Stoves and furnaces – Tool having fluid fuel burner – Curling iron
Patent
1979-01-24
1981-02-10
Yeung, James C.
Stoves and furnaces
Tool having fluid fuel burner
Curling iron
126417, 136246, F24J 302
Patent
active
042495164
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and methods for concentrating and collecting solar energy and for lowering the cost and increasing the efficiency of solar energy systems are disclosed. Solar energy is concentrated by economical refringent lenses or lens systems including fluid lenses and/or Fresnel-type lenses. The lenses concentrate the solar energy preferably along lines in continuous linear foci or in discrete foci at an elongated collector comprising one or more fluid-carrying conduits and one or more fluids therein. According to one aspect of the invention, lower reflectors are disposed below a central reflector and positioned to reflect and preferably concentrate solar energy towards the central reflector. The central reflector reflects and preferably concentrates the solar energy from the reflectors towards the collector means, also disposed below the central reflector. A lens, preferably a fluid lens, is disposed in the path of reflected solar energy between the lower reflectors and the collector. The lens(es) is positioned in the path between the lower reflectors and the central reflector and/or in the path between the central reflector and the collector, the reflected solar energy being focused in or on the collector by the lens or central reflector. The central reflector, the lower reflectors, the lens and the collector may be movable to track the sun seasonally and preferably also daily (hourly).
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Jones Larry
North American Utility Construction Corp.
Yeung James C.
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