Tube mat for solar collector
Patent
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OSTI ID:6154517
A tube mat for a solar collector is described, the tube mat being comprised of a plurality of identical tube strips each formed with a plurality of parallel longitudinally extending tubes. Longitudinally extending webs transversely interconnect the inner tubes and connect the edge tubes to the inner tubes along their full lengths with all of the tubes lying in a plane. A respective U-section flexible seal having an inner lip joined to the outer edge of each edge tube along the full length thereof and an outer edge spaced outward therefrom defines a longitudinally extending groove open perpendicular to the plane of the strip, the grooves of the seals being generally complementary to the outer lips and opening oppositely from the strip plane, whereby the other leg of the seal at one edge of a strip can be engaged in the groove of the seal of the outer tube of an adjacent strip to join these two strips together along their full lengths. The webs are of generally uniform wall thickness and generally U-shaped and have faces concave all in the same direction perpendicular from the respective strip plane.
- Assignee:
- Delford Industries, Inc., Middletown, NY
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4805594
- OSTI ID:
- 6154517
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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