Abstract: Heat is transferred to and from a building having a stack or other group of containers for thermal storage mass, arranged to be illuminated directly or indirectly by sunlight, via a frontally spaced sun swept glazing system. A connection path is established through the glazing to module space and a shade system is provided for modulating heat transfer. For cooling, warmest water may be removed from the modules, spray cooled and circulated back to coolest modules. Designs for field-erectable modules are disclosed.

Abstract: 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 which divide up the annular space between the tubes into angularly spaced apart segments. The segments are filled with phase change material such as salt hydrate. The annular space is sealed at opposite ends by sealing the outer tube against the inner tube and the inner tube provides a conduit for the passage of a heat transfer fluid, such as water, through the structure.

Abstract: A heating and cooling structural arrangement for a building, such as a house, wherein the interior of the house is caused to assume the temperature of the ground. A liquid reservoir is located in the ground. A pump is to move liquid from the reservoir to a series of panels which are mounted as part of the interior wall structure of the building. If the ground temperature is 70 degrees, this means that the interior temperature of the house should also become 70 degrees. In the winter, the interior of the building would normally be heated and in the summer, the interior of the building would normally be cooled.

Abstract: Enclosed temperatures are modulated by water heated by solar energy and cooled to ambient air. Control means include moving exterior insulation, enclosing or exposing the water, using forced air, and providing special means for heat storage and transfer. Water ponds horizontally disposed atop the enclosure, or in floor plenums and frequently in direct thermal exchange with underlying space, or water circulating in walls by thermosiphon action may be used separately or in combinations with the control means.

Abstract: A kind of radiating floor board is disclosed which radiates heat. The floor board has a stratified structure comprising a metallic surface plate, a depressed metallic tube for hot water circulation located meanderingly under the plate, a heat insulating material and a base board.

Abstract: A building module for a ceiling having heating elements incorporated therein. The module has the form of a closed unit which can be individually mounted and removed and which comprises a frame and plates arranged on two opposite sides thereof. Heat-emitting elements are protectively arranged in the space defined by said frame and said plates and element connecting means are accessible from outside the unit and are arranged, when a unit is mounted together with other similar units to permit the elements to be connected to the intended supply source via other units located between the source and said one unit. The unit is so constructed that when mounting the same in position adjacent a similar unit there is formed a downwardly open channel between the units which channel is intended to be closed by means of a separate cover member.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for the production of a sun heat energy absorbing coating on a metallic substrate. The metallic substrate is pretreated for subsequent coating with a film of powder varnish and thereafter a coating based on a solid synthetic resin is deposited electrostatically or in a whirl sintering procedure. The coating consists of an inner brightening layer containing a metallic powder and an outer colored second layer absorbing the sun energy.

Abstract: Apparatus for climatizing a building comprising means including elements of a structural frame adapted to provide a portion of a facade for such building, at least a portion of said elements being hollow, said hollow elements being formed to provide for movement therethrough of fluid for supplying heat thereto or extracting heat therefrom, means for the delivery of fluid to and for the direction of fluid from said hollow elements, and said hollow elements being arranged for the mounting of facade elements to extend in bridging relation thereto and to be conditioned thereby.

Abstract: This invention is a heating and cooling wall panel that accomplishes heating by radiating to bodies in a space thermal energy from a source of warmed water delivered to the panel at low pressure, and cools bodies in a space by absorbing thermal energy radiated to the panel from those bodies and passing the heat thus gained to a cooled fluid also delivered at low pressure. The heat transfer by this panel is accomplished when only small temperature differentials exist between the fluid and the space owing to the extreme thinness of the radiating-cum-absorbing panel face.

Abstract: The invention provides a heat absorptive panel which has coolant circulation passages within it and is provided with means for reducing or preventing surface condensation of moisture from a humid atmosphere. The condensation is reduced by providing a panel covering of bleached cotton fabric which retains a uniform wet film of initial condensate which inhibits further condensation.

Abstract: A self-insulating water wall designed to modify the temperature of a region. Each water wall module is a single container that uses solar energy or the night environment to create convection currents which either heat or cool a storage fluid. The invention is switched between its heating and cooling modes by movement of a lever. A baffle in the container aids in maintaining the efficiency of the energy storage. A door selectively covers the wall of the container in contact with the outside environment. The inner-surface of the door is a reflector to increase the efficiency of the energy-radiating process when the door is in its open position.

Abstract: This invention comprises a solar unit in the form of a window having a plurality of vanes extending thereacross connected for unitary pivotal movement relative to the frame, together with means for adjusting the vanes for the collection of solar heat in utilizing such heat to heat water or air circulated through pipes carried by the vanes and connected to suitable headers at each end of the vanes or adjustment of the vanes to permit air and light to enter the enclosure in a wall of which the window collector is mounted and to permit circulation of cold water or air through the pipes extending through the vanes to cool the interior of the enclosure, as well as to permit adjustment of the vanes in such manner as to, in effect, to close the window from the outside of the enclosure from the outside atmosphere enveloping the enclosure, and to position the vanes in such manner as to augment either the heating or cooling of the enclosure as desired.

Abstract: A method is provided of constructing rooms provided with a radiant heating system or a cooling system comprising radiant or cooling panels connected to the walls, the ceiling, or the floor of each room and forming a thermal medium cavity, wherein there may circulate a thermal medium which transmits heat to the radiant panels or receives heat from the cooling panels. At least the walls and the ceiling are pre-fabricated components capable of bearing static loads and the interiors of the walls and the ceiling, facing the remainder of the room and the panels, contain respective pairs of adjacent parallel troughs of curved or part-polygonal cross-section. The troughs in the walls are vertical and the ceiling is applied so that they merge streamlined with the troughs in the ceiling. The panels are suspended from supports on the walls and the ceiling with interposition of a resilient packing.

Abstract: A clip for intimately engaging a solar-ray absorber in heat exchange relation with a conduit whereby a channelled absorber or fin receives the conduit in the channel; a generally C-shaped, resilient clip is applied to the back of the channel to embrace the absorber from behind and clinch it to wrap the channel closely around the conduit.

Abstract: The heater is in the form of a hot water carrying pipe coil supported on a suitable base, such as a sub-floor, and having spaced parallel pipe ducts interconnected by pipe bends. A pair of parallel supporting laths, preferably in the form of flat bars, are fixed on the sub-floor in spaced relation to the opposite side walls of a room to be heated, and circularly curved members are secured to the laths at spacings therealong equal to the spacing between the pipe ducts, the curved members on one lath being staggered longitudinally relative to the curved members on the other lath. The connecting bends of the pipe coil are looped around these curved members, which latter thus serve as a pipe laying gauge. Stop members are secured to the laths in spaced relation to the free ends of the curved members to form, in effect, troughs for the connecting pipe bends.

Abstract: A radiant heater for installation in or support from ceilings, walls or similar supporting arrangements in which a corrugated heated panel of metallic construction radiates heat with the radiant heater panel being enclosed peripherally by an inwardly facing, channel-shaped frame of metallic construction in which the frame is completely insulated from the heated metal panel thereby maintaining the peripheral frame at a substantially lower temperature than the heated metal panel which, in turn, enables the heated metal panel to be heated to a substantially higher temperature than is normally employed in such panels while maintaining the frame at a relatively low temperature in order to satisfy various building code regulations and maintain the contact with supporting structure at a safe temperature level. In one embodiment of the invention, insulation is provided completely across the upper surface of the panel to reduce upward radiation of heat.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a solar heat control device for either transferring solar heat to, or diverting it away from a heat transfer fluid depending on the time of year. The solar heat control device is adapted to be used in a novel heating, cooling, lighting and ventilating system which is operable in one of two modes. In addition to the solar heat control device, the system also includes means for storing the heated fluid, heat radiation and absorption means for transferring heat between the fluid and the interior of the structure in which the system is used, a heat exchanger, an air pump, a fluid pump and a valve control for selecting the operating mode.

Abstract: In a process or a device for receiving or emitting solar energy a coating absorbing or emitting the sunlight is in thermally conductive communication with a crystalline storage mass having a phase change at a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A solar collector which comprises a panel including flat collector plates or absorbers interconnected by integral interfitting members which simultaneously support fluid-conducting tubing and retain the tubing in efficient heat-conductive relation with the plates whereby heat absorbed by the plates may be efficiently transferred to the circulating fluid in the tubing.

Abstract: A modular heating section for removing or preventing the formation of ice on the walls of navigation locks, loading docks, ferry slips, or the like. Ice formation on the walls of navigation locks is compressed by successive vessels to the extent that larger vessels are unable to enter the locks. To avoid this happening, ice is chipped from the walls of the locks, which is time-consuming. As well, chipping of the ice results in damage to the concrete walls which must then be repaired. To overcome this problem, the present invention proposes the use of a modular heating section comprising a rigid panel having means for securing the section to a navigation lock wall, loading dock, or the like at a location where ice formation occurs, the panel being made from a heat conducting material. The panel includes heater means situated therein, the heater means adapted to distribute heat throughout the modular heating sections.

Abstract: A controllable heat-transmission device, herein called a thermic device or panel, uses temperature changes to modulate heat flow between two regions. A fluid, in thermal contact with both regions, varies its non-radiative heat transfer in response to the temperature of either or both regions. The variation in heat transfer is due only to the thermal energy of the two regions; no other energy is required.

Abstract: A heating and cooling system utilizing solar radiation as an energy source and a fluid body as a storage medium, the fluid body being distributed over the roof area of a dwelling or other structure with provision for controlling the absorption, storage and delivery of thermal energy to regulate the temperature in the enclosed areas of the structure.

Abstract: A plurality of structural unit bodies are utilized to construct by suitably assembling the unit bodies. Each structural unit body comprises an outer flange and an inner flange extending from one end edge and the other end edge respectively of a box-shaped frame. A stuffed box is secured to the surface of the inner flange and the stuffed box is in the form of a flat box made of a dampproof material. The stuffed box is covered on the outside with a metal net-like material and has disposed therein a pipe capable of passing fluid therethrough. The box is stuffed with noncombustible materials. The upper portion of the middle section of the frame, the inside flange surface and the entire surface of the stuffed box is plastered or covered with mortar whereby there is formed a circumferential groove between the outer flange and the underside of the mortar.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sound-absorbing radiating screen. One side of the screen is coated with a heat-insulating material, whereas on the other side perforations of optional shape are formed. The entire curve, or a part thereof, formed by the edge limiting the rims of the openings lay outside the unperforated surface of the plate of the screen.The sound-absorbing capacity of the radiating screen is increased and at the same time, the punching and perforation does not impede or interrupt the heat flow in the screen.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for reducing the moisture content of air in a room prior to cooling by a pipeline in a structural element of the room. The moisture content is reduced by passing the air through a heat exchanger which lowers the temperature to below the condensation point thus condensing the moisture in the air. The condensed moisture is removed and the air is then cooled by ordinary room cooling means.

Abstract: Method of solar heating and cooling in a building of the type having insulated opaque and vision glass areas, including orienting the vision glass so as to avoid solar exposure, while shading said vision glass with a series of heat collecting panels and circulating fluid in adsorbent communication with said collectors for use in winter heating and summer cooling systems. The method is distinguished both in its orienting of shading, according to latitude, as well as blocking or cutting off of circulating fluid from said collectors, except under conditions of solar exposure.

Abstract: A wall unit comprising oppositely disposed panels defining a cavity between them, the cavity containing insulating means and being filled with dry air or other dry gas, for example nitrogen, the cavity being connected to a volume compensation device for the air or gas.