Stoves and furnaces – Heaters – Surface
Patent
1977-08-09
1978-08-15
Sprague, Kenneth W.
Stoves and furnaces
Heaters
Surface
350299, F24J 302
Patent
active
041064852
ABSTRACT:
A solar energy reflecting system which can modify its reflector configuration in accordance with the movement of the sun across the sky. The system includes a circular dish-like housing with upper and lower circular hoops in spaced relationship within the housing which can be displaced relative to each other. A series of reflector panels are sequentially spaced around the peripheral wall of the dish like housing and controlled by the displacement of the upper and lower hoops to lie in an outwardly flared direction and pivot as the hoops are displaced relative to each other. A sensing device detects the position of the sun in the sky and accordingly displaces the hoops to thereby pivot the reflector panels appropriately to give the proper reflector configuration which will provide the best focusing of the sunlight and concentrate it onto a heating coil where the heat can be absorbed and transferred to a storage tank.
REFERENCES:
patent: 787145 (1905-04-01), Brown
patent: 1479923 (1924-01-01), Moreau
patent: 2707903 (1955-05-01), Trombe
Miller Richard L.
Sprague Kenneth W.
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