Solar furnace supporting apparatus
Solar furnace supporting apparatus including a frame portion, a furnace holding portion and an actuating portion, the frame portion including a base section and an upstanding section; the furnace holding portion being pivotally carried by the frame portion, the furnace holding portion including spaced longitudinal members, cross members connecting the longitudinal members adjacent the ends thereof, a supporting shaft disposed substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal members adjacent the centers thereof and being engageable with the frame portion adjacent the top of the upstanding section thereof, the actuating portion including cooperating flexible connectors operatively connected to at least one of the longitudinal members at points along the length thereof substantially equidistant from the supporting shaft, each of the cooperating flexible connectors having one end attached to the longitudinal member and extending downwardly in a converging relationship to at least one pair of adjoining parallel pulleys mounted on a freely rotatable first shaft disposed directly below and spaced from the supporting shaft and aligned substantially parallel thereto passing around at least a portion of the periphery of one of the adjoining pulleys, the flexible connectors passing around their respective pulleys in opposite directions, each of the flexible connectors extending from the pulleys to one of adjoining parallel driven drums affixed to a drum shaft disposed below and substantially parallel to the first shaft.
- Assignee:
- EDB-83-057017
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4363354
- OSTI ID:
- 6565783
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 16 Mar 1981; Other Information: PAT-APPL-244244
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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