Patent ID: 8844135
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: B23P,B29D,F24S,Y02E,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Method of manufacturing a trough mirror for a solar trough mirror power station comprising the steps: providing a coil of a strip comprising a substrate which is coated or laminated at least on one side with a reflection film for reflecting sunlight, providing a first and a second slide which both extend perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the trough mirror having substantially the shape of the cross-section of the solar trough mirror and which are arranged to guide the opposite edges of the strip, uncoiling the strip from the coil and cutting the strip subsequently into sheets, guiding the strip during uncoiling or guiding a sheet subsequently to cutting the strip into sheets with their opposite edges into the first and second slide in that the strip or sheet gets the shape of at least a section of the trough mirror and fixing said strip or sheet in the slides with fixing means so that at least one strip or at least one sheet is carried by the first and second slides.