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 Solar shutter arrangement

Details
Inventors: Fulkerson, Paul L.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Jones; Larry
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Flackbert; Warren D.

A shutter arrangement adaptable to a solar energy system for either a residential or commerical building characterized by a skylight presented in a roof portion of the building, and a shutter supported on the roof portion and selectively slidable behind the skylight from and to a solar energy blocking relationship with respect to the interior of the building in response to temperature variations. The shutter surface facing the skylight presents reflective physical properties, while the surface facing the interior of the bulding presents an ornamental appearance. The invention affords two-fold primary purposes, to-wit, high efficiency for a solar energy passive building and a decorative effect for the building's occupant. Importance lies in the fact that the temperature responsive device or thermocouple serving shutter control is in direct engagement with the inner surface of the glass panel forming part of the skylight.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
In a structure having a roof with a skylight including a glass panel which transmits solar energy, a shutter arrangement supported on said roof comprising an insulative flat one-piece solid shutter in the form of a panel selectively and linearly slidable on tracks which conceal the side edges thereof from a position blocking transmittal of solar energy through said glass panel of said skylight into an area within said structure to a position permitting transmittal of solar energy through said glass panel of said skylight into said area within said structure, where said skylight presents a space between said glass panel and said selectively and linearly slidable insulative flat one-piece solid shutter, where the latter serves as the selective inner wall of said space contiguous with said area within said structure and said glass panel serves as the fixed outer wall of said space, where temperature responsive means is disposed within said space and in direct engagement with the inner surface of said glass panel, where said temperature responsive means is a black thermocouple operating a motor in a driving relationship with said insulative flat one-piece solid shutter, where said insulative flat one-piece solid shutter is supported by a cable secured to a rotatable shaft controlled by said motor, where bi-directional movement of said rotatable shaft achieves raising and lowering of said insulative flat one-piece solid shutter to each of said solar energy blocking and transmittal positions, and where said insulative flat one-piece solid shutter includes a reflective surface facing said skylight and a decorative surface facing said area within said structure.
2.
The shutter arrangement of claim 1 where temperature responsive electrical switching means control the position of said insulative flat one-piece solid shutter.
3.
The shutter arrangement of claim 1 where said insulative flat one-piece solid shutter is framed by a high impact plastic material.
4.
The shutter arrangement of claim 1 wherein a series of insulative flat one-piece solid shutters in a side-by-side relationship are disposed behind said skylight towards said area within said structure and are simultaneously slidable both selectively and linearly



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