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Solar collector panel
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Inventors: Freeman, John M.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Sprague; Kenneth W.
Assistant Examiner: Yeung; James C.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Flackbert; Warren D.
A solar collector panel characterized by an integral base having a heat transfer liquid channel and weir at each end of a corrugated heat transfer surface. The channel and weir define a self-contained heat transfer liquid system which provides for the even distribution and collection of such liquid over and from the heat transfer surface. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
A solar collector panel comprising, in a one-piece molded relationship, a base having a corrugated heat transfer surface, a first channel disposed at one end of said heat transfer surface for receiving a heat transfer liquid, a first weir forming a wall of said first channel adjacent to said heat transfer surface, a second channel disposed at an opposite end of said corrugated heat transfer surface, and a second weir forming a wall of said second channel adjacent to said heat transfer surface, where said first and second weirs include slots extending downwardly to said heat transfer surface, and where said first and second channels, said first and second weirs and said corrugated heat transfer surface of the solar collecting panel are covered by glazing material exposed to solar energy.
2.
The solar collector panel of claim 1 where said first channel communicates with a source of heat transfer liquid, and where said second channel empties into a heat storage device.
Description:
The interest in systems for transferring solar energy, as for home heating, for example, is widespread.
An important component of such a system is the solar collector panel, i.
e.
the unit in which solar energy is transferred to another medium, as water.
The importance of a solar collector panel lies in attaining the maximum solar energy transfer, where such objective is further achieved by the proper physical placement of the unit.
The invention satisfies the preceding in affording a one-piece molded solar collector panel which, through a weir arrangement, evenly spreads heat transfer liquid for passage over a corrugated heat transfer surface.
The weir forms part of a heat transfer liquid channel located at opposite ends of the solar collector panel, where the overall unit is covered by glazing material, as glass.
In other words, heat transfer liquid is introduced into the liquid channel at one end of the solar collector panel, thereafter passing through slots defined in the weir and onto the corrugated heat transfer surface
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