Patent ID: 6182903
Filing Date: 2001-02-06
Classification: F24D,Y02B

Abstract:
In a hydronic radiant heating and/or cooling system having a heating/cooling loop including a length of tubing that conducts water, mounted in a floor, wall or ceiling of a room heated/cooled by said system and modular panels each of a metal plate or sheet on a board or boards providing a tube holding space into which tubing is inserted and held against the plate in intimate thermal contact therewith, so that the plate is heated/cooled by conduction of heat between the water in the tubing and the plate, the improvement comprising,(a) two or more of said panels hinged together to provide a hinged set of panels,(b) said panels being hinged together along their sides in a regular staggered relationship,(c) whereby two or more of said sets of hinged panels unfolded at their hinges and arranged end to end on a floor, wall or ceiling interlock with each other and provide aligned elongated tube holding spaces into which said tubing is inserted and held against said radiation plate and a finished floor, wall or ceiling covering can be installed thereon and said system operated to heat or cool said room.