Stoves and furnaces – Tool having fluid fuel burner – Curling iron
Patent
1980-11-24
1982-02-16
O'Connor, Daniel J.
Stoves and furnaces
Tool having fluid fuel burner
Curling iron
126445, 126450, 165 83, F24J 302, F28F 700
Patent
active
043154999
ABSTRACT:
The self-compensating solar collector comprises a base tray having inlet and outlet ports at opposite ends covered by a thin metallic diaphragm also serving as an heat absorbing plate. The interior of the tray includes inter-digitating walls or ribs defining a labyrinth channel, fluid flow between the inlet and outlet ports being confined to this labyrinth channel when the top absorber plate is resting on the top of the ribs or walls. Under high heating conditions such as bright sunlight, the plate will heat up and by thermal expansion deflect upwardly with the result that fluid flow can pass over the labyrinth in an expanded flow path directly between the inlet and outlet ports. This increased fluid flow rate results in a cooling of the collector and also in more efficient heat transfer. The same deflection occurs during a cooling cycle wherein the hot fluid flowing under the plate heats the plate to cause it to deflect upwardly so that an increased fluid flow can take place again increasing emission of heat through the absorber plate to the atmosphere at nighttime. The automatic change in the flow rate with temperature changes provides for a more efficient solar collector.
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O'Connor Daniel J.
Pastoriza Ralph B.
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