Stoves and furnaces – Tool having fluid fuel burner – Curling iron
Patent
1983-09-06
1984-07-03
O'Connor, Daniel J.
Stoves and furnaces
Tool having fluid fuel burner
Curling iron
126438, 126451, 350298, 353 3, F24J 302
Patent
active
044572972
ABSTRACT:
A modular solar radiation concentrator consists of many identical reflective panels (1), each having the shape of a portion of the surface of a sphere. The panels (1) are mass produced, mounted between a pair of horizontal beams (2) so they can partially rotate about two orthogonal axes, and aligned as part of multi-beam (2) modules (3) on a test fixture so that all panels (1) reflect distant radiation upon a small aperture (36). Spaces occur between all panels (1) when mounted in the concentrator. The reflector support structure (4) has a finite number of identically angled bends so that the overall reflector (47) approximates the surface of a sphere. A solar radiation receiver (34) is hingedly suspended to the support structure (4) at the focal point of each of the panels (1). The reflector (47) is mounted upon an azimuth/elevation mount (6, 46), which rotates reflector (47) 360.degree. about a vertical azimuth axis and 90.degree. or more about an orthogonal elevation axis.
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"Mirror on the Sun", Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL 400-10, Oct. 1980.
Cleveland, Jr. William C.
Pons Robert L.
Sobczak Isidore F.
Ford Aerospace & Communications Corp.
O'Connor Daniel J.
Radlo Edward J.
Sanborn Robert D.
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