radii when the center of the beam is deflected relative to the pivotally connected ends of the beams. All of the parallel resilient beams are simultaneously deflected by a cam shaft assembly extending through openings in the centers of the beams, whereby the mirror elements together form an upwardly concave, cylindrical reflecting surface. The heliostat is rotated about its axis to track the apparent diurnal movement of the sun, while the reflecting surface is substantially simultaneously bowed into a cylindrical trough having a radius adapted to focus incident light at the plane of the receiver aperture.
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Total Energy, Distributed Collector Systems and Research and Development Projects: Semiannul Report (26-27 Jan. 1976, Atlanta, Georgia) pp. 45-52 and 69-73.
Andeen Gerry B.
Slemmons Arthur J.
Treytl William J.
Evans F. L.
FMC Corporation
Kelly R. S.
McNaughton T. J.
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