Stoves and furnaces – Solar heat collector – Rollable or foldable collector unit of nonrigid material
Patent
1997-11-10
1998-10-20
Dority, Carroll B.
Stoves and furnaces
Solar heat collector
Rollable or foldable collector unit of nonrigid material
126626, 126665, 165 46, F24J 236
Patent
active
058231765
ABSTRACT:
A flexible tie-down device is provided for attaching a swimming pool-type solar water panel to a roof or other structure. The device is adapted for use with a solar panel having at least one elongate solar panel array formed of a number of side-by-side connected, small diameter, flexible elastomeric, heat transfer tubes, which are attached in fluid flow relationship at one end to a rigid, larger diameter tubular, unheated water inlet manifold and at the other end to a rigid, larger diameter tubular heated water outlet manifold. The tie-down device comprises a plurality of flexible elastromeric tubes connected in a side-by-side relationship to form a device array, the tubes having a length enabling the device array to bend around the outside of either of the inlet and outlet manifolds with the end regions of the device extending outwardly in a parallel, overlapping relationship relative to one another. A lag screw is provided for passing through a retainer clip and the overlapping end regions of the device array and for extending into an existing roof structure. The tie-down device is sized so that when the device is installed around either of the inlet and outlet manifolds and is attached to an existing structure, the manifold is permitted to move sideways in the device a distance equal to at least about the radius of the manifold. Preferably, the tubes forming the device array are the same as the tubes used in the solar panel array so that the device array can expand and contract in unison with the solar array.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4823771 (1989-04-01), Menning
Appel Gary
Dority Carroll B.
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