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4283925 System for cooling  
A cooling system particularly suitable for use in the air-conditioning of buildings is described. The system includes: (a) A cooling zone containing a conduit for cooling fluid, the conduit...
4283298 Hydrated Mg(NO.sub.3).sub.2 /NH.sub.4 NO.sub.3 reversible phase change compositions  
A reversible liquid solid phase change composition comprising Mg(NO 3 ) 2 .6H 2 O/NH 4 NO 3 , and one of the group of MgO, CaO, Mg(OH) 2 , and/or Ca(OH) 2 , added to the composition in an...
4280483 Solar heater  
A solar heater adapted to be made as an integral, sealed unit for installation in a building exterior wall or for use in an existing window opening or the like. A collector is operative to transfer...
4273100 Passive solar heating and cooling panels  
A heat pipe is used to transfer heat from an outside solar panel into a building where the heat can be stored in a heat absorber. Various heat pipe structures are disclosed where the pipe passes...
4270523 Heat storage apparatus and heat exchanger element for use therein  
A heat storage apparatus comprising a plurality of heat exchanger elements mounted in a housing. Each element has a central portion containing a storage medium, surrounded by portions through which...
4270512 Heat storing fireplace  
A heat storing fireplace including a fire-box surrounded by a heat storage medium which is either an enclosure containing a material having a high specific heat such as sand or gravel or a large...
4270282 Housed clothes dryer  
In a housing, a clothes dryer wherein dampness in washed clothes is expelled by warm air sweeping therethrough, the air being drawn in at least partly from the environment through openings formed...
4269262 Elastic mounting structure for ceramic regenerator core  
A low stiffness elastomer mounting arrangement for a ceramic regenerator core comprising an elastomer cushion between a ceramic, circular regenerator core and a surrounding ring gear, portions of...
4268558 Thermal storage material and process for making  
A thermal storage structure and process for making the same comprising a base material of a substantially open cell structure, with the pores interconnected and open to the surface. The open cell...
4263961 Method and an apparatus for storing heat energy  
A method and an apparatus for storing heat energy in a hybride heat storage apparatus comprising a first and a second material are disclosed, the first and the second materials having different...
4259844 Stacked disc heat exchanger for refrigerator cold finger  
A stacked disc heat exchanger for a refrigerator cold finger includes a plurality of discs positioned within a cold finger cylinder and clamped to a cylinder end plate. Radial gas flow passages...
4258696 Passive thermal energy phase change storage apparatus  
A passive thermal energy storage cell includes a container formed of suitable material. The container is filled substantially with a supercoolable material such as ethylene carbonate or a phase...
4259198 Use of crystalline, crosslinked synthetic resins as a storage material in latent heat stores  
The invention relates to the use of crystalline resins as storage material in latent heat accumulators. Crystalline synthetic resins replace the crystalline inorganic salt of the known latent heat...
4259401 Methods, apparatus, and compositions for storing heat for the heating and cooling of buildings  
A building element which inhibits the change of the interior temperature of a building beyond prescribed limits approximating room temperature. A rigid porous matrix structure is provided in...
4257556 Fluid heat transfer system  
Only a limited number of organic or silicone liquid phase thermal exchange fluid types are suitable for operation over a wide range of hot and cold temperatures and these have an undesirable...
4256172 Heat exchanger matrix configuration with high thermal shock resistance  
A ceramic regenerator core of cylindrical configuration adapted to be mounted in a gas turbine engine for rotation about its geometric axis comprising a honeycomb matrix that accommodates the flow...
4252181 Heat recovering fan  
The invention relates to a heat-recovering fan comprising a rotating capillary impeller with a separating plate inside to separate the air currents and being in communication with separate supply...
4250866 Thermal energy storage to increase furnace efficiency  
A forced air furnace includes a conventional fuel fired, primary heat exchanger and a secondary heat exchanger associated with the stack. The secondary exchanger includes a phase change material...
4250958 Double tubular thermal energy storage element  
An elongated flexible elastomer or plastic double tube structure for storing heat energy includes inner and outer flexible tubes held in coaxial relationship by integral angularly spaced apart webs...
4248297 Glass-ceramic article and method of making same  
Disclosed is an assembly or matrix comprising an arrangement of integrally fused tubes forming a series of nonporous, longitudinal parallel passageways therethrough. The matrix is of a...
4248291 Compact thermal energy reservoirs  
Light weight, compact and efficient thermal energy reservoirs are described in which thin layers of a heat storage material, such as an inorganic salt having a high latent heat of fusion, are...
4241781 Regenerative heater and process for the operation thereof  
A regenerative heater includes a regenerator container having open opposite ends. The container contains therein a fill of heat retaining material which is permeable to the passage therethrough of...
4241782 Heat storage system adapted for incongruently melting heat storage materials and congruently melting heat storage materials  
A heat storage article adapted for prevention of stratification of incongruently melting heat storage materials, such as eutectic salts, and adapted for use with congruently melting heat storage...
4240404 Heat pump having a timer activated furnace  
A heating system for a building having a conventional gas furnace which includes a combustion chamber for heating air passing from a cold-air return to a hot-air duct is disclosed. The gas furnace...
4240268 Ground cold storage and utilization  
A system for transmitting, storing and utilizing cold which includes the use of heat pipes for transmitting the winter cold to freeze the ground water storage, and two-phase flow pipes to...
4234038 Transfer wheel assembly for an air conditioner and method of making the wheel assembly  
A transfer wheel assembly and a method for making the transfer wheel assembly is provided. The transfer wheel assembly is of the type for use in air conditioning systems for conditioning air...
4231885 Thermal energy storage composition comprising peat moss  
Peat moss is used in a thermal energy storage composition to provide a network in which to trap an incongruently melting salt hydrate capable of storing thermal energy as latent heat of phase...
4228847 Core for use in humidity exchangers and heat exchangers and method of making the same  
A core usable as a rotor in humidity exchangers and heat exchangers is disclosed.The core is comprised of alternate layers of flat and corrugated sheet material so arranged that the corrugations...
4227568 Drive system for a ceramic regenerator  
A regenerator drive system for a ceramic circular regenerator core comprising a cylindrical matrix adapted to be mounted for rotation about its central axis, said ceramic core having axial gas flow...
4222434 Ceramic sponge heat-exchanger member  
A heat-exchanger composed of a body of ceramic sponge defining randomly located interconnected walls bounding a plurality of randomly located interconnected cavities and a plurality of elongate...
4220196 Heat storage device  
A heat storage device comprising a closed reservoir within which is positioned a flexible closed container of smaller volume. The flexible container encloses a liquefiable heat-accumulating...
4219072 Phase change material heat exchanger  
A phase change material heat exchanger wherein the latent heat of a substance as its physical state changes from solid to liquid, and vice versa, is utilized as a heat storage medium. Structure is...
4217877 Energy-saving forced-air furnace  
The specification discloses a novel energy saving forced-air furnace. In contrast to previous forced-air furnaces, which ran only on gas or oil and in which approximately half of the energy derived...
4211208 Container for a heat storage medium  
A container is disclosed for storing a heat storage medium which changes ween solid and fluid states to store and release heat, characterized in that the container includes flexible walls which are...
4210201 Low cost heat storage tank and heat exchanger  
Damp sand receiving heat through spiraled sheet copper or aluminum tubes conveying heated air or other gas inside a heavily insulated tank is the subject of this present inventive disclosure.
4209061 Heat exchanger  
A heat exchanger for use in a Stirling cycle engine includes a plurality of disc-like plates which are stacked in coaxial fashion within a cylindrical housing, and are supported thereby. The plates...
4209060 Pack, comprising a stack of abutting rectangular plates, intended for a regenerative heat exchanger, and a method of manufacturing such a pack  
In a pack of rectangular plates to be used in a regenerative heat exchanger the plates are kept in position by a plurality of mutually parallel tension rods passing through registering openings in...
4203489 Thermal energy storage system  
A modular thermal energy storage system comprises a stack of individual heat storage elements, each element having a sealed metal container filled with liquid such as water and separate thermally...
4201206 Heat receiver for divers  
A heat receiver is provided comprising a housing through which the breathing mixture passes in one direction and through which the exhaled breath passes in the opposite direction. The housing...
4200148 Storing and extracting latent heat  
Heat is stored by melting a mixture of salts contained in compartments between an inner and an outer tube and radial copper fins which taper in radial outward direction. The molten salts solidify...
4200441 Regenerative heat exchanger  
A heat exchanger of the regenerative type comprising a rotor constructed of corrugated strip layers providing transverse channels extending therethrough. The device is arranged to have separate gas...
4199021 Thermal energy storage apparatus  
A thermal energy storage apparatus and method employs a container formed of soda lime glass and having a smooth, defect-free inner wall. The container is filled substantially with a material that...
4196719 Heat storage means for solar heating system  
An improved pebble bed heat storage means is provided for a solar heating system using air as the heat transfer medium. The pebble bed is confined in a crib or bin contained in an outer housing....
4196771 Ventilator with heat exchanger  
A ventilator having a rotating drumlike heat exchanging fan and a housing with separation walls and a stationary conical member arranged in the hollow of the fan. Separation walls cooperating with...
4194496 Solar heat storage systems  
A spiral solar heat storage unit having air ducts radially spaced from the center to the rim of the spiral storage unit so the air from the solar collector can be delivered to the various ducts...
4193441 Variable capacity thermal storage system employing thermal switching  
A thermal storage system comprising a contained fluid and a fusible material in thermal communication therewith for cooperatively controlling the elevated temperature of the contained fluid. The...
4191241 Energy exchange wheel and method of fabrication  
An energy exchange wheel having a wrapping hub which surrounds, and is concentric with but spaced from a central hub; an axially perforate matrix of energy exchange material around the wrapping...
4187900 Regenerators  
A heat exchanger of the regenerative type comprising a matrix of heat storage elements and a support structure therefor comprising a plurality of support bars and a support rim upon which the bars...
4187982 Apparatus for increasing the transmission capacity of remote heating grids  
For the purpose of improving the utilization of remote heating grids, particularly for space air heating, at least one heat storage device is connected in series with the heaters of a hot water...
4185687 Cooling tower  
A rotor for a gas-liquid heat exchange device that comprises a plurality of spaced heat absorbent elements mounted on a rotary shaft. The shaft is adapted to be rotated continuously between a hot...