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Solar collector

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5050708
A solar collector is described for collecting the radiant heat energy of the sun and for transmitting this heat to a liquid heat carrier, comprising a pipeline system which has at least one supply port and one discharge port for conducting the heat carrier and a glazing which permits heat radiation to pass therethrough, which pipeline system is part of a platelike blow-molded absorber plate of plastic, in which adjacent pipes are formed by and separated from one another by thermoplastically welded mash seams of abutting plastic sheets, the improvement comprising a hollow frame which is made in one piece with the blow-molded absorber plate and forms the edge of the blowmolded absorber plate, said frame having a closed cross section, said hollow frame having on its upper side a fluted mortise for receiving the edge of said glazing.
Assignee:
Roth Werke Gmbh (Germany, F.R.)
Patent Number(s):
US 4213449
OSTI ID:
5050708
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English