Means and methods for sending heat downwardly

• US 4,089,366 A
• Filed: 11/22/1976
• Issued: 05/16/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edward J O'Hanlon
• Original Assignee: Edward J O'Hanlon
• Inventors: O'Hanlon, Edward J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Davis, Jr., Albert W.
• Application Number:
  US05/744,166
• Time in Patent Office: 540 Days
• Field of Search: 165/45, 165/105, 165/1, 126/271
• US Class Current: 165/104.22
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 10/75 with enlarged surfaces, e.g. with protrusions or corrugations collectors comprising porous material or permeable masses directly contacting the working fluids F24S10/80
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 10/95 having evaporator sections and condenser sections, e.g. heat pipes
• CPC Class Codes: F28D 15/0266 with separate evaporating and condensing chambers connected by at least one conduit; Loop-type heat pipes; with multiple or common evaporating or condensing chambers F28D15/043 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/44 Heat exchange systems

Abstract

Ordinarily and naturally heat, once freed, tends to travel upwardly. Here means and a method causes heat to travel downwardly, to heat any out of sight area where warmth is required.

Claims

1. In a means for sending heat downward, a pair of metallic containers one above the other and connected by a metallic tubular passageway, said passageway reaching almost to the inner bottom of the lower container and almost to the inner top of the upper container, one of said containers partially filled with liquid sulphur dioxide and all tubular and container contacts and connections permanently sealed and made leak proof so no sulphur dioxide fumes can possibly excape.

2. A method of sending heat downward including having an upper metallic container, and another metallic container below it, both containers connected by a metallic tubular passage way, extending almost to the top of the upper container and almost to the bottom of the lower container, all tubular and container contacts and connections permanently sealed and made leakproof so no sulphur dioxide fumes can possibly escape there from, positioning a pool of liquid sulphur dioxide in said upper container, heating said upper container thus causing said liquid sulphur dioxide to vaporize and move downward through said tubular passage way as a vapor into said lower container and condensing said vapor in said lower container.

3. The invention set forth in claim 2 including the return of the liquid condensate into the upper container.