Internal Water Heater Patents (Class 122/165)
  • Patent number: 4052962
    Abstract: An economizer device for fully exploiting the thermal output of central heating installations for heating fluids that incorporates a source of heat herein called "heating fluid" and a source of fluid circulating between a cold zone and a warm zone, herein called "heated fluid," a conduit leading the heated fluid coming from the cold zone into a transfer chamber containing the heating fluid to store there a portion of the thermal energy of this heating fluid and to transfer it to the warm zone. The device is characterized in that the maximum proportion of thermal energy of the heating fluid is removed, before the latter leaves the transfer chamber, by storing this energy by means of appropriate elements disposed in the chamber, this stored energy being restored to the heated fluid either in the chamber itself or immediately the heated fluid leaves the chamber in order to pass into the warm zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Inventor: Roger Dauthuille