Abstract: A solar collector is designed for converting solar radiation into heat and transferring the heat thus collected, by means of a chamber formed of a window exposed to the sun and allowing passage of solar radiation, and of a bottom or opposite end-face. This radiation is absorbed by adequate means fitted inside this chamber, and the heat it entails is carried off outside the latter. Both the window and the bottom which form the chamber, are made of glass elements hermetically sealed to one another along their periphery by low-melt glass welding.

Abstract: A solar energy collector having concave mirrors shaped as troughs of parabolic cross-section with a longitudinal pivotal axis enabling them to be aimed at the sun and having, at intervals, connecting members for maintaining at the mirror focus a heat receiving tube of small diameter by comparison with the mirror aperture. A dusttight and moisturetight transparent chamber isolates both the receiving tube and the surface of the mirror from the surrounding atmosphere.